Learning To Play
- IF Cheat Sheet A pocket card sized image with brief instructions on how to play IF.
- Introduction to IF An 8-page PDF with a more thorough introduction to playing IF.
- Spatterlight (Mac) This is a great program for playing IF stories on an Apple computer. It supports all the major file formats, including z-code and Glulx.
- Gargoyle (Windows) An IF interpreter program for Windows machines.
- Watch someone playing Zork! Watch this video of a Zork player to get a good sense of the type of input IF traditionally understands.
- The Inform 7 Site Home base for authors working with Inform 7
- Discussion archive People have been discussing IF online for over twenty years. This massive compendium archives the best conversations, threads, and arguments from rec.arts.int-fiction, the long-time home of the community. Filled with gems for authors on any topic related
- Inform 7 for Programmers Approaches teaching IF from a different angle than my book, focusing instead on translating concepts familiar to programmers who've worked in other languages to Inform 7's paradigms.
- Inform 7 Documentation Index An unofficial index to the official documentation.
Finding Stories to Play
- The IFDB A database with information on thousands of IF stories, as well as member-created lists, polls, and reviews.
Community and News
- The Interactive Fiction Community Forum A great spot to ask questions and discuss the medium.
- rec.arts.int-fiction The traditional home of the IF community.
- IFWiki An editable wiki with entries on all things IF, including authors, systems, concepts, and more. The front page often gives a great overview of current events in the IF community, like contests in progress and upcoming real-world events.
- People's Republic of Interactive Fiction Homepage for the Boston-area IF meetup group, this site also contains an easy way to play some groundbrounding stories online.
- Planet Interactive Fiction This blog aggregator combines the feeds from over fifty blogs related to IF into a single source.
- ifMUD An online chatroom and community space where virtual events are hosted and authors hang out to talk shop or relax.
Extensions
- The Inform 7 Extensions Archive Part of the official site, this is where to find hundreds of extensions that can enhance the functionality of your IF stories.
- Inform 7 Extensions Search A great index to the I7 extensions page, that lets you search Inform 7 extensions by keyword in their documentation.
- Inform ATTACK The ultimate extension for creating simulated combat with Inform 7, complex enough even for unusual sorts of combats like conversational or existential ones...
- Glimmr A set of extensions for creating complex image and layout effects in I7: auto-updating maps, painted text, card games, and more.
