[smarterchild]

Ooh, text adventures! Some suggestions:

If you haven't played any before, your first question may be: Why would I play a game made up just out of text? The IFComp is a good place to start. It really helps to what really talented people can do with the medium. Here are two worth playing:

1) Taco Fiction (http://ifcomp.org/comp11/play.php?id=201) and

2) Violet (http://jayisgames.com/games/violet/), both previous winners.

Inform7 is a very widely used tool for making IF now (http://inform7.com/); I haven't played with it much, but from what I've seen, it does some really great stuff. It's a good way to get started writing your own games.

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Full disclosure: My current project is a way to make CYOA from the browser. (http://adventurecow.com)