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This site walks you through the basics of adventure games including an Introduction to Interactive Fiction and how to download and play Adventure Games.

Twine allows you to design and write interactive fiction / text based adventures. Twine provides a graphic interface that links the parts of your stories together and provides a map that can change based on the organization / reorganization of the elements of your story. The completed story is outputted as a text based adventure that can be shared and played online.

textadventures.co.uk provides a web based and desktop (Windows only) tool for creating text based adventures (interactive fiction). The stie also serves as an online community to share your creations.

Get Lamp is probably the definitive (if not only) documentary on the text adventure genre of games. The advent of the text adventure was a defining moment in the game industry as it was essentially the first time that companies were developed specifically to write and produce computer games.

This video shows the basic format used in creating an interactive story / text based adventure using the Inform software. The video is great as it definitely provides the viewer with the belief that creating a text based adventure with this tool is definitely viable!

Blog post by Matt Roberts on the basics of the Interactive Fiction / Text Based Adventure genre of games.

This site provides an introduction to interactive fiction and some guidance in terms of downloading and playing text based adventure / interactive fiction games.

This blog post features interactive fiction authoring tools used to create interactive fiction (i.e. text based adventure games. ) The tools featured are: twine, Inform7, TADS, Quest, and ADRIFT.

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world. The site includes tutorials on creating your own text-based adventure games.

This post discusses three tools used to design and write interactive fiction. The tools range in difficulty.