Winners of the 2003 IFComp

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1st place

Slouching Towards Bedlam

Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto

In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry.

Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to house the poor and the hopeless. Steam-driven mechanical wonders roam the streets. Gear-wheeled analytical engines spin out reams of thought onto punched paper tapes.

And in the darkness - in the alleys and the side shops - hide secrets.

This work also won 1st place in the 2003 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score	8.39
Votes Cast	107
Standard Deviation	1.77

2nd place

Risorgimento Represso

Michael J. Coyne

This work also won 2nd place in the 2003 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score	7.76
Votes Cast	92
Standard Deviation	1.70

3rd place

Scavenger

Quintin Stone

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

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Score	7.51
Votes Cast	91
Standard Deviation	1.69

4th place

The Erudition Chamber

Daniel Freas

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Score	7.32
Votes Cast	107
Standard Deviation	1.79

5th place

Gourmet

Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb

Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut restaurant? Surely there's nowhere to go but up.

This work also won 3rd place in the 2003 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score	7.13
Votes Cast	104
Standard Deviation	1.64

6th place

shadows on the mirror

Chrysoula Tzavelas

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe...

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Score	6.93
Votes Cast	76
Standard Deviation	1.83

7th place

The Recruit

Mike Sousa

Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today!

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Score	6.59
Votes Cast	108
Standard Deviation	1.70

8th place

Baluthar

Chris Molloy Wischer

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Score	6.23
Votes Cast	104
Standard Deviation	1.69

9th place

Cerulean Stowaway

Roger Descheneaux

A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for.

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Score	6.17
Votes Cast	103
Standard Deviation	1.85

10th place

The Atomic Heart

Stefan Blixt

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Score	5.87
Votes Cast	102
Standard Deviation	1.84

11th place

Episode in the Life of an Artist

Peter Eastman

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Score	5.69
Votes Cast	108
Standard Deviation	2.06

12th place

A Paper Moon

Andrew Krywaniuk

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Score	5.42
Votes Cast	96
Standard Deviation	1.97

13th place

Sardoria

Anssi Räisänen

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Score	5.41
Votes Cast	79
Standard Deviation	1.63

14th place

Caffeination

Michael Loegering

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Score	5.05
Votes Cast	110
Standard Deviation	1.92

15th place

Temple of Kaos

Peter Gambles

A temple, a poem, out of time; a searcher, a believer, chaotic rhyme.

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Score	5.03
Votes Cast	96
Standard Deviation	2.10

16th place

Sophie's Adventure

David Whyld

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Score	4.97
Votes Cast	60
Standard Deviation	2.02

17th place

Adoo's Stinky Story

B. Perry

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Score	4.86
Votes Cast	98
Standard Deviation	1.86

18th place

Domicile

John Evans

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Score	4.74
Votes Cast	98
Standard Deviation	1.66

19th place

Internal Documents

Tom Lechner

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Score	4.20
Votes Cast	90
Standard Deviation	1.68

20th place

Sweet Dreams

Papillon

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Score	4.16
Votes Cast	70
Standard Deviation	2.26

21st place

The Adventures of the President of the United States

Mikko Vuorinen

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Score	4.01
Votes Cast	88
Standard Deviation	2.10

22nd place

No Room

Ben Heaton

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Score	3.97
Votes Cast	117
Standard Deviation	2.02

23rd place

Delvyn

William A. Tilli

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Score	3.15
Votes Cast	97
Standard Deviation	1.70

24th place

Little girl in the big world

Peter Wendrich

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Score	3.08
Votes Cast	76
Standard Deviation	1.78

25th place

Bio

David Linder

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Score	2.88
Votes Cast	112
Standard Deviation	1.45

26th place

Hercules First Labor

Robert Carl Brown

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Score	2.45
Votes Cast	102
Standard Deviation	1.22

27th place

Amnesia

Dustin Rhodes

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Score	2.40
Votes Cast	112
Standard Deviation	1.54

28th place

Curse of Manorland

James King

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Score	2.20
Votes Cast	70
Standard Deviation	1.17

29th place

The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky

Anonymous

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Score	2.19
Votes Cast	118
Standard Deviation	1.94

30th place

Rape, Pillage, Galore!

Kristian Kirsfeldt

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Score	2.14
Votes Cast	78
Standard Deviation	2.08

The organizer of the 2003 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.