Sorry, if the topic has been discussed elsewhere.
Most interactive fictions are written in present continuous tense. Does it depend on writers or is it a norm for interactive fictions? Which one do you prefer?
Personally I am very comfortable with past tense (influence of books, I guess) but after reading couple of Interactive Fictions, I am kinda divided between the two.
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I like present. It’s suitably immersive. Past keeps me at a certain remove that I don’t really love.
Maybe we should be open to the weirder tenses, too. Future perfect continuous!
"You will have been exploring the cave, when a vampire bat will have been swooping from the darkness!
What will you have done?"
Ok, maybe not.
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If the protagonist is a Precog, why not?! 
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Damn it, now I want to write a story about a time manipulator with limited range who can swap back and forward in the timeline of the story by a choice forward or back with every choice, manipulating events.
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I will have had called dibs on crafting the prose in the future pluperfect if you write it!
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Extra auxiliaries can be extra fun…
I will have been going to keep being about to have used to start finishing a total mess 
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