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Education Discussions about the reading and writing of IF for educational purposes, at all education levels. 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. Forum Announcements Announcements from the administration of the IF Forum. 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. 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.
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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 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] [/spoiler] tags which … |
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4 | 109 | July 7, 2025 |
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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 | 1728 | 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 | 1941 | 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 | 1623 | 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 | 1252 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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| What are you reading these days? |
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678 | 13978 | July 10, 2025 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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5207 | 67458 | July 10, 2025 |
| [Narrascope] Platypuses Jam games highlight |
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8 | 72 | July 6, 2025 |
| OT: Computer Monitor Advice and Discussion |
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5 | 67 | July 5, 2025 |
| Anyone at Develop Brighton? |
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0 | 34 | July 5, 2025 |
| IF games reuploaded to a third party site without consent |
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8 | 184 | July 5, 2025 |
| Disco Elysium |
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24 | 1232 | July 4, 2025 |
| Infocom feelies and documentation for screen readers (Up: Ballyhoo) |
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44 | 2903 | July 4, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1222 | 21351 | July 3, 2025 |
| Host for the Gopher IF-Archive mirror is moving |
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0 | 45 | July 2, 2025 |
| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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5 | 241 | July 2, 2025 |
| A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t |
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15 | 420 | July 1, 2025 |
| IFWiki has an "In memoriam" page |
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3 | 145 | June 30, 2025 |
| SF Bay IF Meetup Hybrid Online / In Person Saturday July 12 1pm |
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0 | 42 | June 29, 2025 |
| Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art |
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5 | 216 | June 28, 2025 |
| Narrascope Showcase |
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4 | 199 | June 27, 2025 |
| Choice problem |
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5 | 120 | June 27, 2025 |
| Forum Games, Wordplay, and Challenges |
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1 | 67 | June 26, 2025 |
| Phil Goes to Narrascope 2025 |
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17 | 413 | June 26, 2025 |
| Feeding Jabberwockian gibberish to CoPilot |
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4 | 124 | June 26, 2025 |
| Off-topic video games thread |
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261 | 7386 | June 25, 2025 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup July 2025 |
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0 | 46 | June 21, 2025 |
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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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45 | 2316 | June 21, 2025 |