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Education Discussions about the reading and writing of IF for educational purposes, at all education levels. Forum Announcements Announcements from the administration of the IF Forum. Events Discuss and schedule meetups, gatherings, and events, online or IRL. Click the Calendar tab on the main page or in the sidebar to see the calendar. IF Community Resources Have a question about IFDB, IFWiki, IFArchive, or another online resource? This is the place to discuss uploading and archiving content, cataloging and hosting it online, or creating a Wiki page. Off-Topic Discussion We welcome our regular members to discuss non-IF topics in this thread. Inappropriate commercial links, spam, and non-civil conversations are subject to moderation and/or removal. IFTF News and Feedback The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) is the non-profit that ensures the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and preservation of tools and services crucial to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction, including this forum. In this sub-category, we’ll post news and updates as well requests for volunteers from our committees and programs. We welcome feedback and suggestions from the community.
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Text-formatting Tools for this forum (code block, spoiler text, hide text, scrollable content)
If you haven’t clicked the gear circle with a plus icon when composing, it offers many useful functions. Many of these functions also work when typed inline as formatting. Spoiler Blur The simplest is the [spoiler] [/s… |
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11 | 326 | January 28, 2026 |
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New Users: Your first post!
Welcome New Users and Lurkers! We’re glad to have people here to discuss IF of all kinds. We understand it can be daunting to post for that first time and we know some people like to create posts in a word processor or … |
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2 | 1800 | May 22, 2024 |
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FAQ/Guidelines/Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion The intfiction.org forums are a place for all authors and players, long-time enthusiasts and newcomers to discuss Interactive Fiction. Please treat this d… |
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0 | 2018 | February 25, 2019 |
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Discourse New User Guide
This is a community-created guide to navigating and using a Discourse forum on Discourse Meta, the main forum from our friends who created the software. This is a topic posted on their discussion board - it will look an… |
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1 | 1646 | March 13, 2020 |
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Please check your profiles for correct information
Please check your profile and the “full name” field. The full name field is visible on your posts, so please check and edit this if it’s not how you want it. Your email address is not visible to anyone but Staff. I was … |
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| About the General category |
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0 | 1255 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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| What are you reading these days? |
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784 | 17245 | February 2, 2026 |
| Linguistics Trivia and Discussion |
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30 | 504 | February 2, 2026 |
| New Interfaces |
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12 | 198 | February 2, 2026 |
| Famous Five Parser Game (1991) |
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21 | 945 | February 1, 2026 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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| Jessica's Spider Thread |
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79 | 995 | February 1, 2026 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup February 2026 |
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0 | 27 | January 31, 2026 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1265 | 22620 | January 31, 2026 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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615 | 11324 | January 31, 2026 |
| TR-49: it's fun |
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2 | 106 | January 30, 2026 |
| IFTF x GDC Pass Scholarship Program |
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0 | 177 | January 29, 2026 |
| Dad Jokes |
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122 | 2204 | January 28, 2026 |
| New developer: An instituye teacher. |
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1 | 72 | January 20, 2026 |
| Letting an LLM play interactive fiction |
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13 | 175 | January 20, 2026 |
| Undergraduate Student Blog - Reflections on IF |
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0 | 110 | January 19, 2026 |
| Sharing our own poetry |
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32 | 761 | January 15, 2026 |
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New user approvals
The forum is currently under a bit of a flood of spam, so I have turned on manual approval for new users. Apologies to any new people, but we’ll attempt to not keep you waiting too long. Please sign up with a meaningful … |
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51 | 3403 | January 15, 2026 |
| King Tut’s solid gold coffin |
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25 | 169 | January 14, 2026 |
| IF Weekly Roundup |
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33 | 2219 | January 10, 2026 |
| Online live introduction to writing interactive fiction |
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2 | 149 | January 9, 2026 |
| Full Intfiction Demographic Survey - Closed, Results Available |
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76 | 1438 | January 7, 2026 |
| Ricardo Oyon Rodriguez recently passed away. |
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9 | 446 | January 7, 2026 |
| IF works adapted to other genres / media? |
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65 | 2060 | January 6, 2026 |