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
ALAN = Adventure LANguage
AMFV = A Mind Forever Voyaging
BTZ = Better Than Zork
CAAD = Club de Aventuras AD
C.A.T. = Creative Adventure Toolkit
CBN = Clueless Bob Newbie
CRPG = Computer Role-Playing Game
CYOA = Choose Your Own Adventure
DM4 = The Inform Designer's Manual, Fourth Edition, by Graham Nelson
ELO = Electronic Literature Organization
GAC = Graphic Adventure Creator
GAGS = Generic Adventure Game System
GTV = Guess The Verb
H2G2 = The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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. = Mystery Adventure Creator
MDL = MIT Design Language
MUD = Multi-User Dungeon
NI = Natural Inform
NPC = Non-Player Character
NXI = Node-X Interpreter
ORGC = One Room Game Competition
PAW = Professional Adventure Writer
PAWS = Professional Adventure Writing System
PC = Player Character
PUTPBAD = Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die
r*if = refers to both raif and rgif
RAGS = Rapid Adventure Game System
raif = rec.arts.int-fiction
RAP = Reactive Agent Planner
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
STAC = ST Adventure Creator
SUDS = Single-User Dungeon System
TADS = Text Adventure Development System
T.A.B. = ThinBASIC Adventure Builder
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