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3rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Fall, 1997

The Results

Place Title Author
1 The Edifice   Lucian P. Smith
2 Babel   Ian Finley
3 Glowgrass   Nate Cull
4 She's Got a Thing for a Spring   Brent VanFossen
5 A Bear's Night Out   David Dyte
6 Sunset Over Savannah   Ivan Cockrum
7 Poor Zefron's Almanac   Carl Klutzke
8 The Lost Spellmaker   Neil Brown
9 Sins Against Mimesis   Adam Thornton
10 A New Day   Jonathan Fry
11 Zero Sum Game   Cody Sandifier
12 Zombie!   Scott W. Starkey
13 The Frenetic Five vs Sturm und Drang   Neil deMause
14 Travels in the Land of Erden   Laura A. Knauth
15 Unholy Grail   Stuart Allen
16 Friday Afternoon   Mischa Schweitzer
17 Madame L'estrange and the Troubled Spirit   Ian Ball and Marcus Young
18 Sylenius Mysterium   C.E. Forman
19 Phred Phontious, the Quest for Pizza   Michael Zey
20 Down   Kent Tessman
21 VirtuaTech   David Glasser
22 The Obscene Quest of Dr Aardvarkbarf   Gary Roggin
23 A Good Breakfast   Stuart Adair
24 The Town Dragon   David A. Cornelson
25 The Tempest   "William Shakespeare" (Graham Nelson)
26 Temple of the Orc Mage   Gary Roggin
27 E-MAILBOX   Jay A. Goemmer
28 Pintown   Stefan Blixt
29 Leaves   Mikko Vuorinen
30 Congratulations   Frederick J. Hirsch
31 CASK   Harry Hardjono
32 Symetry   Rybread Celsius
33 Aunt Nancy's House   Nate Schwartzman
34 Coming Home   Andrew Katz

The Games

The entries can be found on any of these servers:

Other Information

Here is the original competition announcement (with rules for submissions). And here is the original results announcement, and an unofficial post which lists the ranks of every game (not just those that won prizes).

The competition organizer for 1997 was Kevin "Whizzard" Wilson.

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