NaNoWriMo Text Adventures

[squirmelia]

NaNoWriMo starts soon, and as I've been reading Twisty Little Passages, I'm vaguely contemplating writing some kind of interactive fiction/text adventure type thing for it.

[Poll #1474777]

Comments

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

Er, sorry to be old, but what's a text adventure?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. You're "old" (same age as me) and don't know text adventures? The most famous ones are most likely the ones by Infocom (Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy etc.).
As the name suggests, the are text based. It starts off with a short description of where you are and you explore by typing commands (inventory, north, south, east, west, examine, get/take/pick up, use etc. the more complex the parser the more commands are available).

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

Ah, computer games! Why didn't you say? Thanks, I can fill in the poll now...