{"id":385,"date":"2007-09-30T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2007-09-30T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T05:06:13","slug":"ifcomp-2007-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2007 is on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcomp.org\/\">13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition<\/a> is underway. There are 29 games this year, quite a manageable number for once! Hopefully among them will be a few gems. Get on over there and grab &#8217;em. In previous years, these have been some of the best game experiences to be had, because they actually engage you emotionally; and because no matter how good the graphics on the PS3 and its ilk may get, the graphics produced inside ones head by a well-crafted piece of fiction will always be better.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the IF Comp, I tracked down links to the IF Chive, a humorous take on IF-dom in the vein of the Onion, by JD Berry. 1-5 and 1-6 are particularly good for the &#8220;Thick Steel Door&#8221; columns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/bf10a29cb0407ba8\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/8831766f89905a2e\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/3bddef509f93babd\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/473b49a51d782701\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/538ace354ceff06f\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 5<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/3ee837ddecee3a32\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 6<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/90dbd228053f0eb3\">IF-Chive Volume 1, Edition 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/382227ec9dbafadf\">IF-Chive Volume 2, Edition 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.arts.int-fiction\/msg\/8e940b1a4408aa4b\">IF-Chive Volume 2, Edition 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.games.int-fiction\/msg\/fe03d925f54fff0a\">IF-Chive Volume 3, Edition 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rec.games.int-fiction\/msg\/6fe0c19f35d7a284\">IF-Chive Volume 3, Edition 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is underway. There are 29 games this year, quite a manageable number for once! Hopefully among them will be a few gems. Get on over there and grab &#8217;em. In previous years, these have been some of the best game experiences to be had,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}