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NarraScope 2025 - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA - June 20-22, 2025
We are delighted to announce our sixth conference – NarraScope 2025! NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th to 22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We are anticipating record numbers of attendees, and we ho… |
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13 | 402 | March 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 | 1704 | 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 | 1923 | 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 | 1617 | 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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4 | 1899 | February 28, 2019 |
| About the General category |
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0 | 1249 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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1664 | 226979 | April 15, 2025 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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4958 | 57573 | May 5, 2025 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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641 | 11759 | May 5, 2025 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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595 | 8604 | May 4, 2025 |
| Off-topic video games thread |
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254 | 6555 | May 3, 2025 |
| IF Longplays for blind people |
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14 | 209 | May 3, 2025 |
| Dad Jokes |
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102 | 1292 | May 3, 2025 |
| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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3 | 145 | May 2, 2025 |
| "Scarlet Sails" (from the IF Comp 2015) is now on Steam! |
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0 | 47 | May 2, 2025 |
| IF Archive layout tweaks |
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10 | 230 | May 2, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1195 | 19361 | May 1, 2025 |
| SF Bay IF Meetup Hybrid Online / In Person Saturday May 3 1pm |
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0 | 38 | April 28, 2025 |
| [Rosebush] Studies of ZIL: What next? |
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14 | 305 | April 27, 2025 |
| The First C64 Adventure |
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9 | 217 | April 25, 2025 |
| IF Archive experimental search feature |
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1 | 82 | April 23, 2025 |
| What do the XYZZY's mean to you? (Future of the awards) |
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223 | 3292 | April 23, 2025 |
| Oscars for IF |
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14 | 214 | April 18, 2025 |
| What are your IF Hot Takes and Unpopular Opinions? |
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552 | 6829 | April 17, 2025 |
| Anyone ever dabble with Twine-adjacent tool, Hoot? |
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5 | 135 | April 16, 2025 |
| How influential would you say the 1986 interactive fiction ‘Alter Ego’ was on modern interactive fiction? |
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4 | 129 | April 16, 2025 |
| Any recommendations for young English learners? |
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6 | 102 | April 14, 2025 |
| Is there a need for IF backup? |
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18 | 381 | April 12, 2025 |
| Senior Writer contract job at Inner Sloth - Apply before April 22 2025 |
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0 | 97 | April 8, 2025 |
| Old Colossal Cave version from University of Chicago |
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8 | 241 | April 7, 2025 |