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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by Karunamon on Thursday January 22, 2015 @05:46PM (#8932284)
The Inform 7 docs go into this a little bit - a "text adventure" has aspects commonly associated with a game.. a player, a score, a win and lose condition, puzzles to solve, and so forth.

A work of "interactive fiction" need not necessarily be a game with the usual things that go along with that.

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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by Chathamization on Friday January 23, 2015 @09:26AM (#8934946)
Haldean Lands sounds like it has players and puzzles. And most of the graphical adventure games I’ve played haven’t had scoring systems.
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Re:Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, in... by Karunamon on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:43PM (#8936797)
Again, emphasis on "need not necessarily". Text adventures are a subset of interactive fiction.
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