For anyone else who’s just learning about this, here’s the announcement:
Launched in 2012, Playfic was the first tool for writing and sharing interactive fiction games made with Inform 7 right in your browser. Since then, over 5,000 interactive fiction games and experiments were published here, played a collective 5.6 million times and used by educators around the country to teach interactive fiction development with Inform 7.
Active development on Playfic stopped long ago, and maintaining it over time was a challenge. Since then, well-maintained modern alternatives have appeared, making Playfic largely unnecessary. As a result, we’ve decided to retire Playfic after 14 years, while keeping it online indefinitely as a read-only archive.
If you want to keep writing and sharing interactive fiction in your browser, we wholeheartedly recommend Borogove, a modern browser-based IDE for Inform 7 and other interactive fiction systems. It’s very similar to Playfic, but actively maintained and with many newer, modern features.
Launched by Juhana Leinonen in 2019, Borogove also offers free game hosting, as well as a snippets service for sharing short runnable code snippets like those frequently shared on Playfic.
Many other Inform 7 resources for authoring, learning, and sharing games can be found from the Interactive Fiction Community Forum.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of the Playfic community over the years.
— Andy & Cooper