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2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition (ifcomp.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the twisty-passages dept.

An anonymous reader writes: This week IFComp 2016 announced the winners in their 22nd annual interactive fiction competition. After a seven-week play period, the entry with the highest average rating was "the noir standout 'Detectiveland' by Robin Johnson," according to contest organizers (while the game earning the lowest score was "Toiletworld.") A special prize is also awarded each year -- the Golden Banana of Discord -- for the game which provoked the most wildly different ratings. This year that award went to "A Time of Tungsten" by Devin Raposo. ("The walls are high, the hole is deep. She is trapped, on a distant planet. Watched. She may not survive...")
The games will soon be released on the official IF Archive site, but in the meantime you can download a 222-megabyte archive of all 58 games.

24 comments

  1. Just accounted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook wins 2016 fiction award. 2nd place... CNN.

    1. Re: Just accounted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *announced.

      Fucking auto correct

    2. Re:Just accounted! by phantomfive · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Clearly Trump wins this year.

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  2. 2016 Winners Announced for First Post Competition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    winning, so winning

  3. Let me guess. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its CNN, CNBC, FOX, ABC.

  4. No link to Toiletworld? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Now I really want to play it.

    1. Re:No link to Toiletworld? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From the vote breakdown, it looks a bit shitty.

    2. Re:No link to Toiletworld? by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      Comments like yours are why that game is circling the drain.

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      Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
    3. Re:No link to Toiletworld? by GrumpySteen · · Score: 2

      The link is right there at the end of the summary. The link literally says "download" in the text, which should have been your first clue that it was a link to download the games.

    4. Re:No link to Toiletworld? by chispito · · Score: 1

      Comments like yours are why that game is circling the drain.

      We must be reading different reviews. From what I see it has made quite a splash.

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  5. 222MB? by Drakster · · Score: 1

    222-megabyte archive of all 58 games

    Something tells me that this won't entirely be text adventures. I suspect there has got be some within there that contain some form of graphics.

    1. Re:222MB? by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1

      Unicode. It's got to be the unicode.

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    2. Re:222MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well, it is *interactive fiction*, not *text adventures*. So, pictures and sound are okay (html-backed text adventures with pictures are a fine "for starters" example).

      But yes, 222MiB for 58 interactive fiction games means a lot of them decited to be a bit heavy on media, or people are packing the full source with the entries, now.

    3. Re:222MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is right, the interactive fiction community really doesn't like text adventures. They want interactive novels.

    4. Re:222MB? by chispito · · Score: 2

      222-megabyte archive of all 58 games

      Something tells me that this won't entirely be text adventures. I suspect there has got be some within there that contain some form of graphics.

      There are two things you're not taking into account. First, they can have images, audio, or video if they choose. Second, IF is first and foremost about the writing, not programming. If an author uses a 30MB framework for his or her masterpiece, so be it.

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  6. What the FUCK? by rpresser · · Score: 2

    They have completely abandoned rec.[arts|games].int-fiction. THEY DIDN'T EVEN POST THAT THERE WAS A COMPETITION THERE THIS YEAR. I am extremely angry. Ok, I'm not angry. But I'm hurt. A little bit. Ah, fuck it.

    1. Re:What the FUCK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The core of the community moved to a proper forum several years ago, found at www.intfiction.org/forum/.
      Not only were a lot of noobs unable to cope with Usenet, but the spam and trolling had gotten out of hand.

    2. Re:What the FUCK? by sheramil · · Score: 1
      bemoaning the fate of usenet is almost as futile as bemoaning the fate of fidonet.

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  7. Good competition by Jaheen100 · · Score: 0

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  8. Toiletworld by operagost · · Score: 1

    Why is it that I want to try that one first? Might be the "Plan 9" of interactive fiction.

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    1. Re:Toiletworld by Boronx · · Score: 1

      The Ed Wood of IF is Rybread Celsius, author of Acid Whiplash and other spectacular failures.

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    2. Re:Toiletworld by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's also Paul Allen Panks, and Tomasz Pudlo.