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Monday, June 26, 2017

Hey, everyone. As part of the cultural and ideological shift in interactive fiction, I shall be changing the Games category pages to refer to Works instead of Games. It's become increasingly obvious that works of interactive fiction aren't just games, but also what might be called stories, art pieces, and toys -- and possibly other sorts of things yet to be created. In truth, IF has included such non-games for quite some time, but we've collectively called everything "games" regardless. Unfortunately, calling all IF "games" has the unfortunate side-effect in thinking that works that aren't games don't belong. So, I'm changing our terminology. Discussion on this topic can be found at http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16906 . -- David Welbourn 17:24, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

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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.		Pairs Aunts and Butlers (Robin Douglas Johnson; 2006; Versificator). Book and Volume (Nick Montfort; 2005; Z-code). Chicken and Egg (Adam Thornton; 1998; Z-code). Color and Number (Steven Kollmansberger; 2002; TADS 2). Earth and Sky (Paul O'Brian; 2001; Z-code). Lists and Lists (Andrew Plotkin; 1996; Z-code). Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; 2002; Glulx). Once and Future (G. Kevin Wilson; 1998; TADS 2). Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; 1998; Z-code).
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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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May 2017 8: Results announced for Spring Thing 2017. Winners: Bobby and Bonnie (Xavid; Glulx), Niney (Daniel Spitz; Z-code), Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets (Bitter Karella; Quest). June 2017 30: Intent to enter deadline for IntroComp 2017. Organizer: Jacqueline A. Lott. July 2017 4: Deadline for first-round voting in XYZZY Awards 2016. Organizer: Sam Kabo Ashwell. 31: Submission deadline for IntroComp 2017 entries. August 2017 31: (Probable) Voting deadline for IntroComp 2017. (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.