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Interactive Fiction Competition 2001 Results
david.given writes: "The results of the annual text adventure game competition have been posted (remember when the competition started? You've played them, you've voted for them, now see who won. Much kudos go to Jon Ingold, whose game "All Roads" placed first. As someone who didn't come first (33rd, actually) but had a lot of fun anyway, let me extend my warmest thanks and gratitude to everyone who took part. Without you, none of this would be possible."
try doing a search on home made rpgs or games on the net and you might be suprised.
If anything it's depressing that the homebrew crowd has wasted so much time making hackneyed medieval and science fiction role playing games. One would expect grassroots movements to go off in wonderful new directions.
"All Roads" won because nobody really hated it enough to give it a competition-killing score. The best game in the competition, "Moments Out of Time," had some funky menus and didn't work right on the most popular interpreter out there, causing some people to give it a 1 or 2.
Um, in some geek circles Star Trek is the epitome of science fiction. And some people like handmade quilts over fleece throws. And some people really think the new VW Beetle is worth $5k more than comparable cars from Toyota. Some people prefer Western novels, some prefer pulp romance. Some people swear Mapplethorpe is an artistic genious, others see only dirty smut. We're talking aesthetics and subjectivity here, all we can have then are opinions, not facts.
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