Hi.
Math assistant professor from Russia, 32, been voting in IFComp since 2006.
Mainly a parser games fan, but gradually thawing to Twine etc.
Hi,
Dabbling in text adventures for years, although emphasis on dabbling. Wrote the probably unknown āCreative Adventure game Writerā for PC and Atari St based off another magazine authoring tool but more recently just getting back into things. To help with this, I have just written and published āIFMapperā in Google Play to map things. See forum post elsewhere if approved.
Richard.
Yo!
Iām thinking of entering into IFcomp 2016 and since Iām still fairly new at the whole interactive fiction thing, I figured I should get to know the community so Iām not coming right out of nowhere. Iām a cartoonist from Sweden and aficionado of fictional talking animals. Iām a former student of biology and Iāve lived not too far from the polar circle.
I primarily use Twine to make choice-based game set in a universe of my own creation inspired in equal parts by Ursula Le Guin, Failbetter Games and My Little Pony. So far, Iāve written one game in this setting: Rites of a Mailmare, mostly as an experiment in randomness. But I am currently working on a more substantive game set in the same universe.
Owlor
I know that one: CAW. Do you still have the Atari ST version? I canāt find it anywhere yet.
I donāt have the ST version, although I do have the PC version. I think you will need DOSBOX to run it though - or try and find something that will load in Quickbasic 4.5 (as opposed to Qbasic) .BAS. You can download at mycloudbase.com/CAW.zip. If it works for you would be interested to know! I liked the concept of creating your own adventure as you went along.
Planning a small update to ifmapper as soon as I get chance, just starting to roadtest it.
** Edit, I have loaded into Quick Basic 4.5, resaved as text, opened in QB64 and compiled as a modern exe. Within the zip now you will find CAW_QB45.BAS and CAW_QB45.EXE. The latter runs just by double clicking on it **
I had already this PC version, downloaded it a long time ago. It runs in XP and DosBox. The QB version is a nice addition. Thank you.
Now I keep looking for the Atari ST one. I found an IMAGEN BBC diskimage. Nice to see the same lookings.
Hi! Passionate advocate for games and play, both at the culture-wide level and particularly in libraries. More about me at [url=https://philipminchin.com]my site[url]. Looking to help more IF authors get their work into libraries and more libraries to support IF properly - first arrived here putting together a panel for a local literary festival on interactive storytelling. Melbourne, Australia-based.
I may be the oldest person posting on this forum (turn 93 in September 2016) but I having lurked here for a while I have to say that this place hits every mark of true enthusiasm.
Hi, Iām new hereā¦my nickname online is emlon, so call me that please. I stopped using my real-life nick online when I got harassed and stalked because people knew I was an LGBT person. That stopped when I started going by emlon, then and now people tend to think Iām a teenaged boy. 
But Iām actually a 43 year old LGBT person (Iāve never identified with my biological gender). I have never been part of or followed any sort of āIF communityā so I donāt really know any of the websites or influential persons. Anyways my brother and I grew up on the Infocom games, and we always wanted to write IFs together, but never did it (he succumbed to HIV in 2001). I finally authored my first IF in 2006, and finished another short one this year. Iāll never know if Iām any good or improving until I can get someone to play my games after all.
Welcome! Youāre not the only QUILTBAG person around here, and I hope youāll feel comfortable in this community.
Wow! Welcome, and thanks for the nice comment 
Thank you.
Fellow comrades, I hope you will help me in my mission.
My aim is to write interactive fiction. GOOD interactive fiction! But Iām not a native English speaker and sometimes itās all very frustrating and ARGH I swear Iām very god at writing when I do it in Italian.
Iām joining this community because I hope to find writing buddies to help me with proofreading and stuff. You all seem nice people.
If youāre a god at writing, Iām sure youāll be an asset to this community. Welcome, divine one! 
Iām also an incredibly good producer of spelling mistakes, as you can see.
Thanks for the welcome!
Hello, all. Iām a musician from the west coast of the US, studying to be a music educator because this world desperately needs more musicians (at least in my biased opinion). I got into writing IF because I love a good story and I have a way with words; I use inform because I love puzzling through the logic of the wording. That said, Iām still very new to this.
But it seems like fun! So I thought Iād try to get into the community.
Hi, everyone! Iām Zack and I got into IF via the Twine hypertext revival; I never actually finished a Twine of my own, but Iāve been playing around with various kinds of IF formats since January this year or so. I discovered I enjoy writing choice-based IF a lot more than I enjoy writing linear prose, so here I am.
Iām just making tiny forays in the community. Iām shy, what can I say?
Iāve been lurking for a week or so, I guess you could say Iām morbidly curious as to the state of text adventures in modern times. I joined to post a correction to a post that was inaccurate, otherwise Iād probably lurk for a while longer.
Hello! Iām getting into IF via choicescript, and have come here to get a better sense of the IF community at large, as well as, yāknow. Read interesting forum threads and such. Iāve done a few very simple learning games in Twine. Iāve also signed up my first complete choicescript game for IFComp for this year, because other people egged me on.
Most of my experience is in writing standard linear text, not coding, though I did some C++ and Javascript and CSS way back when. Iām looking forward to learning fun coding tricks that let me do interesting narrative things I canāt do in a standard linear text.
I am absolutely terrible at parser games, but Iām told that no longer gets a person pilloried, so thatās good to know.
I believe more bad parser games have been pilloried than the people who couldnāt get to grips with them. Thatās justice for you.