30th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2024)

1st Place: The Bat, by Chandler Groover
2nd Place: The Den, by Ben Jackson
3rd Place: Forsaken Denizen, by C.E.J. Pacian
4th Place: Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe, by Jim Nelson
5th Place: Eikas, by Lauren O'Donoghue
6th Place: Miss Gosling's Last Case, by Daniel M. Stelzer
7th Place: Hildy, by J. Michael
8th Place: An Account of Your Visit to the Enchanted House & What You Found There, by Mandy Benanav
9th Place: A Dream Of Silence: Act 3, by Abigail Corfman
10th Place: Winter-Over, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier
11th Place: LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST, by Stanwixbuster (as THE BODY & THE BLOOD)
12th Place: The Killings in Wasacona, by Steve Kollmansberger
13th Place: Imprimatura, by Elizabeth Ballou
14th Place: Verses, by Kit Riemer
15th Place: You Can't Save Her, by Sarah Mak
16th Place: Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value, by Damon L. Wakes
17th Place: The Saltcast Adventure, by Beth Carpenter
18th Place: Bureau of Strange Happenings, by Phil Riley
19th Place: A Very Strong Gland, by Arthur DiBianca
20th Place: The Maze Gallery, by Cryptic Conservatory, Paxton et al.

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Rachel Aubertin, Chrys Pine, Ed Lu, Toni Owen-Blue, Christi Kerr, Sean Song, Joshua Campbell, Dawn Sueoka, Randy Hayes, Allyson Gray, Shana E. Hadi, Dominique Nelson, Orane Defiolle, An Artist's Ode, Sisi Peng, Kazu Lupo, divineshadow777, Robin Scott, Sarah Barker, TavernKeep, Alex Parker, Mia Parker, J Isaac Gadient, Charm Cochran, Ghost Clown, and IFcoltransG

21st Place: Focal Shift, by Fred Snyder
22nd Place: The Dragon of Silverton Mine, by Vukašin Davić
23rd Place: Miss Duckworthy's School for Magic-Infested Young People, by Felicity Banks
24th Place: You, by Carter X Gwertzman
25th Place: Dust, by IkeC
26th Place: String Theory, by W Pzinski
27th Place: A Death in Hyperspace, by Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J Kim, Sara Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
28th Place: Metallic Red, by Riaz Moola
29th Place: Birding in Pope Lick Park, by Eric Lathrop
30th Place: Redjackets, by Anna C. Webster
31st Place (tie): Bad Beer, by Vivienne Dunstan
31st Place (tie): Deliquescence, by Not-Only But-Also Riley
33rd Place: Why Pout?, by Andrew Schultz
34th Place: Welcome to the Universe, by Colton Olds
35th Place (tie): 198BREW, by H. M. Faust (aka DWaM)
35th Place (tie): Sidekick, by Charles Moore
37th Place: The Apothecary's Assistant, by Allyson Gray
38th Place: When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves, by Michael Baltes
39th Place: A Warm Reception, by Joshua Hetzel
40th Place: Civil Service, by Helen L Liston
41st Place: Yancy At The End Of The World!, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez; e/he)
42nd Place: Forbidden Lore, by Alex Crossley
43rd Place: KING OF XANADU, by MACHINES UNDERNEATH
44th Place: A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric, by Ola Hansson
45th Place: The Garbage of the Future, by AM Ruf
46th Place (tie): ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG, by Damon L. Wakes (as Hubert Janus)
46th Place (tie): Turn Right, by Dee Cooke
48th Place: The Shyler Project, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez; e/he)
49th Place: Where Nothing Is Ever Named, by Viktor Sobol
50th Place: House of Wolves, by Shruti Deo
51st Place: The Triskelion Affair, by Al Cline (as Clyde Falsoon)
52nd Place: The Deserter, by MemoryCanyon
53rd Place: Traffic, by D. S. Yu
54th Place: Unreal People, by Viwoo
55th Place: Final Call, by Emily Stewart, Zoe Danieli
56th Place: Awakened Deeply, by R.A. Cooper
57th Place: Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain, by jkj yuio
58th Place: The Master's Lair, by Stefan Hoffmann
59th Place: The Curse, by Rob
60th Place: 大鱼 | Big Fish, by 海边的taku (a.k.a. Binggang Zhuo)
61st Place: Campfire, by loreKin
62nd Place: Hebe, by Marina Diagourta
63rd Place: Return to Claymorgue's Castle, by Anonymous
64th Place: Breakfast in the Dolomites, by Roberto Ceccarelli
65th Place: The Lost Artist: Prologue, by Alejandro Ruiz del Sol and Martina Oyhenard
66th Place: First Contact, by dott. Piergiorgio
67th Place: Uninteractive Fiction, by Damon L. Wakes (as Leah Thargic)

Miss Congeniality

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Rising Star Award

The highest-rated game by a first-time entrant.