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Recent Posts

  • Mid-February Link Assortment
  • End of January Link Assortment
  • Mid-January Link Assortment
  • End of December Link Assortment
  • Mid-December Link Assortment

Recent Comments

  • Working with SimpleQBN: Part 1: Concepts – Digital Ephemera on Storylets: You Want Them
  • todorus on Game Writing and Narrative Design Podcasts
  • 2020 in Videogame Blogging – Critical Distance on So You Want a Pantheon For Your Game
  • Designing game content architectures – LOSTGARDEN on Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures
  • Understanding Reigns (2016) through Storylet Design Terms – Digital Ephemera on Storylets: You Want Them

RSS On Planet-IF

  • Renga in Blue: Adventure 448: The Shape of a God
  • "Aaron Reed": Pirate Adventure (1978)
  • Inkle: ink version 1.0 release!
  • Renga in Blue: Adventure 448 (1978-1979)
  • Renga in Blue: Palace in Thunderland: Finished!

Blogroll

  • Clash of the Type-Ins (podcast)
  • Electric Archaeology
  • Homer in Silicon (archival)
  • IF Technology Foundation
  • Inform 7 Extensions feed
  • Inky Path (archival)
  • NarraScope
  • Pissy Little Sausages
  • Planet IF
  • Renga in Blue
  • Sibyl Moon
  • The Gaming Philosopher
  • The Stack
  • Titans of Text (podcast)
  • Z-Machine Matter
  • Zarfhome

Collections

  • @philomela_twine
  • ELO Directory
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  • MIT Docubase
  • Textadventures

Commercial IF

  • Choice of Games
  • Codename Cygnus
  • Cubus Games
  • Darned Sock Productions
  • Failbetter Games
  • inkle
  • Six To Start
  • Sub-Q Magazine
  • Tin Man Games
  • Versu (archival)

Competitions

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  • Spring Thing
  • Windhammer Prize
  • XYZZY Awards

Conferences and Events

  • AdventureX
  • Foundations of Digital Games
  • ICCC
  • ICIDS
  • Wordplay

Creation Tools

  • "Another IF Engine List"
  • ADRIFT
  • Alan
  • Axma Story Maker
  • ChoiceScript
  • Choose Your Story
  • Fungus
  • Inform 6
  • Inform 7
  • ink
  • Quest
  • Ren'Py
  • TADS 2 and 3
  • Tiny QBN
  • Twine
  • TyranoBuilder
  • Vorple
  • Windrift
  • Yarn Spinner

Design Articles

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  • Past RAIF Threads
  • XYZZYNews

Forums

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  • ifMUD
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  • Interactive Fiction Facebook group
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  • Quest Forum

Local Groups

  • Baltimore/Washington DC
  • Oxford and London IF Group
  • People's Republic of IF (Boston)
  • San Francisco Bay Area IF
  • Seattle

Online play

  • Adventure Cow
  • ifiction
  • ifMUD

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Walkthroughs

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  • David Welbourn’s Walkthroughs

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