...At any given time, the player has quite a few choices available — usually one or several movements between rooms, as well as ways of...

...These parser training-wheels mean that the game can allow the player fairly unusual commands, like BEGIN INTERPRETATION, with no fear of verb-guessing...

...I have been reaching out to players and authors who aren’t part of the intfiction community, and also to some veteran intfiction denizens...

...People critique compass movement in games — especially when the player must repeatedly traverse a large map — as unrealistic, boring, and confusing to novices. But...

...player a tutorial. Alternatively, thread a mandatory tutorial into your first scene that at a minimum introduces examining, taking, dropping, checking inventory, movement, opening...

...of the story the player saw at a time. Games such as Ether that allow for very free movement through a highly connected volume...

...There were a few playthroughs where I focused so much on the game’s text at the very beginning like, “You hear movement not...

...Quite a few times, one player had the opportunity to help or oppose another player’s character and made the decision based on what...

...to produce forward movement, not a halting sense of difficult discovery. Versu characters talk, a lot, even if the player doesn’t say much...

...to produce forward movement, not a halting sense of difficult discovery. Versu characters talk, a lot, even if the player doesn’t say much...