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IF Final essay

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ek-bw12P2rTn0uMYG7bB1_Fo6c1yqbjJ5sb4HlvF1J0/edit?usp=sharing  Here is a link to my final essay in my interactive fiction class... feel free to take a look on my take of the  future of interactive fiction and my opinion on the near works in the future! This class was a great joy and  I am very thankful to be introduced to these works!

The Future of IF

Interactive fiction has been developing over years. Most of it has gone from wrting on paper to computer browsers. I belive that in interaactive fiction could begin to make a push onto the mobile gaming community.   I think mobile did create a lot of new spaces for Interactive fiction, and there were a number of successes for games that were fundamentally IF, with some really good art direction and a heap of a lot of content and polish. That push basically already happened, though, in my opinion. I think you can always carve your own lane with an amazing new game, but I think that the "commercial" potential of IF is always going to be in bringing high-quality storytelling to more graphical games. A few companies have tried to come up with a great mobile platform for IF that connects authors to a good mobile deployment and profit model, but I haven't seen anyone quite accomplish it. There's one person I've seen be moderately successful making Twine games for a Patr...