Given this low barrier to entry – with the wealth of freely available authoring tools, the only required inputs are time and ideas – IF may be the most creator-accessible interactive medium, and certainly one that places the fewest technical hurdles between conception and realization. Interactive fiction, as a result, is very much an auteur form in which individual creators can explore the medium free of marketing concerns and genre strictures. It thrives in our online cultural context where authors can reach audiences, and audiences can become authors.
via thestar.com