Not even a week into it and we already have applications for our microgrants program! Hooray!

Full details on https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2026-iftf-microgrant-applications-now-open.html

You have until November 15th to send your application - let us know if you have any questions!

#IF #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGames #IndieGaming #AdventureGames #funding #gamedev

Not even a week into it and we already have applications for our microgrants program! Hooray!

Full details on https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2026-iftf-microgrant-applications-now-open.html

You have until November 15th to send your application - let us know if you have any questions!

#IF #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGames #IndieGaming #AdventureGames #funding #gamedev

ECTOCOMP is now open for entries! Submit your chilling, haunting, or spooky sweet games before October 30, and then we'll meet back here on Halloween to play everyone's submissions! 🧡🖤

https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025

#ECTOCOMP #ECTOCOMP2025 #InteractiveFiction

ECTOCOMP is now open for entries! Submit your chilling, haunting, or spooky sweet games before October 30, and then we'll meet back here on Halloween to play everyone's submissions! 🧡🖤

https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025

#ECTOCOMP #ECTOCOMP2025 #InteractiveFiction

It's almost time for ECTOCOMP, the annual competition for spooky interactive fiction! Spend the next six weeks perfecting your spine-tingling masterwork, or start four hours before the deadline and enter the speed-writing category. Submissions open October 1 and games will be released just in time for Halloween.

Rules and more info on the jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025

#ECTOCOMP #ECTOCOMP2025 #InteractiveFiction

IntroComp 2025 voting closes this weekend, and there are still a couple entries with just a single vote apiece. Please try out as many entries as you can and vote! https://introcomp.org/
#IntroComp#InteractiveFiction

IntroComp 2025 voting closes this weekend, and there are still a couple entries with just a single vote apiece. Please try out as many entries as you can and vote! https://introcomp.org/
#IntroComp#InteractiveFiction

Since Die Kathedrale was a bit too tedious for us, we switched to another game: Bureaucracy by Infocom. The author is none other than Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy fame.
An absurd story about getting caught in the daily horrors of forms and protocol.
#interactivefiction #infocom #douglasadams #bureaucracy

Okay, if you haven't seen this murderbot fanfic that is also a fully playable game of minesweeper, you're really missing out:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

#murderbot #fanfic#InteractiveFiction #ao3

The board is pleased to announce that the engineer who suggested that Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview must be experienced in a single session has been terminated.

https://antijingoist.itch.io/visual-dos-2024-tech-preview/devlog/998732/save-states-supported-in-browser

#VisualDOS2024#OperatingSystem#DOS #game#InteractiveFiction#OS

In honor of the Visual DOS Tech Preview code freeze, the board has hired someone to make a classic internet website promoting Visual DOS.

https://VisualDOS.com

#VisualDOS2024#InteractiveFiction #arg

In honor of the Visual DOS Tech Preview code freeze, the board has hired someone to make a classic internet website promoting Visual DOS.

https://VisualDOS.com

#VisualDOS2024#InteractiveFiction #arg

The board is pleased to announce that the engineer who suggested that Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview must be experienced in a single session has been terminated.

https://antijingoist.itch.io/visual-dos-2024-tech-preview/devlog/998732/save-states-supported-in-browser

#VisualDOS2024#OperatingSystem#DOS #game#InteractiveFiction#OS

Another casualty of the UK Online Safety Act: all interactive fiction (inc traditional parser text adventures) games stored at http://ifarchive.org are currently geoblocked to UK users. IFTF folks are trying to work out a solution, but there is no clue how long that might take. IFArchive holds 30+ years worth of generally amateur/free IF games - a vast number. Including my own. Which I can't play online right now. Not that I want to but it's ironic! #interactiveFiction #OnlineSafetyAct #games

The board of directors of VisualCorp has issued a wellness status of their employees, as well as an update to the AI that powers the Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview

https://antijingoist.itch.io/visual-dos-2024-tech-preview/devlog/997050/ai-updates-from-our-engineers

#VisualDOS2024#DOS #game#InteractiveFiction#OperatingSystem#OS

And IFComp is also likely to be affected, including the next competition opening for judging in just over a month. IFTF folk are currently urgently reviewing that. I wonder if I'll be able to play any IFComp games this year. #IFComp#interactiveFiction#OnlineSafetyAct #game#IndieGame

Meanwhile the intfiction forum where this might usually be discussed is still down 36 hours later, after a Linode cloud server outage. Fortunately there is still the IFTF Discord. But it's far from a great situation. #interactiveFiction #cloud

Another casualty of the UK Online Safety Act: all interactive fiction (inc traditional parser text adventures) games stored at http://ifarchive.org are currently geoblocked to UK users. IFTF folks are trying to work out a solution, but there is no clue how long that might take. IFArchive holds 30+ years worth of generally amateur/free IF games - a vast number. Including my own. Which I can't play online right now. Not that I want to but it's ironic! #interactiveFiction #OnlineSafetyAct #games