Feelies

A Zorkmid and a Get Lamp coin.

Feelies for Emily Short's game Savoir-Faire.

Feelies for Emily Short's game Savoir-Faire.

A movie poster that was available as a feelie for Stephen Granade's game Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés.

Feelies created by Misty Granade and Stephen Granade for Stephen Granade's game Losing Your Grip.

A feelie for Emily Short's game City of Secrets.

A feelie for Emily Short's game City of Secrets.

Physical items -- brochures, photographs, small coins, glow-in-the-dark plastic stones, and other paraphernalia -- distributed along with IF software, either purely for aesthetic/immersive value, or to serve as a copy-protection mechanism (offering clues to an in-game puzzle). These were often found in Infocom games.

Some amateur IF has also included feelies, either as accompanying files (webpages offering background for the game, for instance), or in a physical form which the player could order from the author.

The term "feelie" was employed by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932), where it was applied to a kind of movie that offered tactile feedback.

See also

• infotater

Links

• The Feelies - article by Jason Scott. Read about the Feelie that started it all, Dennis Wheatley's Murder Off Miami which was first published in 1936 and re-issued in 1979.
• Feelies, Maps, Cover Art - article by Emily Short.
• Games with the tag "feelies" at IFDB. Some of these IFDB game pages link to feelies.
• Feelies at TV Tropes Wiki.
• Feelies - Italian article at L’avventura è l’avventura.
• Feelies.org (archive). Your (former) one-stop shop for interactive fiction feelies. Feelies.org as an IF organization disappeared in early 2008; the website is currently (2016) used by "The Feel Good Mob".