Saturday, November 19, 2016

IFComp News: IFComp 2016 is over

IFComp News: IFComp 2016 is over

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The 22nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has come to an end. Congratulations to Robin Johnson for Detectiveland’s first-place finish!

This marks the first IFComp win by a work not in the traditional, parser-driven text-adventure mode – though it’s still very much a text adventure, identifying itself as such in its own instructions screen.

And as in all recent IFComp years, the top-ranked entries continue to demonstrate a beautiful variety of platforms and play-styles. I feel hopeful that this pattern will stick for many years to come, and as organizer, I couldn’t feel happier about it.

We’re now awaiting the entries’ ingestion into the IF Archive for permanent public availability, and I’ll make a followup post here when they’re up. (No action required from authors, here; the archive is in possession of everything as I write this.) In the meantime, you can still download the whole, 222-megabyte archive of every competition entry as they stood on October 1.





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November 19, 2016 at 12:10PM

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