The Interactive Fiction Archive
Aug 21, 2024 · The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics.
Index: if-archive
Aug 8, 2017 · This is the Interactive Fiction Archive at ifarchive.org. You may be interested in... The README file for the Archive. The list of directories in the Archive. New arrivals in the past week, past month, past three months, or past year. An RSS feed of recent arrivals. A list of every file in the archive (tens of thousands!)
Interactive Fiction as Literature - IF Archive
The adventure game genre is now called interactive fiction (IF). In some ways, IF closely resembles the traditional literary genres of mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and adventure tales. These types of popular literature are based on rules, games, and the creation of fantasy worlds.
The Interactive Fiction Archive
The contents of the Archive are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present. Thank you all! (That means that the files archived here are owned by their contributors, not by the IF Archive or its maintainers.
The 2024 Interactive Fiction Competition - ifarchive.org
Jacqueline Ashwell organized the 2024 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Our game curators this year were Brian Rushton , B.J. Best , Mike Russo , and Brett Witty . Our prize coordinator is Sarah Willson , and the technical lead is Mark Musante .
The Interactive Fiction Archive
We host this material as part of the common heritage of interactive fiction. If you donate work which you did not create, you warrant that, to the best of your knowledge, it may be legitimately stored and distributed by the Archive.
Index: if-archive/games/zcode
Intruder - Interactive Fiction: A Burglary, by Volker Lanz. A cross between a mystery and a treasure hunt, set in France. Archive includes a HTML manual, readme and zcode story file.
Index: if-archive/games/glulx
May 13, 2024 · Taco Fiction, an interactive heist, by Ryan Veeder. Release 1 / Serial number 130422. (the original competition entry is in games/competition2011/glulx/taco/ )
Index: if-archive/mapping-tools
Interactive fiction mapping for Windows 95/NT: add rooms with a single keystroke, and drag them around to reposition them. GUEmap can also generate directions for moving around the map. Includes a sample map of Westminster Abbey.
theory, craft, and history of interactive fiction. Many thanks to Emily Short and her co-editor Dennis Jerz for starting this project (and for holding on to the files all these years!).