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1. Where is the IF community? Interactive fiction has always had devotees, who may be designers or players or both, and many of whom have been around for much of its history. Since 1992 our main gathering place has been the two Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.int-fiction, for discussion of general ideas about design and systems for design (it can be a good place to seek help if your Inform code isn't working properly), and rec.games.int-fiction, where individual games are reviewed, announced and mulled over, and where hints are traded. The Alexandrian Library of the interactive fiction world is an anonymous FTP site called the IF-archive: ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/ Its unrivalled collection of early and modern IF, including two dozen rival design systems to Inform, makes ftp.gmd.de the essential port of call for the IF tourist. This site has several hundred links to other IF resources worldwide. Many are specific to particular needs, but for general browsing see Inform - Resources - Links. Click here to return to the table of questions.

Last updated 24 September 2003. The librarian in charge of this page is Graham Nelson (graham at gnelson demon co uk) assisted by C Knight. Please email any comments, suggestions or corrections to cedenqs@inform-fiction.org.