Abbreviations

A list of some abbreviations and acronyms used in articles about interactive fiction:

• AAS = Advanced Authoring System
• ABNO = A Bear's Night Out
• ACE = Adventure Creation Environment
• ADRIFT = Adventure Development & Runner Interactive Fiction Toolkit
• AGT = Adventure Game Toolkit
• AIF = Adult Interactive Fiction
• AMFV = A Mind Forever Voyaging
• BTZ = Better Than Zork
• CAAD = Club de Aventuras AD
• C.A.T. = Creative Adventure Toolkit
• CRPG = Computer Role-Playing Game
• CYOA = Choose Your Own Adventure
• DM4 = The Inform Designer's Manual, Fourth Edition, by Graham Nelson
• GAGS = Generic Adventure Game System
• IBG = The Inform Beginner's Guide, by Roger Firth and Sonja Kesserich
• IF = Interactive Fiction
• IFML = Interactive Fiction Markup Language
• JACL = JACL Adventure Creation Language
• LGOP = Leather Goddesses of Phobos
• M.A.C. =
• MDL = MIT Design Language
• MUD = Multi-User Dungeon
• NI = Natural Inform
• NPC = Non-Player Character
• ORGC = One Room Game Competition
• PC = Player Character
• r*if = refers to both raif and rgif
• raif = rec.arts.int-fiction
• rgif = rec.games.int-fiction
• RPG = Role-Playing Game
• SPAC = Sociedad para la Preservación de las Aventuras Conversacionales
• SPAG = Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games
• SUDS = Single-User Dungeon System
• TADS = Text Adventure Development System
• T.A.G. = Text-Adventure-Generator
• ZIL = Zork Implementation Language
• ZIP = Zork Interpreter Program

Abbreviations understood by most modern interpreters of interactive fiction:

• D = down
• E = east
• G = again
• I = inventory
• L = look
• N = north
• NE = northeast
• NW = northwest
• O = oops
• Q = quit
• S = south
• SE = southeast
• SW = southwest
• U = up
• W = west
• X = examine
• Y = yes
• Z = wait

Uncommonly understood abbreviations:

• A = ask about, or aft
• F = fore
• P = port
• SB = starboard
• T = talk to