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The grues are an adventurer-consuming monster from the Zork series and other Infocom games. They appear in the dark areas of the game and are a major threat to adventurers.
Game Over originally appeared in pinball machines, and later, arcade machines. When players lose at a game, it is game over.
A type of game in which the player gives commands by inputting complete words and sentences. Often associated with the adventure genre.
The Z-Machine is a virtual machine, created by Infocom, for running text adventures. Variants are used today to run classic and modern interactive fiction.
Interactive fiction is a format that uses text to describe characters and objects within a setting, and the use of a parser to interpret text typed by the player, allowing the player to interact with the characters and objects within the setting.
The act of taking on an in-game task; most often, these are provided to the player by an NPC. MMOs and RPGs are the primary users of this concept.
In text based games, most, if not all the game play, or graphics is created with words.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
In second person point of view, the action is shot from the perspective of a character that is not the protagonist. It can also refer to second-person in the narrative sense, where the protagonist is the person playing the game.
Certain foliage in video games that leads you to believe it is possible to move through when, in fact, it is not.
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