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Saturday, February 23, 2019

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"IF is now being written by many types of people, for many reasons, as freeware or for sale, and distributed in a wide range of places. It is harder than ever to follow what is going on, and also there is a greater than ever variety to the works and players." --Emily Short, "Brief Bibliography about IF History," April 2016. What's new in the IF scene: Sub-Q, a magazine edited by Tory Hoke that pays professional rates for IF. CYOA platforms like Raconteur by Bruno Dias, ink by inkle, Squiffy by Alex Warren, and Texture by Juhana Leinonen and Jim Munroe. Long-term jams like the TinyUtopias IF Jam, curated by Cat Manning, and The Year of Adventure, organized by Robin Douglas Johnson. Lectrote, a Glulx interpreter app by Andrew Plotkin. Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine, a book by Melissa Ford on authoring Twine stories. The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a nonprofit created to support IF tools and services. Still going strong: Annual competitions like IF Comp, Spring Thing, and the XYZZY Awards. Experimentation in both parser IF and CYOA. Popular CYOA authoring tools like Twine and ChoiceScript. Web-based authoring platforms for parser like Quest and, for Inform 7, Playfic. Meetup groups like Boston's People's Republic of Interactive Fiction and San Francisco's SF Bay Area Interactive Fiction Group. Previous features: IF Outreach, IF Cover Art Drive, ClubFloyd, One Room Game Competition.		Murder An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang; 2007; Z-Code). The Hollywood Murders (Michael Zerbo; 1996; Alan). Murder at the Aero Club (Penny Wyatt; 2004; Z-Code). Murder at the Diogenes Club (Gerald Lientz; 2002; Z-Code). Murder at the Folkestone Inn (Anne Laughlin; 1993; AGT). Murder on the Hill (Craig Dutton; 2012; Quest). Murder Mansion (Roy Lee; 2005; ADRIFT). Murder Mystery Weekend (Jonathan Scott and Stephen Boyd; 1997; PAW). Mustard, Music, and Murder (Christopher Huang; 2016 Z-Code). A Party to Murder (David Good; 2002; ADRIFT).
The Land of FAQ
Nick Montfort created the Frequently Asked Questions article licensed under the Creative Commons 2.0 license. There is another article by David Fisher that lists Past raif topics. Check these articles out if you have a question. It's probably already been asked or the topic already discussed.

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November 2018 15: IF Comp 2018 All votes must be submitted by the end of the day. December 2018 2019 March 2019 1: Deadline for authors' intents to enter Spring Thing 2019. Organizer: Aaron A. Reed. (more news at Competition news)			Check out these articles! See Craft for how-to articles. See Theory for articles on IF concepts. See Starters if you're new to IF. See Current events to keep up to date on what's happening in the IF world. You want to help edit the IFWiki? Great! Check out the Community Portal for an overview. Visit our list of Wanted pages. Read the Game reference (style guide) and other style guides.