Chapter 20 Distant Relatives
A VARIETY OF EFFORTS ATTEMPT to use the computer in some fashion that seems kinda-sorta narrative. In this chapter, I discuss some of these efforts and their relationship to interactive storytelling.
Interactive Fiction
In 1976 Don Woods released his greatly expanded version of Will Crowther’s Colossal Cave Adventure, and a genre was born, originally called adventure games. Scott Adams created the first version of the game on a personal computer in 1979. He built a general-purpose editing program that made it possible to create completely new games using the same architecture. (Few people know that Rob Zdybel at Atari created a similar tool at about the same time.) Originally known as “adventure games,” this genre ...
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