We had a good turn out this year for the Mini-comp.  Here’s hoping that we can keep up the momentum.  Congratulations to AOneHitWonder for taking first place with his entry Dinner Plans. You can check out all the rankings for this year here as well as downloading the games if you happened to miss them.  Thanks to all who participated and everyone who voted for your favorite.

For several years now I (and even A. Ninny before me) have thought about updating the Inside Erin site.  We wanted a look that more closely matched the “new” look of the newsletter itself.  I started working on it long ago, but like so many game ideas I ran out of time and patience before the project could be completed.

Now I have decided that it is high time to change all that.  When I took another look at my progress I discovered that I was actually farther along than I had thought and it only took a couple of weeks work to get it into at least a pretty good semblance of order.  The site now has a completely new design, and the look is about what I pictured when I started thinking about it lo those many years ago.

For the most part the content itself is unchanged from the old site.  I have added a few little things and plan on a few more little changes, and one big one.  The big one comes in the form of a comprehensive AIF Game List.  It will list every game ever written, be sortable by category, and include links to the game download as well as reviews and walkthroughs where available.  If that’s not enough it will also list information on the gender of the main PC and content of the game itself.  I thought about holding off the release of the website until the list was done, but working by myself that is liable to take another several years.  So instead I have included the list of games reviewed in the newsletter from my topical index for now, and included a page talking about what my plans are for the list and how some of you just might be able to help.  Please check it out.

The January 2011 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats. After a six-month break, we're back with a brand new issue of Inside Erin. Among other things we have the announcement and rules for the 2011 AIF Mini-comp so come on in and check it out.

The July 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats. Come and see the results of the 2010 Mini-comp and reviews of the games.

The June 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats. With only a couple days left until the deadline for the Mini-comp, it remains to be seen whether or not we'll get enough games to go ahead with it. As soon as we know, I'll pass the news on to all of you.

The May 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  Remember than you only have about a month left to work on your Mini-comp entries.  All games are due to aifsubmissions AT gmail DOT com by June 7th.

The April 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  Check out this issue for a discussion of recent, current, and possible rules for community comps.  We also have a top 10 list by Kronn, and Lucilla Frost gives us a sneak peak at her upcoming game, British Fox and the Naturalist Conspiracy.

The March 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  This month we have the winners for the 2009 Erin Awards.  I'm sorry to say that there will not be an awards ceremony this year, which I explain at least somewhat in the newsletter.  We are also announcing the 2010 AIF Mini-comp.  The rules have changed a bit this year so be sure to check them out.

Voting is now open for the 2009 Erin Awards.  Voting will be done using an online ballot on the Erin Awards website.  Although there are between three and five nominees for each category, to speed the voting up even more it is only necessary for you to list out your top three choices for each one.  Simply use the drop down menus under each category to indicate you first, second, and third choice for each.

I would really like to see this be the biggest turnout for voting yet.  It will only take a few minutes so don't put it off.  Click the link below and let your voice be heard.

The February 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  The big news this month is the release of the list of nominees for the 2009 Erin Awards.  The Erins website has been updated to show the list of eligible games and nominees, and the online ballot where you can vote with a few clicks of your mouse will be available very soon.  I'll let you all know as soon as it is up and running.

The January 2010 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  The Erin season has come to a close, and we will soon have list of nominations for you all to vote on.  Stay tuned for more information.

Well, it looks like our Christmas Micro-comp was less than a rousing success.  The only people to submit games were A. Bomire and myself.  Since it doesn't make a lot of sense to go though the whole voting thing with only two games we've decided to skip that part, but you can still download the games here.  Just consider it a Christmas present from us to the community.  We hope you like them. 

The file is titled "2009 Christmas games" and can be downloaded here, as well as on the AIFArchive, and aifgames.com in the file sections.

The December 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  Remember that the deadline for the Christmas Micro-comp is Dec 14th.  Please send all games to aifsubmissions AT gmail DOT com.

The November 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  There is a lot of new stuff in this issue.  We have a couple of new features that I hope to keep going for awhile, and the announcement of a Christmas micro-comp.  Yep, micro-comp.  Read all the details in the newsletter.

The October 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  We’re taking a little break from Coder’s Corner this month, but we do have a couple of reviews, a new story from GoblinBoy, and ExLibris shares his opinions on Graphics in AIF.

The September 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  For those of you who missed the announcement, there was no August issue so this is the first issue in two months

The results page for the 2009 AIF Mini-comp is now updated.  I have also uploaded the file to the AIF Archive and AIFGames.com

The July 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  The big news this month is, of course, the announcement of the winners of the 2009 AIF Mini-comp.  We also have a few reviews of the games themselves.

The June 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  Remember that the deadline for entries in the 2009 Mini-comp is this Monday, so get those game finished and get them in as soon as possible.

Since we are quickly approaching the fourth Mini-comp hosted by Inside Erin, it was getting a bit difficult to navigate through them.  I added a summary page for the Mini-comps, and links to individual years, which still list the full rules and results for that particular comp.

The May 2009 edition of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  Don’t forget that the deadline for the 2009 Mini-comp is just over a month away, get working on those games.

The April 2009 edition of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  This month we check back in with Aphrodite, have a couple of reviews, and another installment of Coder’s Corner.

The March 2009 issue of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  This month we have to official announcement of the 2009 AIF Mini-comp, so check it out and get writing.

The February 2009 edition of Inside Erin is now available in both PDF and plain text formats.  This month, Coder’s Corner picks up where Programming Erin left off, comparing the ways that the different authoring systems work.