Hi Niclas.

Most interactive fiction games which are called interactive fiction don't tend to work like the choiceofgames titles.They work by you typing commands.

You walk around usually by typing  and then do things like examine object, open box etc.

usually you play them by loading the file in an interpreter. For example if it is a zcode game and the game's file has a z5 or z8 extention you need something like winfrotz or filfre to play, if it is a glks file you need something like winglulks etc.

As to where to find games, going to places like the interactive fiction wiki help. The if archive is just a huge file reposatory, but there are plenty of places which provide better info. There used to be a great site called baff's guide to the interactive fiction archive which provided pages for all the games,s olutions, information on interpreters etc.

For where to start I would recommend Andrew plotkin's game dream hold which you can play with winfrotz or filfre (I even heard there is an Ios version), since that game both serves as an introduction to if generally unlike a lot of other introductions isn't super simplistic or boring to play, indeed it's a wonderfully surreal  where you play a wizard with no memory wandering around his castle trying to find various objects to discover what happened to him and peace together his last spell.

I will confess that personally I got to a point where i found if games more trouble than they were worth, since for every good game I found, i found four or five others where I just got utterly stuck, usually because I was trying to do something simple like put cup on table and getting messages like "I don't know how to put" however admitedly I've not played if games for a considerable time and there might be a lot of newer things out now.

Hth.

Sorry I can't be a little more specific, as I said, I've not played standard if of that sort for a good while, hopefully someone else has more recent information.

Hi.
I don't have much experience which those yet, but they do all work as long as your interpreter is accessible.

Greetings all.

You can download and play the choice of games and hosted games titles offline. All you need to do is have an icloud account and itunes if you want to buy or download the IOS versions directly from the appstore. If not, you'll want an IOS device like an iphone or ipad. In either case, once you buy the games on your IOS device or directly from itunes, open itunes if it isn't already running. Once download is complete, look for the games in C:\users\username\music\itunes\itunes media\mobile applications and look for say the eagle's heir.ipa; username in this case means whatever your user folder is; for example mine is Amin. Cut and paste the game into a folder where you can find it more easily and rename the .ipa extension to .zip. Next, download choice script if you haven't got it already and copy the choice script folder into itself then rename the copy to the eagle's heir. Remember the zipped version of the game? don't use any program other than windows explorer to open the zip folder because you only want to copy files from the eagle's heir\payload\choice script\web\mygame\scenes. Select all and copy. Go out of the zip folder and back into the copy you created. Go to the eagle's heir\web\mygame\scenes and paste. Now you can play the game offline. As a side note, you can now mess about with the game as you see fit. I always replace *page_break with *line_break and I always delete the % so I'm not restricted to percentile values. I've done this with all choice script games. Also, the reason why I haven't gotten into dashingdon is because I don't know how to download their games. I want an offline copy encase the internet ever gets cut off.

Kind regards, Amin Abdullah.

@niclas, the games I mentioned are not html, they are if text files as I said where you type in commands, though they are all playable offline if you have the right interpreter as slj said.

Sadly your choices in roleplaying terms are fairly limited, the last I checked the only if games with rpg like mechanics were kerkerkruip, wumpus 2000, mageocracy and treasures of a slavers kingdom.
Some of these even have db pages so feel free to have a look.

As I said most traditional if is not like the choiceofgames/hosted games titles, you don't have links to progress the story, you type in commands which makes them play rather differently, that is why in the they are referd to as gamebooks.

If your looking for something more  similar to the cog/hg games, your best off getting a mobile device that is ios or android and looking into either the delight games, time crest or the 3ad games such as lifeline and it's sequels.

hth.

Okay, i'll try this as well. @dark, I have a mobile device but am searching specifically text games for the PC. It's important to me that I can't Play them only on mobile devices, since I am using the PC more often. That is why I asked for such things.

The best balance between interactive fiction and CoG games I can think of is twine based stuff. Unfortunately, whether or not those are accessible depends on how the writer decided to set everything up -- some do navigation through links (accessible, see a time of tungsten for an amazing example) some do it with highlighted text (not accessible, see 500 apocalypses if you want to be depressed because such an awesome sounding thing is so annoying/probably impossible to use). Generally, if they're made using a thing called Sugar Cube, they're accessible.

yes, I am searching for text games in general, but even in this case, they should be offline useable. I don't like muds and such. But i think the if DB is a good choice, since it is actual and even today there are new games being released, i mean no nowadays, not specifically today. And i even found HTML based ones and other stuff wich looks interesting.

Well with regards to eamon deluxe, there have been several subversions since the main version 5, each coming with more games included, eg, realm of fantasy, some of the nathan seagerlind adventures etc.
Unfortunately while things were going very well a few years ago, Frank Black slightly dropped off the map again and we're not sure where he is. I did get an email last year from him saying that he was around (he and I were in correspondance for a while), but I'm not sure what happened since though I replied he never got back to me.

it's a shame since with the talking dosbox versions we have now, we could potentially have a cross platform version of Eamon deluxe which would rock.

As it stands you'll need either windows xp or some dos emulation to play what there is, though what there is is pretty good.

Also for text games don't forget warsim and the wastes both of which you can learn about in the db, and as I said if your looking for text rpgs try kerkerkruip and wumpus 2000, even world of legends is worth a go though the writing is a bit hapharzard.

wow, thank you for this. Good to know that even that works. BTW: I downloaded the entries of passt IF competitions. But there are games written in adrifft, Hugo, Alan, Hugo, act, floyt and such. Are there interpreters for such formats wich are accessible to us, so we can play even these games? Lots of formats or authoring systems I don't know.

What do you mean with the others haven't much to offer? Are they inaccessible or not? Because if they can be accessed and used, i'd like to try them as well.

Greetings all.

I've just found an easier way to build the dashingdon games. Remember the messing about with all those urls? Now you don't have to do even that. Take the demon lord for example; just go to https://dashingdon.com/play/edfox/the-d … ame/scenes and you'll get an index of web/mygame/scenes. Now all you do is have an existing startup.txt, go to the startup.txt in the table, open in a new window, copy, close and paste and save. For each chapter, you do the same but go to save as and save chapter 1 as chapter_1.txt and you're good to go. It works on all dashingdon games. Alternatively you can save directly into web/mygame/scenes and not have to go into notepad at all. Just save target on each file and you're good to go. You still have to copy the choice script, rename it to the name of the game you're playing and paste it back into the main directory however.

Kind regards, Amin Abdullah.