IF Reviews and Essays

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If you want to write reviews but don't know what to write Many people here already feel comfortable writing reviews, and many of them have deep insights and analysis that I can’t really advise on, as I can’t match them. But I know there are a few people that are interested in …	5	1701	April 3, 2022
About the IF Reviews and Essays category	0	794	February 25, 2019
Please help -- please recommend some good academic papers or studies dealing with IF	2	159	October 8, 2026
Gold Machine: Bureaucracy infocom	2	125	September 12, 2026
Zed reviews-a-thon reviews , review-a-thon , ifcomp2026-game	32	1501	September 11, 2026
Failure states in the Zork trilogy + Trinity (data in OP)	26	698	September 9, 2026
View From the Shifting Mound: an autobiographical essay about Slay the Princess, complex trauma, and dissociation	9	386	August 26, 2026
The quest to make a new top 10 favorite games list	103	3236	August 14, 2026
Tabitha's RaT 2026 review-a-thon	4	270	August 11, 2026
Grand Island Bank Robbery Postmortem postmortem	1	137	August 9, 2026
Interactive Fiction & Novel	2	210	August 5, 2026
JJMcC's 2026 R-A-T-A-T-O-O-T-Y reviews , review-a-thon	46	1495	August 4, 2026
ChoiceBeat zine #17 fanzines	2	151	July 30, 2026
Review Advent of Code in Dialog, please	4	223	July 29, 2026
Counterfeit Monkey general comment	4	185	July 23, 2026
Moonmist (concluded March 27, 2026)	11	426	July 14, 2026
Early British Text Adventures	12	1375	July 7, 2026
Parser Poetics in Portrait with Wolf rosebush	7	321	June 17, 2026
Novels, short stories, and other print fiction about IF	18	892	June 17, 2026
Gold Machine: Hollywood Hijinx (final post: June 8, 2026) infocom	7	298	June 8, 2026
Best IF of all Time?	6	304	June 2, 2026
Is interactive fiction art?	130	2456	May 11, 2026
Video of Midwest Gaming Classic interview with Scott Adams	0	61	May 10, 2026
Trying some commercial era parser IF (first up: Planetfall) reviews , infocom	5	162	April 8, 2026
Review Project: Every IFComp and XYZZY Winner	23	841	March 26, 2026
Google sheet with IFDB if only ratings from the last 5 years were counted	12	297	March 20, 2026
ChoiceBeat Zine #16 fanzines	0	71	March 8, 2026
Trying for world record turns in Ad Verbum. Got 73, or 74 for 100%	5	174	March 8, 2026
Announcing The Rosebush IF Magazine rosebush	73	3629	March 4, 2026
instances of cursing in Infocom games	7	241	March 2, 2026

If you want to write reviews but don't know what to write

Many people here already feel comfortable writing reviews, and many of them have deep insights and analysis that I can’t really advise on, as I can’t match them. But I know there are a few people that are interested in …