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Interactive Fiction Links

Sure, you could just google "interactive fiction" and poke around, but if you're in a hurry, you may find the links on this page (which is reasonably current as of November 2006) helpful.

Reviews of Games

Baf's Guide provides a cross-indexed reference to hundreds of games, as well as thumbnail reviews, ratings, links to the games themselves, and links to solution files.

The IFDB (Interactive Fiction DataBase) has reviews, links, and more. Recommended.

SPAG (the Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) is a free, online-only magazine devoted exclusively to reviews of and articles about interactive fiction.

Sites of General Interest

The IFWiki has a huge array of useful and provocative articles.

Brass Lantern has a wealth of information for IF players and authors.

Well-known IF author Emily Short has a set of very informative pages on how to play IF, how to write it, the nature of the IF community, and her own work.

Writing Your Own IF (Programming)

The most widely used IF programming language is Inform. It comes in two flavors, Inform 6 and Inform 7, which are as distinct from one another as pizza and strawberry ice cream. Both are found on the Inform site.

Those who are mainly interested in Inform 6 will find a wealth of resources at Roger Firth's site.

Everything to do with TADS (the Text Adventure Development System, which is Inform's most important rival) is to be found here.