Links and links

The Interactive Fiction Archive is of course the ur-resource for all things IF.

Community websites

• The Interactive Fiction Wiki
• The Interactive Fiction Community Forum — just what it says on the tin.
• The Interactive Fiction Database is the closest thing we have to a social networking service.
• Home of the French IF community
• Website of the ifMUD, the community’s oldest hangout besides the now defunct newsgroups.

Books and Publications

• SPAG Magazine
• Brass Lantern
• Teaching and Learning With Interactive Fiction

Authoring

• Too many authoring systems to list, but Roger Firth’s Cloak of Darkness provides a good overview.
• Another resource list by Emily Short, and one more by Hannah Powell-Smith.
• Petit tour d’horizon de la FI sur mobile
• A Catalog of Twine Story Formats

Theory

• 10 types of interactivity
• CYOA structures
• Les différents noms des histoires interactives
• Introduction aux structures de la fiction interactive, et comment les utiliser
• Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games
• The Room as Metaphor in Interactive Fiction
• We Are Not At War: On the Rise of Non-Parser IF
• Energy & Play: A Look at Interactive Fiction & Visual Novels
• All Hope Abandon: Biblical Text and Interactive Fiction
• Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading (August 2017)

History

• A Very Brief History of Gamebooks (up to 1979) (7 June 2019)
• Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers (22 May 2019)
• Zarf Updates: All of Infocom's game source code (April 2019)
• A brief history of text-based games and open source (July 2018)
• The Gilsoft Legacy (22 January 2017)
• I Sing the Story Electric: Brian Moriarty on the history of interactive fiction. (15 November 2015)
• Author of '80s classic The Hobbit didn't know game was a hit (18 November 2012)
• The MIT Basement Tunnel System (8 September 2012) About the places that inspired part of Infocom's famous game The Lurking Horror.

People

• Entretien avec Stefan Vogt, auteur de FI modernes sur ordinateurs 8 bits ! (5 June 2020)
• Interview: Star Wars Choose Your Destiny With Cavan Scott (2 April 2019)
• A profile of Emily Short (30 August 2018)
• Jimmy Maher, book publishing, jOBS, and C64 (February 2013)
• Goodbye, Paul Panks (15 July 2009)
• Interview with Brian Moriarty (March 2006)