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Just a few weeks until IFTF lands at @officialgdc.bsky.social. We'll be set up in the Indie Arcade at GDC Commons, so please stop by, say hello, and try out the GDC Festival of Gaming Twine Adventure project! Looking forward to seeing you there!
All awardees for the IFTF x GDC Pass Scholarship Program have been notified. If you submitted please check your inbox; if you have an email from us, you were selected. Thank you to everybody who applied, and we wish we had more tickets to give out!
Announcing the IFTF x GDC Scholarship Program. We have a small number of passes to distribute amongst our community, so if you are interested, please visit this thread on IntFiction.org for details: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...
We are aware that the Intfiction forums are currently down and are working on a fix. Thank you for the notifications!
Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to the event date. We will have additional news, further details and (we hope) maybe a few badges to give away. We're looking forward to seeing you there!
Additionally, on Monday, IFTF in partnership with Informa will kick off the GDC Twine Adventure, a new conference-spanning interactive fiction activity! In the spirit of an exquisite corpse, any attendee may add a node to an ever-expanding Twine story.
This year's Game Developer's Conference, GDC Festival of Gaming, will be held March 9-13, 206 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. For the first time ever, the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation will be represented! IFTF will have a booth on the show floor Wed-Fri so please stop by.
We are delighted to announce that #NarraScope 2026 will take place this year from June 12th-14th at the University at Albany! We'll be collaborating w/ the @albany.edu #UAlbany Game Center, and its Director @jcorace.bsky.social 🎉
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Two more weeks to apply to our microgrants program! We've received a few applications already (wooo!) but there is room left, so shoot your shot!
Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!
Thanks for this info. Forwarding to the grants committee!
Just a few more days to play (and judge!) this year's batch of games in the annual Interactive Fiction competition!
Our microgrants program is back for a third year! This year again, IFTF is looking to disburse $3,000 to cool projects related to interactive fiction that could benefit from a little bit of cash. More details on our blog post!
The IFComp 2025 logo is an ornate gold-framed mirror with silhouetted profile, stylized text ‘IFComp,’ crown, stars, moons, and a banner reading 2025.
We did it! The 2025 Colossal Fund hit $8K!
85 entries means more authors will share the prize pool. Let's stretch to $10K to boost the prizes a bit.
If you are in a position to donate and haven't, consider heading to ifcomp.org to hit the big blue donation button.
The IFComp 2025 logo is an ornate gold-framed mirror with silhouetted profile, stylized text ‘IFComp,’ crown, stars, moons, and a banner reading 2025.
🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
Service has been restored to the intfiction.org forum following this week's Linode outage. Thank you to our tireless admins for getting everything repaired!
All IFTF services are now functional following yesterday's outage, with the exception of Intfiction, which will likely be offline for at least another 12 hours. We appreciate your patience as we try and resolve the lingering linode issues!
With the advent of the UK Online Safety Act, all games on the IF Archive are currently unavailable to users whose connections place them in the UK. This restriction is temporary as we review the IF Archive's holdings and flag works that are legally required to be restricted. Our apologies!
Just a few more days to register your intent to participate in the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition!
IFTF's servers are affected by a linode outage this morning. Things are slowly beginning to come back online, but functionality may be limited until service is fully restored.
More information: status.linode.com
Calling all artists on Bluesky!
The IFComp is seeking an artists for our 2025 logo!
Check this post for more info!
blog.ifcomp.org/post/7855116...
#interactivefiction #ifcomp #ifcomp2025 #artist #digitalart
The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation has launched a Patreon! Now there's a new way to support us and all we do (Narrascope, Twine, IFComp, IFDB, IF Wiki, IntFiction, and so much more!)
The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation has launched a Patreon! Now there's a new way to support us and all we do (Narrascope, Twine, IFComp, IFDB, IF Wiki, IntFiction, and so much more!)
Ready to support writers of games, interactive fiction, digital stories, visual novels, electronic lit, and the like?
Even a small donation to parent non-profit org @iftechfoundation.org goes a long way to help IfComp, NarraScope, Twine carry on.
Chip in here: iftechfoundation.org/give/
Hello fellow IF fans, game writers, players and story enjoyers! Our annual conference on narrative games, NarraScope, is less than a month away. As the event draws closer, I wanted to turn your attention to the trademark Big Thermometer on narrascope.org, which tracks fundraising for the event. We are currently at $15,005, which is 60% of our $25,000 goal. To be clear: NarraScope is not in danger of going under or being canceled. However, we rely on donations from both sponsors and individuals to make sure that we don't need to dig so deep into IFTF's treasury that it could impact our other programs you love – things like IFComp, IFDB, the Twine committee, and more. This year, contributions from both individuals and institutions have been lower than in the past, for reasons we can likely deduce by looking at the world around us. These contributions are what allow us to offer attendance at a significantly lower price point than many other conferences. The conference team is working as always to continue to fundraise, but we wanted to ask that if you have the stability and ability to do so, to consider sending IFTF a small donation. You can do so at iftechfoundation.org/give/, and if you want, put a note indicating that it is directed at NarraScope and how you would like to be credited, if you so desire. Additionally, if you know any institutions that may be interested in a sponsorship, please email sponsorship@narrascope.org with the details. This year's event looks to be our largest yet, with more programming, attendees and events than any in the past! Your support helps keep NarraScope and IFTF sustainable and ensures that the event goes off without a hitch. Our in-person tickets have totally sold out, but passes to stream talks live are still available through 18 June 2025. As always, we appreciate your support, and I’m excited to see many of you next month in Philadelphia! - Justin Bortnick, President, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
A message from IFTF's president about this year's event (don't panic!):
We've posted IFTF’s 2024 Transparency report, summarizing our activity over the previous calendar year, including financial figures. Narrascope! Twine! IFComp! Grants! And much more—it's all in there.
Transparency is a core value at IFTF, and we encourage you to see what we were up to in 2024. 👀
🚨NarraScope 2025 tickets are on track to sell out! 🚨 At last count, there are ONLY 10 IN-PERSON MEMBERSHIPS LEFT. Claim yours before 11:59PM tonight, and join us in June at Drexel University: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope... #NarraScope
In-person tickets for NarraScope 2025 close Friday, May 23rd, at 11:59pm! Lock in your in-person ticket so you can join our amazing speakers in Philadelphia next month!
Screenshot of the NarraScope website titled "Donations" with a green progress bar at 34%. Below the progress bar reads: "Donations have reached $8,524, which is 34.1% of our $25,000 goal."
We have reached $8,524 in NarraScope donations, which is 34% of our goal! Make the green bar go up and donate on our EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...
