IF URls is weekly IF links. Basically I hand filter RAIF, RGIF, Intfiction, Planet-IF, and many other sites for IF links that I hope are of general interest to people who might want to keep up with IF, but not every day, or even those IF enthusiasts who would like a concise weekly summary of the IF news.
In the last few weeks I’ve also started to add links to the Russian and Spanish IF communities, and I hope to expand this in the future – in-browser translation doesn’t do too bad a job of it IMO .
This is a work in progress; the site is very simple right now, but I’m interested in expanding its features, and feedback and/or collaborators are most welcome.
Just a small update that I’ve added a calendar, starting off with events in Seattle and Boston next week. I’m hoping to expand this to a general community calendar, mirroring the events list on IFwiki and other announcements in a more accessible format, and at some point make it community editable. For now Google Calendar seems like it will work well enough. Any other suggestions on this subject are welcome.
Regular coverage also has branched out to the main forum sites for the Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, and German IF communities, and I try to pull in links that’ll be of general interest to an international readership.
Wow, great coverage as usual. Despite reading most of the forums, I almost always find something new in your weekly updates.
Do you know anything more about Fictitious from this week’s links? Google’s not much help but the paper makes it sound as if an actual game might be in the works. I like the focus on eInk devices and I’m also intrigued by the absence of a parser in any of the screenshots.
Great work, George! I had somehow missed this thread, or, more probably, looked at it much too quickly and then forgotten about it.
I’ve added a link to your IF URLs in the News section from the IFWiki. (As I wrote on the Talk page there, I can’t seriously take care of that section myself, so it’s extremely incomplete, unfortunately. But you’re doing much better work!)
EDIT: I think your “Quote of the Week” section is a good idea; unfortunately, however, some of them could be considered as spoilers for IF Comp judges who don’t want to be influenced by other people’s opinions about comp games.
@Ben, I emailed the developer of Ficticious just yesterday, I’ll let you know if I hear anything. He hasn’t checked in any code on Ginger (the language driving the IF project, which looks really cool too – a Python-ish Scheme) in 6 months so I’m not sure where it stands.
@Eriorg, good point about the spoilers . I admit I didn’t think of it at all before, thanks for mentioning that .
I’ve started to fill out the community calendar with events (meetups, compo deadlines, and so on – here’s a direct link, google.com/calendar/embed?sr … os_Angeles), and if anyone would like access to add and edit event details (I think you need a Google account ) let me know.
I’m also open to using a non-Google calendar, if it’s easy to embed and share; any suggestions on that are welcome.
I’m looking for some help finding sites to add to an index for a custom IF search. If you have some favorite IF sites or a personal site that covers IF I’d appreciate it if you searched the following list, and if the URL isn’t there, let me know.
You can see the search in action in the new header at ifurls.tumblr.com – thanks for any help.
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I had somehow missed this thread, or, more probably, looked at it much too quickly and then forgotten about it.
. I admit I didn’t think of it at all before, thanks for mentioning that