Christine's Interactive Fiction Page


  • TEXT ADVENTURES:
    newsgroups | archives & indices | online magazines | interpreters
    competitions | beta-testing | general

  • GRAPHIC ADVENTURES:
    official pages | personal pages



    • TEXT ADVENTURES

    NEWSGROUPS

  • The Interactive Fiction Usenet Newsgroup
    [This link will only work if your default news server carries this newsgroup.]


  • Interactive Fiction Writing Usenet Newsgroup
    [This link will only work if your default news server carries this newsgroup.]


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    ARCHIVES AND INDICES

  • Interactive Fiction Archive
    The FTP archive of shareware and freeware releases of programming languages, interactive fiction games, hints, and walkthroughs. Includes archives of posts from the newsgroups rec.games.int-fiction and rec.arts.int-fiction.


  • Interactive Fiction: rec.arts.int-fiction Online Archive
    An online index of threads from the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, containing posts from 1992 through 1997.. Site maintained by Stephen van Egmond.


  • Interactive Fiction Research Library
    Another site assembled by Stephen van Egmond. This "research library" is for people who are interested in writing interactive fiction or studying it academically. It is built upon the rec.arts.int-fiction archive at the same site (see above).

    I highly recommend this site. It has loads of helpful information. Of particular interest are a history of interactive fiction, and design guides for interactive fiction writers.


  • The ftp.gmd.de Interactive Index
    This online index of the ftp.gmd.de archive site is maintained by Volker Blasius. The manager of the index, Stephen van Egmond, collects the index files Blasius and others write, and produces WWW pages for them. Van Egmond has also added a "feature" for showing reviews of particular files, although he admits that this section has been neglected.


  • http://www.wurb.com/if/index.html - Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
    An index of text adventures in the archive, with capsule game reviews. Here site maintainer Carl Muckenhoupt attempts to guide the newcomer to the "good" games. For quick downloading, this site includes direct links to the games.

    Although game rating is of course subjective, I find Muckenhoupt's reviews to be concise and generally fair-minded. He is observant of the most annoying aspects of some games, such as frequent character death, lack of imaginative plot, and poor spelling. The games are indexed by author, development system, genre, rating, etc. As of October 17, he had posted reviews up to April 1999. [This site appears to be down. When I find out more about its status I will post the info. here. - 2/19/2000]


  • Although Snacky Pete's Text Adventure Archive is rather outdated (it seems to have been untouched since January 1996) and only includes games which particularly interested the site designer, those games it does list are broken down into searchable categories (author, platform, etc.). Included are Pete's personal comments and descriptions of each games.


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    ONLINE MAGAZINES

  • http://www.if-now.demon.co.uk/ - Interactive Fiction Now Magazine
    Interactive Fiction Now (IFN) magazine is a free web-based magazine covering the latest Adventure Gaming news, reviews, previews and interviews. IFN Plus, IFN's sister magazine at the same WWW address, covers broader material, including non-adventure games and hardware peripheral reviews. Webzine edited by Matt Newsome. [This site appears to be down. When I find out more about its status I will post the info. here. - 2/19/2000]


  • XYZZYnews Home Page



  • Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games (SPAG)
    SPAG (The Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) is designed primarily to keep the gaming public aware of text adventures on the market today. Most of the space is devoted to reviews. Since the number of such games is small, SPAG is published sporadically. SPAG was founded by G. Kevin "Whizzard" Wilson, and is currently edited by Paul O'Brian. [- Summary provided by the site's FAQ.]


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    INTERPRETERS

  • Visit The TADS Page for information on TADS, including how to download a TADS interpreter for your machine.


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    COMPETITIONS

  • 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition


    • Visit the 5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition site for the comp's winners and other notes.

  • 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition


    • Please click here for my ratings for the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition.

  • 1997 Interactive Fiction Competition


    • For my reviews and ratings of 1997's entrants, see my 1997 Interactive Fiction Competition Ratings and Reviews page.

    A copy of LucFrench's post of the final results for the 1997 competition is here.


    BETA TESTING

    Games I have beta tested are: I am currently (Jan.-Feb., 2000) testing:
  • Lucian Smith and Liza Daly host a site for beta-testers, and the authors who seek them. I had been listed on the now defunct IF Collaborators list, and am now listed here instead.


  • If you are looking for a beta-tester for your new game, please email me and I'll let you know if I am free! I'm especially fond of searching out grammatical and spelling errors, as well as the smallest programming bugs.


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    GENERAL

  • Adventure Game List
    An apparently very thorough index of both text and graphical commercial adventure games.


  • Unofficial Infocom Site
    Contains information on all of Infocom's interactive games, including: Infocom related articles, sample transcripts, InvisiClue hints, walkthroughs, and maps. This site also has information on the purchase of Infocom games, and downloads of the first three Zork games.


  • The Road to CockrumVille is the home of Ivan Cockrum, creator of one of my favorite text adventure games, Sunset Over Savannah.


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    GRAPHIC ADVENTURES


    OFFICIAL PAGES

  • Sierra Online Games


  • Sierra's Gabriel Knight III Home Page

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    PERSONAL PAGES

  • Joe DeRouen's Interactive Fiction Page
    Joe's site includes a review of Sierra's Phantasmagoria. He also has more links to interactive fiction sites than any other page I've viewed.


  • The Domain of Schattenjagers
    A page of tribute to the world of Gabriel Knight.


  • The Unofficial Gabriel Knight Homepage


  • Kimmie's Laura Bow 2 Site was extremely helpful whenever I got stuck on The Dagger of Amon Ra. The site is broken down into the game's many chapters for easy reference, and contains hints, walkthroughs, and goodies. As of October 17, some of the site was not yet up.


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    If you are unable to find something here and want to learn more about text adventures and other interactive fiction, you may find some other good information at The Interactive Fiction Page of Scott Neal Reilly. It hasn't been updated in four years (!), but you never know--you might find some help there!





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    This page was created July 17, 1998.
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