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1999 Spring IF Art Show


3 games in 2 divisions; award date May 7, 1999
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).

1999 Summer IF Art Show


2 games; award date September 8, 1999
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).

2000 IF Art Show


8 games in 4 divisions; award date April 2, 2000
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).

2001 IF Art Show


4 games in 2 divisions; award date April 17, 2001
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery (Landscape division), or NPCs (Portrait division).

2003 IF Art Show


6 games in 3 divisions; award date May 3, 2003
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery/rooms (Landscape division), NPCs (Portrait division), or activities (Event division).

2004 IF Art Show


5 games in 3 divisions; award date June 9, 2004
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery/rooms (Landscape division), NPCs (Portrait division), or activities (Event division).

2007 IF Art Show


3 games in 3 divisions; award date May 31, 2007
A competition for IF art pieces with minimal use of plots or puzzles. Entrants were expected to focus on objects (Still Life division), scenery/rooms (Landscape division), NPCs (Portrait division), or activities (Event division).

Project Revival Jam 2


1 game
They 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...

SeedComp! - 2023


18 games in 10 divisions
SeedComp! 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...

Spring Thing 2019


20 games in 2 divisions; award date May 6, 2019
The Spring Thing Interactive Festival is an annual online festival celebrating new works of interactive fiction; it takes place in the Spring, usually April-May. IF fans of all backgrounds are encouraged to enter their new works, or play...

The IF Short Games Showcase 2023


70 games in 6 divisions
The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter interactive fiction works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and...

10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2004)


36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2004
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

10th IF Grand Prix 2016


4 games; award date May 2, 2016
German language IF competition as announced on Nov 21, 2015 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1375

11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2005)


36 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2005
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2006)


43 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2006
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

12th IF Grand Prix 2022


6 games; award date May 2, 2022
German language IF competition as announced on Nov 25, 2021 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1269

13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2007)


27 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2007
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

13th IF Grand Prix 2023


4 games; award date May 2, 2023
German 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

14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2008)


35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2008
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

14th IF Grand Prix 2024


5 games; award date May 2, 2024
German language IF competition as announced on Oct 31, 2023 on if-de forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1311 https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2024.html

15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2009)


24 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2009
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2010)


26 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2010
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2011)


38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2011
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2012)


28 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2012
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

19th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2013)


35 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2013
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

2016 ADRIFT End of the Year Comp.


8 games; award date June 8, 2017
The Rules of engagement are as follows: 1: Game must be written in either Adrift V4 or V5 2. Must be an original work. 3. Must be released in 2016 4. Judging will last a month (or shorter if we only get a few games, or longer if we get...

2017 XYZZY Awards


23 games in 12 divisions; award date June 4, 2018
The category Best Technological Development had only one nominee: Vorple for Glulx

2018 XYZZY Awards


29 games in 12 divisions; award date August 14, 2019
Best Technological Development:...

2019 ADRIFT Game of the Year Award


9 games; award date April 3, 2020
2019 was a pretty good year for Adrift with 11 games released and a couple of them even entering the Annual IF Competition. The rules for being taken into consideration for the award are simple. 1: The game must be written using the...

2022 XYZZY Awards


19 games in 12 divisions; award date January 8, 2024
Best Technological Development:...

20th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2014)


42 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2014
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2015)


53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 16, 2015
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

22nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2016)


58 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2016
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

23rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2017)


79 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2017
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

24th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2018)


77 games in 2 divisions; award date November 17, 2018
The annual competition for original IF with a maximum playing time of 2 hours.

2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)


26 games; award date December 2, 1996
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

3rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1997)


34 games; award date January 10, 1998
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

4th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1998)


27 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1998
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1999)


37 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1999
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2000)


53 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2000
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

7th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2001)


51 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2001
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

7th Annual New Year's Minicomp


5 games
Hi! Look at the time, it's my pleasure to announce the 7th annual New Year's Minicomp! For those unfamiliar with this, a short explanation as to the motivation behind it. It's meant to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF...

8th IF Grand Prix 2014


4 games; award date May 2, 2014
German language IF competition announced on Dec 10, 2013 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1267. Voting results from May 1, 2014: http://ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2014-ergebnisse.html

8th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2002)


38 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2002
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

9th IF Grand Prix 2015


4 games; award date May 2, 2015
German language IF competition announced on Dec 1, 2014 on if-de forum http://forum.ifzentrale.de/viewtopic.php?t=1338.

9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2003)


30 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 2003
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

@party competition 2011


1 game; award date June 19, 2011
An interactive fiction competition at @party 2011, a computer art festival in Harvard, Massachusetts, USA.

ADRIFT Intro Comp 2005


8 games
The challenge is to come up with a brilliant beginning to an Adrift game that is in a working playable form. This must really make the player want to actually continue with the rest of the game, if it existed. So, it is a competition for...

ADRIFT Summer Comp 2004


6 games
Rules for this competition Time limited. The game is must be written during the period 15-22 August 2004. To ensure compliance there will be required first and completion line for the game, as well as a compulsory object to be announced...

AdventureJam 2020


6 games; award date June 5, 2020
AdventureJam 2020 (Six IF-games were entered into this more general adventure game jam, which had 67 entries) Create an Adventure Game in Two Weeks: April 21st-May 5th! AdventureJam returns this year with a few changes! As always, anyone...

Beginner's Game Competition 2017


3 games; award date August 31, 2017
Goal: To create a beginner’s game that will be suitable for IF newcomers and (hopefully) wet their appetite for playing other games, or maybe even create their own. Suggestion: Put yourself in the player’s shoes. This is your first ever...

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7


30 games; award date February 22, 2010
We are pleased to announce a very special Casual Gameplay Design Competition, one focused entirely on interactive fiction! For CGDC #7, we're calling on IF authors to craft one-room games incorporating the theme "escape". It's text-only...

Cover Stories


11 games
Cover Stories was a game jam / minicomp for artists and creators of interactive fiction. In the first stage, artists created or sourced images that they thought would make good covers for an IF game; in the second, authors chose covers...

ECTOCOMP 2008


7 games
The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. ULES: * The theme is fairly general; ghost stories, horror, the supernatural, weird fiction, spine-chilling tales, pulp magazine...

Ectocomp 2009


3 games; award date November 17, 2009
The annual Adrift Hallowe'en (horror and sci-fi) themed competition. Entries must be completed in 3 hours. "Ectocomp is a Speed IF Competition for Hallowe'en. Entries can be darn near anything (they don't always turn out to be horror,...

Ectocomp 2011


10 games; award date December 2, 2011
The 5th annual Hallowe'en speed-IF competition. Entries are all written in 3 hours or less. Traditionally an ADRIFT-only event, 2011 is notable for being the first Ectocomp to allow non-ADRIFT entries.

First Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1995)


12 games in 2 divisions; award date November 15, 1995
The annual competition for original IF, judged by the readership of rec.arts.int-fiction.

French Comp 2005


5 games; award date October 26, 2005
The first annual competition for IF games in French.

French Comp 2006


4 games; award date December 29, 2006
Second edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp

French Comp 2007


5 games; award date February 17, 2008
The third annual competition for IF games in French.

French Comp 2008


5 games; award date December 16, 2008
4th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp.

French Comp 2009


3 games; award date February 9, 2009
5th edition of the semi-regular French IF Comp

French Comp 2011


6 games; award date April 22, 2012
7th edition (6th was cancelled) of the semi-regular French IF Comp.

GameplayComp


1 game; award date November 20, 2009
The aim of GameplayComp is to create a game which explores non-traditional forms of gameplay while still remaining IF.

imaginary games jam


16 games
Premise: The authors received a randomized list of five imaginary games created by other participants in the jam. They were to pick one (or more) and make: a sequel, a prequel, a fan fiction, a critical response game, a sidequel, a...

inkJam 2023


24 games; award date October 4, 2023
The inkJam is an annual community organized jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink. When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday, October 20th, 9PM CEST. Who can enter? Everyone is more than welcome, either alone...

InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2006


6 games; award date December 31, 2006
This is a competition for any game made using ADRIFT that was either released during the calendar year 2006 or has not been previously released. The winners of mainstream ADRIFT competitions (eg: InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006, ADRIFT...

InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp 2007


6 games; award date December 30, 2007
This is a competition for any game made using ADRIFT that was either released during the calendar year 2007 or has not been previously released. The winners of mainstream ADRIFT competitions (eg: Ectocomp 2007) will automatically be...

InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006


3 games; award date July 21, 2006
InsideADRIFT Summer Comp 2006 for unreleased games created in ADRIFT. The deadline was June 30th, 2006. This date was earlier to reduce possible scheduling conflicts with Spring Thing and IF Comp. The voting deadline was 21st July 2006....

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2011 edition)


48 games; award date October 1, 2011
People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 35 participants cast a total of 437...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2015 edition)


50 games; award date March 18, 2015
People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 38 participants cast a total of 593...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)


68 games; award date August 2, 2019
People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 50 participants cast a total of 806...

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition)


70 games; award date September 15, 2023
People were asked to send in a list of between 1 and 20 of their favourite IF games of all time (in no particular order). The number of points a game got was the number of lists on which it appeared. 59 participants cast a total of 880...

Nouvim 3000 - 2019 edition


7 games
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 feedback on your game. If you want to ask questions on an...

Nouvim 3000 - 2022 edition


7 games
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 feedback on your game. If you want to ask questions on an...

ParserComp 2021


18 games; award date August 2, 2021
An annual IF/Text Adventure competition with a focus on text input & output (parser) games.  Graphics are allowed, sounds are allowed, clickable words are allowed, but the core method of control should be a keyboard (or voice if it...

Partim 500 - 2022 edition


10 games
SERVEUR 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...

Partim500 - Edition 2023


9 games
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 feedback on your game. If you want to ask questions on an...

PAX East 2010 Speed-IF


11 games
Also known as PAX East Speed-IF, the sixty-eighth Speed-IF ran live on Saturday, March 27th, 1:30pm to 2:30 pm, in the IF Suite at PAX East 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts. The organizer was David A. Cornelson. Entries from off-site were...

PAX East 2011 Speed-IF


9 games
The seventy-first Speed-IF, with no particular name, took place at PAX East 2011 in Boston on March 12th, 2011. The organizer was David Cornelson. Topics were chosen via a madlibs in the early afternoon. Authors had until 10:30pm to send...

PunyJam #2


3 games; award date December 6, 2021
A jam where you write a text adventure using the PunyInform library. If you haven't heard of PunyInform before, the fastest way to get started is probably by reading the articles and tutorials which are linked on the PunyInform page....

Questcomp 2013


2 games; award date July 17, 2013
Questcomp 2013 was the first IF Competition open exclusively to games created with Quest.

ShuffleComp 2023


15 games in 2 divisions; award date January 22, 2024
ShuffleComp 2023: The Re-Shuffling ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants. The last ShuffleComp occurred in 2015. The rules here are largely...

ShuffleComp: Disc 2


17 games; award date May 27, 2015
ShuffleComp is an event for interactive fiction, both parser and hypertext, in which entrants write games based on music tracks. Entrants and other participants submit a list of songs and pseudonyms, and the organizer shuffles up all the...

Speed-IF 11th Anniversary


1 game
Write a game with the number 11, teaching, a dishwasher, steam, teleportation, a Marvel character, tossing fish, a long distance relationship, and something about one hour. Go! (from ifwiki.org)

SpeedIF Without Number


5 games
Write a game where the PC is purple, at least to start with, for whatever reason. The subsequent tale must include a big white chef's hat, gravel, the triumphant return of somebody or something, and an evil fish (or any form of sealife.)...

Spring Thing 2002


1 game; award date June 2, 2002
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2003


4 games; award date April 22, 2003
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2005


6 games; award date May 2, 2005
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2006


4 games; award date April 24, 2006
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2007


4 games; award date April 26, 2007
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2008


3 games; award date May 6, 2008
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2009


4 games; award date April 28, 2009
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2013


3 games; award date April 29, 2013
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2014


10 games; award date May 12, 2014
The Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, is an annual competition that was originally conceived and organized by Adam Cadre. The Spring Thing is designed to operate at the opposite time of year from the annual IF Comp in...

Spring Thing 2020


21 games in 3 divisions; award date May 3, 2020
Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, 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...

Spring Thing 2021


38 games in 2 divisions; award date May 10, 2021
Spring Thing, also known as the Fall Fooferall, 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...

Spring Thing 2022


47 games in 2 divisions; award date May 10, 2022
Spring 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...

Spring Thing 2023


26 games in 2 divisions; award date May 16, 2023
Spring 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...

Spring Thing 2024


33 games in 3 divisions; award date May 11, 2024
Spring 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...

Spring ting


3 games
The Spring ting was an ADRIFT competition. The submission deadline was April 1, 2009, 23:59 GMT. Only non-registered users of ADRIFT could submit games. The prize for the winner (and also, if there had been five or more entries, for the...

sub-Q Magazine Love Jam 2018


3 games; award date December 31, 2018
subQjam is a jam about making short interactive story games- fiction, art, or poetry that is enhanced by or can only be presented through interactivity. The subject for this jam is LOVE.

subQjam 2019


7 games; award date January 1, 2020
subQjam is an annual jam about making short interactive story games- fiction, art, or poetry that is enhanced by or can only be presented through interactivity. There's a limit of 1000 words of prose or 9 panels of sequential art. The...

Thanksgiving Speed-IF


6 games
A speed-IF! A veritable feast! Using the following inventory items, based on a list of photographed items from Grocible's book-in-progress: a top hat. a dragonfly*. a small crystal ball. two optical prisms. a water pistol. a magnifying...

The 8th Annual New Year's Interactive Fiction Event


2 games
The traditional New Year's Event celebrates the end of a year and the beginning of another with an informal game jam. There's no judging or scoring, only the pure joy of being creative. Write a game, story or make anything else following...

The Andromeda Legacy Competition


2 games; award date July 13, 2012
The Andromeda Legacy™: The Expansion of a Shrinking Universe First Annual IF Competition, Ed. 2012 https://intfiction.org/t/the-andromeda-legacy-a-competition-with-prizes/12586

The Emily Short Anniversary Contest


2 games; award date April 3, 2020
To honor the enormous amount of high quality games, criticism, resources and support that Short has given the community over the last two decades, we’re running a tribute competition. You have from now until March 24th of 2020 to create...

The penultimate not numbered Speed IF


11 games
Another good year for IF draws to a close. So it's time for another New Year's Speed! The motivation behind it is to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF at the end of the year. Traditionally, the rules have been very...

The Top Five IF Games (Adventure Gamers, 2002)


10 games; award date September 23, 2002
A countdown of the best IF released between 1995 and 2002, intended to be useful to IF newcomers.

The ultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF


5 games
THE ULTIMATE NOT NUMBERED NEW YEAR'S SPEED IF (Yes, I do realize it has become more of a Minicomp. Deal with it.) For those unfamiliar with this, the motivation behind it is to offer people a chance at writing a small work of IF at the...

The Year of Adventure


2 games
2016 is the fortieth anniversary year of Crowther and Woods' original Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Colossal Cave Adventure) – possibly the first work of computer interactive fiction. To commemorate this anniversary...

Twiny Jam


42 games; award date April 9, 2015
"Make a tiny Twine (300 words or less)!" There were 239 entrants total. Please feel free to add a few if you have the time...

Windhammer Prize 2015


1 game; award date November 21, 2015
"It is the intention of the Windhammer Prize to promote the gamebook genre, and in doing so deliver to readers new and original adventures that express the innovation and creativity that can be found in authors of interactive gamebook...