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@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,...