Interactive fiction template: build it step by step
Three passages, one branch, the text that follows. No graphics required. Story to game is the build that starts from the sentence.
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The sentence you type
"Make an interactive fiction. Start with three passages and one choice between them."
The brief the AI writes back
First playable: three passages and one choice between them. The loop to get right: read, decide, read what follows.
Build, play, adjust
Compare with the games that define the genre: Zork (Infocom, 1980), 80 Days (inkle, 2014) and Reigns (Nerial, 2016).
What makes it finished
You can choose, read a different result, and go back to the same passage to choose again.
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