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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)

2 games; 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

Ludum Dare 25

1 game; award date January 7, 2013

The ultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF

5 games

THE ULTIMATE NOT NUMBERED NEW YEAR'S SPEED IF (Yes, I do realize it has become more of a Minicomp. Deal with it.) For those unfamiliar with this, the motivation behind it is to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF at the...

2012 Hugo Comp

6 games

EctoComp 2012

6 games; award date November 21, 2012

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.

ADRIFT 5 Intro Comp 2012

2 games; award date September 30, 2012

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

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

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

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