Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Colossal Cave Adventure is an abstract game, by any standard. Its mixture of pop culture references, humor and high fantasy put it firmly in the realm of the post-modern. The game gives a great deal of space which the player can assert their own imagination and persona in. We are never handed (in my experience of the game) any information about the protagonist allowing us to fill the role ourselves.
Text based games have fallen under the heading of interactive fiction. I don’t see text based games as any more interactive than modern adventure games, such as Final Fantasy. Text is more comparable to literature, though, because your imagination, not the games visuals, provides your picture of the world.
Text based games could find a place in today’s gaming world. I can envision PDP devices, or mobile phones playing host to games such as Adventure, taking full advantage of our mind’s eyes.
Matt STone
Text based games have fallen under the heading of interactive fiction. I don’t see text based games as any more interactive than modern adventure games, such as Final Fantasy. Text is more comparable to literature, though, because your imagination, not the games visuals, provides your picture of the world.
Text based games could find a place in today’s gaming world. I can envision PDP devices, or mobile phones playing host to games such as Adventure, taking full advantage of our mind’s eyes.
Matt STone
# posted by Matt @ 1:00 PM 
