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Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Aug 18, 1982
Darkness is used in games to restrict access, increase tension, or just to set a mood. Often the player has access to a light source that can mitigate its effect.
MAYOR PEDROS attacks and hits 1 Pistolero for 20 points of damage reducing him to a thin red paste.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
The grues are an adventurer-consuming monster from the Zork series and other Infocom games. They appear in the dark areas of the game and are a major threat to adventurers.
Interactive fiction is a format that uses text to describe characters and objects within a setting, and the use of a parser to interpret text typed by the player, allowing the player to interact with the characters and objects within the setting.
Games where players are given material to read; this includes books, newspapers, and emails.
In second person point of view, the action is shot from the perspective of a character that is not the protagonist. It can also refer to second-person in the narrative sense, where the protagonist is the person playing the game.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
In text based games, most, if not all the game play, or graphics is created with words.
The Z-Machine is a virtual machine, created by Infocom, for running text adventures. Variants are used today to run classic and modern interactive fiction.
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