8th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2002)

1st Place: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian
2nd Place: Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
3rd Place: Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans
4th Place: The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
5th Place: Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
6th Place: The PK Girl, by Robert Goodwin, Helen Trevillion, Nanami Nekono, and Oya-G
7th Place: Tookie's Song, by Jessica Knoch
8th Place: Fort Aegea, by Francesco Bova
9th Place: The Temple, by Johan Berntsson
10th Place: Jane, by Joseph Grzesiak
11th Place: MythTale, by Temari Seikaiha
12th Place: Unraveling God, by Todd Watson
13th Place (tie): Identity Thief, by Rob Shaw-Fuller
13th Place (tie): Augustine, by Terrence V. Koch
15th Place: Rent-A-Spy, by John Eriksson
16th Place (tie): The Granite Book, by James Mitchelhill
16th Place (tie): Eric's Gift, by Joao Mendes
18th Place: When Help Collides, by J. D. Berry
19th Place (tie): Evacuate, by Jeff Rissman
19th Place (tie): Constraints, by Martin Bays
21st Place: Sun And Moon, by David Brain
22nd Place: Not Much Time, by Tyson Ibele
23rd Place: Hell: A Comedy of Errors, by John Evans
24th Place (tie): Out of the Study, by Anssi Räisänen
24th Place (tie): Color and Number, by Steven Kollmansberger
26th Place: BOFH, by Howard A. Sherman
27th Place: The Case of Samuel Gregor, by Stephen Hilderbrand
28th Place: A Party to Murder, by David Good
29th Place: Screen, by Edward Floren
30th Place: Concrete Paradise, by Tyson Ibele
31st Place: Scary House Amulet!, by Ricardo Dague
32nd Place: Coffee Quest II, by Dog Solitude
33rd Place: Four Mile Island, by Chris Charla
34th Place: Moonbase, by Mike Eckardt
35th Place: Koan, by Esa Peuha
36th Place (tie): Ramón and Jonathan, by Daniele A. Gewurz
36th Place (tie): Terrible Lizards, by Alan Mead and Ian Mead
38th Place: Blade Sentinel, by Mihalis Georgostathis

Miss Congeniality Awards

The top games as voted by the authors of the entries.