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Friday, January 17, 2020

Provide Input for IF Comp 2019 The 25th(!) annual Interactive Fiction Competition is gearing up, and the organizers would love your input. The survey will stay open throughout the summer, but they'll start checking responses in a week, so the sooner you take the survey the sooner your ideas will be taken into account. Please also share this link with any friends who like stories or games... they're trying to reach a broader audience. Thanks! Please take the 2019 IFComp (Pre-Comp) Survey

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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.		Cities April in Paris (Jim Aikin; 2008; TADS 3). Chicago (Mel S; 2001; ADRIFT 3.9). Downtown Tokyo, Present Day (John Kean; 1998; Z-code). Kurusu City (Kevin Venzke; 2004; TADS 2). Lost New York (Neil deMause; 1996; TADS 2). Melbourne Beach (DuoDave; 2001; ADRIFT 3.9). Pantsless in Seattle (David A. Cornelson; 2000; Z-code). Schatten über London (Martin Vincenz; 2006; TAG). Storm Over London (Juhana Leinonen; 2014; Hugo). Tinseltown Blues (Chip Hayes; 2002; Z-code). When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste (Emily Short; 2006; Z-code).
The Land of FAQ		Check out these articles!
Nick Montfort created the Frequently Asked Questions article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 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.		See Craft for how-to articles. See Theory for articles on IF concepts. See Starters if you're new to IF.

Competition News			Contribute!
October 2019 1: IF Comp 2019 Games are released to the public. 22: Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Contest entry deadline. 31: Ectocomp 2019 (probably) opening deadline. 31: Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Contest results announced. November 2019 11: Ectocomp 2019 (probably) closing deadline. 15: IF Comp 2019 All votes must be submitted by the end of the day. December 2019 1: Ectocomp 2019 (probably) Award date. (more news at Competition news)			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. Read Help:Editing if you're new to editing wikis like ours.