Interactive Fiction Resources

Eamon designers may benefit from some, if not all, of the following resources. This list is not all inclusive, but provides a good start! If you have a web page you think belongs on this list, email me here. --Matthew Clark

Websites:

Eamon Adventurer's Guild Online - http://www.eamonag.org - Check out the Dungeon Designer Columns
Interactive Fiction Competition - http://www.ifcomp.org/
Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games - http://sparkynet.com/spag/ - IF Newsletters and articles
Brass Lantern - http://www.brasslantern.org/ - See also http://www.brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/
Roger Firth's home page - http://www.firthworks.com/roger/ - See also http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/sailor1.html
Inform Webpage - http://www.inform-fiction.org/index.html - Especially the Chapter 7
PDD's Adventure Page - http://www.if-legends.org/~pdd/
Scott Neal Reilly's Interactive Fiction Page - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~wsr/IF/
Xyzzy News - http://www.xyzzynews.com/
Playing Infocom today - http://www.latz.org/infocom/
Gamegrene.com - http://www.gamegrene.com/ - Primarily a D&D site, but useful for ideas

Articles:

Books:

Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort
The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson
Inform Beginner's Guide by Roger Firth
Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for 21st Century Fiction by Andrew Glassner
Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle
Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer - by Tim Hartnell (1983 - free online)
You can browse other books here.

Newsgroups

rec.arts.int-fiction - IF design and implementation
rec.games.int-fiction - Playing IF games
alt.games.eamon

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