Winners of the 2009 IFComp
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1st place
Rover's Day Out
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 |
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| Votes Cast | 92 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.65 |
2nd place
Broken Legs
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 |
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| Votes Cast | 92 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.72 |
3rd place
Snowquest
A Curious Tale
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Votes Cast | 101 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.46 |
7th place
Resonance
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 |
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| Votes Cast | 90 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.51 |
9th place
Byzantine Perspective
A Straightforward Burglary
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
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 |
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| Votes Cast | 80 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.33 |
11th place
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort
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 |
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| Votes Cast | 76 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.21 |
12th place
Condemned
Mark Jones (writing as “a Delusioned Teenager”)
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| Score | 5.27 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Votes Cast | 86 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.35 |
17th place
The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Votes Cast | 74 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.98 |
The organizer of the 2009 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.