Links and links

The Interactive Fiction Archive is of course the ur-resource for all things IF.

Community websites

The Interactive Fiction Wiki
The Interactive Fiction Community Forum — just what it says on the tin.
The Interactive Fiction Database is the closest thing we have to a social networking service.
Home of the French IF community
Website of the ifMUD, the community’s oldest hangout besides the now defunct newsgroups.

Books and Publications

Also: 50 Years of Text Games: A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction.

Authoring

Too many authoring systems to list, but Roger Firth’s Cloak of Darkness provides a good overview.
Another resource list by Emily Short, and one more by Hannah Powell-Smith.
Petit tour d’horizon de la FI sur mobile
A Catalog of Twine Story Formats
Interactive Fiction Design, Coding in Twine & Other IF Resources
Hyperfiction Software

Theory

Introduction aux structures de la fiction interactive, et comment les utiliser (19 April 2019)
Les différents noms des histoires interactives (23 March 2018)
Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading (30 August 2017)

Mind the Gap (20 December 2016) About leaving gaps in (interactive) fiction for the reader / player to fill with their imagination.

Energy & Play: A Look at Interactive Fiction & Visual Novels (14 November 2016) Games can be stressful. But interactive fiction thinks about game design in a new light.

Dynamic Fiction via Some Examples (17 November 2015)
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games (26 January 2015)
The Room as Metaphor in Interactive Fiction
10 types of interactivity (17 July 2012)
CYOA structures (4 April 2012)

History

Studies of ZIL, Part 1 (29 August 2024)
1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. - 50 Years of Text Games (6 May 2021)
A Very Brief History of Gamebooks (up to 1979) (7 June 2019)
Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers (22 May 2019)
Zarf Updates: All of Infocom's game source code (16 April 2019)
Interactive Fiction in the UK (6 February 2019)
How open source plays interactive fiction (24 July 2018)
A brief history of text-based games and open source (July 2018)
The Gilsoft Legacy (22 January 2017)
Author of '80s classic The Hobbit didn't know game was a hit (18 November 2012)

The MIT Basement Tunnel System (8 September 2012) About the places that inspired part of Infocom's famous game The Lurking Horror.

People

The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams (24 November 2021) The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.

Entretien avec Stefan Vogt, auteur de FI modernes sur ordinateurs 8 bits ! (5 June 2020)
Interview: Star Wars Choose Your Destiny With Cavan Scott (2 April 2019)
A profile of Emily Short (30 August 2018)
Jimmy Maher, book publishing, jOBS, and C64 (February 2013)
Goodbye, Paul Panks (15 July 2009)

Interview with Brian Moriarty (March 2006) Innovation, design and screenplay of an adventure game: Brian Moriarty's views on these topics and some more, in a masterclass worth reading.