Re: Society for Interactive Literature?

From: dpinney@ix.netcom.com (Dano)

Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

I seem to recall Dave Black <dave_black@chshq.dfo.ca> saying something
about:

>I came upon a reference to these people while exploring on the Web
>earlier today but there didn't seem to be a way to contact them. I'm
>just wondering if anyone knows who they are or how to get in touch with
>them. The blurb I did find was in the Runequest stuff and had something
>to do with GloranthaCon V - or at least that's the impression I got...

>They describe themselves as follows:

>The Society for Interactive Literature is a non-profit society dedicated
>to the promotion of imaginative and thought-provoking entertainment. We
>also dablle in global domination.

>It then goes on to list the memebers.

>Interesting eh?

I'm not sure, as I haven't heard of this group myself, but I suspect
that they have something to do with interactive fiction -- that's a
more respectful and/or pretentious term for the old text adventures
that featured among the first computer games (e.g. Colossal Cave
Adventure, Zork and the other "Infocom" games, etc). People still make
such games, using any one of several adventure game design programs,
most notably INFORM and AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit). For more info on
all this stuff, try looking on the WWW -- there are a number of
interactive fiction sites -- or check out rec.arts.int-fiction (the
newsgroup for if programmers) and rec.games.int-fiction (the newsgroup
for players).

--Dan

References

Society for Interactive Literature?
Dave Black <dave_black@chshq.dfo.ca>
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000