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Abbreviations
Glossary
A
Action
Action-adventure game
Adaptation
Adventure game
Agency
AIF
Alpha-testing
Amusing
Archive
ASCII art
Ask-tell
Assembler
Author
Authoring system
Auto pilot
B
Babel fish puzzle
Backstory
Baseball puzzle
Beta-testing
Bottleneck
C
Cave crawl
Choice-based interactive fiction
Clue
Code-level pattern
Coding exercise
Combinatorial explosion
Command
Compass
Competition
Compiler
Containment
Conversation
CRPG
Cruelty scale
Cryptogram
Cue
Cutscene
CYOA
D
Daemon
Darkness
Deadlock
Death
Decompiler
Default behavior
Default response
Description
Designer
Diagnose
Dictionary
Diegesis
Disambiguation
Dungeons and Dragons
E
Easter egg
Endgame
Ending
F
Fake spoiler
Feedback
Feelies
First-person game
Flashback
Fourth wall
Free action
Freeware
Full score
FyreVM
G
Game
Game character
Game-level pattern
Genre
Geography
Glk
Glulx
Goal
Grammar
Grue
Guess-the-verb
H
Hint
Hint system
Homebrew parser
Hunger puzzle
I
Illusion of freedom
Immersion
Implicit action
Interaction
Interactive fiction
Interactivity
Interactor
Interpreter
Inventory
Inventory management puzzle
J
Juicy
L
Last lousy point
Lazy medieval
Library
Library extension
Light source
Linear
Location
Losing
M
Map
Maze
Menu-based conversation
Meta-command
Metagame
Microstory
Middle game
Mimesis
Minicomp
MUDs and MOOs
Multipath
Multiple endings
Multiple solutions
N
Narrative
Narrator
Natural language processing
Navigation
Non-player character
O
Object
Object tree
Old school
One-use item
One-use key
Optimal ending
P
Pacing
Parser
Parser-based interactive fiction
Parser-choice hybrid
Participatory comedy
Personified parser
Platform
Player
Player character
Player's holdall
Plot
Prologue
Prompt
Purple prose
Puzzle
Puzzlefest
Puzzleless
Q
Quest (term)
Quit
R
Ractive
Rails, being on
Rank
Red herring
Refusal message
Replayability
Restart
Restore
Riddle
Rogue-like
Role-playing game
Room
ROY G. BIV
S
Sack object
Save
Scenery
Scope
Score
Second level object
Second-person game
Sense-passing
Session
Setting
Shareware
Simulation
Simulationist
Solution
Soup cans
Source code
Spoiler
Static fiction
Status bar
Story file
Story-driven
Structure
Stuck
Sudden death
Synonyms
T
Text adventure
Textdump
Third-person game
Timed puzzle
Timer
Transcript
Traversal
Triangle of identities
Trigger
Turn
Two-word parser
U
Undescribed object
Undo
Unreliable narrator
Unwinnable
User
V
Verb
Vile zero error from hell
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