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The Interactive-Fiction Archive

This is the nexus for all IF downloads. It is the new home for the IF-Archive and replaces GMD.

Interactive-Fiction Archive Mirror

Because the band-width of the IF-Archive proper is throttled, downloads are particularly slow. This is one of several mirrors to the archive. It is noticeably zippier.

The Interactive-Fiction Archive Website

The website companion to the above FTP site.

The IF Archive Website Mirror

A mirror to the above IF-Archive website.

Andrew Clover's Inform page.

Includes several Inform sections, including "Analysis of effective Adventure Writing" and "Example code, utilities, and library files for Inform."

BAF's Guide

In addition to several game reviews, this site hosts a searchable index to the IF games found in the IF Archive.

Brass Lantern

Stephen Granade's Adventure game website.

City Cafe

John Escobedo's "Writing and Playing Inform Games" tutorials.

Doe's IF Pages

A good collection of various IF pages, most of which are Inform specific. Includes "Doe's Inform Primer" and "Glulx for Dunces".

Graham Nelson's Inform homepage

This is the "official" homepage for the Inform language, created and supported not only by the author of Inform himself, Graham Nelson, but also by and a committee of active IF enthusiasts.

iFiction

The self described purpose of this site is "...to provide a web interface to a large number of Interactive Fiction games..." Practically any INFORM game at the IF Archive, can be played in the java interpreter found here.

Malinche

Malinche is a small company that produces Interactive Fiction commercially. Stop by and see what they have to offer!

SPAG

Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games. SPAG is an informative e-zine designed primarily to keep the gaming public aware of text adventures available today.

Emily Short's IF Pages

Emily's pages contain numerous articles on IF design and a library review page. Much of Emily's work is on IF theory, and therefore platform independent, but Emily appears to favor Inform (both Z-Code and GLULX) and her pages reflect this. Inform programmers should feel right at home here.

Gull

Adam Cadre's "Gull" package. A great introduction to programming for the GLULX platform.

IFLibrary

David A. Cornelson's site "The Interactive Fiction Library." This has lots of good articles on IF as a whole, plus the IFLibrary is the publisher for the DM4. (This replaces IFLibrary.org)

Roger Firth's IF Pages

Roger's site, "Firthworks," hosts an excellent collection of tutorials and reference material for INFORM.

Games Talks

A site with online games, chat & forum functionality, and a directory of numerous gaming links.

KwMap.net

KwMap.net - browse the Keyword Map of OnyxRing.com

www.video-games-directory.com

A web-directory hosting various video game related links. A branch of the directory deals specifically with authoring text adventures.