The IF Short Games Showcase 2023

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 regardless of whether there have been any major updates since their initial release.

Short games tend to get less love than longer games in general-purpose, non-speed-IF comps, while if released outside of a comp or jam, they may not get eyes on them at all. We want to give shorter works their moment in the spotlight in a comp where they’ll be compared only to each other, and bring some more attention to the many excellent short games that get released every year.

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Details

Series: The Short Games Showcase

Official Web site: https://itch.io/jam/if-short-games-showcase-2023

Organizer(s): E. Joyce profile and N. Cormier profile

Qualification opening date: January 1, 2023

Qualification closing date: December 31, 2023

News

Short Games Showcase 2023: Results are out! January 27, 2024

Thank you to everyone who entered and voted in the Short Games Showcase! We were blown away by how much attention this new event got, and we’re glad people seem to have enjoyed it. We think the set of winning games is a testament to how diverse and vibrant the field of short IF can be.

The winners:

Best in Show
1st place (tie): free bird. by Passerine
1st place (tie): Solkatt_ by BenyDanette
3rd place: After the Accident by Amanda Walker

Best Use of Short Form
1st Place: free bird. by Passerine
2nd Place (tie): Buck Rockford Heads West by J. J. Guest
2nd Place (tie): ConfigurationUploader by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): In a minute there is time by Aster
2nd Place (tie): vanitas by sweetfish

Best Use of Interactivity
1st Place: Solkatt_ (english version) by BenyDanette
2nd Place: Three Things by Lapin Lunaire Games
3rd Place: ConfigurationUploader by Autumn Chen

Best Story-Focused Game
1st Place: After the Accident by Amanda Walker
2nd Place (tie): The Last Mountain by Dee Cooke
2nd Place (tie): A Meeting in the Dark by Autumn Chen
2nd Place (tie): InGirum_English by BenyDanette

Best Puzzle-Focused Game
1st Place: NEST by Ryan Veeder
2nd Place: free bird. by Passerine
3rd Place: An Eggcellent Preparation by Manon Amora

Most Replay Value
1st Place: Your Body a Temple or the Postmodern Prometheus by Charm Cochran
2nd Place: You’re a Time Agent! by Tabitha O'Connell
3rd Place: Infinite Space Battle Simulator by Autumn Chen

You can view the full results on the comp's IFDB page.

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Games and Awards

Entrant: Entre-d’œufs coquilles - An Eggcellent Preparation, by manonamora
Entrant: Collision, by manonamora
Entrant: Remembrance, by Emery Joyce
Entrant: WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS, by Sophia de Augustine
Entrant: how do i love you?, by Sophia de Augustine
Entrant: my heart, bared., by Sophia de Augustine
Entrant: Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus, by Charm Cochran
Entrant: NEST, by Ryan Veeder
Entrant: Cycle, by alyshkalia
Entrant: Successor, by 30x30
Entrant: eurydice exhumed, by sweetfish
Entrant: vanitas, by sweetfish
Entrant: Palazzo Heist, by Julien Z / smwhr
Entrant: Cage Break, by Jac Colvin
Entrant: ~~~Into Darkness~~~, by Jac Colvin
Entrant: A Meeting in the Dark, by Autumn Chen
Entrant: ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
Entrant: Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel
Entrant: June 1998, Sydney, by Kastel
Entrant: Your World According to a Single Word, by Kastel
Entrant: Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest
Entrant: You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell
Entrant: free bird., by Passerine
Entrant: The Enigma of Solaris, by jkj yuio
Entrant: Magor Investigates..., by Larry Horsfield
Entrant: Pick Up the Cookie and Sigh, by P.B. Parjeter
Entrant: In a minute there is time, by Aster
Entrant: Scale, by lavieenmeow
Entrant: Demon Hatching, by Mxelm
Entrant: Conduit of the Crypt, by Grim Baccaris
Entrant: Confectioner's Atelier, by Grim Baccaris
Entrant: Robbery Reverie, by Natasha Luna
Entrant: At the Poison's Edge, by Natasha Luna
Entrant: So You Have a Knife at Your Throat, by Natasha Luna
Entrant: 500 Word Hotel Escape, by Kobato Games
Entrant: After the Accident, by Amanda Walker
Entrant: Fix Your Mother's Printer, by Geoffrey Golden
Entrant: The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker
Entrant: The Roads not Taken, by manonamora
Entrant: Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen
Entrant: POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia
Entrant: vestiges of summer, by graymeditations
Entrant: Maverick Hunter: Scandalous Mission, by Noah Si
Entrant: Lucid Night, by Dee Cooke
Entrant: The Last Mountain, by Dee Cooke
Entrant: Zombie Eye: Campfire Tales, by Dee Cooke
Entrant: Three Things, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Entrant: Kyrie Eleison, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Entrant: Now We're Clickin', Team, by Andrew Schultz
Entrant: InGirum_English, by BenyDanette
Entrant: Put-Peep(tm), by Sean Huxter
Entrant: Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, by Leon Lin
Entrant: Bittersweet Harvest, by DagitabSoft
Entrant: Occhiolism, by DagitabSoft
Entrant: Murder at the Manor, by Jkj Yuio
Entrant: Door, by Dev Vand
Entrant: The Good Weapon, by Madeline Wu
Entrant: bl.ink, by bubez
Entrant: Time's Gap, by mxelm
Entrant: Bill's Passage, by Benny Mattis
Entrant: Space Wizard Rendezvous, by WizzBizz
Entrant: Troll's Tale 2023, by Outgrabe
Entrant: That's It Again, by Dev Vand
Entrant: The Loyal Doom - A PowerPoint Game, by Dev Vand
Entrant: Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
Entrant: No Space at the Movies, by Kobato Games
Entrant: FEAST OF SENSES, by graymeditations

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