In watching some videos of Interactive Fiction's (IF) forefathers, I realized that I am definitely not alone in wishing for an IF resurgence. I can't imagine it returning as a source revenue - capable of sustaining a business at least - but perhaps there IS hope. Right now I am typing this out on my phone. In fact I spend a decent amount of time every day writing on my phone. FAR more time than I spend typing on my computer.... And so is everyone else.
People are scrolling through apps and staring at endless streams of texts. TEXTs. Reading and righting text. I think that IF could do well on mobile devices. From what I've seen there isn't much out there. I know it's very difficult to port IF games to the few mobile clients out there. This might be part of the problem. So I've begun the battle with Android, and working with Android (And probably other mobile platforms) truly is a battle. I am building a WorldWeaver client. It will use the same game DBs that the desktop Java client does, so games can be ported over without any change. I will do the same for other mobile platforms.
We'll see if mobile is the magic potion that restores some of IF's life points.
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