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• Brass Lantern Interactive Fiction Theory

  http://brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/
  The theory of adventure game and interactive fiction design, from elements such as puzzles to game analysis.

• Choosing a Text Adventure Language

  http://brasslantern.org/writers/howto/chooselang.html
  Some handy tips about picking which language to use when writing a text adventure.

• Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer

  http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure/
  The full book by Tim Hartnell.

• Exposition in Interactive Fiction

  http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/exposition.html
  This document introduces the concept of exposition in interactive fiction, and offers three versions of the same brief interactive fiction text, so that you may experience interactive exposition for yourself.

• Interactive Fiction and the Future of the Novel

  http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/interactive_fiction.php
  An article by Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank.

• Interactive Fiction Page

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/
  Information on playing and developing interactive fiction.

• OnyxRing

  http://www.onyxring.com/
  Covers topics from interactive fiction design to Inform implementation.

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