The 2023 IFDB Awards
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 of polls.
The polls can be found here.
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Series: The IFDB Awards
Organizer(s): Brian Rushtonprofile
Award date: February 17, 2024
Qualification opening date: January 1, 2022
Qualification closing date: December 31, 2022
Games and Awards
Outstanding Game of the Year 2023
Author's Choice for Best Game of 2023
Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Debut 2023
Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Game over 2 hours in 2023
Winner: Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Outstanding Short Game of 2023
Winner: The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2023
Winner: Kaboom, by anonymous, artwork by Vera Pohl
Most Sequel-worthy Game of 2023
Winner: Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Trailblazer Award of 2023
Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2023
Winner: His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2023
Winner: One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer
Outstanding Retro Game of 2023
Winner: LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best
Outstanding German Game of 2023
Winner: Fischstäbchen, by Olaf Nowacki
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2023
Winner: El Virulé, segunda parte: Padre, by paravaariar
Outstanding French Game of 2023
Winner: DOL-OS, by manonamora
Outstanding Children's Game of 2023
Winner: Barry Basic and the Witch's Cave, by Dee Cooke
Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2023
Winner: How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler
Outstanding Educational Game of 2023
Winner: Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray
Outstanding Historical Game of 2023
Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers
Outstanding Horror Game of 2023
Winner: Eat the Eldritch, by Olaf Nowacki
Outstanding Humor Game of 2023
Winner: Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Outstanding Mystery Game of 2023
Winner: LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
Outstanding RPG of 2023
Winner: The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca
Outstanding Romance Game of 2023
Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers
Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2023
Winner: Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2023
Winner: Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray
Outstanding Surreal Game of 2023
Winner: The Gift of What You Notice More, by Xavid and Zan
Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2023
Winner: Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Outstanding Twine Game of 2023
Winner: LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
Outstanding Ink Game of 2023
Winner: Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers
Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2023
Winner: Bali B&B, by Felicity Banks
Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2023
Winner: You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed
Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2023
Winner: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor, by Stefan Vogt
Outstanding Game in a Custom System of 2023
Winner: Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Robert from High Tower Games
Outstanding Moiki Game of 2023
Winner: Retour vers l'extérieur, by No Game Without Stakes
Outstanding Ren’py Game of 2023
Winner: The Good Weapon, by Madeline Wu
Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2023
Winner: The Familiar, by groggydog
Outstanding Unity Game of 2023
Winner: Out of Scope, by Drew Castalia
Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2023
Winner: the mountain is as it always was, by christine mi
Outstanding Texture Game of 2023
Winner: All Hands, by Natasha Ramoutar
Outstanding Gruescript Game of 2023
Winner: Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid
Outstanding TADS Game of 2023
Winner: How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler
Outstanding ADRIFT Game of 2023
Winner: Xanix - Xixon Resurgence, by Larry Horsfield
Outstanding Decker Game of 2023
Winner: Solkatt_ (french version), by BenyDanette
Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System of 2023
Winner: ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
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