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What's the go-to community online for ininteractive fiction writers and tools?

• sago 9y ago
  I'm not aware of any defacto place in the way there was in the usenet days of rec.arts.int-fiction [0] (although there is still a raif Google group [1]) Try http://intfiction.org/forum/ http://intfiction.org/forum/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/ http://ifcomp.org http://ifcomp.org There are local meet-ups and groups in various places (e.g. London [2], Boston [3], Bay [4] - run by Dan who's a HNer). Parser-based interactive fiction has been overshadowed a bit in the last few years by choose your own adventure style. And forums/blogs generally seem to be a bit of a fading medium. But there are still players and writers out there. There's a knot of folks on twitter, of course. Lots of energy in the hobby is focussed on the competition: ifcomp. If you want to have a go I tend to recommend people start with Inform 7 [5]. If you're a programmer it's also a fascinating language design, though TADS [6] is more conventional. --- [0]: https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXrec.arts.int-fiction.html https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXrec.arts.int-fi... [1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.arts.int-fiction https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.arts.int-fiction [2]: https://www.meetup.com/Oxford-and-London-Interactive-Fiction-Group https://www.meetup.com/Oxford-and-London-Interactive-Fiction... [3]: http://pr-if.org/ http://pr-if.org/ [4]: https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction/ https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction/ [5]: http://inform7.com/ http://inform7.com/ [6]: http://www.tads.org/ http://www.tads.org/ (Edit: links)