Hacker News with Generative AI: Interactive Fiction

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (eblong.com)
As I write this, Inform 7 is approaching its third birthday. I7 is a tool for creating interactive fiction (text adventure games). Like all the most powerful IF development tools, I7 is a programming language -- a powerful and peculiar one.

Interactive Fiction, Programming Languages, Game Development

127 points by ibobev 34 days ago | 21 comments

Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day (mystery-o-matic.com)
A group of friends stumbles upon an eerie abandoned mansion. Now confined within its sinister grasp, they find themselves thrust into a chilling series of murders. Each day brings a fresh enigma, with one of them as the unfortunate victim and the rest as suspects.

Interactive Fiction, Murder Mystery, Games, Online Games

23 points by gaws 40 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel (itch.io)
Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle is in the form of a single text file, of which only the first chapter is readable. Subsequent chapters must be deciphered by you, using the answers to puzzles that you must solve!

Interactive Fiction, Games, Puzzle Games, Text-Based Games

44 points by larryboyko 51 days ago | 11 comments

Breakout in Decker, Three Ways (beyondloom.com)
Decker is a flexible, malleable digital medium. At its simplest, you can build games and experiences in the vein of old Choose Your Own Adventure books by operating modal dialogs and menus to connect cards with buttons:

Interactive Fiction, Digital Media, Games

6 points by todsacerdoti 81 days ago | 0 comments

Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era (filfre.net)
In 2002, Paul O’Brian, a prolific author, reviewer, and commentator on the contemporary interactive-fiction scene, attempted to compile a list of those people who had done the most to help text adventures live on beyond the death of Infocom.

Interactive Fiction, History, Retro Gaming, Literature, Text Adventures

9 points by doppp 90 days ago | 1 comments

You Exist in the Long Context (thelongcontext.com)
What you’ve just experienced is an interactive adventure based on the text of my latest history book, The Infernal Machine. At its core, the game relies on three elements: the original text from my book; a large language model (in this case, Gemini Pro 1.5); and a 400-word prompt that I wrote giving the model instructions on how to host the game, based on the facts contained in the book itself.

Generative AI, Interactive Fiction, History

136 points by plurby 92 days ago | 91 comments

Trapped (itch.io)
You're aimlessly browsing the Internet when you suddenly stumble upon a page that links you to a remote terminal. There’s someone on the other side.

Interactive Fiction, Games, Internet, Online Experiences

33 points by burrito_brain 129 days ago | 10 comments

30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (ifcomp.org)

Interactive Fiction, Competitions, Games

33 points by puzzlehat 172 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure (pocket.computer)

Voice Interfaces, Games, Interactive Fiction

59 points by chrisnolet 182 days ago | 61 comments

From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)