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.
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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
Outstanding Game of the Year 2022 - Author's Choice
Most Sequel-Worthy Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Most Sequel-Worthy Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Outstanding Horror Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner:
Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
Outstanding Horror Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Winner:
Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Player’s Choice
Winner:
Prism, by Eliot M.B. Howard
Outstanding Ink Game of 2022 - Author’s Choice
Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Debut of 2022 - Author's Choice
Outstanding Game Over 2 Hours of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
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
Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Feelies of 2022 - Author's Choice
Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Player's Choice
Winner:
Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
Trailblazer Award of 2022 - Author's Choice
Outstanding Worldbuilding of 2022 - Player's and Author's Choice
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Use of Interactivity in 2022 - Author's Choice
Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding Retro Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
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
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Player's Choice
Outstanding French Game of 2022 - Author's Choice
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