{"id":65,"date":"2005-09-23T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-09-26T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T03:10:16","slug":"interactive-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/23\/interactive-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Play Interactive Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need help figuring how to play &quot;interactive fiction&quot; games like <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifiction.org\/games\/play.php?game=1&#038;mode=html\">Adventure<\/a> or <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/thcnet.net\/zork\/index.php\">Zork<\/a>, see this <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/jerz.setonhill.edu\/if\/gallery\/help.html\">beginner&#8217;s guide<\/a>, which outlines how to interact with the game.<\/p>\n<p>When you play Zork, I recommend setting up an account, so you can retrieve your saved games. You can play for a bit, save your game, then come back later and pick up where you left off. <\/p>\n<p>To create an account, type &quot;login&quot; at the prompt and follow the directions. You&#8217;ll have to submit a username and password, then type &quot;yes&quot; to apply as a new user. After that, you can save and restore games. The command to save is &quot;save&quot; (w\/o quotation marks) and to restore your game, type &quot;restore&quot; at the prompt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, here&#8217;s a PDF file of the old <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifarchive.org\/if-archive\/infocom\/demos\/ztuu.pdf\">Zork manual<\/a>, which might be useful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need help figuring how to play &quot;interactive fiction&quot; games like Adventure or Zork, see this beginner&#8217;s guide, which outlines how to interact with the game. When you play Zork, I recommend setting up an account, so you can retrieve your saved games. You can play for a bit, save your game, then come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/23\/interactive-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Play Interactive Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}