The 2022 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.
For 2022, there were two categories of polls:
-The Player’s Choice competition is a set of open polls that anyone can participate in.
-The Author’s Choice competition is a set of closed polls that only published authors can participate in.
News & updates (RSS)Details
Series: The IFDB Awards
Organizer(s): Brian Rushtonprofile
Award date: February 18, 2023
Qualification opening date: February 1, 2023
Qualification closing date: February 17, 2023
Games and Awards
Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood
Outstanding Game Over 2 Hours of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Winner: According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: Esther's, by Brad Buchanan and Alleson Buchanan
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Winner: Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea
Winner: Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Most Sequel-Worthy Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Most Sequel-Worthy Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure, by Christopher Merriner
Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: New Year's Eve, 2019, by Autumn Chen
Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag
Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Winner: The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: Alchemist's Gold, by Garry Francis
Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: The Mystery of Markham Manor, by Edward P. Toovey
Outstanding German Game of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Winner: Schief, by Olaf Nowacki
Outstanding Spanish Game of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Winner: El Virulé, by paravaariar
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner: La Princesse spéculaire, by Nathanaël Marion
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Winner: Une soirée costumée, by Julien Zamor
Outstanding Fantasy Game of 2022 - Player's Choice and Author's Choice
Winner: Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Horror Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice and Author's Choice
Winner: Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
Outstanding Humor Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: Wry, by Olaf Nowacki
Outstanding Humor Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Outstanding Mystery Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
Outstanding Mystery Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
Winner: The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
Winner: The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice and Author’s Choice
Winner: The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Outstanding Slice of Life Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice and Author’s Choice
Winner: New Year's Eve, 2019, by Autumn Chen
Outstanding Surreal Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
Outstanding Surreal Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Nose Bleed, by Stanley W. Baxton
Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Inform 7 Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker
Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: Alchemist's Gold, by Garry Francis
Outstanding Inform 6 Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Outstanding Adventuron Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice and Author’s Choice
Winner: Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
Outstanding Twine Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Outstanding Twine Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
1st Place: Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer
Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Outstanding Choicescript Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
Outstanding Adrift Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Outstanding Adrift Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling
Outstanding Game in a Custom System in 2022 - Player’s Choice and Author’s Choice
Winner: Uncle Mortimer's Secret, by Jim MacBrayne
Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System in 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
Outstanding Game in an Uncommon System in 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: Alchemist's Gold, by Garry Francis
Outstanding PunyInform Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Carpathian Vampire, by Garry Francis
Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner: Prism, by Eliot M.B. Howard
Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner: Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
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