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Infocom Tribute Jam

2 games; award date September 15, 2020

In April 2019, the world of interactive fiction was turned on its head when the source code to every Infocom text adventure was released to the general public. In honor of the games and the legacy of the Infocom implementors, this game...

IntroComp 2020

15 games; award date September 5, 2020

All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.

Concours Moiki #1

5 games

Le concours Moiki consiste à écrire une mini fiction interactive - en français uniquement ! Thème et contraintes Pour cette première édition le thème retenu est : Sous terre / Sous mer Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme...

Nouvim 3000 - 2020 edition

5 games

La NOUVIM 3000, 2e 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...

The Next Adventure Jam

7 games; award date July 23, 2020

Use your browser to develop a text adventure in Adventuron with vibrant location graphics. Optionally target ZX Spectrum Next or ZX Spectrum +3.

NarraScope 2020 Game Jam

7 games

NarraScope 2020 Game Jam is an unranked game jam, overlapping with the NarraScope 2020 Online Conference. The theme for the jam is Growth.

AdventureJam 2020

6 games; award date June 5, 2020

AdventureJam 2020 (Six IF-games were entered into this more general adventure game jam, which had 67 entries) Create an Adventure Game in Two Weeks: April 21st-May 5th! AdventureJam returns this year with a few changes! As always, anyone...

Spring Thing 2020

21 games in 3 divisions; award date May 3, 2020

Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, 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...

Adventuron Treasure Hunt Jam

16 games; award date April 7, 2020

This was the third Adventuron jam. The challenge was to build an old-school treasure hunt text adventure game with no graphics and minimal text.

2019 ADRIFT Game of the Year Award

9 games; award date April 3, 2020

2019 was a pretty good year for Adrift with 11 games released and a couple of them even entering the Annual IF Competition. The rules for being taken into consideration for the award are simple. 1: The game must be written using the...

The Emily Short Anniversary Contest

2 games; award date April 3, 2020

To honor the enormous amount of high quality games, criticism, resources and support that Short has given the community over the last two decades, we’re running a tribute competition. You have from now until March 24th of 2020 to...

Independent Games Festival 2020

1 game in 2 divisions; award date March 18, 2020

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

Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction

13 games in 3 divisions; award date March 10, 2020

The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction is a quadrennial event showcasing interactive fiction written for the specific purpose of pleasing Ryan Veeder.

French Comp 2020

8 games; award date March 5, 2020

The 13th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Cycle" and "Révolution".

subQjam 2019

8 games; award date January 1, 2020

subQjam is an annual jam about making short interactive story games- fiction, art, or poetry that is enhanced by or can only be presented through interactivity. There's a limit of 1000 words of prose or 9 panels of sequential art. The...

Partim500 - Edition 2019

13 games

La PARTIM 500, 4e édition pour 2019 ! 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...

ECTOCOMP 2019

30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2019

In a dark place. You open your eyes, and you are in a cold, dim, lonely place. Dark purple fog billowing all around. The stone floor has a faint purple glow too. The strange darkness reaches as far as the eye can see. But no, no,...

25th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2019)

82 games in 3 divisions; award date November 17, 2019

An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.

Adventuron Halloween Jam 2019

6 games; award date November 14, 2019

Use Adventuron Classroom to make your own spooky illustrated text adventure game using Adventuron Classroom.

Adventuron CaveJam

11 games; award date October 6, 2019

IntroComp 2019

11 games; award date September 8, 2019

2018 XYZZY Awards

29 games in 12 divisions; award date August 14, 2019

Best Technological Development:...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)

68 games; award date August 2, 2019

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. 50 participants cast a total of 806...

Nouvim 3000 - 2019 edition

7 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...

AdventureJam 2019

6 games; award date July 1, 2019

Six interactive fiction works were entered into this competition, which had a total of 56 entries: "Create an Adventure Game in Two Weeks! For the fifth year in a row, anyone with a computer, an idea, and an internet connection is...

Spring Thing 2019

20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2019

The Spring Thing Interactive Festival is an annual online festival celebrating new works of interactive fiction; it takes place in the Spring, usually April-May. IF fans of all backgrounds are encouraged to enter their new works, or play...

Rayuela de Arena 2019

1 game

Rayuela de Arena es un evento anual que aúna eventos presenciales y online, talleres, ponencias, y jam de juegos narrativos. El tema de la edición 2019 es Realismo Mágico, inspirada por los titanes de la literatura Jorge Luis Borges y...

French Comp 2019

5 games; award date February 24, 2019

The 12th edition of the French Comp. Send your votes before Feb 24th (8pm CET) ; you'll be asked to rate each game in 3 categories : Overall Enjoyment, Writing, and Technical Quality A ribbon is also given to the game that used the theme...

sub-Q Magazine Love Jam 2018

3 games; award date December 31, 2018

subQjam is a jam about making short interactive story games- fiction, art, or poetry that is enhanced by or can only be presented through interactivity. The subject for this jam is LOVE.

EctoComp 2018

30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2018

Frail souls, foolish and blind, unable to see beyond what reason allows you, you deny everything that does not conform faithfully to your pitiful human logic. Here you will find chilling narratives, mournful events between everyday...

24th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2018)

77 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2018

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

Rayuela de Arena 2018

2 games; award date October 1, 2018

El nombre de la jam está inspirado en dos grandes escritores de las letras hispanas que compartían una enorme fascinación por la mitología y la religión. Es por ello que la temática de la gamejam se centrará en los mitos y...

IntroComp 2018

12 games; award date September 8, 2018

2017 XYZZY Awards

23 games in 12 divisions; award date June 4, 2018

The category Best Technological Development had only one nominee: Vorple for Glulx

Spring Thing 2018

20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2018

The 2018 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text games. Participants choose to place their games in either the Main Festival, where...

Independent Games Festival 2018

1 game in 2 divisions; award date March 22, 2018

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 2018

5 games; award date February 25, 2018

The 11th edition of the French Comp. Send your votes before Feb 25th (8pm CET) ; you'll be asked to rate each game in 3 categories : Overall Enjoyment, Writing, and Technical Quality. Use our Google Form to vote, which you can find on...

Eleventh Hour New Year's Minicomp

7 games

Partim500 - Edition 2017

10 games in 2 divisions

La Partim 500, c'est quoi ? C'est une "game jam" durant laquelle vous aurez l'occasion de réaliser une histoire interactive très courte : pas plus de 500 mots !! (sans compter le code, juste l'histoire). Chaque année un thème est...

EctoComp 2017

32 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2017

You shudder, walking through the night breeze. Lights are flickering off in the distance and your chance of reaching safety in time is slimming. A shadow moves swiftly to your left; your gaze darts towards it but it disappears. Suddenly...

23rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2017)

79 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2017

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

Spooktastic number one! A twine jam

1 game; award date October 30, 2017

Good evening, Ghoulies and Gentleghouls! Tonight we embark on a journey of exploration into the deepest and darkest corners of the mind. The world is not as it seems, and spirits haunt the shadows under the moon and stars. Here we will...

IntroComp 2017

11 games; award date September 4, 2017

All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.

Beginner's Game Competition 2017

3 games; award date August 31, 2017

Goal: To create a beginner’s game that will be suitable for IF newcomers and (hopefully) wet their appetite for playing other games, or maybe even create their own. Suggestion: Put yourself in the player’s shoes. This is your first...

Ludum Dare 39

2 games

Ludum Dare is one of the worlds largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, we challenge creators to make a game from scratch in a weekend. (IFDB does not record all Ludum Dare entrants.)

2016 XYZZY Awards

22 games in 12 divisions; award date July 23, 2017

2016 ADRIFT End of the Year Comp.

8 games; award date June 8, 2017

The Rules of engagement are as follows: 1: Game must be written in either Adrift V4 or V5 2. Must be an original work. 3. Must be released in 2016 4. Judging will last a month (or shorter if we only get a few games, or longer if we get...

Nebula Awards 2016

1 game; award date May 20, 2017

The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter...

Spring Thing 2017

22 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2017

Spring Thing is an annual festival celebrating new text-based computer games of all kinds, by all kinds of people. Everyone is welcome! This year, there were twenty-two games, spread across two categories. Authors chose whether to submit...

Independent Games Festival 2017

2 games in 2 divisions; award date March 1, 2017

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

Tent Annual New Year's Minicomp

4 games; award date January 5, 2017

The annual New Year's Minicomp for 2017.

The Year of Adventure

2 games

2016 is the fortieth anniversary year of Crowther and Woods' original Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Colossal Cave Adventure) – possibly the first work of computer interactive fiction. To commemorate this...

Partim500 - Edition 2016

7 games in 2 divisions

C'était sur le thème "Déraison" Les jeux sont disponibles. twitter : #partim500 Une semaine pour réaliser une toute petite aventure de 500 mots, ça devrait aller !! Pourquoi un tel délai ? Pour que tout le monde puisse trouver un...

EctoComp 2016

21 games in 2 divisions; award date December 1, 2016

This year the competition is divided into two parts. La Petite Mort is for games written in three hours or under. Le Grand Guignol is for those who prefer to linger over their masterpieces, or just didn't manage to finish in under three...

22nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2016)

58 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2016

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

IntroComp 2016

7 games; award date September 11, 2016

All IntroComp entrants must submit the beginning of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete and for which the ending is somewhat uncertain.

2015 XYZZY Awards

27 games in 12 divisions; award date May 28, 2016

Spring Thing 2016

17 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2016

Spring Thing is an annual festival celebrating new text-based computer games of all kinds, by all kinds of people. Everyone is welcome! This year, there are seventeen games, spread across two categories. Authors chose whether to submit...

10th IF Grand Prix 2016

4 games; award date May 2, 2016

German language IF competition as announced on Nov 21, 2015 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1375

First Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction

9 games; award date March 14, 2016

The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction is a quadrennial event showcasing interactive fiction written for the specific purpose of pleasing Ryan Veeder. (Note: Not all the entries were released publicly.)

imaginary games jam

16 games

Premise: The authors received a randomized list of five imaginary games created by other participants in the jam. They were to pick one (or more) and make: a sequel, a prequel, a fan fiction, a critical response game, a sidequel, a...

French Comp 2016

4 games; award date February 16, 2016

10th edition of the French Comp ! Send your votes before February 15th; you'll be asked to rate each game in 3 categories : Overall Enjoyment, Writing, and Technical Quality. Use our Google Form to vote, which you can find on our website...

The Neinth annual New Year's Minicomp

7 games; award date January 21, 2016

The annual New Year's Minicomp for 2015.

EctoComp 2015

13 games in 2 divisions; award date December 1, 2015

Annual Halloween-themed SpeedIF. This year the competition is divided into two parts. La Petite Mort is for games written in three hours or under. Le Grand Guignol is for those who prefer to linger over their masterpieces, or just didn't...

Windhammer Prize 2015

1 game; award date November 21, 2015

"It is the intention of the Windhammer Prize to promote the gamebook genre, and in doing so deliver to readers new and original adventures that express the innovation and creativity that can be found in authors of interactive gamebook...

21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2015)

53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2015

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Contest -- 2015

1 game; award date October 31, 2015

Since 1998 Saugus.net has been offering this popular free contest. While it started off fairly local in scope, today we get entries from all over the world, and winners can expect to have their stories read by hundreds of thousands.

WAG Challenge

3 games; award date September 8, 2015

The Write A Game Challenge! A game jam about game writing! The « WAG challenge » is a friendly contest officially supported by the IGDA Game Writing SIG. Entries will be judged on their writing by a jury of pro writers in the video...

IntroComp 2015

6 games; award date August 22, 2015

Bafta Young Game Designer Award 2015

1 game; award date July 27, 2015

http://ygd.bafta.org/ An award for upcoming young game developers

ShuffleComp: Disc 2

17 games; award date May 27, 2015

ShuffleComp is an event for interactive fiction, both parser and hypertext, in which entrants write games based on music tracks. Entrants and other participants submit a list of songs and pseudonyms, and the organizer shuffles up all the...

Ludum Dare 32

1 game in 2 divisions; award date May 12, 2015

Probably the biggest Game Jam available... (IFDB does not record all Ludum Dare entrants.)

Spring Thing 2015

9 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2015

Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, was redesigned this year to make it a space where people working on all kinds of text games can come together to celebrate making, releasing, and playing new stuff. Formerly a "competition"...

9th IF Grand Prix 2015

4 games; award date May 2, 2015

German language IF competition announced on Dec 1, 2014 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1338.

2014 XYZZY Awards

20 games in 12 divisions; award date April 26, 2015

Twiny Jam

42 games; award date April 9, 2015

"Make a tiny Twine (300 words or less)!" There were 239 entrants total. Please feel free to add a few if you have the time...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2015 edition)

50 games; award date March 18, 2015

French Comp 2015

3 games; award date March 16, 2015

9th edition of the semi-regular French Comp. Send your votes before March 15th; you'll be ask to rate each game in 3 categories : Overall Enjoyment, Writing, and Technical Quality.

Independent Games Festival 2015

3 games in 4 divisions; award date March 4, 2015

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

Anyone in the mood for a comp?

2 games

Theme of the game is free (although, in order to stay out of trouble with Miami Vice, let's keep it clean.). Game has to be made using Adrift V.5. Game must not have been published before. Maximum 2 locations. Maximum 1 npc.

ParserComp 2015

14 games in 7 divisions

ParserComp 2015 is a ranked, long-form game jam for parser games only. The full rules are available at the competition website.

The 8th Annual New Year's Interactive Fiction Event

2 games

The traditional New Year's Event celebrates the end of a year and the beginning of another with an informal game jam. There's no judging or scoring, only the pure joy of being creative. Write a game, story or make anything else following...

Ludum Dare 31

1 game in 6 divisions; award date December 29, 2014

Global game design competition with the stipulation that games must be created from scratch in 48 hours. An extra day is allowed for a second category, "Jam" games which have relaxed rules. (IFDB does not record all Ludum Dare entrants.)

EctoComp 2014

19 games; award date November 24, 2014

Annual Halloween-themed SpeedIF

20th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2014)

42 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2014

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

IntroComp 2014

10 games; award date September 7, 2014

ShuffleComp 2014

33 games; award date June 1, 2014

A minicomp in which participants submit songs, have them shuffled up, receive a list in return, and write games inspired by one or more of the songs they receive. Planning thread 2014 signup thread

Ludum Dare 29

6 games in 8 divisions; award date May 19, 2014

Ludum Dare is an Online Game Jam event where people from around the world create a game in a weekend. It is divided into two parts: The Competition: the familiar “make a game in 48 hours solo competition” that Ludum Dare is known...

Spring Thing 2014

10 games; award date May 12, 2014

The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

8th IF Grand Prix 2014

4 games; award date May 2, 2014

German language IF competition announced on Dec 10, 2013 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1267. Voting results from May 1, 2014: http://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2014-ergebnisse.html

2013 XYZZY Awards

25 games in 12 divisions; award date April 6, 2014

French Comp 2013

4 games; award date February 2, 2014

8th edition of the semi-regular French Comp. Send your votes by Feb 2nd midnight(ish) to ifictionfr at gmail dot com. Votes must have 3 notes, out of 10 (10 being the best): one for Overall Enjoyment, one for Writing and one for...

7th Annual New Year's Minicomp

5 games

Hi! Look at the time, it's my pleasure to announce the 7th annual New Year's Minicomp! For those unfamiliar with this, a short explanation as to the motivation behind it. It's meant to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF...

Ectocomp 2013

25 games; award date December 1, 2013

Participants have three hours to write a Halloween-themed game.

19th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2013)

35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2013

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

IntroComp 2013

7 games; award date August 18, 2013

Questcomp 2013

2 games; award date July 17, 2013

Questcomp 2013 was the first IF Competition open exclusively to games created with Quest.

The Andromeda Legacy Competition (2nd annual)

1 game; award date July 16, 2013

The 2nd annual Andromeda Legacy competition.

2012 XYZZY Awards

21 games in 11 divisions; award date May 11, 2013

Spring Thing 2013

3 games; award date April 29, 2013

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