The Interactive Fiction Competition
(IFComp for short) is an annual event for works of Interactive Fiction. It has been held since 1995.
Participants create and submit works, which are then voted on by judges. Anyone is allowed to be a participating creator or a judge, but not both in the same year. Entries must not have been previously published; thus, many are created specifically for the competition. Although authors may write games of any length, judges are only allowed to play up to two hours per entry before deciding how to score it.
Starting in 1996,note a secondary competition, the Miss Congeniality Awards, was started to allow the year's participating creators to vote on each others' works. Another award, the Golden Banana of Discord, goes out each year to the entry with the highest standard deviation among its ratings — basically, the most disagreement.
IFComp works with pages:note
- Ad Verbum (2000)note
- A Bear's Night Out (1997)note
- Blue Chairs (2004)note
- A Change in the Weather (won 1995) (tied)
- Earth and Sky trilogy
- Earth and Sky (2001)note
- Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (won 2002)note
- Earth and Sky 3: Luminous Horizon (won 2004)
- Eat Me (2017)note
- Lost Pig (won 2007)note
- The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (won 1996)
- Photopia (won 1998)note
- The PK Girl (2002)note
- Shade (2000)note
- Slouching Towards Bedlam (won 2003)note
- Violet (won 2008)note
- The Wizard Sniffer (won 2017)note
