All Roads

Creative Work

Author:: Jon Ingold
Year:: 2001
Appears in:: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Publisher:: Electronic Literature Organization
URL:: All Roads (ELC, vol. 1); All Roads (IFDB)
Language:: English
Venue:: Published on disc, CD, or DVD; Published on the Web (individual site); Published on the Web (online journal)
Platform/Software:: Inform
Event:: Electronic Literature Organization 2002: State of the Arts Symposium
Record Status:: Approved record
Technical Notes:: <p>Instructions: Type commands at the ">" prompt and press enter to control the character and advance the storyline. Commands take the form of simple imperatives like "take lamp," "open door," "examine footprints," "wear blindfold." Typing a principal directions, for instance, "north," "east," or "south," moves the character. Typing "inventory" or just "i" will list the objects your character is carrying, while typing "look" or "l" will provide a description of the current location. Non-player characters may be spoken to by typing "talk to" followed by the name of the person. Typing "save" will save current progress to a file, which can later be loaded by typing "restore." Type "help" for additional help.</p>

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Description (in English):

Venice. The tight winding alleys and long dirty canals. Easy to become lost here, where every street emerges somewhere unexpected. In the central square a scaffold has been erected for your neck, and if only you can escape for long enough you might survive, but in this city all roads lead back to Piazza San Marco and the Hanging Clock.

(Source: Author's description from Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1)

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 4: Interactive Fiction and Other Gamelike Forms
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature
EL-games
Interactive Fiction 2019

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Letters That Matter: Electronic Literature Collection Vol 1	John David Zuern	2007
Generating Narrative Variation in Interactiv Fiction	Nick Montfort	2007
Reclaiming the 'Golden Age': The Second Person in Digital Fiction	Astrid Ensslin, Alice Bell	2010
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2018

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