The 15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Games

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 The Ascot

A Shake 'n Nod Adventure
By Duncan Bowsman
Filename: YNKaboom.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file ynk_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: A City Park Underground Y/N CYOA. Straightforward and slangy.

 The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man

By Hannes Schueller
Filename: invisible.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file invisible_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: The story of a lab assistant who managed to turn himself invisible after years of private research. Driven by anger built up over the years of social isolation, he's out to have his revenge on his boss, his colleagues and the world in general.

 Beta Tester

By Darren Ingram
Filename: Beta Tester.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: The goal is discovery. The fun is walking around and doing and seeing, with an emphasis on games and puzzles.

 Broken Legs

By Sarah Morayati
Filename: Broken Legs.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter what it takes.

 Byzantine Perspective

A Straightforward Burglary
By Lea Albaugh (writing as Lea)
Filename: byzantine_perspective.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file byzantine_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

 Condemned

By Mark Jones (writing as a Delusioned Teenager)
Filename: condemned.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt

 The Duel in the Snow

A Tale of Old Russia
By Utkonos
Filename: duel.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file duelwalk.txt

 The Duel That Spanned the Ages

Episode 1: The Age of Machines
By Oliver Ullmann
Filename: duel.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file duel solution.txt
Blurb: A frantic struggle for survival in hard vacuum.

 Earl Grey

By Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish
Filename: earlgrey.ulx
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file earlgrey_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

 Eruption

A tectonic excitement
By Richard Bos
Filename: eruption.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You have just woken up, in a cave, with a hangover, and something is rumbling. And it isn't your stomach.

 GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands!

By Dave Horlick
Filename: gatoron.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file gatoron.scr

 Gleaming the Verb

By Kevin Jackson-Mead
Filename: gleaming.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file gleaming.txt

 The Grand Quest

An interactive struggle
By Owen Parish
Filename: TheGrandQuest.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file GrandQuestWalkthru.rtf
Blurb: You've spent the best part of your life as a man dreaming of the goblet.

You seek it. While you've had a job, a family, your thoughts were always looking forward, dwelling on


The Grand Quest

 Grounded In Space

An Inadvertent Adventure
By Matt Wigdahl
Filename: GiS.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file GiS_walk.txt
Blurb: Testing your homebuilt rocket engine outside sounded like a good idea, until you incinerated Mom's greenhouse.

Now Dad thinks that a few weeks away from the home asteroid mining the Belt alone might teach you some self-reliance and caution...

 The Hangover

By Will Conine (writing as Red conine)
Filename: hangover.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file HangoverGuide.txt
Blurb: The Hangover is the story of you. You awake in your apartment with an unknown women and your bank informing you that you changed your name last night. The goal? Get the approval form in triplicate to get the name on your debit card changed!

 Interface

By Ben Vegiard
Filename: Interface.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Interface Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: What happens when your favorite Uncle, a successful electronics company owner, has you try out his latest invention? Of course, something goes amiss and you must struggle to set it all right or suffer the consequences. Deliberately “Old School” romp.

 Resonance

By Matt Scarpino
Filename: resonance.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file resonance_walkthrough.html
Filename: rover.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celcius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort of place you'd take your dog walkies. Most days.

 Snowquest

A Curious Tale
By Eric Eve
Filename: Snowquest.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file SQWalkthrough.txt
Blurb: You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

 Spelunker's Quest

By Tom Murrin
Filename: Spelunker's Quest.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file SQ walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Your objective is to stay alive and find a way out of the cave. Staying alive will be no easy task and to reach the maximum score, you'll need to find all of the hidden treasure!

 Star Hunter

An interstellar treasure-hunting puzzle game
By Chris K.
Filename: hunter.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Explore amazing ruins. Seek out mysterious treasures. Risk all you own in trade at the Android Bazaar - to find the priceless lying Bear of Deneb.

 Trap Cave

incl. NXI release 1.1 (Win32/Linux)
By Emilian Kowalewski
Filename: nxi.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file trapcave_en_001.txt
Blurb: First complete fantasy adventure in english and german for my advanced MC & CYOA system Node-X (V1.1, Generation 1). Short demo for writing your own Node-X games included, as well as Win32 and Linux executables of interpreter. Enjoy!

 Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort

By Duncan Bowsman (writing as Tiberius Thingamus)
Filename: astoundingcastle.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file YAC_walkthrough.doc
Blurb: In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things!

Can ye getteth all o' ye treasures & defeateth ye evil wizard?

 zork, buried chaos

zork, buried chaos
By Brad Renshaw (writing as bloodbath)
Filename: zork, buried chaos.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: You were exploring the underground empire when there was an earthquake and it caved in! You have to escape!

This year's organizer is Stephen Granade.