Winners of the 2018 IFComp

Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from Human intervention.

To read the rest of this story, please enter one Taiga dollar into the Forest vending machine to receive your exclusive Taiga Digest!

Grimnoir is a hypertext mystery game featuring seven main cases, multiple endings, and an inordinate amount of whiskey. An internet connection and speakers are recommended for the best experience, but not required. The game is not recommended for young children.

Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search for clues when you're dead, can you? All you can do is piece together memories about what happened.

No one said the memories had to be yours.

The best festival in the year. All around Irene, political intrigues and social unrest, clashing with her own goal. Will she share the table with the rich or the poor? Will she understand the truth about her world, a precarious Mediterranean city in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars? Will she get involved, or will she just lay back, enjoy the party and dance with the people wearing skulls?

The Master of the Land lets you walk around the map as different events and stories develop in different places, allowing to see and shape greatly different stories in each playthrough.

(The game can be played on mobile but a PC or a large tablet is recommended for best experience.)

A lushly illustrated adventure about rabbits, inspired by Watership Down, City of Ember, Skyrim, Caves of Qud, Super Mario Brothers, and Apocolypse now.

He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must navigate the dangerous, damaged facility and overcome many obstacles, using her wits and the help of Odys, the artificial intelligence.

In Lux, the adventure game, you will explore the expansive space facility, solve puzzles and discover the truth behind the disaster.

Show them you're not all teeth and claws, kid.

Is your journey merely beginning or is it already about to end ?

A mouse who has lost his realm.

A dog who has lost his family.

And the scientist who will save the world.

With knife-edge choices between compliance and rebellion, you must weigh up which consequence is worse. This is a game for right now.

The Origin of Madame Time is a simple (12K word) inform game set in a single moment of time in a small amusement park. The game is more difficult than my past games, and features less conversation. Madame Time has two hint systems using your powers of Foresight and Aftersight. This game was created in fulfillment of an IFComp 2017 prize.

But then you will figure it out -- these statements are not entirely true.

* There are two endings in this game.

* Credits roll at the end of the game.

* If you do not see the credits roll, you haven't reached the end of the game. Yet.

It turned out to be haunted. That was a big deal for you.

This is the story of how you dealt with that problem.

(Puzzle-oriented and family friendly, with illustrations by Corinna Browning.)

Does it matter?

Charming is a short, light, puzzly game. Writing it began around September of 2015; two programming language switches, many hiatuses, a college graduation, and two missed IFComp deadlines later, Kaylah Facey is thrilled to finally release it to the public. She very much hopes you enjoy her debut interactive fiction game.

Now the trio has learned the location of Lord Infamy's superweapon, the Ray of Night -- Mars! As Dynamite infiltrates the mysterious Martian base, he is ambushed by henchmen with paralyzing gas!

We rejoin Dynamite as he awakens in a new deathtrap…

Armed only with email, can you, George MacBraeburn, chief administrator of the IFTFF, find a solution that will save the competition and the Foundation itself?

Strap on your meta-goggles.

Alix's short stories are inspired by a variety of famous videogames and classic novels. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for a full credits page.

No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up!

You are alone in the city, without your memories...but you do have a mission, and it changes every time you play.

You also have your silver gun. It will kill any agent you choose to kill...but you only have six bullets. The city is full of agents. Friends and rivals, former lovers and mortal enemies. Can you accomplish your mission? Should you?

Decide quickly. There is not much time.

You should visit their humble establishment. If you help them with their problems, they can help you with yours.

You remember that problem of yours, right?

(In this game, you and your hammer will explore a brief career in hospitality & tourism.)

Forget about yourself and worry about them.

That's what she'd want.

(Note: This game poured out of me during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in America, and the discussion of sexual assault surrounding it. I am very interested in how players like you will respond to this. Please don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts.)

Warning: may contain traces of violence, dark themes, and peanuts. No, really, peanuts.

Richman's Circle Bank is ready, waiting, and unsuspecting. All you have to do is choose a team and try not to get caught (or die - dying is definitely a possibility).

There's only three ways this kind of life goes: you either end up six feet under, behind bars, or sitting on a pile of money.

So get in, get the cash and get away. That's all there is to it.

SRPG is a browser-based parser game with some hyperlinking for convenience. Optional musical accompaniment provided at no extra charge. Chrome is strongly recommended, maximized for optimal experience.

Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the bottom of the garden where he lived.

This is a text adventure game in the classic puzzle parser style (but with less hunt the verb/phrase frustration).

This game uses the Quest engine (which is free to download: http://textadventures.co.uk/quest) and you can then play the game file offline (recommended), or you can play online here: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/dwh6ap1wbkqtujkhgxzrog/the-mouse-who-woke-up-for-christmas

And no, "no-one" isn't a good enough answer.

Recommend using the following browser versions to play: Chrome 69.0.3497 Firefox 62.0.3

You'll sleep easier after the task is done - or you'll be dead, really truly dead, and it won't matter.

Play as the warrior Bash on his quest to obtain the Stone of Wisdom. You will start out equipped with a magical combat ring, a lamp and a backpack filled with food rations. And of course, you have your trusty sword. But use it wisely. After all good karma is the path to success...

IMPORTANT: This is an ADRIFT 5 game, requiring an ADRIFT 5 interpreter. For Windows, the interpreter can be downloaded here:

http://www.adrift.co/files/ADRIFT5r.zip

Join Jennifer on her journey through life. The choices you make in her early years will resonate for years to come, sometimes with devastating consequences. But remember, as with so much of life, there are no right answers. What matters is Jennifer's right to choose, a right that none of us can afford to take for granted.

Nothing to do now but wait, you suppose."

(A brief conversation game about fear, prejudice, and trust. Cover art adapted from an image from the National Archives of the United Kingdom. Testing by Sergio.)

A game about words and castles. Please play online.

And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town.

You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry.

A game about memory and middle school.

You got trapped in a dream again before your birthday. Now you are a figurine toy and everything is made of lego!

Escape a series of rooms with puzzles by playing with pieces of words.

In the world where words are weapons and secrets are worth more than gold, a casual conversation might be the most dangerous mission you'll tackle yet.

You play the part of Inspector Percival Pike, tasked with investigating the murder of Sir Stanley Stagwood, Lord of Stagwood Manor.

Was Lord Stagwood murdered by the glamorous, yet tempestuous, Evelyn West in the parlor with the fire poker? Or did his heir-apparent, Henry Bray, stab him in the kitchen with the billiard cue?

Question the four suspects, examine the evidence, and search the manor. Only then will you have one chance to make an arrest. Will you detain the guilty party, or will the murderer get away scot-free?

**Not optimized for mobile, and not suitable for children**

Update: While the game has run fine in most browsers, a small number players have reported a slow or laggy game. Instruction Set runs in Scratch (a children's programming language - this is a game I wrote with my kid, designed to be playable by her peers), which in turn runs in Flash. Environments with poor Flash support may run into this problem. Switching environments often fixes the problem for those that encounter it.

The Addicott Manor is constructed around two goals which can also be integrated, if the reader so desires. - One goal is to uncover the intertwining mysteries of the manor, how it all came to be. - The other goal is to find as much jewelry as possible. There are a total of six items and only one way to get them all and come out alive! You will have to choose what motivates you the most; your curiosity, greed or to save your life.

Are you sleeping to remember or are you sleeping to forget?

Credits to testers: Uliana Sirotina, Matt Nicolls

NOTE : A short game, it'll barely take up half an hour of your time. As a newbie, I am very excited to have created something and am thankful of this platform to share my work. Please leave your suggestions and other comments on what you would like to see improved/the same of in the next games in the series. Or any other helpful words. Hope you enjoy the game!

And I probably shouldn't have written all that in the blurb.

After enduring a hurricane, your hot air balloon has crashed on an a mysterious island. Lost and alone, you have to find a way to survive and escape!

You find yourself at a busy intersection where an accident is about to happen. What do you do? Who do you save? Your choices define your moral viewpoint, but everything is not as it appears to be. The more choices you make, the more you find out about the people and their motivations for being at this intersection at this particular moment. Space-time portals, murders, even aliens, are somehow all involved.

Birmingham IV tells the story of what happened next. A big, puzzle-based adventure, it contains scenes of mild peril, cartoon violence, and consumption of alcohol, so please be warned.

Use of a calculator is to be considered cheating.

Tourism research and writing by Kyra Sande. Powered by the Desmos® Computation Layer™; download package includes access code, printable map, and solution manual. Aligned with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7, and CCSS.Math.Content.4.NBT.B.4.