Winners of the 2009 IFComp

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1st place

Rover's Day Out

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Jack Welch

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.

This work also won 1st place in the 2009 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score 7.96
Votes Cast 92
Standard Deviation 1.65

2nd place

Broken Legs

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Katherine Morayati

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.

This work also won 3rd place (tie) in the 2009 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score 7.39
Votes Cast 92
Standard Deviation 1.72

3rd place

Snowquest
A Curious Tale

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Eric Eve

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.

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Score 7.37
Votes Cast 101
Standard Deviation 1.41

4th place

The Duel That Spanned the Ages
Episode 1: The Age of Machines

 

Oliver Ullmann

A frantic struggle for survival in hard vacuum.

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Score 7.02
Votes Cast 89
Standard Deviation 1.62

5th place

Earl Grey

 

Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish

A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

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Score 6.84
Votes Cast 99
Standard Deviation 1.86

6th place

The Duel in the Snow
A Tale of Old Russia

 

Utkonos

This work also won 2nd place in the 2009 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score 6.73
Votes Cast 101
Standard Deviation 1.46

7th place

Resonance

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Matt Scarpino

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Score 6.69
Votes Cast 85
Standard Deviation 1.83

8th place

Interface

 

Ben Vegiard

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.

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Score 6.31
Votes Cast 90
Standard Deviation 1.51

9th place

Byzantine Perspective
A Straightforward Burglary

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Lea Albaugh (writing as “Lea”)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

This work also won 3rd place (tie) in the 2009 Miss Congeniality Awards.

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Score 5.76
Votes Cast 106
Standard Deviation 1.83

10th place

Grounded in Space
An Inadvertent Adventure

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Matt Wigdahl

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...

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Score 5.39
Votes Cast 80
Standard Deviation 1.33

11th place

Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort

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Duncan Bowsman (writing as “Tiberius Thingamus”)

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?

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Score 5.34
Votes Cast 76
Standard Deviation 2.21

12th place

Condemned

 

Mark Jones (writing as “a Delusioned Teenager”)

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Score 5.27
Votes Cast 98
Standard Deviation 2.22

13th place

Eruption
A tectonic excitement

 

Richard Bos

You have just woken up, in a cave, with a hangover, and something is rumbling. And it isn't your stomach.

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Score 4.95
Votes Cast 97
Standard Deviation 1.78

14th place

Beta Tester

 

Darren Ingram

The goal is discovery. The fun is walking around and doing and seeing, with an emphasis on games and puzzles.

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Score 4.68
Votes Cast 94
Standard Deviation 1.95

15th place

The Ascot
A Shake 'n Nod Adventure

 

Duncan Bowsman

A City Park Underground Y/N CYOA. Straightforward and slangy.

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Score 4.59
Votes Cast 83
Standard Deviation 1.85

16th place

Spelunker's Quest

 

Tom Murrin

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!

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Score 4.24
Votes Cast 86
Standard Deviation 1.35

17th place

The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man

 

Hannes Schueller

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.

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Score 4.13
Votes Cast 91
Standard Deviation 1.73

18th place

The Grand Quest
An interactive struggle

 

Owen Parish

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

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Score 3.79
Votes Cast 86
Standard Deviation 1.46

19th place

Star Hunter
An interstellar treasure-hunting puzzle game

 

Chris K.

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.

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Score 3.77
Votes Cast 82
Standard Deviation 1.79

20th place

GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands!

 

Dave Horlick

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Score 3.65
Votes Cast 91
Standard Deviation 1.61

21st place

Gleaming the Verb

 

Kevin Jackson-Mead

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Score 3.33
Votes Cast 102
Standard Deviation 1.58

22nd place

zork, buried chaos
zork, buried chaos

 

Brad Renshaw (writing as “bloodbath”)

You were exploring the underground empire when there was an earthquake and it caved in! You have to escape!

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Score 1.89
Votes Cast 89
Standard Deviation 1.08

23rd place

Trap Cave
incl. NXI release 1.1 (Win32/Linux)

 

Comazombie

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!

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Score 1.74
Votes Cast 43
Standard Deviation 1.07

24th place

The Hangover

 

Will Conine (writing as “Red conine”)

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!

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Score 1.61
Votes Cast 74
Standard Deviation 0.98

The organizer of the 2009 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.