2003 IFComp Award Winners Announced

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday November 18, 2003 @05:24AM from the thorin's-vocal-chords-positively-nodular dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has now announced its winners - the start of the judging was previously covered on Slashdot." There are a number of sites with reviews of the competing text adventures, which are all freely downloadable, and winner 'Slouching Towards Bedlam' ("a game of multiple paths... set in a steampunk universe with Lovecraftian overtones"), and runner-up 'Risorgimento Represso' ("on a par with most Infocom games, and exceeds them at many points", but paradoxically too long to be played through within the 2-hour judging period), both get plenty of kudos from judges.

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no time limit by LeninZhiv · 2003-11-18 05:28 · Score: 5, Informative

although paradoxically too long to be played within the 2-hour judging period

It's not actually a requirement that the game be playable within two hours; the rule is that the judges only will play the game for two hours before scoring it, whether they've completed it or not. (And now that the comp's over, it's so much the better to have two such high-quality games that go above and beyond in terms of length.)

Congrats to the winners.