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Thursday, January 21, 2021

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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: NarraScope, a games conference hosted by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a nonprofit created to support IF tools and services. Dialog, an authoring language developed by Linus Åkesson. CYOA platforms like Raconteur by Bruno Dias, ink by inkle, Squiffy by Alex Warren, and Texture by Juhana Leinonen and Jim Munroe. Lectrote, a Glulx interpreter app by Andrew Plotkin. Long-term jams like the TinyUtopias IF Jam, curated by Cat Manning, and The Year of Adventure, organized by Robin Douglas Johnson. Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine, a book by Melissa Ford on authoring Twine stories. 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.		Home 18 Rooms to Home (Carolyn VanEseltine; 2015; Z-code). Back Home (James Webb; 2011; ADRIFT). Coming Home (Andrew Katz; 1997; Z-code). Far From Home (Mad Monk; 2002; ADRIFT). Going:Home (SaintOfPenguins; 2012 Twine). Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home (Andrew Plotkin; 2010; Z-code). Home Open (Emily Boegheim; 2016; TADS 3). Home Sweetie-Bot Home (Jacques Frechet; 2012; Web-browser). Letters from Home (Roger Firth; 2000; Z-code). Light My Way Home (Caelyn Sandel; 2014; 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.

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October 2020 1: IF Comp 2020 The games are released to the public, and the judging period begins. 1: Ectocomp 2020 opening deadline. 30: Ectocomp 2020 closing deadline. November 2020 16: Ectocomp 2020 Award date. 29: IF Comp 2020 All votes must be submitted by the end of the day. (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.