1. In your own words, explain the difference between a parser interactive fiction game and a choose your path interactive fiction game.
Parser interactive fiction games don’t have graphics and have a chunk of text and a cursor and the player types where they wish to go next and the game responds by telling them what they see. A choose your path interactive fiction game is where you change to a page in the book depending on what decision you decide to choose.

2. Name an example of a parser game.
Zork 1

3. Name an example of a choose your own path game.
The Adventures of you on Sugarcane Island by Edward Packard

4. Why does she say interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s?
She said interactive fiction virtually died out because of competitions .

5. Why does she say poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing? What example does she use?
When words are all you have you spend most of the time to make the words powerful. An example is from With those We Love Alive.

6. Why does she say that ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary?
The player has to fill in some of the details with their imagination. Decide where you want the player to fill in the those gaps.

7. What’s important about complicity?
Defined as a feeling of ownership in the plot. Complicity is part of giving the player actual choices and containing different ways to allow their choices to feel like a real choice.

1. In your own words, explain the difference between a parser interactive fiction game and a choose your path interactive fiction game.

The choose your path interactive fiction game give the player a scenario with different choices they can pick from that is a much simpler way to explore. The parser interactive fiction game is a text adventure gives the player a big chunk of text and they choose words that turn into actions.

2. Name an example of a parser game.

An example of parser game is Zork I.

3. Name an example of a choose your own path game.

An example of choose your own path game is The Cave of Time.

4. Why does she say interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s?

Interactive fiction virtually died out the mid-1990s because of the competitions such as the annual IF Comp.

5. Why does she say poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing? What example does she use?

Poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing because its quality of pro instead of narrative. It suggests the players to engage the world to fill the blank that can give a powerful description in just a few words. “Those we love alive” is the example she uses.

6. Why does she say that ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary?

Ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary because it is to be filled by the players imagination. It is used deliberately for the player to wonder and to leave things open so the players can draw their own conclusions.

7. What’s important about complicity?

Complicity is important because it lets the players interact with the story. It gives the players choices and makes them feel like they can do anything but, they can’t. All the choices are open-ended.

1. In your own words, explain the difference between a parser interactive fiction game and a choose your path interactive fiction game.

A Choose your path interactive fiction game can best be describe as a game book that gives the player multiple options and/or choices that they can pick from. Any option picked from the player will have a different ending. This is calculated by the player’s initial selections. The Parser interactive fiction game is a story telling game without any graphics and is an adventure.

2. Name an example of a parser game.

An example of a parser game is Zork I.

3. Name an example of a choose your own path game.

An example of a choose your own path game is Sugarcane Island.

4. Why does she say interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s?

She stated that Interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s because of the competitions they were up against such as, annual IF comp.

5. Why does she say poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing? What example does she use?

Poetry is an important element because it engages the players with fill in the blank that gives a powerful description. Example “Those we love alive”

6. Why does she say that ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary?

She stated ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary because it is to be filled by the player’s imagination. It is used intentionally for the player to wonder and to leave things open so the players can draw their own conclusions.

7. What’s important about complicity?

Complicity is important because it lets the players interact with the story. It gives the players choices and makes them feel like they can do anything but they can’t. All the choices are open-ended.

1. In your own words, explain the difference between a parser interactive fiction game and a choose your path interactive fiction game.

Parser interactive fiction game is an adventure game without graphics and is a story telling game. Choose your path interactive fiction game is a game book where they give you different choices that you can pick. This is also more suitable for kids.

2. Name an example of a parser game.

An example of parser game is Zork I.

3. Name an example of a choose your own path game.

An example of choose your own path is Sugarcane Island.

4. Why does she say interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s?

Interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s because of competitions like the annual IF Comp which resulted in artistic innovation.

5. Why does she say poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing? What example does she use?

Poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing because in the games words are all that is used and the right words have strong meanings. The example she uses is from “with those we love alive.”

6. Why does she say that ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary?

Ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary because there is not enough space in a game for all of the details like texts and graphics and that is when the player fills it in with their imagination.

7. What’s important about complicity?

Complicity is important because in an interactive fiction game the goal is to have the player interact with the story.

1. In your own words, explain the difference between a parser interactive fiction game and a choose your path interactive fiction game.

The differences between the two types of interactive fiction games are their paths to the gameplay and storyline progression. The choose your path interactive based games provides choices for the player to choose by showing various options and based on the selection, the actions of the character will differ and also possibly causing a unique ending based on the selections the user has selected.

The parser interactive fiction game on the other hand uses the input of the user to progress throughout the game by typing ‘commands’ and doesn’t traditionally offer change of storylines and character options but simply just the option to make simple commands such as ‘open door’ as opposed to choose your adventure options such as ‘Kill Trevor’, ‘Kill Michael’ which would result in a different ending story.

2. Name an example of a parser game.

One example of a parser game is Void Quest which uses the Unity game engine and can be found at the following URL. https://gamejolt.com/games/VoidQuest/257270

3. Name an example of a choose your own path game.

One example of choose your own path game is 80 Days that is available to iOS users. The game centers around being an assistance of English gambler.

4. Why does she say interactive fiction virtually died out in the mid-1990s?

The interactive fiction virtually died out due to Activision acquiring Infocom and many contributions for its death. One of the reasons was not using the in-house packaging plant which wouldn’t have doubled the cost from 45 cents to 90 cents. Another reason for their failure was to the demand of production of 8 game titles as opposed to the four games they were used to.

5. Why does she say poetry is an important element of interactive fiction writing? What example does she use?

Heather Albano considers poetry to be an important element due to the importance of text that is relied on for the interactive fiction based games. She believes words can create the atmosphere and also increase curiosity in terms of questioning the text such as the “Ropes span between buildings like enormous spiderwebs blanketing the city” that can be found in the example she uses from the game “With Those We Love Alive’ by Porpentine”.

6. Why does she say that ambiguity is not only unavoidable but also necessary?

Heather believes ambiguity is unavoidable because of the limited amount of graphics and text the interactive fiction games provide resulting in the developers omitting certain things from the game and leaving the imagination of the player to take over.

7. What’s important about complicity?

Complicity is important as it provides players to be accountable and in charge of the player’s action and allowing changing of the character’s actions based on the player.