Recommended Lists mentioning The Gostak

Recommendations for linguist-friends, intended to a) be a good introduction to the medium and b) show off things that you can accomplish...

All the games that won the Best Individual Puzzle award, year by year. I'll avoid giveaway spoilers in my comments, but I'll still...

Recommended Linguistic Games - 16 items February 28, 2012
A list by E.K.

Good games that use language puzzles, or language itself as the puzzle.

Pieces of Games - 10 items January 27, 2009
A list by Ron Newcomb

Sometimes the best way to understand a type of puzzle or interaction is a pithy, stand-alone example of it.

Metatextual Conceits - 7 items February 20, 2008
A list by Michael Martin

Most works of IF present themselves as works of IF, to be interacted with by you, the user, much as a reader would read a novel. These...

Much Interactive Fiction, and some of the best, quite obviously descends from Zork and other early Infocom text adventures. But some of...

Distinctive Puzzle Style - 10 items October 30, 2007
A list by Sam Kabo Ashwell

One of the most powerful techniques for rendering a game memorable is to build it around a unusual, interesting and consistent way of...

Games that are super awesome - 2 items October 24, 2007
A list by Personman

These are the IF games that I happen to think are incredibly amazing, fantastically wonderful, supremely terrific, and really great.

Word-play games - 12 items October 17, 2007
A list by Emily Short

Games where the text of the game is part of the puzzle.

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