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NarraScope Showcase 2026

12 games in 3 divisions; award date June 12, 2026

Designers, developers, writers, and students of narrative games and interactive fiction were invited to submit digital game projects to the 2026 NarraScope Showcase. The NarraScope Showcase celebrates the best in narrative game design...

Independent Games Festival 2026

2 games in 3 divisions; award date March 11, 2026

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference. (IFDB does not record all IGF winners and nominees.)

Iron ChIF (Season One Episode 1)

2 games; award date March 3, 2026

Iron ChIF is an intfiction.org "forum show" modeled after the Japanese television series Iron Chef. Over the course of five days, two authors compete to create a working game from the same "challenge ingredient" -- a conceptual seed...

ShuffleComp 2025

14 games in 2 divisions; award date February 17, 2026

ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

The 2025 IFDB Awards

30 games in 46 divisions; award date February 16, 2026

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 takes the...

3rd Annual Thinky Awards 2025

2 games in 4 divisions; award date February 4, 2026

(IFDB does not record all Thinky Awards winners and nominees.)

PunyComp 2025

7 games in 4 divisions; award date January 2, 2026

A competition for games written with PunyInform. This year, all games submitted must require the player character to interact with an animal in order to complete the game.

Partim 500 - Edition 2025

7 games

La PARTIM 500 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un peu plus d'une semaine pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 500 mots ! De quoi parle-t-on ? Traditionnellement de récits hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées...

FI Express

6 games

Il reste 6 mois pour participer au Concours de Fiction Interactive francophone 2026 #ConFI2026 et soyons honnêtes, la majorité des participants potentiels n'a pas encore commencé à travailler dessus ! Alors pour vous aider à mettre...

ECTOCOMP 2025

62 games in 3 divisions

ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction celebrating the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...

Iron ChIF (Pilot Episode)

2 games; award date November 18, 2025

Bare-Bones Jam 2025

27 games

The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or presentation in any way from the engine...

31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025)

85 games in 3 divisions; award date October 18, 2025

Single Choice Jam 2025

22 games

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where there is only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the game!

ParserComp 2025

12 games in 2 divisions; award date August 8, 2025

ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text. For 2025, all games were initially submitted to a single category...

IntroComp 2025

8 games

IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product. Voting deadline: September 7,...

Neo-Twiny Jam 2025

119 games

Create a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in 500 words or less! This returning jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Twiny Jam, where creators were limited to making Twine games with less than 300 words.

Nouvim 3000 - 2025 edition

5 games

La NOUVIM 3000, 7e édition ! 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un mois pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 501 à 3000 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées avec...

NarraScope Showcase 2025

20 games in 2 divisions; award date June 20, 2025

Designers, developers, writers, and students of narrative games and interactive fiction were invited to submit digital game projects to the first ever NarraScope Showcase. The Showcase celebrates the best in narrative game design and...

Nebula Awards 2024

3 games; award date June 7, 2025

The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by full, senior, and associate members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year to outstanding novel, novella,...

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2025

7 games; award date June 1, 2025

This is the fifth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must include an in-game tutorial....

15th IF Grand Prix 2025

4 games; award date May 16, 2025

German language IF competition

Spring Thing 2025

34 games in 3 divisions; award date May 12, 2025

Dialogue Jam 2025

30 games

The Dialogue Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about communication between characters. Whether through verbal dialogue or written correspondence, this jam aims to bring discussions forward.

French Comp 2025

14 games in 5 divisions; award date April 21, 2025

The 18th Edition of the French Comp. This year, the optional theme is "héritage".

Smoochie Jam 2025

13 games

The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam for interactive fiction about kisses, love, and romance. Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. This jam exists in a deep and profoundly charged...

The 2024 IFDB Awards

36 games in 48 divisions; award date February 17, 2025

ShuffleComp 2024

19 games in 2 divisions; award date February 11, 2025

ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

Short Games Showcase 2024

93 games in 7 divisions; award date January 26, 2025

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and...

Short Games Showcase 2025

74 games in 7 divisions; award date January 25, 2025

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025), regardless of whether or not they are previously released.

PunyComp 2024

6 games; award date January 20, 2025

A competition for short games written with PunyInform. This year, all games submitted must be set, completely or in part, sometime in the years 1977-1989 (the Infocom era).

Partim500 - Edition 2024

11 games

This is primarily a French language interactive fiction jam. You may participate in a very poor French ;) or even in another language, but in this later case we won't garantee any feedback on your game. If you want to ask questions on an...

ECTOCOMP 2024

48 games in 6 divisions; award date December 2, 2024

Educational Jam 2024

10 games

The Educational Jam is a short unranked jam where (fun) facts are king! Discuss some obscure tidbit. Showcase your insight about a specific thing, your pub trivia skills, or that Wikipedia rabbit hole you went down last time.

Gothic Horror Jam #2

3 games; award date November 3, 2024

Step into the shadows and embrace the eerie atmosphere of our Gothic Horror theme. From crumbling castles to fog-shrouded streets, this game jam invites you to explore the darker realms of storytelling and gameplay. Whether you're...

Bare-Bones Jam 2024

11 games

30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2024)

67 games in 3 divisions; award date October 19, 2024

Anti-Productivity Jam

15 games

The Anti-Productivity Jam is a place for you to create interactive fiction using tools that were decidedly not intended for making games. Take your favorite (or least favorite) office software and use it to make a game!

IntroComp 2024

1 game; award date September 4, 2024

Confiture de Parser

3 games

La Confiture de Parser est une jam estivale où le but est de créer un parser. Que vous soyez un vétéran du format ou un débutant, passez cet été à jouer avec du code! ~ The Confiture de Parser is a summer-long jam where the goal...

Single Choice Jam 2024

28 games

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where there is only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the game!

ParserComp 2024

17 games in 2 divisions; award date July 31, 2024

ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text.

Love/Violence Jam

10 games

The Love/Violence jam is all about messy feelings and messy actions. It challenges authors to tell a story about love and violence, one as a metaphor for the other, one masquerading as the other, or some less-defined relationship between...

Nouvim 3000 - 2024 edition

11 games

La NOUVIM 3000, 6e édition ! 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un mois pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 501 à 3000 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées avec...

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2024

10 games; award date June 1, 2024

This is the fourth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must include an in-game tutorial....

REALLY BAD IF

27 games

Welcome to Really Bad IF, the unranked interactive fiction jam where the goal is to simply make really bad IF games. Bring your terribly written, bug-riddled coded, nonsensical-story games along! (At the authors' request, not every work...

Locus Jam 2024

15 games

The Locus Jam is an interactive fiction mini-jam all about places, spaces, and rooms. Come create an IF piece set in one specific place! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Locus Jam.

Spring Thing 2024

33 games in 3 divisions; award date May 11, 2024

Spring Thing, also known as the Autumnal Jumble, focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new...

14th IF Grand Prix 2024

5 games; award date May 2, 2024

German language IF competition as announced on Oct 31, 2023 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1311 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2024.html

Dialogue Jam 2024

33 games

The Dialogue Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about communication between characters. Whether through verbal dialogue or written correspondence, this jam aims to bring discussions forward.

French Comp 2024

21 games in 5 divisions; award date April 9, 2024

The 17th Edition of the French Comp. That year, the themes were "Illusion" and "Venu d'ailleurs" ("From elsewhere").

SeedComp! - 2024

14 games in 10 divisions; award date April 9, 2024

Independent Games Festival 2024

2 games in 3 divisions; award date March 20, 2024

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference. (IFDB does not record all IGF winners and nominees.)

Revival Jam 2024

9 games

The Revival Jam is a short game jam about bringing back themes and constraints from older game jams to create small interactive fiction games.

Smoochie Jam 2024

23 games

The 2023 IFDB Awards

34 games in 44 divisions; award date February 17, 2024

Short Games Showcase 2023

70 games in 6 divisions; award date January 27, 2024

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and...

Recipe Jam

11 games

The Jam where you make your player hungry! The Recipe Jam is a short unranked jam where you must include a recipe. Stuff it inside a book, make the player cook it, or hide it through the text... Share your best (or worst) dish(es)!...

ShuffleComp 2023

15 games in 2 divisions; award date January 22, 2024

ShuffleComp 2023: The Re-Shuffling ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants. The last ShuffleComp occurred in 2015. The rules here are largely...

2022 XYZZY Awards

19 games in 12 divisions; award date January 8, 2024

Best Technological Development:...

PunyJam #4

6 games; award date January 2, 2024

This is a jam where you write a text adventure using PunyInform, resulting in games playable in Z-code format. Every PunyJam has a theme. This time: at the start of the game, or within the first five moves, the player gets an indication...

Partim500 - Edition 2023

9 games

ECTOCOMP 2023

48 games in 6 divisions; award date December 1, 2023

29th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2023)

75 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 2023

Concours Moiki #5

5 games

Thème et contraintes Pour ce concours le thème retenu est : La colère des Dieux Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme bon vous semble. Votre histoire peut être destinée aux enfants ou non, c'est à vous de voir ce qui vous...

The Bare-Bones Jam

27 games

The Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the Bone Have you ever wanted to create a game, but felt overwhelmed by the visual aspects? Or wished you didn't need to edit the UI? This jam is for you! The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam...

inkJam 2023

24 games; award date October 4, 2023

The inkJam is an annual community organized jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink. When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday, October 20th, 9PM CEST. Who can enter? Everyone is more than welcome, either alone...

Concours Moiki #4

4 games; award date September 16, 2023

Ce concours Moiki consiste à écrire une mini fiction interactive - en français uniquement ! Thème et contraintes Pour cette quatrième édition le thème retenu est : Le calme avant la tempête Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition)

70 games; award date September 15, 2023

People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 59 participants cast a total of 880...

IntroComp 2023

7 games; award date September 11, 2023

Single Choice Jam

46 games

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where you have only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the whole game!

ParserComp 2023

16 games in 2 divisions; award date August 3, 2023

ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text. This is the 4th ParserComp. Hosted on itch.io. This year, works are...

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2023

9 games; award date July 1, 2023

This is the third annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must include an in-game tutorial....

Neo-Twiny Jam

123 games

Create a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in 500 words or less! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Twiny Jam, where creators were limited to making twine games with less than 300 words. Constraints and Rules: You are limited to...

Nouvim 3000 - 2023 edition

3 games

La NOUVIM 3000, 5e édition ! 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un mois pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 501 à 3000 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées avec...

Arcjam 2023

1 game; award date May 29, 2023

Arcjam is a game design event where you use Arcweave to design and publish a short game in 72 hours. The term “game” is to be taken in the most general sense, meaning any kind of interactive experience, story, puzzle, graphic novel,...

Spring Thing 2023

26 games in 2 divisions; award date May 16, 2023

Nebula Awards 2022

1 game; award date May 14, 2023

La Sens Dessus Dessous

8 games

Créez une histoire interactive francophone à dominante textuelle ! (pouvant contenir quelques décorations visuelles ou sonores) Il peut s'agir : - d'une fiction interactive à analyseur syntaxique / parser (comme Zork, etc.) ; - d'une...

13th IF Grand Prix 2023

4 games; award date May 2, 2023

German language IF competition as announced on Nov 30, 2022 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1288 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023.html https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023-ergebnisse.html

PunyJam #3

9 games; award date March 13, 2023

This is a jam where you write a text adventure using PunyInform. THEME: The game must start in or at an airlock.

French Comp 2023

25 games in 5 divisions; award date March 2, 2023

The 16th Edition of the French Comp. That year, the themes were "Trahison" (treason) and "Archive".

SeedComp! - 2023

18 games in 10 divisions

SeedComp! is a 2-round interactive fiction game jam, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas. Join our Discord! SeedComp! is separated into 2 distinct rounds: Planting and Sprouting. You can take part in either or both. The first...

The 2022 IFDB Awards

39 games in 52 divisions; award date February 18, 2023

Partim 500 - 2022 edition

10 games

SERVEUR DISCORD FRANCOPHONE : https://discord.gg/vrmGavw This is primarily a French language interactive fiction jam. You may participate in a very poor French ;) or even in another language, but in this later case we won't garantee any...

2021 XYZZY Awards

24 games in 12 divisions; award date December 22, 2022

Best Technological Development:...

Goncharov Game Jam

10 games

A game jam about "the greatest mafia movie never made". Goncharov is a film that might or might not exist. In one universe, it is a 1973 film about the Naples Mafia, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Matteo JWHJ0715, and produced...

ECTOCOMP 2022

48 games in 6 divisions; award date November 20, 2022

ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...

28th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2022)

71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 2022

Project Revival Jam 2

1 game

They know you abandoned them, and they're back for revenge. Maybe it's a project you have long-since forgotten. Maybe it's a half-finished experiment gathering dust in your lab. Maybe it's an idea that haunts your dreams. Maybe it's a...

inkJam 2022

19 games; award date September 17, 2022

Welcome to the fifth edition of inkJam! The inkJam is an annual community organised jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink. What's the theme? Incredible, yet... When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday,...

ParserComp 2022

20 games; award date July 30, 2022

3rd ParserComp (2021 and 2015 previously.) Hosted on itch.io.

Nouvim 3000 - 2022 edition

7 games

Text Adventure Literacy Jam - 2022

16 games; award date May 22, 2022

The Text Adventure Literacy Jam is a parser-based text adventure authoring competition that challenges entrants to "Create a parser-based TEXT ADVENTURE or INTERACTIVE FICTION game suitable for players with no prior experience".

Spring Thing 2022

47 games in 2 divisions; award date May 10, 2022

12th IF Grand Prix 2022

6 games; award date May 2, 2022

German language IF competition as announced on Nov 25, 2021 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1269

Independent Games Festival 2022

1 game; award date March 23, 2022

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference. (IFDB does not record all IGF winners and nominees.)

French Comp 2022

10 games in 4 divisions; award date February 28, 2022

The 15th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Reflet" ("reflection") and "Masque" ("mask").

Vampire: The Masquerade Jam 2021

1 game; award date February 3, 2022

Have you ever wanted to make your own Vampire: The Masquerade video game and share it with the world? Here’s your chance! To celebrate the finale of Month of Darkness, we’re opening our Dark Pack Agreement for exactly 1 month to...

Partim500 - 2021 Edition

5 games

1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un peu plus d'une semaine pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 500 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées avec d'autres outils), ou...

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