GamaSutra - Andrew "Zarf" Plotkin's acclaimed Shade is an interactive fiction game that sticks with you like a distant fever dream, or a particularly poignant nightmare. The way it subverted the confines of traditional setting within interactive fiction through matter-of-fact surrealism made it revolutionary when it launched over 10 years ago. It has no "solution" in the sense one expects.
You thought the days of the text adventure were long over. That was before you discovered interactive fiction, the modern, independently published form the text adventure has taken since the commercial period ended in the early '90s. Now, you have a problem.
