JACL Interactive Fiction

JACL brings the golden age of text adventures to your iPhone and iPad. There are no buttons to mash and no twitch reflexes required — you read where you are, type what you want to do ("open the door", "take the lantern", "go north"), and the story responds. It's interactive fiction the way it was meant to be: you and your imagination, one sentence at a time.

The app comes with a shelf of ready-to-play adventures spanning several languages and moods — from a fantasy dungeon to a quiet stroll through Paris — so there's something to play the moment you open it.

FEATURES

• A built-in bookshelf of adventures, ready to play offline • Never lose your place — every game auto-saves, so returning to the shelf and coming back drops you exactly where you left off • Named save points for marking the moments you want to return to • A tap-to-open map that charts the rooms you've explored • Sound and music in games that support it • Tap and hold any word to look it up in the dictionary • Comfortable, adjustable serif reading — set your text size once and it sticks • Light, Dark, or System appearance for the reading screen • Designed for iPad, in portrait or landscape

WHO IT'S FOR

If you grew up with text adventures in the 1980s, this is your nostalgia machine. If you've never played one, it's the gentlest possible introduction to a whole genre of story-driven games. The bundled adventures range from family-friendly puzzles to mature, tongue-in-cheek action, so there's room to grow into.

More adventures can be downloaded and opened directly in the app.

Curl up with a story. Type your way through it.