Episode 3: Introduction to Interactive Fiction
This video is meant as an introduction to the medium, especially for people who have played little or no IF. I explain the difference between choice-based and parser-based games, and then take a brief look at four pieces in each category. The works discusses are the following, with links that will allow you to play them:
1. their angelic understanding, by Porpentine: http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/...
2. Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse: https://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/...
3. Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/...
4. Heretic's Hope, by C. G. Baccaris: https://grimoirtua.itch.io/heretic
5. Curses!, by Graham Nelson: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%...
6. Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C. E. J. Pacian: https://pacian.itch.io/superluminal-v...
7. Eat Me, by Chandler Groover: http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games...
8. The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%...
A great resource for finding more IF is the IFDB: https://ifdb.tads.org/
Among the lists on the IFDB you might want to check out are these:
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewlist?id=te3...
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewcomp?id=1lv...
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewlist?id=k7r...
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewlist?id=7zl...
Here's a nice beginner's card for parser-bases IF: https://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/pl...