This is  a great little site  (hosted on Google Drive!) that was made to showcase the IF games made by @gbertoia 's Grade 6 class, using Quest, in order to learn about digital literacy. The site provides some insight into the steps that students took to create the games: mapping; room, object and puzzle design; and the actual coding. Unfortunately, the 'reflections' section doesn't seem to be ready, but hearing what the students have to say about the experience would be very interesting.

Links to play the games online and downloads of the game files are made available.

Gary notes "Some interesting games have been built and I have learned a lot more about using Quest to create interactive fiction stories. Have seen kids do some interesting coding without knowing that they were coding!"

This is a nice look at the evolution of text adventures into modern narrative-based games such as the The Walking Dead point-and-click adventure game. The article does well to mention that Interactive Fiction still lives on (plenty to play at www.ifdb.tads.org) and reminding new and younger players of how a vast number of modern games are still influenced by IF is a great way to entice them to try it out.

A nice look at how the first text-adventure game 'Adventure' and perhaps the most famous text-adventure 'Zork'. have influenced - and continue to influence video games created since the demise of commercial Interactive Fiction.

This is a nice Prezi done by Andre Bosson back in 2011 on a few of the sessions given at the Eclipsing Expectations conference at Sabanci University in Istanbul. This was possibly the first Prezi I ever saw and was surprised to see that not only were both of my sessions - "A narrative at war with a crossward" and "Playing and learning outside the box" given the Prezi treatment, but Andrew had actually created it on the fly during the Outside the Box session!

A quick look at Galatea and other chatbot-powered interactive stories.

This is a great interview with Jon Ingold, author of the amazing parser-based IF work 'All Roads' and the awesome new breed of CYOA apps 'Sorcery!' and '80 Days'.

For all the technical and narrative advances that text adventures/Interactive Fiction have seen since Adventures was released in 1976, many IF fans continue to hold a place in their hearts for the classic and ground-breaking IF works published by Infocom in the 80s. Quirky humour, engaging stories, and amazing packaging and 'feelies' make the Infocom games stand out, even decades after they topped the PC games sales charts. I am a huge fan of the Infocom oeuvre, of which of course,  the Zork trilogy plays a huge part. This video from the Games Developer Conference 2014 is an absolute delight for anybody who played Zork and the Infocom games back in the day. Zork Co-creator and one of the original Infocom Implementors Dave Lebling, gives some great behind the scenes stories of how the Zork games and Infocom came to be.

This is a fantastic Pinterest board by Melissa Hicks that brings together a large number of sites dealing with various aspects of parser-based (mostly) Interactive Fiction.

I just came across this Prezi, the second I've come across to be based on my IATEFL Glasgow 2012 presentation "Interactive Fiction and Digital Game-based Learning". Kasia also focuses on the use and creation of Choose-Your-Adventure stories, which I believe is not as useful a learning tool as parser-based IF due to the lack of authentic text-based player input, but nonetheless, I loved those types of books when I was younger and they are a great way to get kids to read.

One of the finest Interactive Fiction games ever made - and presented as a multi-player live event with voice actors! Amazing.

I'm not a big fan of Choose Your Own Adventure-type 'Interactive Fiction' (which is a label being thrown around quite a lot these days). The absence of a parser in choice-based games takes away the 'comprehensible input/output' process, which is extremely important in second language acquisition. However, Seltani, the new project from master IF technician Andrew Plotkin puts a spin on traditional TWINE-based IF. Seltani is a mix between classic text-based virtual worlds (MUDs), choice-based CYOA and the Myst mythos. In Plotkins's own words: "You might consider it multiplayer choice-based IF, or the love-child of a wiki and a text MUD". Its application for language learning is obvious and goes beyond what can be offered by typical hyper-text fiction because it is a multi-player experiece and textual input is used to communicate with other players. Although it is not as linguistically interactive as traditional parser-based IF, I think it definitely deserves a look -  if not only to see its very sexy user-interface.