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ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction celebrating the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...
26 gamesThe Bare-Bones Jam Games Stripped to the Bone Have you ever wanted to create a game, but felt overwhelmed by the visual aspects? Or wished you didn't need to edit the UI? This jam is for you! The Bare-Bones Jam is a month-long game jam...
23 games; award date October 4, 2023The inkJam is an annual community organized jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink. When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday, October 20th, 9PM CEST. Who can enter? Everyone is more than welcome, either alone...
4 games; award date September 16, 2023Ce concours Moiki consiste à écrire une mini fiction interactive - en français uniquement ! Thème et contraintes Pour cette quatrième édition le thème retenu est : Le calme avant la tempête Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme bon...
70 games; award date September 15, 20237 games; award date September 11, 2023IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product.
46 games16 games in 2 divisions; award date August 3, 2023ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text. This is the 4th ParserComp. Hosted on itch.io. This year, works are...
9 games; award date July 1, 2023This is the third annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must include an in-game tutorial....
124 gamesCreate a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in 500 words or less! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Twiny Jam, where creators were limited to making twine games with less than 300 words. Constraints and Rules: You are limited to... 3 gamesLa NOUVIM 3000, 5e 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 d'autres...
1 game; award date May 29, 2023Arcjam is a game design event where you use Arcweave to design and publish a short game in 72 hours. The term “game” is to be taken in the most general sense, meaning any kind of interactive experience, story, puzzle, graphic novel, et... 26 games in 2 divisions; award date May 16, 2023Spring Thing, also known as the Autumnal Jumble, 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...
8 gamesCréez une histoire interactive francophone à dominante textuelle ! (pouvant contenir quelques décorations visuelles ou sonores) Il peut s'agir : - d'une fiction interactive à analyseur syntaxique / parser (comme Zork, etc.) ; - d'une...
4 games; award date May 2, 2023German language IF competition as announced on Nov 30, 2022 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1288 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023.html https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023-ergebnisse.html
9 games; award date March 13, 2023This is a jam where you write a text adventure using PunyInform. THEME: The game must start in or at an airlock.
25 games in 5 divisions; award date March 2, 2023The 16th Edition of the French Comp. That year, the themes were "Trahison" (treason) and "Archive".
18 games in 10 divisionsSeedComp! is a 2-round interactive fiction game jam, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas. Join our Discord! SeedComp! is separated into 2 distinct rounds: Planting and Sprouting. You can take part in either or both. The first...
39 games in 52 divisions; award date February 18, 2023The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and take the form...
10 gamesSERVEUR DISCORD FRANCOPHONE : https://discord.gg/vrmGavw 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...
10 gamesA game jam about "the greatest mafia movie never made". Goncharov is a film that might or might not exist. In one universe, it is a 1973 film about the Naples Mafia, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Matteo JWHJ0715, and produced...
48 games in 6 divisions; award date November 20, 2022ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...
71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 20221 gameThey know you abandoned them, and they're back for revenge. Maybe it's a project you have long-since forgotten. Maybe it's a half-finished experiment gathering dust in your lab. Maybe it's an idea that haunts your dreams. Maybe it's a...
19 games; award date September 17, 2022Welcome to the fifth edition of inkJam! The inkJam is an annual community organised jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink. What's the theme? Incredible, yet... When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday,...
20 games; award date July 30, 20223rd ParserComp (2021 and 2015 previously.) Hosted on itch.io.
7 gamesThis 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...
16 games; award date May 22, 2022The Text Adventure Literacy Jam is a parser-based text adventure authoring competition that challenges entrants to "Create a parser-based TEXT ADVENTURE or INTERACTIVE FICTION game suitable for players with no prior experience".
47 games in 2 divisions; award date May 10, 2022Spring Thing, also known as the Autumnal Jumble, 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...
6 games; award date May 2, 2022German language IF competition as announced on Nov 25, 2021 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1269
10 games in 4 divisions; award date February 28, 2022The 15th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Reflet" ("reflection") and "Masque" ("mask").
1 game; award date February 3, 2022Have you ever wanted to make your own Vampire: The Masquerade video game and share it with the world? Here’s your chance! To celebrate the finale of Month of Darkness, we’re opening our Dark Pack Agreement for exactly 1 month to allow...
24 games in 12 divisionsBest Technological Development:...
5 games1. 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 réalisées avec d'autres outils), ou...
3 games; award date December 6, 2021A jam where you write a text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you haven't heard of PunyInform before, the fastest way to get started is probably by reading the articles and tutorials which are linked on the PunyInform page....
34 games in 4 divisions; award date November 26, 2021ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...
71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 20, 202129 games in 12 divisions; award date October 8, 2021Best Technological Development:...
4 games; award date September 1, 202118 games; award date August 2, 2021An annual IF/Text Adventure competition with a focus on text input & output (parser) games. Graphics are allowed, sounds are allowed, clickable words are allowed, but the core method of control should be a keyboard (or voice if it...
6 gamesLa NOUVIM 3000, 3e 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 d'autres...
1 game; award date June 5, 2021The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, full 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...
3 games; award date May 19, 2021Basic rules: Game has to be made using Adrift. Game must not have been published before. Genre: Your own choice (no adult theme, though) Then: Maximum 5 rooms. Must have dynamic objects. At least ONE npc with a conversation tree. Must...
9 games; award date May 18, 2021This was a text adventure jam where all the games had to be written using Inform 6 and the PunyInform library. The first room (the broom closet) was provided and could not be changed. Everything else was open slather. 9 April 2021: Theme...
38 games in 2 divisions; award date May 10, 2021Spring 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...
10 games in 2 divisions; award date May 4, 2021The Text Adventure Literacy Jam is a parser-based text adventure authoring competition that challenges entrants to "Create a TEXT ADVENTURE game suitable for children with no prior experience.".
7 games; award date May 4, 2021Spanish version of the concurrently running English-language Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2021.
11 gamesThe Cryptex Jam is a game jam where a graphical text adventure game is created using the Adventuron development platform. The game itself may or may not feature a Cryptex® Security Box by Justin Nevins. Games will have puzzles similar to...
10 games; award date February 22, 2021The 14th edition of the French Comp. Send your votes before Feb 22th (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...
12 games; award date January 17, 2021Make a Christmas-themed TEXT ADVENTURE game using Adventuron with at least 4 puzzles, and 4 graphics.
6 games1. 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 réalisées avec d'autres outils), ou...
103 games in 2 divisions; award date December 5, 202022 games in 4 divisions; award date November 16, 2020ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...
2 games; award date October 31, 2020Since 1998 Saugus.net has been offering this popular free contest. While it started off fairly local in scope, now entries come from all over the world, and winners can expect to have their stories read by hundreds of thousands.
30 games in 12 divisions; award date September 30, 2020Best Technological Development:...
2 games; award date September 15, 2020In 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...
15 games; award date September 5, 2020All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.
5 gamesLa 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 d'autres...
7 games; award date July 23, 2020Use your browser to develop a text adventure in Adventuron with vibrant location graphics. Optionally target ZX Spectrum Next or ZX Spectrum +3.
5 gamesNarraScope 2020 Game Jam is an unranked game jam, overlapping with the NarraScope 2020 Online Conference. The theme for the jam is Growth.
6 games; award date June 5, 2020AdventureJam 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...
21 games in 3 divisions; award date May 3, 2020Spring 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...
16 games; award date April 7, 2020This was the third Adventuron jam. The challenge was to build an old-school treasure hunt text adventure game with no graphics and minimal text.
9 games; award date April 3, 20202019 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...
2 games; award date April 3, 2020To 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 create...
13 games in 3 divisions; award date March 10, 2020The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction is a quadrennial event showcasing interactive fiction written for the specific purpose of pleasing Ryan Veeder.
8 games; award date March 5, 2020The 13th edition of the French Comp. The themes this year were "Cycle" and "Révolution".
7 games; award date January 1, 2020subQjam 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...
13 gamesLa 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...
30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2019In 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,...
82 games in 3 divisions; award date November 17, 2019An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
6 games; award date November 14, 2019Use Adventuron Classroom to make your own spooky illustrated text adventure game using Adventuron Classroom.
11 games; award date October 6, 201929 games in 12 divisions; award date August 14, 2019Best Technological Development:...
68 games; award date August 2, 20197 gamesThis 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...
6 games; award date July 1, 2019Six 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...
20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2019The 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...
1 gameRayuela 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...
5 games; award date February 24, 2019The 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...
3 games; award date December 31, 2018subQjam 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.
30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2018Frail 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...
77 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2018The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
2 games; award date October 1, 2018El 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 religiones. Ya...
23 games in 12 divisions; award date June 4, 2018The category Best Technological Development had only one nominee: Vorple for Glulx 20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2018The 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...
5 games; award date February 25, 2018The 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...
7 games10 games in 2 divisionsLa 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...
32 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2017You 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...
79 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2017The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
1 game; award date October 30, 2017Good 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...
3 games; award date August 31, 2017Goal: 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...
11 gamesAll IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.
22 games in 12 divisions; award date July 23, 20178 games; award date June 8, 2017The 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...
1 game; award date May 20, 2017The 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...
22 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2017Spring 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...
2 games2016 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...
7 games in 2 divisionsC'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 moment...
21 games in 2 divisions; award date December 1, 2016This 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...
58 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2016The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
7 games; award date September 11, 2016All 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.
27 games in 12 divisions; award date May 28, 201617 games in 2 divisions; award date May 8, 2016Spring 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...
4 games; award date May 2, 2016German language IF competition as announced on Nov 21, 2015 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1375
9 games; award date March 14, 2016The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction is a quadrennial event showcasing interactive fiction written for the specific purpose of pleasing Ryan Veeder.
16 gamesPremise: 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...
4 games; award date February 16, 201610th 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...
7 games; award date January 21, 2016The annual New Year's Minicomp for 2015.
4 games; award date January 15, 2016The annual New Year's Minicomp for 2017.
13 games in 2 divisions; award date December 1, 2015Annual 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...
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...
53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2015The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
1 game; award date October 31, 2015Since 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.
3 games; award date September 8, 2015The 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 game...
1 game; award date July 27, 2015http://ygd.bafta.org/ An award for upcoming young game developers
17 games; award date May 27, 2015ShuffleComp 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...
1 game in 2 divisions; award date May 12, 2015Probably the biggest Game Jam available...
9 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2015Spring 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"...
4 games; award date May 2, 2015German language IF competition announced on Dec 1, 2014 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1338.
20 games in 12 divisions; award date April 26, 201542 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...
50 games; award date March 18, 2015People 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. 38 participants cast a total of 593...
3 games; award date March 16, 20159th 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.
2 gamesTheme 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.
14 games in 7 divisionsParserComp 2015 is a ranked, long-form game jam for parser games only. The full rules are available at the competition website.
2 gamesThe 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...
1 game in 6 divisions; award date December 29, 2014Global 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.
19 games; award date November 24, 2014Annual Halloween-themed SpeedIF
42 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2014The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
2 games; award date September 7, 201433 games; award date June 1, 2014A 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 6 games in 8 divisions; award date May 19, 2014Ludum 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 for....
10 games; award date May 12, 2014The 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...
4 games; award date May 2, 2014German 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
25 games in 12 divisions; award date April 6, 20144 games; award date February 2, 20148th 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...
5 gamesHi! 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...
25 games; award date December 1, 2013Participants have three hours to write a Halloween-themed game.
35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2013The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
7 games; award date August 18, 20132 games; award date July 17, 2013Questcomp 2013 was the first IF Competition open exclusively to games created with Quest.
1 game; award date July 16, 2013The 2nd annual Andromeda Legacy competition.
21 games in 11 divisions; award date May 11, 20133 games; award date April 29, 2013The 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...
1 game; award date January 7, 2013Global 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.
5 gamesTHE 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...
6 games6 games; award date November 21, 201228 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2012The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.
2 games; award date September 30, 2012The 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 waters...
1 game; award date September 17, 2012Global 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.
2 games; award date July 13, 201211 gamesCover 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...
4 games; award date May 7, 20126 games; award date April 22, 20127th edition (6th was cancelled) of the semi-regular French IF Comp.
25 games in 13 divisions; award date March 4, 20122 games; award date January 5, 2012Like Spring Thing in the english speaking world, Herbstlaub is a competiton for longer, more ambitious works.
11 gamesAnother 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...
11 gamesAlso 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...
14 games in 10 divisions; award date March 20, 201030 games; award date February 22, 2010We 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...
3 games; award date February 22, 2010The 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...
7 games in 3 divisionsThe 2009 InsideADRIFT Awards were organized by Duncan Bowsman. The voting deadline was January 22, 2010.
1 game; award date November 20, 2009The aim of GameplayComp is to create a game which explores non-traditional forms of gameplay while still remaining IF.
3 games; award date November 17, 2009The 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,...
24 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2009The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
3 games; award date October 31, 2009A yearly Halloween contest for ghost stories. It has been open to interactive fiction entries since 2002, but none were submitted until 2009.
3 games; award date September 19, 20091 gameWrite 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)
4 games; award date June 15, 2009The 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.
4 games; award date April 28, 2009The 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...
3 gamesThe 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...
11 games in 10 divisions; award date March 14, 20093 games; award date February 9, 20095th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp
5 games; award date December 16, 20084th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp.
35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2008The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
7 gamesThe 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...
10 gamesThe 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,...
5 games; award date July 31, 2008A competition for any unreleased, but complete, ADRIFT games, organized by Ken Franklin.
1 game; award date July 2, 2008The AIF Minicomp is an annual competition for small AIF games.
3 gamesThe 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...
3 games; award date May 6, 2008The 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...
16 games in 10 divisions; award date March 9, 20085 games; award date February 17, 2008The third annual competition for IF games in French.
6 games; award date December 30, 2007This 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...
9 games; award date December 23, 2007Nine games in contest: 4 in italian, 5 in english. Authors: thanks very much to all, guys.
27 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2007The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
4 gamesThe 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,...
3 games in 3 divisions; award date May 31, 2007A 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).
4 games; award date April 26, 2007The 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...
21 games in 10 divisions; award date March 4, 20076 games; award date December 31, 2006This 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...
4 games; award date December 29, 2006Second edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp
43 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2006The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
13 gamesThe 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:...
3 games; award date July 21, 2006InsideADRIFT 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....
4 games; award date April 24, 2006The 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...
4 games; award date April 1, 2006The Wrting 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...
18 games in 10 divisions; award date March 12, 200612 gamesInsideADRIFT 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...
36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2005The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
5 games; award date October 26, 2005The first annual competition for IF games in French.
5 games; award date October 15, 2005The 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...
5 games; award date August 28, 2005The 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,...
8 gamesThe 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...
6 games; award date May 2, 2005The 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...
5 games; award date May 1, 2005The 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,...
17 games in 10 divisions; award date March 20, 20056 gamesInsideADRIFT 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.
6 games; award date December 15, 2004The 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...
6 gamesTo create a previously unreleased ADRIFT game in three hours (or less).
36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2004The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
6 gamesRules 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...
7 gamesThe 1st Three Hour Comp July 2004. For previously unreleased ADRIFT games written in under three hours.
5 games in 3 divisions; award date June 9, 2004A 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).
4 gamesA competition for new complete unreleased ADRIFT games. Took place during April 2004.
15 games in 10 divisions; award date March 2, 200416 games6 games; award date December 31, 2003ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2003 was for any ADRIFT game released during 2003.
30 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2003The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
1 game; award date October 31, 2003A yearly Halloween contest for ghost stories that started in 1998. This was the second year in which it accepted interactive fiction stories.
13 gamesTo create a game in ADRIFT in only one hour (or less).
5 gamesAll games must be written using Adrift 4.0 There is a limit of 20 rooms (as in rooms in the Adrift generator). It is always possible to make one room seem like many.
6 games in 3 divisions; award date May 3, 2003A 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).
4 games; award date April 22, 2003The 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...
3 gamesThe Adrift Spring Competition is open for any unreleased, but complete, Adrift games. Competition entries must be in by 20 April 2003, with judging taking place in the following week.
7 gamesCreate an ADRIFT game which consists of one location only.
19 games in 10 divisions; award date February 3, 20033 gamesTo create a game in ADRIFT in only one hour (or less).
6 games; award date December 31, 2002ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2002 was for any ADRIFT game released during 2002.
38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2002The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
1 game; award date October 31, 2002A yearly Halloween contest for ghost stories that started in 1998. This was the first year that it accepted interactive fiction entries.
10 games; award date September 23, 2002A countdown of the best IF released between 1995 and 2002, intended to be useful to IF newcomers.
2 games; award date August 25, 2002ADRIFT Summer Comp 2002 also called the Adrift Summer Minicomp ran during August 2002. The organizer was Ken Franklin. The submission deadline was 16:00 GMT on Sunday 18 August 2002. Judging ended at 16:00 GMT on Sunday 25 August 2002.
1 game; award date June 2, 2002The 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...
20 games in 10 divisions; award date March 9, 20029 gamesTo create a game using Adrift in only one hour (or less). No voting took place for this competition.
51 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2001The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
2 games; award date August 28, 2001The ADRIFT Summer Competition was open for any unreleased, but complete, Adrift games. Competition entries were to be in by 21 August 2001 with judging taking place in the following week. The voting deadline was 28th August, 2001.
3 games; award date May 1, 2001A competition for new complete unreleased ADRIFT games. Judging took place in the 2 week period to 2 May 2001.
4 games in 2 divisions; award date April 17, 2001A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).
22 games in 10 divisions; award date March 11, 200153 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2000The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
7 gamesThe premise is to write a short game about one or more dragons and make it as funny as possible.
8 games in 4 divisions; award date April 2, 2000A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).
17 games in 10 divisions; award date February 12, 200037 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1999The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
2 games; award date September 8, 1999A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).
3 games in 2 divisions; award date May 7, 1999A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).
14 games in 10 divisions; award date February 6, 199927 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1998The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
19 gamesA minicomp for tiny games where the theme is A CHICKEN CROSSING A ROAD. Games were released on 18-Jun-1998.
19 games in 10 divisions; award date February 5, 199834 games; award date January 10, 1998The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
17 games in 8 divisions; award date February 8, 199726 games; award date December 2, 1996The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
12 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1995The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.
11 games; award date March 5, 19921 gameThe Niels Klim award is an annual Danish Science Fiction award.
1 game1 gameNick's Dilemma was selected to be showcased at the 2017 annual Association of Educational and Communications Technology Design and Development Showcase in Jacksonville, Florida.
2 gamesThe Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference.
2 gamesThe IndieCade Festival is the premiere event dedicated to celebrating independent games in the nation. Now in its 10th year, IndieCade is held each October in the Los Angeles area and is open to the industry and to the public.
6 games6 games11 games1 game1 gameThe theme for Ludum Dare 35 is "shapeshift"
2 gamesLudum 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.
3 games1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? 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 réalisées avec d'autres outils), ou éventuellement des...
1 gameThis is a ~1 month game-making marathon for anyone who'd like to make a game with the theme, with any game-making tool they like(as long as it's playable on windows, web or mac in some form).
16 gamesGame jam for creating tiny utopias. Free for all, no opening or closing date.