Interacting with Words: Development of a text-based game on language

Sammanfattning: This paper describes the development process of an Interactive Fiction game focused on the theme oflanguage. The paper includes a brief description of the history of the genre and its definitions, a discussionabout its multiple variations and attributes, and an overview of some examples that handled similar subjects.Then it considers some of the unique properties of the written language and examines language as both ashared and subjective relationship with reality . This is followed by a description of tools and methodsadopted in the design process and how the development went — from initial research to the final concept.The results is then described, followed by the user test results and a critical evaluation. At the end, someconcluding remarks are included together with possible future developments.