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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...
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
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...
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 ever...
Introcomp 2017
11 games
All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.
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...
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...
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 anniversary...
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.
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...