Authoring

General Design Discussions A board to learn more about what it takes to create Interactive Fiction! Discussions about story, puzzles, writing, and game design belong here. If you have a question about a specific development system, please write in that board instead. Dialog Discussion about the Dialog IF authoring Language. Story Research and Design Need help with math for a puzzle? To discuss the structures of your relationship trees? Need input on motivation for your route-finding PC? Feedback on whether the grandfather-clock grind relates well with your plot? You’re commas and apostrophe’s, are out of hand. Looking for Collaborators Here you can look for collaborators on a project, be they writers, designers or programmers. Resources A place to share resources for games. Make sure all media is owned by you or Public Domain or freely available via an appropriate Creative Commons (CC) or similar license. TADS Questions and discussion relating to authoring IF using TADS 2 and TADS 3. Twine For questions and discussion about the Twine development system. ZIL For questions and discussion about ZIL and ZILF. Publishing For discussions about the process of publishing a work of IF: tips and tricks, places to share your work, etc. Inform 7 Questions and discussion relating to authoring IF using Inform 7. Inform 6 For posts about developing Interactive Fiction works in the Inform 6 language, whether using the standard Inform6lib, or one of the alternative libraries. Choice-based IF For technical development in choice-based systems such as, Undum, Ink, AXMA, Ren’py, and more! Other Development Systems Questions and discussion relating to authoring IF using any other IF Development Systems. Adventuron For topics about using the Adventuron development system.