Past raif topics: Miscellaneous
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This is a collection of miscellaneous Past raif topics not directly to do with the development of IF.
If you add or change any of the sections on this page, remember to update the entry on the Past raif topics page as well.
Courses in IF
Books
- Creating Emotion in Games
- Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling
- IF Theory book / academia vs others (Dec 2001)
- IF Theory book / narrative vs puzzle (Nov 2001)
Humor
- Playtester available immediately (Dec 1993)
- RAIF Pool, the ultimate IF language (Apr 1996)
- Silly game elements: round one (May 1996)
- Silly game elements: round two (May 1996)
- Silly game elements: round three (May 1996)
- My yearly thoughts on the game design process (Aug 1996)
- Songs translated into IF commands (Jul 1998)
- {Comp 99} Some reviews (Nov 1998)
- Re: Dragons from outer space - help needed! (Apr 2000)
- How to order a bagel / toroidophagic intent (Jul 2000)
- IF Haikus (Jul 2000)
- Game author sued for mentioning "caves" (Sep 2000)
- You've been coding too much Inform when ... (Jan 2001)
- Experimental IF (Mar 2003)
- Snap - a new IF language ! (Apr 2004)
History
Polls / surveys
- Unfinished WIPs (Feb 2003)
- Time taken to write game (May 2003)
- Time taken to write IF comp game (Jul 2000)
- Game titles (May 2003)
- Ideas for first attempts at IF (Nov 2003)
- Game ideas / things already done (Apr 2001)
- Settings / what has already been done (May 2001)
- What kind of IF author are you ? (Jan 2004)
- Ideas into IF (Jun 2004)
- Average age of IF authors (Feb 2001)
- Desired extensions to Inform (June 2004)
- Which OS people use for development (Jul 2002)
- The perfect game (Jun 2001)
- Least satisfying Infocom games (Dec 2000)
- Most difficult Infocom game (Oct 2000)
- Good story games (ie. non puzzle games) (Feb 2000)
Relatives of IF
- Static fiction vs IF (Sep 2001)
- I-Story telling vs I-Fiction (Jan 2004)
- MUDs & IF (Jan 2004)
- Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) (Jan 2004)
- Choose Your Own Adventure & MUDs & IF (Jan 2000)
- Role Playing Games (RPGs) & IF (Dec 2000)
- Things found in RPGs not desirable in IF (Dec 2000)
- RPGs & IF / FUDGE as an IF system (Dec 2000)