WAIF: Glossary

Glossary

Abbreviation	Full Name	Author
BBG	X-Trek: Boffing Both Generations	Heloburp
BJD	Blow Job Drifter	Big Al
Emy	Emy Discovers Life	MKJ
GNA	Generic New York Apartment	NewKid
HI	Ideal High School	NewKid
I-0	Interstate 0: Jailbait on the Interstate (kind of AIF)	Adam Cadre
Moist	Moist	Scarlet Herring
NWT	A Night With Troi	Badman
RC	Rogue Cop	Choices
STX	Star Trek: The Sexed Generation	NewKid
Visit	An Afternoon Visit	MKJ

AGT: Adventure Game Toolkit. A system for writing IF, created by Welch and Malmberg. This one's showing its age a bit. TADS and Inform (and to a lesser extent Hugo and Alan) are much more often discussed on r*if.
a.g.x.: alt.games.xtrek, the Usenet newsgroup where AIF is discussed
MMX: Mostly Moist-like X-actor, a TADS library (by "d") that implements sex
NPC: Non-player character, i.e. anyone except the person playing the game. In AIF, the player often has sex with these people.
RLS: Real Life Sex, a possibly mythical creature that AIF authors like to simulate on computers
raif: the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup, which is about regular IF. (This is a good place to ask questions about general IF coding, but you may offend people if you write about explicit sex stuff. Usually, you can write a post without the sex in it; if not, consider posting to a.g.x. instead.)
rgif: the rec.games.int-fiction newsgroup. This one is for discussing games, asking for hints, etc., but again is read by lots of people who aren't into AIF.
r*if: raif and/or rgif (the * is a UNIX-ism)
TADS: Text Adventure Development System. One of the most popular languages to write IF in. Created by Michael Roberts.

Adult Interactive: I made this term up to describe games like the classic NWT. These are games with only a few locations, few or no puzzles, and little or no plot development, which basically involve (lots of) interaction (well, OK, sex) with one NPC. The AIF equivalent of a two-page "stroke" story.
cut scene: A relatively long section of prose, often used for sex scenes.
guess-the-verb: This sort of puzzle involves some strange verb or a strange way of saying something which seemed logical to the author, but may not be to the player. The most famous AIF example is the "EAT DINNER WITH TORRES" puzzle. Those exact words have to be used or the player is stuck. Authors should always try and write games that allow many ways of doing the same thing.
INFOCOM: One of the most popular companies creating IF, its heyday was in the mid-80's. The INFOCOM folks created Zork, HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and several other famous IF games.
Inform: One of the most popular languages to write IF in. Created by Graham Nelson.
mimesis: The feeling that you're really in the game you're playing, that the character in the game is really you. cf. "Crimes Against Mimesis"
xtrek: AIF based on characters from Star Trek

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