Welcome!
Your timing is a little off, you just missed the Recipe Jam. (Recipe Jam - Details (ifdb.org))
But adding things like the creole quail to the recipe thread is just as appreciated.
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Hello everyone!
Back in the day I played Zork 1,2 & 3 and Deadline on my little Commodore 64. They inspired me to program games & stuff in Basic, all terrible of course.
Over the last few months Iāve written a game with Inform 7 called āLulu and the Asteroid of 100% Guaranteed Doomā. I look forward to hanging out and writing more games with you all! Thanks for having me.
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Hi Zeth!
Itās always nice to see new faces. Iāll also look forward to seeing you around!
I wanted to make a joke about 100% doom, but I canāt think of oneā¦ Back me up here everyone! 
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Hi Zeth,
Welcome. I look forward to Lulu once it gets out of beta.
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Itās said that the game DOOM can run on anythingā¦ so maybe weāre all surrounded by Appliances of 100% Guaranteed DOOM? 
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hello! iām mo (they/them). iāve been idly playing bits of if here and there for years, as well as tinkering with twine in my spare time, but iāve only lately begun spending more time on it and interacting with the community. it feels a bit like iām doing things backwards (submitted a game to this yearās spring thing, and then subsequently discovered the existence of this forum and had a moment of Oh Wait Lots Of People Talk About This Stuff!) but iām happy to be here. i havenāt been on a forum in years, so iāll probably be wandering about getting lost for a bit. 
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Oh, so youāre the author of that Aubrey and Valentine game? Well, come on in! There will be people to guide you around, donāt worry!
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I had a similar experience last year, only joining the forum and realizing the extent of the community after entering Spring Thing, so youāre not alone!
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Iāve started posting rather recently and Iām now one of the many contributors who enjoy talking about This Stuff.
Welcome to the Lots of People Talk About This Stuff club!
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Hi everyone!
Iām Anais, and Iāve recently been introduced to writing IF. (Before I mainly wrote longform fiction.) Iāve participated in Introcomp 2023 with @Draconis, which has recently been finished and entered into the Spring Thing. The work is called Loose Ends, and for those who look into it, I hope you enjoy!
Iāll probably be a bit of a lurker, but I look forward to meeting everyone.
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Hello and welcome! Glad to see you here!
Iāll get you added to the Spring Thing Authors group asap!
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Welcome Anais!
Slowly working my way through the SpringThing games. Iām eager to play Loose Ends. From the quick look-see I did, it looks promising.
Enjoy your time here, lurking or talking.
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For a second, I thought you wrote āstalkingāā¦ and Iām like, you should let the craziness of this community unfold naturally. You canāt be scaring off new members so quickly, Rovarsson. Let them discover the wicked underbelly of intfiction on their own.
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Hi all! Yet another Spring Thing migrant here. I tend to get my IF from itch and Steam so I had zero idea this forum existed until Brian linked to it, but Iām very happy to have found you all! @Trollkonst and I submitted our game Alltarach and the reviews here have seriously been giving us life.
Looking forward to getting to know all of you lovely people!
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Welcome Katie!
I enjoyed Bridās adventure a lot, and I found the historical setting very interesting.
Hope to see more of your games, and looking forward to seeing your contributions to the forum discussion (and silliness).
Best wishes,
Rovarsson
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I forgot to introduce myself!
As @AnMhuicin said, Iām the other half of the Alltarach duo. Iāve also released a short Game Boy game called Trollmother that is in dire need of an update.
I love the vibe on this forum.
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----Oh! Rightā¦ We were going to keep the buckets of blood and the teddybear sacrifices in the Loungeā¦ Sorryā¦----
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Hello, I am completely new to this scene, itās been a long time since Iāve posted to a forum.
I am Laurel, a student and aspiring intfiction writer. I am currently going to school for this as a major, and I am eager to learn and connect with people as much as possible.
I was raised on video games with in-depth stories. My siblings are both older than me by a significant margin, and Iāve always been fascinated by the games they would play. I distinctly remember stealing my siblingās copy of Fire Emblem: Awakening and never giving it back. I adore stories that really get into the emotional state that the characters are in, and being able to connect with these ideas through games or other interactive means is (my personal belief) the best way to communicate a story. With technology only getting better, these narratives can become more immersive than anything before, and I adore it.
I write creatively as a hobby for now, but as I go through my schooling I will have to do so far more intensely, and the thought is exciting rather than terrifying.
Iād love to talk about narratives and the philosophy behind creating an interactive story. The theory and the application are both equally fascinating to me, and Iām so eager to step into the world of interactive fiction.
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Hey, welcome to the forum!
Thatās really cool that thereās a major in Interactive Narrative. Hope you are happy in Intfiction, no matter which coding language you decide to go with!
Thereās also a lot of content on theory and so. You can read the (slowly being added) pages of the Rosebush magazine (I canāt remember the link, but itās really cool and recently begun!) and make polls and browse on ifdb.org .
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