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Authors look back on 50 years of interactive fiction, from Adventure to Twine.

Start: Colossal Cave Adventure, 1976, played by typing two-word commands.
Fan tools: Inform and Glulx came from fans reverse-engineering Infocom's games.
Newer tools: Twine and Ink brought new approaches to storytelling.