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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...
10 games; award date December 2, 2011The 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.
6 gamesA 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...
38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2011The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
1 game; award date October 31, 2011Since 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.
48 games; award date October 1, 2011People 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...
1 game; award date July 23, 20111 game; award date June 19, 2011An interactive fiction competition at @party 2011, a computer art festival in Harvard, Massachusetts, USA.
6 games; award date May 16, 20113 games; award date May 5, 2011An 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
4 games; award date May 2, 20119 gamesThe 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...
20 games in 12 divisions; award date February 26, 20118 games; award date December 7, 2010The 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,...
26 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2010The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
6 games; award date August 22, 2010InsideADRIFT Summer Competition 2010 was a competition for previously unreleased ADRIFT games, organized by Ken Franklin.
9 games; award date August 14, 20102 gamesA competition of games written for the 2010 @party demoparty, judged by its attendees.
3 games; award date June 1, 2010Administered 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.
2 gamesThe 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...