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I never encountered it, but that doesn't mean much. A lot was before my time.

Hi, I'm new here...my nickname online and off is Sparky, so call me that please. I first started using my real-life nick online when I got harassed and stalked because people knew I was female. That stopped when I started going by Sparky, then and now people tend to think I'm a teenaged boy. But I'm actually a 33 year old woman. I have never been part of or followed any sort of "IF community" so I don't really know any of the websites or influential persons. I have asked a few questions on the newsgroup but that's it. Anyways my brother and I grew up on the Infocom games, and we always wanted to write IFs together, but never did it (he's into computer programming and I have a degree in Creative Writing from USC). I finally authored my first IF in 2006, and finished another short one this year. I'm currently working on a longer one, that my brother helped with. (And I will be asking for help on here very soon I think, lol.) So far my games have been based on cartoons - my first is a She-Ra game, and the last one and the one I'm doing now are for Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. I run the largest fansite for Foster's home (at fosters-home.com) so I thought I'd write some games for my site. However what I have discovered is even the older fans, who might appreciate IFs more than the youngin's who won't touch a homebrew game if it isn't an mmorpg, don't give a damn. Same for my She-Ra game, really. So no one ever plays my games and I never get any feedback. I do plan on, once my current game is done, to work on something not based on something copyrighted, so I can hopefully do something more with it, at least get the IF community to play it...I'll never know if I'm any good or improving until I can get someone to play my games after all.

Welcome to the forum Sparky. Sometimes it seems like you have to look hard to find people who like playing IF! . However at other times I'm surprised by the positive reception it gets in pretty mainstream places. So I think there's still hope.

Hello intfiction.org!

I'm Mark, though online and to most friends I'm known as Ragz. I come from the southwest of England. I'm 18 and in my third year college studying some filler (but still interesting) subjects before I go on to a Computer Science course at the University of Bristol.

I don't really have a history of interactive fiction. I recall seeing my brother playing one, when I was young, and wanting to do so too, but at that age I found it too difficult to understand. I did, however, get interested in adventure games. I played King's Quest 7, Broken Swords 1 & 2 many times over, and utterly failed to get anywhere in The Last Express. Quite recently I picked up Myst and started playing, and went on to try out most of the series. From there I played two series of flash games, Submachine and Daymare which inspired me to want to make my own adventure game. At some point after this I got into a discussion about text based games and decided that Interactive Fiction might be a more interesting form to make my daymare/myst inspired game.

I'm currently working on that game now, in Inform 7. It's a small starting chapter of a bigger idea I haven't fully worked out. I'm not actually very good at English, as may be apparent. I failed both English Language and Literature at GCSE and had to take a condensed year-long course of GCSE at college. I passed that with a C grade. My prose may not be up to standard, but I hope with enough constant revision I'll be alright. Maybe I'll pick up some of the skills from this forum and other IF too .

I came here from the Brass Lantern, looking for a community for interactive fiction that I could try and join in with. I find Mailing lists and MUD a bit difficult to grasp, I have more experience using forums.

Welcome to the forum, Ragzouken, and good luck for your game!

You can always team up with someone else Ragz. I have a degree in English but am pokey at doing all the coding myself, for example.

Hello to you too, Mark! And welcome ...


If you haven't discovered it already, there is also a newsgroup for IF authors called rec.arts.int-fiction; the archives are here:

http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Past_raif_topics

... and a collection of quotes from past IF competition reviews here (aimed at future IF authors):

http://jacl.game-host.org:8080/dfisher/ifgems/gems.html

David Fisher

I guess I'll do this now.

My nick online and off is Shae. I'm female, 40 yrs old, living in rural Southeastern Indiana, USA after moving from Indianapolis earlier this year.

I played the Scott Adams games when I was a kid and have enjoyed IF ever since, though I am not as experienced a player as many here. I just finished a computer science degree and have worked for years as a web developer.

I created my first IF game in December with copious amounts of help from the people on this forum, in the Inform 7 section. While I think I did alright, it's probably too embarrassing to share. I hope to write another soon that avoids the newbie pitfalls I fell into with the first, and I'm sure that one will be brilliant.

Hi Shae :-) I actually know a guy named Shae Erisson, no joke. He got his legal name changed from something a lot more mundane.

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Christopher Armstrong
http://planet-if.com/
http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/

Hey there, everybody.

My name is Imortis Inglorian. Long time fan of IF games and have tried many of the IF authoring systems. Inform 6 & 7, TADS 2 & 3, Alan 3, Adrift, RAGS, Quest, and even tried to develop my own once (I'm a programmer by trade). I have never released anything because I don't have the writing skill I feel I need.

I look forward to getting help, and helping out here on these forums.

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