Kimmy's IF Collection

Kimmy’s IF Collection

Useful links

• IFDB
• IF Wiki
• If Archive
• IF Reviews
• IFComp

• Interactive Fiction Community Forum

• Text Adventures

• Brass Lantern
• Baf’s Guide
• SPAG magzine

Playing

Guides

• A Beginner’s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction
• Let’s Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction)

Tools

• Frotz
• Map tool

Games

• Interactive Fiction Entrees
• Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2011 edition)
• The Best of Interactive Fiction
• Suggested Works of Modern IF
• my favourite and least favourite IF (Stephen Bond)
• The Best Free Interactive Fiction Of The Century (Collected by Michael Feir, Editor of Audyssey)
• Emily Short’s Game Lists
• ADRIFT Recommended Games

• The Digital Antiquarian

• ZORK Series

Authoring

• Inform 7
• Inform 6
• Borogove

• The MDL Programming Language

• Inform - A Design System for Interactive Fiction

• Inform 7 Programmer’s Manual

• Inweb - A modern system for literate programming

• Computational Approaches to Narrative

• Hypertext and Interactive Fiction

• Electronic Book Review digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts

Other links and articles

• The Maze and the Other in Interactive Fiction On Labyrinths, the Infinite, and the Compass https://samplereality.com/2018/07/17/the-maze-and-the-other-in-interactive-fiction/

• Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String https://electronicbookreview.com/publications/games-storytelling-and-breaking-the-string/

• The significance of plot without conflict https://stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/25153960313/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict

• Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games http://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/

• What is Narratology https://www.narrati.com/Narratology/Narratology.htm

• Transverse Reading Gallery https://jeremydouglass.github.io/transverse-gallery/

• The Curse of Xanadu https://worrydream.com/refs/Wolf_1995_-_The_Curse_of_Xanadu.html

• Patterns of Hypertext https://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Print.html

• The Game of Video Game Objects game notes

• My Posts

Non-IF but console game (mostly roguelike)

• Nethack
  • Graphical version: Pathos
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
• Angband
• Dwarf Fortress Classic

• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

• UMoria
• A.D.O.M.: Ancient Domain Of Mystery
• DRL: Doom the roguelike

• Ascii Sector

• GNU Chess
• Course of War

• Pokete

• Omega RPG
• Bastet
• Trek

Possibly non-terminal but with similiar style

• Brogue: Community Edition
• Tales of Maj’Eyal
• Caves of Qud
• Cogmind
• Path of Achra
• The Forge - The Internet Home for Independent Role-Playing Games