The 17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Games

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 Andromeda Awakening

By Marco Innocenti
Filename: Andromeda Awakening.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has begun ticking...?
Play it online!

 Awake the Mighty Dread

A Faerwhile Tale
By Lyle Skains
Filename: Awake the Mighty Dread.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: You wake up on a train in a strange world, knowing only that if you sleep, the nightmares return. But someone else is also lost, and you must find him, or else the nightmares will capture you forever.
Play it online!

 Beet the Devil

By Carolyn VanEseltine
Filename: Beet the Devil.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).
Play it online!

 The Binary

By Simon (writing as Bloomengine)
Filename:
System: Web-based
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: The Timeline must be sanctified. Relive the same few minutes over and over again, attempting to stop a bullet from changing history.
Play it online!

 Blind

Who says blindness is a handicap?
By Andrew Metzger (writing as Arman)
Filename: blind_rls.gam
System: TADS 2
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: A creep kidnaps you, a blind woman. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap?
(Note: some violence, brief textual nudity, and generally scary themes; suggested PG-13 rating)

 Calm

A game of postapocalyptic relaxation
By Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
Filename: Calm.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file calm hints.txt
Blurb: Since the spores came the future has been a happier place. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm...
Play it online!

 Cana According To Micah

By Christopher Huang (writing as Rev. Stephen Dawson)
Filename: Cana.z8
System: Z-code
Blurb: Being an account of the wedding at Cana, by the servant Micah; in which further details, doubtlessly apocryphal, are given of the event, including his contention with a surly Baptist, an interfering orphan, and a proliferation of women named Mary.
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 Cold Iron

A hot summer's tale
By Andrew Plotkin (writing as Lyman Clive Charles)
Filename: coldiron.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't steal the thing...
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 A Comedy of Error Messages

By Adam Le Doux
Filename: elfenMaiden.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file elfenMaidenWalkthrough.txt
Blurb: A loyal but punctilious PC attempts to save its master from taking part in a disastrous blind-date, set up through the MMORPG Realms of Realmland.

Note: credits for Beta Testers can be found with the "credits" command in-game or in the walkthrough file
Play it online!

 Cursed

By Nick Rogers
Filename: cursed.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file cursed_hints.taf
Blurb: Accused of murdering your best friend, you are about to face the death penalty. But instead you are cursed, transformed into a beast and begin an epic journey to unravel the mystery of the real murderer, why your friend was killed, and undo the curse.

 Dead Hotel

By Comazombie
Filename: deadhotel.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file deadwalk.txt
Blurb: Escape from a zombie-infested hotel by fighting or shooting your way out in this short CYOA survival horror adventure.

 Death of Schlig

By Peter Timony
Filename: Death of Schlig.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file Schlig Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Schlig is kidnapped by aliens and turned into a mutant eyeball freak by their experiments. Now Schlig must use his eyes in ways that no human was ever intended to in order to escape from the aliens and find a way back to Earth before he gets eaten.
Play it online!

 Escape From Santaland

By Jason Ermer
Filename: Santaland.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Santaland Walkthru.txt
Blurb: Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there.
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 Fan Interference

By Andrew Schultz
Filename: Fan Interference.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: The 2003 Cubs are on the brink of the World Series. It's game 6, and they're even going to take a late 3-0 lead in the clinching game. They won't keep it.

Unless you, who just got kicked off the bus near Wrigley Field, prevent that.
Play it online!

 Fog Convict

When a heavy fog rolls in, college life gets a touch more interesting...
By Andrew Metzger (writing as Arman)
Filename: FogConvict.gam
System: TADS 2
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: There's a convict loose, a fog that just won't go away, and you're pretty sure your dorm mate just blew up his microwave. Just another day in college, right?

 The Guardian

By Lutein Hawthorne
Filename: Guardian 11_0929 verD.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Guardian Solution v5.txt
Blurb: A beginner level fantasy quest, made to be straightforward to finish without previous IF experience. Small feelies, an instruction book and MIDI music, are included.

Online play temporarily unavailable (feelies missing, please download).

 The Hours

By Robert Patten
Filename: The Hours.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file hours walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought.

 How Suzy Got Her Powers

By David Whyld
Filename: how suzy got her powers.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You're Suzy Loman: mild-mannered waitress by day, superheroine by night. Well... at the present time that's only 50% true. The superheroine part you're still working on...
Filename: it.t3
System: TADS 3
Blurb: The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last person still looking for me, then you lose. Got it?

 Keepsake

An Interactive Act of Vengeance
By Savaric
Filename: Keepsake.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing.
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Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.
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 Kerkerkruip

By Victor Gijsbers
Filename: Kerkerkruip.gblorb
System: Glulx
Blurb: Kerkerkruip is a dungeon crawling game that brings interactive fiction and rogue-likes together. With a randomly generated dungeon and a complex world model, every game is different and exciting. Success can only be achieved through tactics and strategy.

 Last Day of Summer

By Doug Orleans (writing as Cameron Fox)
Filename: Last Day of Summer.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: It's the last day of summer, and you're old enough now to go into town by yourself.
Play it online!

 The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M

By Michael D Hilborn (writing as Edmund Wells)
Filename: DoctorM.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you went.
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 Luster

By Jared Smith
Filename: Luster.gblorb
System: Glulx
Blurb: In the outskirts of a deserted town, the adventurer carefully explore, looking for rare gems.
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 The Myothian Falcon

By Andy Joel
Filename: The Myothian Falcon.quest
System: QUEST
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: "That day, the 9th of June, 3145, started out like any other, perhaps a little hotter than usual. Then Maisy DeValle entered his office."

Vic Gantry, P.I., has a new client. She is wanted for the murder of her rich husband, Lawrence.
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 Operation Extraction

By Ming-Yee Iu
Filename: operationExtraction.html
System: Web-based
Walkthru: In file operationExtraction_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Rescue Dr. Galland, a bio-weapons specialist, from the Dawn Militia.
Play it online!

 PataNoir

By Simon Christiansen
Filename: PataNoir.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file Walkthru.txt
Blurb: The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Play it online!

 The Play

A dress rehearsal gone horribly wrong
By Deirdra Kiai
Filename: theplay.zip
System: Web-based
Blurb: Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once through from beginning to end. How hard can it be?
Play it online!

 Playing Games

By Kevin Jackson-Mead (writing as Pam Comfite)
Filename: Playing Games.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: available in-game
Play it online!

 Professor Frank

By Laurence Kilday
Filename: pfrank.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file pfrank.txt
Play it online!

 Return to Camelot

By Finn Rosenløv (writing as Po. Prune)
Filename: RtC.blorb
System: ADRIFT
Blurb: One minute you're at your office worrying about your finances and the next you're face to face with Merlin the wizard of Camelot. If you help him protect Queen Guinevere, he'll help you get back to your own time, and reward you too.
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 Sentencing Mr Liddell

By I-K. Huuhtanen
Filename: sentencing.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: "The time has come", the Teacher says, "to talk of many sins: of wives and mums and unloved sons (of where it all begins), and why it's really all your fault, and whether no-one wins."
Play it online!

 The Ship of Whimsy

By U. N. Owen
Filename: Ship of Whimsy.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file ShipOfWhimsy.txt
Blurb: The Ship of Whimsy is almost ready to set sail...
Play it online!

 Six

By Wade Clarke
Filename: six.gblorb
System: Glulx
Blurb: Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park. You can't wait to catch all your friends.

 Taco Fiction

By Ryan Veeder
Filename: Taco Fiction.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file tacofictionhints.html
Blurb: Taco Fiction is a game about crime.
Play it online!

 Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House

By Anssi Raisanen
Filename: abandoned.a3c
System: ALAN
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you?

 Tenth Plague

By Lynnea Dally
Filename: Tenth Plague.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague.
Play it online!

 Vestiges

Stumbling through Darkness
By Joanna Houston (writing as Josephine Wynter)
Filename: Vestiges.zblorb
System: Z-code
Blurb: In the absence of reality, perception must suffice...
You awake in a grave, with no memory of who you are or what happened to you. Using the items around you, you must escape the entity pursuing you and uncover the astounding truth of your origin.
Play it online!

This year's organizer is Stephen Granade.