JACL Interactive Fiction

Interactive fiction is a genre of text-based computer games where you read a description of a scene and type simple commands (for example go north, take lamp, or examine desk) to move through a story and solve its puzzles.

It is a direct descendant of the text adventures of the 1970s and 80s — titles like Zork, Adventure, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — and has a thriving modern community of authors and players.

Want to write your own? The JACL Guide walks you through the language.

The interpreter source code — for running JACL locally or contributing — is on GitHub.