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Originally Posted by Metapioca
Parchment works quite well, and can be played offline as long as you loaded the game first* (I mean, play from the cache, since it's just javascript). I started hacking it a bit for the kindle screen, because by default it doesn't fit well, but nothing clean enough to be a contribution right now. Scrolling would still be an issue (you need to hit alt-g once in a while).
And despite what some others said in this thread, I tend to think of the kindle as the ultimate interactive fiction device: you can play from anywhere and it reads like a book (if you want to argue the keyboard is not good enough, be warned I used to play Zork on... a TI89).
* Kindle 3 browser doesn't support file:// as I heard previous versions did  |
I think Parchment will work okay in landscape but haven't tried it yet. But that means reading everything vertically because you need to operate the keyboard. I couldn't get it to fit in portrait. Seems kind of silly that it requires so much horizontal space, since it is just text and that can reflow quite easily.
Still, I'd prefer these to be Kindle apps, since I'm wifi only and won't always have a network connection.
I agree that the keyboard is good enough for this. Many commands require only a single letter. An app could have an autocomplete feature to help reduce typing even more.