The IF Short Games Showcase 2023

The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and regardless of whether there have been any major updates since their initial release.

Short games tend to get less love than longer games in general-purpose, non-speed-IF comps, while if released outside of a comp or jam, they may not get eyes on them at all. We want to give shorter works their moment in the spotlight in a comp where they’ll be compared only to each other, and bring some more attention to the many excellent short games that get released every year.

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Series: The Short Games Showcase

Official Web site: https://itch.io/jam/if-short-games-showcase-2023

Organizer(s): E. Joyce profile, N. Cormier profile

Award date: January 27, 2024

Qualification opening date: January 1, 2023

Qualification closing date: December 31, 2023

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Short Games Showcase 2023: Results are out!January 27, 2024

Thank you to everyone who entered and voted in the Short Games Showcase! We were blown away by how much attention this new event got, and we’re glad people seem to have enjoyed it. We think the set of winning games is a testament to how diverse and vibrant the field of short IF can be.

The winners:

Best in Show
1st place (tie): free bird. by Passerine
1st place (tie): Solkatt_ by BenyDanette
3rd place: After the Accident by Amanda Walker

Best Use of Short Form
1st Place: free bird. by Passerine
2nd Place (tie): Buck Rockford Heads West by J. J. Guest
2nd Place (tie): ConfigurationUploader by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): In a minute there is time by Aster
2nd Place (tie): vanitas by sweetfish

Best Use of Interactivity
1st Place: Solkatt_ (english version) by BenyDanette
2nd Place: Three Things by Lapin Lunaire Games
3rd Place: ConfigurationUploader by Autumn Chen

Best Story-Focused Game
1st Place: After the Accident by Amanda Walker
2nd Place (tie): The Last Mountain by Dee Cooke
2nd Place (tie): A Meeting in the Dark by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): InGirum_English by BenyDanette

Best Puzzle-Focused Game
1st Place: NEST by Ryan Veeder
2nd Place: free bird. by Passerine
3rd Place: An Eggcellent Preparation by Manon Amora

Most Replay Value
1st Place: Your Body a Temple or the Postmodern Prometheus by Charm Cochran
2nd Place: You’re a Time Agent! by Tabitha O'Connell
3rd Place: Infinite Space Battle Simulator by Autumn Chen

You can view the full results on the comp's IFDB page.

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Best Use of Short Form

1st Place: free bird., by Passerine
2nd Place (tie): Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest
2nd Place (tie): ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): In a minute there is time, by Aster
2nd Place (tie): vanitas, by sweetfish

Best Use of Interactivity

1st Place: Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
2nd Place: Three Things, by Lapin Lunaire Games
3rd Place: ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen

Best Story-Focused Game

1st Place: After the Accident, by Amanda Walker
2nd Place (tie): The Last Mountain, by Dee Cooke
2nd Place (tie): A Meeting in the Dark, by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): InGirum_English, by BenyDanette

Best Puzzle-Focused Game

1st Place: NEST, by Ryan Veeder
2nd Place: free bird., by Passerine
3rd Place: Entre-d’œufs coquilles - An Eggcellent Preparation, by manonamora

Most Replay Value

1st Place: Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus, by Charm Cochran
2nd Place: You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell
3rd Place: Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen

Best in Show

1st Place (tie): free bird., by Passerine
1st Place (tie): Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
3rd Place: After the Accident, by Amanda Walker
4th Place: You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell
5th Place: A Meeting in the Dark, by Autumn Chen
6th Place (tie): eurydice exhumed, by sweetfish
6th Place (tie): ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
8th Place: vanitas, by sweetfish
9th Place: Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus, by Charm Cochran
10th Place: Three Things, by Lapin Lunaire Games
11th Place: InGirum_English, by BenyDanette
12th Place: Your World According to a Single Word, by Kastel
13th Place (tie): Remembrance, by Emery Joyce
13th Place (tie): my heart, bared., by Sophia de Augustine
13th Place (tie): Confectioner's Atelier, by Grim Baccaris
16th Place: June 1998, Sydney, by Kastel
17th Place (tie): Cycle, by alyshkalia
17th Place (tie): Cage Break, by Jacic
17th Place (tie): Fix Your Mother's Printer, by Geoffrey Golden
17th Place (tie): POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia
21st Place (tie): Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest
21st Place (tie): Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen
23rd Place: The Last Mountain, by Dee Cooke
24th Place: Successor, by 30x30
25th Place: Space Wizard Rendezvous, by WizzBizz
26th Place: Kyrie Eleison, by Lapin Lunaire Games
27th Place: Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, by Leon Lin
28th Place: The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker
29th Place: NEST, by Ryan Veeder
30th Place: Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel
31st Place: how do i love you?, by Sophia de Augustine
32nd Place (tie): Collision, by manonamora
32nd Place (tie): WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS, by Sophia de Augustine
32nd Place (tie): Conduit of the Crypt, by Grim Baccaris
35th Place: In a minute there is time, by Aster
36th Place: vestiges of summer, by graymeditations
37th Place: Scale, by lavieenmeow
38th Place: So You Have a Knife at Your Throat, by Natasha Luna
39th Place (tie): Pick Up the Cookie and Sigh, by P.B. Parjeter
39th Place (tie): Jabberwocky, by Outgrabe
41st Place: Zombie Eye: Campfire Tales, by Dee Cooke
42nd Place: At the Poison's Edge, by Natasha Luna
43rd Place (tie): The Roads not Taken, by manonamora
43rd Place (tie): Put-Peep(tm), by Sean Huxter
45th Place: Robbery Reverie, by Natasha Luna
46th Place (tie): Demon Hatching, by Mxelm
46th Place (tie): 500 Word Hotel Escape, by Kobato Games
48th Place: A Vine on a House, by Outgrabe
49th Place: Time's Gap, by mxelm
50th Place: Bill's Passage, by Benny Mattis
51st Place: Lucid Night, by Dee Cooke
52nd place (tie): Entre-d’œufs coquilles - An Eggcellent Preparation, by manonamora
52nd Place (tie): Troll's Tale 2023, by Outgrabe
54th Place: The Good Weapon, by Madeline Wu
55th Place: No Space at the Movies, by Kobato Games
56th Place: The Loyal Doom - A PowerPoint Game, by Dev Vand
57th Place: Palazzo Heist, by Julien Z / smwhr
58th Place: ~~~Into Darkness~~~, by Jacic
59th Place: Magor Investigates..., by Larry Horsfield
60th Place (tie): The Enigma of Solaris, by jkj yuio
60th Place (tie): Now We're Clickin', Team, by Andrew Schultz
62nd Place: That's It Again, by Dev Vand
63rd Place: The Peter and Paul Case, by jkj yuio
64th Place: Murder at the Manor, by Jkj Yuio
65th Place: Door, by Dev Vand
66th Place: FEAST OF SENSES, by graymeditations
67th Place: Bittersweet Harvest, by DagitabSoft
68th Place: Maverick Hunter: Scandalous Mission, by Noah Si
69th Place: bl.ink, by bubez
70th Place: Occhiolism, by DagitabSoft

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