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Friday, May 29, 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.		Numbers One Week (Papillon; 2001; TADS 2). Take One (Robert Street; 2005; ADRIFT). Choose Your Own Three Hour Adventure (David Whyld; 2006; ADRIFT). The Death of Two Great Minds (Alex Watson; 2001; Z-code). Best of Three (Emily Short; 2001; Glulx). Four in One (J. Robinson Wheeler; 1998; TADS 2). The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves (Neil deMause; 2002; TADS 2). Six Silver Bullets (William Dooling; 2018; ADRIFT). Six Stories (Neil K. Guy; 1999; TADS 2). The House of Seven Gables (Greg Hassett; 1978; TRS80). 8k Adventure (Paul Allen Panks; 2004; MS-DOS, TADS 2). Nine Points (Robert Janelle and Brad O'Donnell; 1996; Z-code). Ten Little Indians (Brian Howarth; 1983; various).
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!
March 2020 1: Deadline for authors' intents to enter Spring Thing 2020. Organizer: Aaron A. Reed. 24: Deadline for The Emily Short Anniversary Contest 2020. Organizer: Mathbrush. 29: Spring Thing 2020 Deadline for games to be submitted. April 2020 2: Spring Thing 2020 Festival opens. 9:Spring Thing 2020 ribbon nominations opens. May 2020 3: Spring Thing 2020 Deadline for ribbon nominations. Festival closes and ribbons announced. (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.