GlkNew, the new-school interactive fiction engine

What?
A web-based frontend to GLK, an Interactive Fiction interpreter.
Why?
To try and bring Interactive Fiction to a larger audience, and make it easier for newcomers to get started.
How?
Using C and Perl, the source-code is on github.
Did you write the games?
No, the games belong to their respective authors (see the "about" links to the author's sites). If you are one of these authors and would prefer that we didn't use your game in this way, please let us know and we will remove your game.

Help, I'm stuck!

If you have a technical problem playing the game (error messages, popups, graphics don't display etc). Please get in touch with us. Also, please get in touch if you have a suggestion for another (non-commercial!) game that you'd like us to support, or have any other sort of helpful suggestion, or, heck, just to say thanks.

If you are stuck playing the game itself, try looking at the game's website, or searching for its name in google. Most games also have a hint system, so try typing help, or (in King of Shreds), think.

The games

A Tight Spot — Play Now — More Info
An implementation of sokoban, a box-pushing puzzle game. Not, strictly speaking, interactive fiction, but an interesting technology demonstration.
Adventure! — Play Now — More Info
The original computer game, Adventure. It simulates exploring a cave in Kentucky... with elves and a troll.
Adventurer's Consumer Guide — Play Now — More Info
A rather amusing puzzle game, in which you are sent to test a number of pieces of equipment as an author for the Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by being sent out with nothing else, and told to bring back a treasure. Features lots of amusing text, and inventive puzzles.
Alabaster — Play Now — More Info
An interesting, and rather spooky, take on the classic tale of Snow White. Primarily takes the form of a dialog, between Snow White, and the man sent to kill her.
Blue Lacuna — Play Now — More Info
Perhaps the most stressing of the fiction in interactive fiction of any game here, Blue Lacuna has actual characters and plot, in addition to puzzles. The primary author of glknew.org considers this his favorite game here.
Curses — Play Now — More Info
Another funny one. In Curses, you have escaped the preparations for a family vacation, ostensibly to get a tourist map of Paris from your attic -- which, it turns out, is quite extensive.
Earl Grey — Play Now — More Info
An odd little pun-based game.
The King of Shreds and Patches — Play Now — More Info
A tale of the Cuthulu mythos, set in Black Death era London. Features several playwrights of note. Dark and mysterious, a good play.
Zork I — Play Now — More Info
A classic of the genre, Zork is an Infocom game that was freed as a promotion for Legends of Zork, a browser-based MMORPG. A, perhaps the classic treasure hunt.

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