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Categories for the 2022 IFDB Awards:
Overall Polls: Outstanding Game of the Year - Player's Choice Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Player's Choice - an IFDB Poll Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Most Sequel-worthy game of 2022 - Player's Choice Most Sequel-worthy Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Author's Choice Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Player's Choice Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Language-based Polls: Outstanding German Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding German game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Spanish Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Spanish Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Genre Polls: Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Horror Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Horror Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Humor Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Humor Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Mystery Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Mystery Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Surreal Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Surreal Game of 2022 - Author's Choice System-based Polls: Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Twine Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Twine Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Adrift Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Adrift Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Game in a Custom System in 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Game in a Custom System in 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System in 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System in 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2022 - Author's Choice Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Player's Choice Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Author's ChoiceRules for the 2022 IFDB Awards:
The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and take the form of polls.New this week: Improvements to IFDB Polls: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.
Locked Polls: When editing a poll you've created, you can now "lock" the poll, preventing anyone from adding, removing, or editing votes.
Anonymous Polls: When creating a poll, you can now choose to make the poll "public" or "anonymous." In public polls, everyone can see who voted for each item in the poll. In anonymous polls, you can only view the number of votes for each poll item. (IFDB administrators can see who voted for what.)
New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.
Exclude editorial reviews from member reviews: In a few places, we were miscounting off-site ("editorial") reviews as "member reviews." (If you see the number of reviews has decreased, that's almost certainly why.)
"Play On-line" button works for zipped games: Thanks to the IF Archive's new "unbox" service, the "Play On-line" button can now play games that are only available in zipped format. For example, we now have a "Play On-line" button for Worlds Apart.
Removed Download Adviser: The "Show Me How!" button is gone from all games. The "Play On-line" button works great now for 98 of the top 100 free games on IFDB, and individual story files have links to up-to-date IFWiki pages like https://www.ifwiki.org/Z-code_interpreters for all of the major file formats (for non-newbies who want to try a few interpreters and pick their favorite).
New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.
Added "Play On-line" support for ADRIFT: play.adrift.co is back online, so most of the ADRIFT games now have "Play On-line" buttons, linking there.
Added "Play On-line" support for web games: Why should web games miss out on the fun? Games with an HTML download marked "playable" or where the link name contains "Play Online" will have a prominent "Play On-line" button, like other games do.
Allow rating/reviewing on mobile: For years, IFDB has hidden some boxes on mobile to try to reduce clutter, but hiding the "Have you played this game?" box was a step too far.
New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB.
Reorganized header links: Most of the header links only make sense if you're logged in (Profile, Settings, My Activity, Inbox), so we now hide all of those and just show a "Log In" link when you're logged out. When you're logged in on mobile, we put all of those links in a new "Menu" menu.
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