Amazing Text Fun Game Engine

If you're someone who fondly recalls the old days of Zork or Adventure in Humongous Cave, hearing the word "Grue" brings about a well of emotion, mostly frustration, and you can run down the proper action sequence for all of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from memory, then you're probably a huge geek. But that's okay, because so are the programming team at ATF - and they've decided it's time for "interactive fiction" to get a much-needed shot in the arm.

They believe that games today are too full of imagery, animation, and action, all of which really draws away from the most important aspects of a game: the plot and the challenge. In order to effect change, they've written a game engine for text-based games.

You might be wondering, what exactly is a game engine? Well, it's an interpreter for a game: a game developer writes a game with certain rules and behaviors, and the game engine decodes that game and presents it to you, the player. No more pictures or motion; just you, your keyboard, and the game.

That's where the Amazing Text Fun Game Engine comes in - an interactive fiction game engine that brings back the nostalgic feel of the old text-based games, where your imagination truly ran wild. So if you're ready to dive into a game where the plot and the challenge are the most important features, look no further than the ATF game engine.