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January

Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1 in pdf and text formats.
Purple Blurb is having a Day of Interactive Fiction on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in MIT's Trope Tank. Group playing is from 1pm to 6pm, and there will be a Q&A with authors Liza Daly, Andrew Plotkin and Dan Schmidt from 6pm to 7pm.

February

Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2 in pdf and text formats. Purple Dragon is the new editor of the newsletter.
A.V. Club Review - Chris Dahlen reviews Lost Pig (Admiral Jota; 2007; Z-code).
IF Cover Art Drive begins! Submit cover art for existing IF games to Emily Short until April 30th. Read the details and see the cover art samples already submitted.

March

Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter Volume 4 Number 3 in pdf and text formats.
The first PDF issue of SPAC 2.0, the Spanish IF newsletter, has been published.
In the current issue of PC Plus, the UK magazine, there's the first part of an IF tutorial by Emily Short. (See also this blog entry and this ADRIFT forum thread.)

April

InsideADRIFT Issue 37 (View PDF) is published.
WikiIF is a new wiki created by David Fillmore for authoring collaborative IF source code.
Guncho is a mud! And it's IF! It's an April Fools Day joke turned real. I dunno what it is exactly, but it's Jesse McGrew's new playground for us to play in.
Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4 in pdf and text formats.
SPAG #51 - Includes A History of Italian IF by torredifuoco; interviews with Sam Gordon, Christopher Huang, Admiral Jota, Peter Nepstad, Enrico Colombini, Giancarlo Niccolai, Alessandro Schillaci, and Roberto Grassi; and reviews of L'Apprendista Stregone, 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, Rendition, Sunburst Contamination, and all the H.P. Lovecraft Commonplace Book Project games.
Adventure Gaming Expo (formerly AdventureCon 2008) has been announced. It's a convention planned by Howard A. Sherman, to take place August 29 to 31, 2008 in Atlantic City, NJ.
An equivalent to the IF Cover Art Drive for games in Spanish is organized by Eliuk Blau. See this deviantART page and this thread on the Spanish forum for more info.
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - A blog posting that everyone is commenting on.
IF Authors' Workshop, whose goal is to help one another with every aspect of authorship (writing, story development, character development, puzzles...) except coding problems, is announced by Jim Aikin. (See r*if thread.)
Planet IF is a new place (similar to the Spanish Planeta Aventurero) where blog posts about interactive fiction from various people are collected.

May

The latest issue of the PC Format magazine features a 4 page article on IF. See this R*IF thread.
The Textfyre interactive fiction company has released the source to FyreVM, their implementation of Glulx written in C#. See this RAIF thread.

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 * [[AIF Newsletter|Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter]] Volume 4 Number 2 in [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-01-31.pdf pdf] and [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-01-31.txt text] formats. [[Purple Dragon]] is the new editor of the newsletter.
 * [http://www.avclub.com/content/games/lost_pig A.V. Club Review] - Chris Dahlen reviews ''[[Lost Pig]]'' ([[Admiral Jota]]; 2007; Z-code).
+* [[IF Cover Art Drive]] begins! Submit cover art for existing IF games to [[Emily Short]] until April 30th. Read the [http://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/cover-art-drive/ details] and see the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/23900105@N05/ cover art samples] already submitted.
+==March==
+* [[AIF Newsletter|Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter]] Volume 4 Number 3 in [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-02-29.pdf pdf] and [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-02-29.txt text] formats.
+* The [http://spac.caad.es/IMG/pdf/SPAC_01.pdf first PDF issue] of [[SPAC]] 2.0, the [[Spanish]] IF newsletter, has been published.
+* In the current issue of PC Plus, the UK magazine, there's the first part of an IF tutorial by [[Emily Short]]. (See also [http://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/pc-plus-article-out/ this blog entry] and [http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/f/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=6549 this ADRIFT forum thread].)
+==April==
+* [[InsideADRIFT]] Issue 37 [http://www.insideadrift.org.uk/archive/ia37.pdf (View PDF)] is published.
+* [http://wikiif.frobnitz.co.uk/wiki WikiIF] is a new wiki created by [[David Fillmore]] for authoring collaborative IF source code.
+* [[Guncho]] is a mud! And it's IF! It's an April Fools Day joke turned real. I dunno what it is exactly, but it's [[Jesse McGrew]]'s new playground for us to play in.
+* [[AIF Newsletter|Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter]] Volume 4 Number 4 in [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-03-31.pdf pdf] and [http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2008-03-31.txt text] formats.
+* {{spag issue|51}} - Includes ''A History of Italian IF'' by [[torredifuoco]]; interviews with [[Sam Gordon]], [[Christopher Huang]], [[Admiral Jota]], [[Peter Nepstad]], [[Enrico Colombini]], [[Giancarlo Niccolai]], [[Alessandro Schillaci]], and [[Roberto Grassi]]; and reviews of ''[[L'Apprendista Stregone]]'', ''[[1893: A World's Fair Mystery]]'', ''[[Rendition]]'', ''[[Sunburst Contamination]]'', and all the [[HP Lovecraft: The Commonplace Book Project 2007|H.P. Lovecraft Commonplace Book Project]] games.
+* [[Adventure Gaming Expo]] (formerly [[AdventureCon 2008]]) has been announced. It's a convention planned by [[Howard A. Sherman]], to take place August 29 to 31, 2008 in Atlantic City, NJ.
+* An equivalent to the [[IF Cover Art Drive]] for games in Spanish is organized by [[Eliuk Blau]]. See [http://coverarts.deviantart.com/ this deviantART page] and [http://www.caad.es/foro/viewtopic.php?t=2167 this thread on the Spanish forum] for more info.
+* [http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/ Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy] - A blog posting that ''everyone'' is commenting on.
+* [http://www.musicwords.net/if/if_workshop.htm IF Authors' Workshop], whose goal is to help one another with every aspect of authorship (writing, story development, character development, puzzles...) except coding problems, is announced by [[Jim Aikin]]. (See [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/b236babdb251ff12 r*if thread].)
+* [http://wordeology.com/planet-if/ Planet IF] is a new place (similar to the Spanish [http://www.caad.es/wp/ Planeta Aventurero]) where blog posts about interactive fiction from various people are collected.
+==May==
+* The latest issue of the [http://www.pcformat.co.uk/ PC Format] magazine features a 4 page article on IF. See [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/ac303c1702f1aae8 this R*IF thread].
+* The [[Textfyre]] interactive fiction company has released the source to [[FyreVM]], their implementation of [[Glulx]] written in C#. See [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/d1fa4a1c204f474b/3c25b107bf18dc4f this RAIF thread].
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