InteractiveFiction

Yes, though some works are less like games and more like poems. --Bobacus

Why not? The player interacts with the "gamemaster" (namely the wiki), to explore a world (more abstractly - and literally - a text) as meaning unfolds. The only thing Threads really lacks is state changes, though I'm sure your scripting skillz are up to adding that :-) --Bobacus

As I see it, the main difference between what you describe above and things like Threads is that the latter get made up completely on the fly by the "players", with few rules or restrictions beyond the assumption of common sense, whereas things like the CCA and Infocom adventures involve the player exploring a precreated world. - MoonShadow

Yeah, IF doesn't allow you to tell much of a story that the writer hasn't already written... usually.  People have written eliza using these things - you can take any input from the user at all and tell a story that uses it - but it generally ends up very surreal.  --Vitenka

OK. It's still interactive, like a ChooseYourOwnAdventure? written on a SharedNotepad?. I won't fuss about it too much, because I would probably put a fact-based interactive documentary in the same category!

Incidentally, I remember seeing a LISP interpreter written in zcode, with a tutorial. I think it was called lists of lists ... *google* ... no, it was ListsAndLists? by AndrewPlotkin?, entered in /Competition1996? - see [this summary] or [play online]! --Bobacus

Well, ok - you can call Threads InteractiveFiction, certainly.  Or.. Hang on.  Yes.  Collaborative, the whole wiki is creating an IF, by writing to Threads.  Playing it involves simply clicking on links, so it has a more limited vocabulary than most IF games, but not greatly so.  --Vitenka  (I was answering as though the writing part was the game, which it most certainly is)

"Interactive fiction" is to "collaborative fiction" what "choose your own adventure book" is to "co-authored book". - MoonShadow

i.e. Threads is a collaboratively authored interactive fiction?  --Vitenka

..if you assume that the experience of just reading it without adding to it is sufficiently interactive to merit the title, then I'd say yes :) - MoonShadow

Well... I guess I need to go write something more in it, don't I?  --Vitenka

AdventureGame?s can be IF - very early ones such as 'the hobbit' very much are - IF with pictures.  But there's a gradation as the fiction decreases and the 'find it and click it' increases - Diablo? being at the other end.  Various scumm games are at various points along this scale, I'd say.  --Vitenka