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The 24 pages that link to Interactive fiction, each with the reason it gives.

• SuspenseRelated: Uncertainty about consequences can make suspense depend on a participant’s own decisions.

• Video gameCompared with: It overlaps with video games while often centering written language over animated images.

• Role-playing gameCompared with: It offers branching narrative choices without necessarily using role-playing rules or character development.

• NarratologyRelated: Its branching structures challenge assumptions about fixed order and a single narrative path.

• Transmedia storytellingCompared with: Interactivity concerns audience influence within a work, not necessarily narrative distribution across media.

• Serial fictionRelated: Some interactive works release new chapters over time, combining serial publication with audience choice.

• StorytellingBroader topic: Interactive works make participation part of how a story is told.

• Adventure gameCompared with: It shares narrative problem-solving with adventure games but typically relies more heavily on text.

• Direct addressRelated: Addressing the participant as “you” can make interaction part of the narrative voice.

• NarrationRelated: Interactive fiction makes the presentation of events responsive to user choices.

• Player agencyNarrower topic: It shows how agency questions extend beyond games to other interactive storytelling.

• Mystery fictionRelated: Branching choices can make evidence gathering and deduction interactive.

• Participatory artCompared with: It offers a comparison where participant choices operate within a designed system.

• Visual novelNarrower topic: Visual novels belong to a wider tradition of interactive storytelling.

• Action-adventure gameCompared with: Interactive fiction foregrounds narrative choices rather than real-time action and traversal.

• Colossal Cave AdventureNarrower topic: The game became a foundational work for this broader literary and computational form.

• Roberta WilliamsCompared with: Her illustrated adventures retained text-based interaction while making images central.

• Electronic literatureBroader topic: It turns reader input into a visible part of the literary encounter.

• Multimedia (computing)Broader topic: Interactive fiction is a focused case where user input shapes a multimedia narrative.

• GameplayCompared with: It foregrounds narrative choices, often with less emphasis on action-oriented play.

• Single-player video gameNarrower topic: Solo games share its emphasis on one participant making choices within a designed narrative.

• Game (video entertainment)Compared with: Interactive fiction may emphasize narrative choices over challenge and rule mastery.

• Horror gameNarrower topic: Text-based horror offered suspense through description, inference, and player-directed decisions.

• Text-based gameNarrower topic: This broader form includes games that make narrative choice their central interaction.