Ok, thanks :) but once I find the game through the browser in Frotz, how do I get the game onto my device? I didn’t find a download button. Thanks for all of the game suggestions. That helps a lot. Also, you mentioned trying the games already provided in Frotz, are those aimed at adults? I don’t want any shockers with the kids. :)
Thanks, Christina > On Mar 9, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Michael Feir <michael.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Christina. You have a few ways of going about adding games to > Frotz. There are literally hundreds of games available. A Bear's Night > Out is a great one to play with children. Some other personal > favorites which are clean but written for teens and adults are Jigsaw, > Curses, haunted Theater and Sofar. To find these games, you want to > use the browse ifdb button which lets you get games from the > Interactive Fiction database. If you know the name of a game, use the > first search edit field you come to. Type in the neame and then use > the submit botton. Hope that gets you started. There are many ways to > search and brows the database and it's constantly being added to. > > Frotz can also run the Infocom games but you'll have to obtain those > somethwre other than the database. They're still considered commercial > software and are unavailable for free download. I have a CD call the > Masterpieces of Infocom which you may be able to track down on Ebay or > something. You could then do what I did and transfer the games to > Frotz's story list with its built-in file server. There are > instructions in the help included in Frotz. Best of luck with this > Christine. I hope that helps get you started. Be shure to try the > games already included with the Frotz app. > > On 3/9/16, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I listened to a Cool Blind Tech podcast about playing a game called Dragon >> Adventure with Frotz for iOS. Anyways, I have never done this interactive >> Fiction text adventure games. I’d really like to try to play Dragon >> Adventure with my kids. 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