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The Interactive Fiction Community Forum is the central gathering place for authors and players of text adventures and interactive fiction, featuring categories for game reviews, development tools, writing advice, and competitions. With multilingual discussion boards and thousands of posts spanning topics from parser development to narrative craft, it serves as the backbone of the modern IF community.

JediMUD is a classic text-based multiplayer RPG (MUD) offering adventure, PvE, PvP, quests, and a persistent world accessible via telnet or dedicated MUD clients. The site provides connection instructions, a new player guide, server status, and links to a community wiki and Discord for this long-running online game.

Hosted by Lysator, a Swedish academic computer society, this page serves as a hub for MUD enthusiasts featuring links to notable MUDs like NannyMUD and Svenskmud alongside general mudding resources. Visitors can find FAQs, guides on LPC coding, quest design tips, and historical materials including the proceedings from the 1st World MUD Conference 1994.

Medievia is a long-running free-to-play MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) featuring an enormous world with sea exploration, dragon encounters, clan warfare, trading caravans, and player-built towns and castles. The game boasts a deeply social environment alongside complex gameplay mechanics including bloodlines, player-vs-player combat zones, and a dynamic system that tracks player emotions to shape the experience.

Snowplains is a text-based talker (chat environment) built on the EW-too platform, where users connect via telnet to chat with people from around the world in a whimsical snowplain-themed virtual space. The site includes connection instructions, a building guide, residents' pages, and a 'spod chart' tracking who has spent the most time online.

The official home of MUD2, the direct descendant of the original Multi-User Dungeon designed by Richard Bartle in the late 1970s, widely considered the grandfather of all MMORPGs. Maintained by Viktor T. Toth, the site offers access to the live text-based game, help resources, and community features for players who still love classic text adventures.

Planet Interactive Fiction is a blog aggregator maintained by Christopher Armstrong that collects posts from dozens of writers, reviewers, and developers across the interactive fiction community. Covering tools like Inform 7, TADS, ADRIFT, and Z-Machine alongside reviews, walkthroughs, and craft essays, it serves as a central hub for anyone passionate about text adventures and parser games.

A comprehensive mailing list archive for mud-dev, a long-running discussion community dedicated to MUD and online game development, spanning from 1996 through 2006. Developers and designers of text-based and early online games exchanged technical and design ideas here, making this archive a rich historical record of MUD development discourse.

MUME (Multi-Users in Middle-earth) is a free, text-based multiplayer RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, continuously running and expanded by volunteers since 1991. Players choose from races like Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, and Trolls to explore iconic locations and take part in the epic conflict between the Free Peoples and the forces of Sauron.

Textfire.de hosts a detailed review and technical breakdown of TxA, a text adventure authoring system by Viktor Krammer designed for MS-DOS and Linux. The site covers TxA's compiler/interpreter architecture, its scripting language syntax, block structures like [INIT], [ROOM], and [INVENTORY], and serves as part of a broader German-language resource hub for interactive fiction enthusiasts.