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Andrew Plotkin (born May 15, 1970), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction (IF) community. Having both written a number of award-winning games and developed a range of new file formats, interpreters, and other utilities for the design, production, and running of IF games, Plotkin is widely recognised for both his creative and his technical contributions to ...
Since 2017, IFTF operates the Interactive Fiction Archive (IF Archive), an archive preserving the history of interactive fiction which has been operating since 1992. The IF Archive contains websites and documents valuable to the IF community, including the "Inform 6" website and standards such as "the Treaty of Babel", [ 4 ] [ 7 ] the Z-machine ...
The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction.It has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many points to award it, but longer games are allowed entry. [1]
The Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) is a database of metadata and reviews of interactive fiction. In November 2023, the database contained 12,969 game listings, 12,784 member reviews, 51,762 member ratings, and 17,040 registered members. [1] Some games can be played in the web browser using links on the IFDB web site. [1]
Spring Thing is an annual competition to highlight works of text adventure games and other literary works, also known as Interactive Fiction.. Adam Cadre, author of several works of Interactive Fiction, including Photopia and Varicella, announced the Spring Thing in 2001, both to promote works that would be longer than those entered into the Interactive Fiction Competition, and to encourage ...
A Change in the Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game.. Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game [2] is written in version five of the Inform programming language, [3] and compiled for the Z-machine, [1] a virtual machine that allows interactive fiction to be played on a variety of platforms. [4]
One such format was Versu, an engine for plot-heavy and story-rich interactive fiction that Short helped develop, and which was later scrapped by Linden Lab, the company owning the engine. [19] Other formats include Varytale, for which she developed the game Bee , [ 20 ] and a custom engine by Liza Daly (with help from the company inkle ) for ...
From the late 1980s to early 1990s, free development tools such as TADS and Inform enabled amateur communities to create interactive fiction. [1] In the mid-1990s, TADS was a top development tool for interactive fiction. [2] At the time, it was a more improved tool for parsing and world building than existing systems like AGT (Adventure Game ...