Welcome to IFComp 2011, the competition for short text adventures.
The competition has ended, and the results are now available. The top three games are Taco Fiction, Six, and The Play. The winners of the Miss Congeniality Contest, chosen by the authors themselves, are Taco Fiction, and The Play, and Kerkerkruip and The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (tie for third).
11 November: The games PataNoir and Professor Frank have been updated.
01 November: The games Death of Schlig and Professor Frank have been updated.
25 October: For the fourth update, the games A Comedy of Error Messages (originally Elfen Maiden), Andromeda Awakening, Fog Convict, Operation Extraction, and PataNoir have been updated.
16 October: It's the third update! The games Andromeda Awakening, Blind, Calm, Cana According To Micah, Cold Iron, Fan Interference, The Myothian Falcon, and The Play have been updated, and the walkthrough for Elfen Maiden has been expanded.
11 October: The games Andromeda Awakening, Awake the Mighty Dread, Death of Schlig, Fan Interference, The Guardian, The Myothian Falcon, Operation Extraction, The Play, Sentencing Mr Liddell, and Taco Fiction have been updated.
06 October: The games Calm, Death of Schlig, The Hours, Fan Interference, Kerkerkruip, Sentencing Mr Liddell, Blind, It, Dead Hotel, Andromeda Awakening, Tenth Plague, and Vestiges have been updated.
02 October: The original release of the competition games included in-progress game data for the games Six and Kerkerkruip that shouldn't have been there. If you downloaded the files, please delete the files sixdata1 and sixdata2 from the /glulx/six directory and KerkerkruipAchievements, KerkerkruipData, and KerkerkruipSave from the /glulx/kerkerkruip directory.
02 October: The games How Suzy Got Her Powers and Cursed do not play properly using the online interpreter or using the ADRIFT 5 Runner. To play the games, please download them and use the ADRIFT 4 Runner.
01 October: The games are now available for downloading or (in many cases) online play! Get your votes in by November 15. Note that authors may update their games as the competition progresses. The online play links will use the latest version, and the updates will be available from the IF Archive.
30 September: The authors have uploaded their games and we are currently processing them. Games should be released within a day or two.
01 September: All authors have signed up and are feverishly working on their games
10 May: The web site is open for business. Authors may sign up, while those who are interested can learn more about how to judge in the competition or can donate prizes.
For the last sixteen years, the readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction have held a yearly interactive fiction competition. For fans of the old Infocom games as well as for newcomers to the genre, the competition is a chance to enjoy some of the best short adventure games available anywhere.
The organizer for the 2011 competition is Stephen Granade. Thanks go to all who have volunteered their time and energy to make this competition happen over the years. Special thanks go to Geof Morris, Mark Musante, Dan Shiovitz, Lucian Smith, Juhana Leinonen, and Misty Granade.