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Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Playing category Playing	7	1499	January 3, 2025
DepthTale - Transform Your IF Project into a Visual Interactive Game Project Announcements ai	12	91	June 2, 2025
Let's Play: Inside Woman by Andy Phillips Playing lets-play	94	1161	June 2, 2025
Chemistry or Science in Games Playing	2	79	June 2, 2025
Seeking 1-2 Beta Testers for psychology themed parser IF Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	5	86	June 2, 2025
Distribution of ratings data on IFDB Playing	1	99	June 2, 2025
The Second Annual IF Review-a-thon (2025) Playing event , review-a-thon	3	181	June 1, 2025
First chapters of my multiverse traveling lesbian magical girls story is out Project Announcements	6	250	June 1, 2025
First Full Game available on new LLM Parser -- New Types of Puzzles for IF Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai	18	323	May 31, 2025
Venonta Vivo. The second season Project Announcements short-story	0	44	May 30, 2025
Playtesters wanted for ParserComp Entry Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	3	99	May 30, 2025
Interpreter/emulator for Level 9 Getting Started Playing IF	18	2236	May 27, 2025
Magnetic Scripts - Cannot Activate Account Playing	4	146	May 27, 2025
Test chosenpath.ai, an IF Platform that Supports Multiplayer Beta Testing Requests and Discussion ai	1	108	May 27, 2025
The Retro Adventurers podcast Project Announcements	80	2912	May 27, 2025
O mi mute li musi e anpa ma a (Let's Play: Underworld!) Playing lets-play , toki-pona	20	286	May 26, 2025
The People's Champion Tournament continues... now playing: Round 2 for Divisions 3 and 4 Playing peoples-champion	0	46	May 23, 2025
Collaborative playing Playing	13	171	May 24, 2025
Finding the Easter egg in 'Tethered' Game Hints spoilers	1	94	May 23, 2025
Seeking one (1) beta tester for single-room parser game Beta Testing Requests and Discussion	7	95	May 23, 2025
Ataraxia - now fully soundtracked! Project Announcements	3	92	May 21, 2025
Gold Machine: Leather Goddesses of Phobos IF Reviews and Essays infocom	11	285	May 21, 2025
Choose your own universe - Interactive fiction game portal announcement! Project Announcements	11	290	May 21, 2025
The Guild of Thieves (Magnetic Scrolls) - Scoring system? Game Hints	9	213	May 20, 2025
"Type Help" post-completion discussion (spoilers galore!) Game Hints	28	325	May 20, 2025
Unsolved Games Playing	91	2523	May 20, 2025
Alpha/beta testers for Stranger Things Inform 7 game Beta Testing Requests and Discussion beta-testing , alpha-testing , inform7	0	50	May 20, 2025
Suevi - Prologue released! Project Announcements romance , fiction , choicescript , historical	0	49	May 14, 2025
Walkthrough / Gradual Hints for "Type Help" Game Hints	3	415	May 14, 2025
The People's Champion Tournament continues... now playing: Round 2 for Divisions 1 and 2 Playing peoples-champion	0	65	May 9, 2025