This section gathers together interviews with the people who helped shape interactive fiction: pioneers, designers, writers, programmers, and other contributors whose first-hand reflections form part of the medium’s living history.
These pages are treated as historical records. They preserve insight into development processes, technical limits, publishing realities, creative ambitions, and the human story behind classic adventure games.
The interviews section is designed to expand over time, but it already has a strong foundation in the pioneers route, where individual interview pages can be given proper historical framing.
A dedicated route for interviews with early creators whose work helped establish commercial adventure gaming and the wider shape of parser-based interactive fiction.
The interview archive is still growing. These are the current public entry points.
One of the earliest commercial adventure game designers, discussing the origins of Adventure International, early parser design, and the formative years of home-computer text adventures.
A curated home for early creator interviews, giving foundational voices of interactive fiction a more structured and expandable archive route.
Additional conversations with designers, developers, studio figures, and preservation contributors will be added as the archive continues to grow.
Over time, this section can expand beyond pioneers to include studio contributors, tool authors, writers, artists, and later figures from across the adventure-game landscape.
Interviews are preserved as part of the historical record. Wherever possible, original wording is retained and presented with minimal alteration, with only light framing added where context is useful.