In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition ...

Players seek immersion in open-world games with minimal UI for a ... is the chatter of NPCs being displayed as text. Hardcore mode takes minimal UI even further, as only the compass is shown ...

Let’s start off with a classic: text-based games. Long before Windows and GUI-based operating systems, text-based adventure games provided entertainment through compelling narratives and non ...

He's the multimillionaire co-founder of live video platforms Twitch and Justin.TV, so buying a Ducati through a stranger via text message ... potential of chat-based UI won't be unlocked by ...

It offers a wealth of accessibility options. But it also represents the most recent example of a growing trend in video game UI, in which text is becoming smaller and less legible. To understand ...

Some of the earliest computer games made were interactive fiction or text adventures, also known as text-based video games. These games severely lacked sound and animation, but despite their ...

Many of these products are also accessible through a web browser. Text-based adventure games are particularly popular with millions of online gamers, with some top products standing out at the moment.

Everyone seems to love "retro" 8-bit video games, but it doesn't get much more retro than a text-based adventure. If you've never tried one before, or you're just bored and have a Mac nearby ...

Remember Zork? In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first text-based adventure game for a DEC mainframe and eventually ported it to the earliest PCs. I discovered the minimalist game in ...

Instead, it's designed exclusively for text-based games. Players will navigate choose-your-own-adventure titles with the ...