Links

Here are a few useful or informative or entertaining links related to text adventure games / interactive fiction.

• The Interactive Fiction Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public.
• The Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) is an IF game catalog and recommendation engine.
• The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) helps ensure the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and preservation of the tools and services crucial to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction, as well as the development of new projects to foster the continued growth of this art form.
• The Interactive Fiction Community Forum exists to support the IF community in all its shapes and forms, and welcomes all to discuss IF games and stories, to get help writing games, to announce published stories, and to review competition entries.
• The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
• Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction, using natural language syntax.
• Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
• TADS is a free authoring system for writing your own Interactive Fiction, that offers a complete set of programming tools for creating high-quality IF.
• Adventuron is a browser-based tool aimed at gradeschool children, which is designed to introduce text adventure creation to absolute beginners.
• Emily Short writes about interactive fiction game design philosophies and techniques at her blog.
• The Brass Lantern beginner's page offers a number of guides to help ease newcomers into interactive fiction.