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10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2004)

36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2004

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2005)

36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2005

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2015)

53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2015

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

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.

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.

24th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2018)

77 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2018

The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

25th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2019)

82 games in 3 divisions; award date November 17, 2019

An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.

26th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2020)

103 games in 2 divisions; award date December 5, 2020

27th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2021)

71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 20, 2021

28th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2022)

71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 2022

29th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2023)

75 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 2023

2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)

27 games in 2 divisions; award date December 2, 1996

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2024)

67 games in 3 divisions; award date October 19, 2024

31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025)

85 games in 3 divisions; award date October 18, 2025

3rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1997)

34 games; award date January 10, 1998

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

4th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1998)

27 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1998

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1999)

37 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1999

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2000)

53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2000

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

7th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2001)

51 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2001

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

8th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2002)

38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2002

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2003)

30 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2003

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

First Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1995)

12 games in 2 divisions; award date October 4, 1995

The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

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.

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...

EctoComp 2018

30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2018

Frail 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...

ECTOCOMP 2019

30 games in 4 divisions; award date December 1, 2019

In 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,...

ECTOCOMP 2020

22 games in 4 divisions; award date November 16, 2020

ECTOCOMP 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...

ECTOCOMP 2021

34 games in 4 divisions; award date November 26, 2021

ECTOCOMP 2022

48 games in 6 divisions; award date November 20, 2022

ECTOCOMP 2023

48 games in 6 divisions; award date December 1, 2023

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...

ECTOCOMP 2024

48 games in 6 divisions; award date December 2, 2024

ECTOCOMP 2025

62 games in 3 divisions

IntroComp 2023

7 games; award date September 11, 2023

IntroComp 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.

IntroComp 2024

1 game; award date September 4, 2024

IntroComp 2025

8 games

The 2022 IFDB Awards

39 games in 52 divisions; award date February 18, 2023

The 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...

The 2023 IFDB Awards

34 games in 44 divisions; award date February 17, 2024

The 2024 IFDB Awards

36 games in 48 divisions; award date February 17, 2025

The 2025 IFDB Awards

30 games in 46 divisions; award date February 16, 2026

@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.

@party Interactive Fiction Competition 2010

2 games

A competition of games written for the 2010 @party demoparty, judged by its attendees.

Acorn User 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition

6 games; award date October 1, 1996

A competition run by Acorn User (a UK computer magazine). Not every entrant is recorded (in IFDB, or at all).

AdventureJam 2019

6 games; award date July 1, 2019

Six 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

SeedComp! - 2023

18 games in 10 divisions

SeedComp! 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...

Short Games Showcase 2023

70 games in 6 divisions; award date January 27, 2024

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and...

Short Games Showcase 2024

93 games in 7 divisions; award date January 26, 2025

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and...

ShuffleComp 2023

15 games in 2 divisions; award date January 22, 2024

ShuffleComp 2023: The Re-Shuffling ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants. The last ShuffleComp occurred in 2015. The rules here are largely...

ShuffleComp 2024

19 games in 2 divisions; award date February 11, 2025

ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

ShuffleComp 2025

14 games in 2 divisions; award date February 17, 2026

ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

Spring Thing 2015

9 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2015

Spring 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"...

Spring Thing 2019

20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2019

The 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...

subQjam 2019

27 games; award date January 1, 2020

subQjam 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...

Text Adventure Literacy Jam - 2022

16 games; award date May 22, 2022

The 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".

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...

Windhammer Prize 2015

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...

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.

2008 AIF Minicomp

1 game; award date July 2, 2008

The AIF Minicomp is an annual competition for small AIF games.

2013 Niels Klim Awards

1 game

The Niels Klim award is an annual Danish Science Fiction award.

2019 ADRIFT Game of the Year Award

9 games; award date April 3, 2020

2019 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...

Anti-Productivity Jam

15 games

The Anti-Productivity Jam is a place for you to create interactive fiction using tools that were decidedly not intended for making games. Take your favorite (or least favorite) office software and use it to make a game!

Concours Moiki #1

5 games

Le concours Moiki consiste à écrire une mini fiction interactive - en français uniquement ! Thème et contraintes Pour cette première édition le thème retenu est : Sous terre / Sous mer Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme...

Concours Moiki #2

4 games

Le concours Moiki consiste à écrire une mini fiction interactive - en français uniquement ! Thème et contraintes Pour cette seconde édition le thème retenu est : C'était mieux avant Vous êtes libre d'interpréter cela comme bon...

Concours Moiki #4

4 games; award date September 16, 2023

Ce 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...

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...

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,...

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.

EctoComp 2015

13 games in 2 divisions; award date December 1, 2015

Annual 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...

FI Express

6 games

Il reste 6 mois pour participer au Concours de Fiction Interactive francophone 2026 #ConFI2026 et soyons honnêtes, la majorité des participants potentiels n'a pas encore commencé à travailler dessus ! Alors pour vous aider à mettre...

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. (Note: Not all the entries were released publicly.)

French Comp 2005

5 games; award date October 26, 2005

The first annual competition for IF games in French.

French Comp 2007

5 games; award date February 17, 2008

The third annual competition for IF games in French.

Infocom Tribute Jam

2 games; award date September 15, 2020

In 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...

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...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2015 edition)

50 games; award date March 18, 2015

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)

68 games; award date August 2, 2019

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition)

70 games; award date September 15, 2023

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.

IntroComp 2017

11 games; award date September 4, 2017

All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.

IntroComp 2020

15 games; award date September 5, 2020

All IntroComp entrants must submit an excerpt of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete.

La Sens Dessus Dessous

8 games

Créez 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...

Locus Jam 2024

15 games

The Locus Jam is an interactive fiction mini-jam all about places, spaces, and rooms. Come create an IF piece set in one specific place! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Locus Jam.

NarraScope Showcase 2025

20 games in 2 divisions; award date June 20, 2025

Designers, developers, writers, and students of narrative games and interactive fiction were invited to submit digital game projects to the first ever NarraScope Showcase. The Showcase celebrates the best in narrative game design and...

NarraScope Showcase 2026

12 games in 3 divisions; award date June 12, 2026

Designers, developers, writers, and students of narrative games and interactive fiction were invited to submit digital game projects to the 2026 NarraScope Showcase. The NarraScope Showcase celebrates the best in narrative game design...

Nebula Awards 2019

2 games; award date May 30, 2020

The 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...

Nebula Awards 2020

2 games; award date June 5, 2021

The 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...

Nebula Awards 2022

1 game; award date May 14, 2023

The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by full, senior, and associate members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Since 1965, the Nebula Awards® have been given each year to outstanding novel, novella,...

Nebula Awards 2023

1 game; award date June 8, 2024

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