WHAT IS A TEXT ADVENTURE GAME? HOW DO I PLAY LEADLIGHT?
(TOP) Leadlight is a text adventure (or Interactive Fiction), a type of computer game which had huge commercial popularity during the 1980s. Some classics of the genre, like Zork (1980) were so challenging that back in the days before FAQs and the Internet, they could take players months (or years!) to solve. Leadlight is not up at the Zork end of the scale. It’s intended to be welcoming to modern gamers who might never have seen a text adventure before. Leadlight has a simple two word parser and takes stylistic cues from console survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. It also has RPG elements, combat and weapons. The game won’t take you months to clear, and its score system is designed to encourage repeat plays. Coming up is a brief overview of how the game works, but for complete instructions and advice, you should download and check out the PDF Leadlight Player Guide. If you’re a text adventuring newbie, you may need to read the Player Guide carefully at first and
