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IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and (hopefully!) use this feedback to release a fantastic final product.
46 games16 games in 2 divisions; award date August 3, 2023ParserComp is for previously unreleased, parser-based text games: games which take a free-text input, parse it, and produce an output which typically is more text. This is the 4th ParserComp. Hosted on itch.io. This year, works are...
9 games; award date July 1, 2023This is the third annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game must include an in-game tutorial....
123 gamesCreate a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in 500 words or less! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Twiny Jam, where creators were limited to making twine games with less than 300 words. Constraints and Rules: You are limited to... 3 gamesLa NOUVIM 3000, 5e édition ! 1. Quoi ? Pour quand ? Un mois pour réaliser une toute petite aventure textuelle de 501 à 3000 mots ! On cherche ici avant tout des aventures hypertextes à la Twine (mais pouvant être réalisées avec d'autres...
1 game; award date May 29, 2023Arcjam is a game design event where you use Arcweave to design and publish a short game in 72 hours. The term “game” is to be taken in the most general sense, meaning any kind of interactive experience, story, puzzle, graphic novel, et... 26 games in 2 divisions; award date May 16, 2023Spring Thing, also known as the Autumnal Jumble, focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new...
8 gamesCréez une histoire interactive francophone à dominante textuelle ! (pouvant contenir quelques décorations visuelles ou sonores) Il peut s'agir : - d'une fiction interactive à analyseur syntaxique / parser (comme Zork, etc.) ; - d'une...
4 games; award date May 2, 2023German language IF competition as announced on Nov 30, 2022 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1288 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023.html https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2023-ergebnisse.html
9 games; award date March 13, 2023This is a jam where you write a text adventure using PunyInform. THEME: The game must start in or at an airlock.
25 games in 5 divisions; award date March 2, 2023The 16th Edition of the French Comp. That year, the themes were "Trahison" (treason) and "Archive".
18 games in 10 divisionsSeedComp! is a 2-round interactive fiction game jam, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas. Join our Discord! SeedComp! is separated into 2 distinct rounds: Planting and Sprouting. You can take part in either or both. The first...
39 games in 52 divisions; award date February 18, 2023The IFDB Awards is an annual competition designed to award excellence in creating interactive fiction. It is held from February 1st to the first weekend after February 15th each year on the Interactive Fiction Database, and take the form...
10 gamesSERVEUR DISCORD FRANCOPHONE : https://discord.gg/vrmGavw This is primarily a French language interactive fiction jam. You may participate in a very poor French ;) or even in another language, but in this later case we won't garantee any...
24 games in 12 divisions; award date December 22, 2022Best Technological Development:...
10 gamesA game jam about "the greatest mafia movie never made". Goncharov is a film that might or might not exist. In one universe, it is a 1973 film about the Naples Mafia, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Matteo JWHJ0715, and produced...
48 games in 6 divisions; award date November 20, 2022ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction written for the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your...
71 games in 3 divisions; award date November 19, 20221 gameThey know you abandoned them, and they're back for revenge. Maybe it's a project you have long-since forgotten. Maybe it's a half-finished experiment gathering dust in your lab. Maybe it's an idea that haunts your dreams. Maybe it's a...