Hiiiiii Jasper!!!
So nice to see you hereeee!!
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Hello, everyone!
You can call me CSR! Iām far from fluent in English, so please be patient with me. I found the IF world about a year and half ago I believe, but it caught my attention straight away. Even though there is still a lot to explore and learn (I havenāt been able to touch a parser game and know what Iām supposed to do yet), I thought it wouldnāt hurt if I got myself a little more in touch with the community. I might end up a lurker, but Iām sure it will be interesting anyways.
I plan on writing my own IFs later on (I actually was a SeedComp! participant, in both the planting and sprouting rounds, and submitted the āWhile Rome Burnsā game, in which I tried to fiddle (ha!) keeping a writing pace and learning code enough to make a well-rounded game and failed miserably 
), but as for this year is a extremely busy one Iāll stick with being just a player for now until I can spare time enough to really learn the basics of coding and dedicate myself to writing well.
Itās good to meet you all!
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Hi CSR! Nice to see you on board!
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Thank you for being so kind 
Iāve got to admit I checked it on translator a couple times though (deleted it by accident )
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Youāre doing a great job! What is your native language if you donāt mind me asking?
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Your English is better than many native speakers. Stay vigilant with your writingā¦ and welcome to the community!
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Thank you! 
My native language is Portuguese, specifically the Brazilian one
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Thank you very much! I think Iāll like it here a lot 
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I actually enjoyed the humor in āWhile Rome Burnsā. I also remember you ran up against the deadline and would have benefited greatly from more time to betatest and get feedback.
A lot of promise for a first game! Sincerely!
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Thank you!!! It actually means the world to me. I think the major hindrance was the coding part to me. I messed it up so bad that, no exaggeration, more than half of the branching scenes never got to appear in game. Just a lot of hard work that was thrown in the trashā¦ Ngl, it discouraged me even more in trying to understand code.
But Iām glad you could enjoy it, even being bugged and broken as it was! Despite everything, it was a fun experience and I think Iāve done the best I could at the time, so it still has a special place in my heart. Who knows, perhaps in the future I can try to go back and fix the game. For now, though, it means much someone liked it the way it was
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Have not made one of these. Iām Loressa. I work in QA and take the deconstructive mindset into games I experiment with.
My itch page: https://loressa.itch.io/
Most interested in creating experiences. Enjoy simulations.
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Welina mai e Loressa, aloha from HawaiŹ»i!
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Hi all, Iām Zac. I am 27 at the time of typing this. My goal is to make an impact on the timeline of Interactive Fiction by finishing and populating my web-based interactive fiction engine, ifSpace.net. It is a no-code engine that supports choice-based, parser, and gamebook style works of I.F. Please feel free to reach out if you would like to chat
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Welcome Zac! Iām about to check out this siteā¦
[Sniffs and sets high expectations]
Just kidding. Anyway, welcome to the site and enjoy!
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Hey Max,
Thanks for checking it out! I see you already made an account. In the last hour I fixed a major bug that prevented trying out any of the existing games (one of my migration fixes didnāt account for something), so if you already tried and failed to play somethingā¦ feel free to try again
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Hi folks! Iām Ben - I recently read 50 years of text games and am now on a quest to consume as much IF as possible 
Iām pretty new to the whole genre but so far have played Hitchhikerās Guide, Howling Dogs and Spider & Web (all three of which where immense). Iāll probably be mostly lurking here and trying to get some recommendations for what to play/read next.
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Welcome, Ben!
Have you tried scrolling through or keyword-searching the polls on IFDB?
These are when someone asks the community for suggestions of games with a certain feature, genre, twist, or preference. The poll results list all the responses.
If you canāt find a poll that hits exactly what youāre looking for, you could always create a new poll as well.
Thanks for saying hi! Please ask questions if you have any! 
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Thatās a great tip! Just took a look now and itās a great way to find stuff. Thanks a lot!
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Great picks that I wouldnāt have picked to start because theyāre indeed so immense, haha! Those are awesome titles at least! Glad to see someone starting out on IF around the same period as I am
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