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18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2012)

28 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2012

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

The V.5 has been out for quite a while now, and although there are some issues I believe that it’s good enough to use for writing a game. And since things have been quiet around here for too long now, I have decided to stir up the...

Ludum Dare 24

1 game; award date September 17, 2012

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.)

IntroComp 2012

6 games; award date August 26, 2012

The Andromeda Legacy Competition

2 games; award date July 13, 2012

The Andromeda Legacy™: The Expansion of a Shrinking Universe First Annual IF Competition, Ed. 2012 https://intfiction.org/t/the-andromeda-legacy-a-competition-with-prizes/12586

Cover Stories

11 games

Cover Stories was a game jam / minicomp for artists and creators of interactive fiction. In the first stage, artists created or sourced images that they thought would make good covers for an IF game; in the second, authors chose covers...

Spring Thing 2012

4 games; award date May 7, 2012

French Comp 2011

6 games; award date April 22, 2012

7th edition (6th was cancelled) of the semi-regular French IF Comp.

2011 XYZZY Awards

25 games in 13 divisions; award date March 4, 2012

1st Annual Herbstlaub Competition

2 games; award date January 5, 2012

Like Spring Thing in the english speaking world, Herbstlaub is a competiton for longer, more ambitious works.

The penultimate not numbered Speed IF

11 games

Another good year for IF draws to a close. So it's time for another New Year's Speed! The motivation behind it is to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF at the end of the year. Traditionally, the rules have been very...

Ectocomp 2011

10 games; award date December 2, 2011

The 5th annual Hallowe'en speed-IF competition. Entries are all written in 3 hours or less. Traditionally an ADRIFT-only event, 2011 is notable for being the first Ectocomp to allow non-ADRIFT entries.

Thanksgiving Speed-IF

6 games

A speed-IF! A veritable feast! Using the following inventory items, based on a list of photographed items from Grocible's book-in-progress: a top hat. a dragonfly*. a small crystal ball. two optical prisms. a water pistol. a magnifying...

17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2011)

38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2011

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

Saugus.net Halloween Ghost Story Contest -- 2011

1 game; award date October 31, 2011

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.

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2011 edition)

48 games; award date October 1, 2011

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. 35 participants cast a total of 437...

IntroComp 2011

13 games; award date July 23, 2011

@party competition 2011

1 game; award date June 19, 2011

An interactive fiction competition at @party 2011, a computer art festival in Harvard, Massachusetts, USA.

Spring Thing 2011

6 games; award date May 16, 2011

The Challenge

3 games; award date May 5, 2011

An ADRIFT-only competition for games featuring: * 1 secret passage * 2 endings * 3 ways of dying * 3 NPCs * 5 objects essential for solving the game * 8 rooms

Textfire Grand Prix 2011

4 games; award date May 2, 2011

PAX East 2011 Speed-IF

9 games

The seventy-first Speed-IF, with no particular name, took place at PAX East 2011 in Boston on March 12th, 2011. The organizer was David Cornelson. Topics were chosen via a madlibs in the early afternoon. Authors had until 10:30pm to send...

2010 XYZZY Awards

20 games in 12 divisions; award date February 26, 2011

Ectocomp 2010

8 games; award date December 7, 2010

The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. "The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird fiction, spine-chilling tales, pulp magazine stories,...

16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2010)

26 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2010

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

InsideADRIFT Summer Competition 2010

6 games; award date August 22, 2010

InsideADRIFT Summer Competition 2010 was a competition for previously unreleased ADRIFT games, organized by Ken Franklin.

IntroComp 2010

9 games; award date August 14, 2010

@party Interactive Fiction Competition 2010

2 games

A competition of games written for the 2010 @party demoparty, judged by its attendees.

2nd Annual Metafilter Interactive Fiction Contest

3 games; award date June 1, 2010

Administered by Metafilter user Deathalicious, the Metafilter competition centered on creating a game in a single month and submitting it for peer review. The 2010 competition received three entries.

2010 Spring Ting

2 games

The 2010 Spring ting was an ADRIFT competition organized by Po. Prune. The submission deadline was May 31, 2010. The voting deadline was June 30, 2010. Only non-registered users of ADRIFT could submit games. The prize for the winner was...

PAX East 2010 Speed-IF

11 games

Also known as PAX East Speed-IF, the sixty-eighth Speed-IF ran live on Saturday, March 27th, 1:30pm to 2:30 pm, in the IF Suite at PAX East 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. The organizer was David A. Cornelson. Entries from off-site were...

2009 XYZZY Awards

14 games in 10 divisions; award date March 20, 2010

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7

30 games; award date February 22, 2010

We are pleased to announce a very special Casual Gameplay Design Competition, one focused entirely on interactive fiction! For CGDC #7, we're calling on IF authors to craft one-room games incorporating the theme "escape". It's text-only...

The Even Competition

3 games; award date February 22, 2010

The Even Competition (a.k.a. EvenComp) is a competition for ADRIFT games. Dates Submission deadline: December 10, 2009. Voting deadline: January 10, 2010 (or once the poll reaches 10 votes, whichever comes last). Results were announced...

InsideADRIFT Awards 2009

7 games in 3 divisions

The 2009 InsideADRIFT Awards were organized by Duncan Bowsman. The voting deadline was January 22, 2010.

GameplayComp

1 game; award date November 20, 2009

The aim of GameplayComp is to create a game which explores non-traditional forms of gameplay while still remaining IF.

Ectocomp 2009

3 games; award date November 17, 2009

The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. "Ectocomp is a Speed IF Competition for Hallowe'en. Entries can be darn near anything (they don't always turn out to be horror,...

15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2009)

24 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2009

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

Saugus.net Halloween Contest 2009

3 games; award date October 31, 2009

A yearly Halloween contest for ghost stories. It has been open to interactive fiction entries since 2002, but none were submitted until 2009.

IntroComp 2009

3 games; award date September 19, 2009

Speed-IF 11th Anniversary

1 game

Write a game with the number 11, teaching, a dishwasher, steam, teleportation, a Marvel character, tossing fish, a long distance relationship, and something about one hour. Go! (from ifwiki.org)

ADRIFT IntroComp 2009

4 games; award date June 15, 2009

The ADRIFT IntroComp 2009 was a competition (organized by Ken Franklin) for ADRIFT games which are just introductions using no more than 3 locations. Judging was via a forum poll where the games could be discussed.

Spring Thing 2009

4 games; award date April 28, 2009

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...

Spring ting

3 games

The Spring ting was an ADRIFT competition. The submission deadline was April 1, 2009, 23:59 GMT. Only non-registered users of ADRIFT could submit games. The prize for the winner (and also, if there had been five or more entries, for the...

2008 XYZZY Awards

11 games in 10 divisions; award date March 14, 2009

French Comp 2009

3 games; award date February 9, 2009

5th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp

French Comp 2008

5 games; award date December 16, 2008

4th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp.

14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2008)

35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2008

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

ECTOCOMP 2008

7 games

The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. ULES: * The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird fiction, spine-chilling tales, pulp magazine...

The Odd Competition

10 games

The Odd Competition is a competition for ADRIFT games, organized by Abbi Park a.k.a. "alsnpk". For this competition, authors need to pair up each one of these numbers: 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11, with one of these: rooms, objects, tasks, events,...

IntroComp 2008

6 games; award date September 7, 2008

InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2008

5 games; award date July 31, 2008

A competition for any unreleased, but complete, ADRIFT games, organized by Ken Franklin.

2008 AIF Minicomp

1 game; award date July 2, 2008

The AIF Minicomp is an annual competition for small AIF games.

The Comp With No Name 2008

3 games

The Comp With No Name 2008 was an ADRIFT competition organized by Cowboy. The submission deadline was by June 1, 2008 (that is, the end of May 2008, UK time). Only non-registered users of ADRIFT could submit games. The prize was a free...

Spring Thing 2008

3 games; award date May 6, 2008

2007 XYZZY Awards

16 games in 10 divisions; award date March 9, 2008

French Comp 2007

5 games; award date February 17, 2008

The third annual competition for IF games in French.

Text the Halls

6 games; award date January 3, 2008

A two-week competition hosted by TIGSource that ran in December 2007, with the themes "Winter" and/or "the Holidays/Christmas."

InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2007

6 games; award date December 30, 2007

This is a competition for any game made using ADRIFT that was either released during the calendar year 2007 or has not been previously released. The winners of mainstream ADRIFT competitions (eg: Ectocomp 2007) will automatically be...

One Room Game Competition 2007

9 games; award date December 23, 2007

Nine games in contest: 4 in italian, 5 in english. Authors: thanks very much to all, guys.

13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2007)

27 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2007

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

ECTOCOMP 2007

4 games

The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. Here are the rules: * The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird fiction, spine-chilling tales,...

IntroComp 2007

7 games; award date August 26, 2007

2007 IF Art Show

3 games in 3 divisions; award date May 31, 2007

A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery/rooms (Landscape division), NPCs (Portrait division), or activities (Event division).

Spring Thing 2007

4 games; award date April 26, 2007

2006 XYZZY Awards

21 games in 10 divisions; award date March 4, 2007

InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2006

6 games; award date December 31, 2006

This is a competition for any game made using ADRIFT that was either released during the calendar year 2006 or has not been previously released. The winners of mainstream ADRIFT competitions (eg: InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006, ADRIFT...

French Comp 2006

4 games; award date December 29, 2006

Second edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp

12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2006)

43 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2006

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

ADRIFT Hourglass Comp 2006

13 games

The Hourglass Competition, a.k.a. the 3rd Three Hour Games Competition, is a minicomp for new ADRIFT games written in three hours or less. Original voting deadline: 26th August 2006 and was extended to 31st August 2006. Organizer:...

IntroComp 2006

7 games; award date August 6, 2006

InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006

3 games; award date July 21, 2006

InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006 for unreleased games created in ADRIFT. The deadline was June 30th, 2006. This date was earlier to reduce possible scheduling conflicts with Spring Thing and IF Comp. The voting deadline was 21st July 2006....

Spring Thing 2006

4 games; award date April 24, 2006

ADRIFT Writing Challenges Comp

4 games; award date April 1, 2006

The Writing Challenges Comp was open for any unreleased Adrift game based on one of five given locations. The game should have no more than ten rooms as defined in the ADRIFT Generator. Competition entries are to be in by 18th March 2006...

2005 XYZZY Awards

18 games in 10 divisions; award date March 12, 2006

InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp 2005

12 games

InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp 2005 a.k.a. InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2005 was for both new Adrift games and any Adrift game released during the 2005 calendar year. The submission deadline was: December 18th, 2005. The voting...

11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2005)

36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2005

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

French Comp 2005

5 games; award date October 26, 2005

The first annual competition for IF games in French.

Finish The Game Comp 2005

5 games; award date October 15, 2005

The object was to take the supplied incomplete game which has just six rooms (in Adrift v4.0 or v3.9) and turn it into a finished game. Items, NPCs, exits, etc, could be added to them but nothing could be taken away. Although you could...

InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2005

5 games; award date August 28, 2005

The InsideADRIFT Summer Competition was open for any unreleased, but complete, Adrift games. Competition entries were to be in by 21 August 2005 with judging taking place in the following week. The voting deadline was 1500 GMT, Sunday,...

IntroComp 2005

7 games; award date August 7, 2005

ADRIFT Intro Comp 2005

8 games

The challenge is to come up with a brilliant beginning to an Adrift game that is in a working playable form. This must really make the player want to actually continue with the rest of the game, if it existed. So, it is a competition for...

Spring Thing 2005

6 games; award date May 2, 2005

InsideADRIFT Spring Comp 2005

5 games; award date May 1, 2005

The InsideADRIFT Spring Competition was open for any unreleased, but complete, Adrift games. Competition entries were to be in by 17 April 2005 with judging taking place in the following 2 weeks. The voting deadline was 1500 GMT, Sunday,...

2004 XYZZY Awards

17 games in 10 divisions; award date March 20, 2005

InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp 2004

6 games

InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp 2004 a.k.a. InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2004 was for both new Adrift games and any Adrift game released during the 2004 calendar year. The submission deadline was: December 19th, 2004.

Commodore 32 Contest

6 games; award date December 15, 2004

The Commodore 32 Contest was run in 2004 by Dave Bernazzani, who challenged authors to enter Z-Code games whose story files were no larger than 32K in size. (Note that there is no Commodore 32 machine that runs Z-Code; that was just part...

ADRIFT 2nd Three Hour Comp 2004

6 games

To create a previously unreleased ADRIFT game in three hours (or less).

10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2004)

36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2004

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

ADRIFT Summer Comp 2004

6 games

Rules for this competition Time limited. The game is must be written during the period 15-22 August 2004. To ensure compliance there will be required first and completion line for the game, as well as a compulsory object to be announced...

IntroComp 2004

7 games; award date August 3, 2004

ADRIFT 1st Three Hour Comp 2004

7 games

The 1st Three Hour Comp July 2004. For previously unreleased ADRIFT games written in under three hours.

2004 IF Art Show

5 games in 3 divisions; award date June 9, 2004

ADRIFT Spring Comp 2004

4 games

A competition for new complete unreleased ADRIFT games. Took place during April 2004.

2003 XYZZY Awards

15 games in 10 divisions; award date March 2, 2004

ADRIFT 4th One Hour Comp 2004

16 games

To create a game in ADRIFT in only one hour (or less. ADRIFT 4th One Hour Comp 2004 Download

ADRIFT End Of Year Comp 2003

6 games; award date December 31, 2003

ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2003 was for any ADRIFT game released during 2003.

9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2003)

30 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2003

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

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