Best Hypertext
Cactus Blue Motel is a 2016 hypertext interactive-fiction work by Astrid Dalmady. It places the reader in a surreal desert motel setting and uses linked passages to make navigation part of the narrative experience, with a presentation that combines written fiction and multimedia elements. The work i...
Andries van Dam is a computer scientist at Brown University who has worked on hypertext systems and interactive computer graphics. He co-developed the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS (File Retrieval and Editing System) in the 1960s, early hypertext systems. Van Dam co-authored "Computer Graphics:...
First Draft of the Revolution is a 2012 hypertext interactive fiction work by Emily Short and Liza Daly, set in pre-revolutionary France. Players revise the text of letters exchanged between characters, and each edit alters the social and political relationships that unfold. The game treats writing...
Ted Nelson was an American inventor whose work fundamentally shaped digital information management. He introduced the concept of hypertext in 1963, arguing for a non-linear approach to reading and writing that linked documents together. His ambitious project, Xanadu, aimed to create a universal syst...
Robin & Orchid is a text-adventure game by Ryan Veeder. The story follows an investigation of a supposedly haunted church that unfolds over a single night, using written descriptions, player choices, and puzzle-like discoveries rather than conventional action gameplay. Its compact setting and myster...
Stone Harbor is a 2016 work of interactive fiction by Liza Daly, created with the Windrift development system. It follows a boardwalk psychic who has built a business telling tourists what they want to hear, then becomes involved in an event that tests whether his apparent abilities are genuine. The...
