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

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:30PM 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.

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Re:222MB? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-20 22:05 · 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.