The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Games

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 The Absolute Worst IF Game in History

An Interactive thingy
By Dean Menezes
Filename: badgame.z5
System: Z-code
Blurb:

 Afflicted

By Doug Egan
Filename: afflicted.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Afflicted walkthru.txt
Blurb: This isn't the safest neighborhood. A young woman was abducted near here only recently. But as a city sanitarian you are obligated to complete your annual inspection of the local dive.

 Ananachronist

A puzzle in four dimensions
By Joseph Strom
Filename: anachron.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: Have you ever wondered about lack of universe-destroying temporal paradoxes? The anthropic principle just not a good enough explanation for you? Here's a short game about how difficult it is to keep the universe non-existence free.

 April in Paris

By Jim Aikin
Filename: April_In_Paris.t3
System: TADS 3
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: On the first day of your dream vacation, you encounter an exasperating social difficulty. (Game file contains complete hints and walkthrough. Zip file includes pdf map.)

 Berrost's Challenge

By Mark Hatfield
Filename: berrosts.gam
System: TADS 2
Walkthru: In file Berrost's Challenge Hints.txt
Blurb: Light-hearted (semi-)heroic fantasy. Can an aging apprentice end his apprenticeship with a flourish (and a few new spells to cast)?

Just an old-school text adventure with a tip of the cap to Infocom's Enchanter series.

 Buried In Shoes

By Kazuki Mishima
Filename: bishoes.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file biswalk.txt
Blurb: Everything is about the question.

 Channel Surfing

By Mike Vollmer (writing as probabilityZero)
Filename: chnlsurf.ulx
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file chnlwalk.txt

 Cry Wolf

By Clare Parker
Filename: Cry Wolf.ulx
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file cry wolf walkthrough.rtf
Blurb: You are awoken, startled by a sound in the night. Still bleary from dreams, you turn on the light to chase away the shadows. But there, beyond the safety of your room, something moves in the darkness. It is long past midnight, and a wolf is at your door.

 A Date With Death

By David Whyld
Filename: datewithdeath.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: It's not easy being king. Especially when you're the king of a nation constantly at war with, well, everyone. And when the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, you wonder if being king is really worth all this hassle...

 Dracula's Underground Crypt

A comedy with... um... vampire fangs?
By Alex Whitington
Filename: Draculas Underground Crypt.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Professor Von Klausberger is the most renowned vampire hunter in the world; his life a never-ending adventure filled with heart-stopping action and devious puzzles. He's not who you're playing as; this is a game about Daniel.

 Escape from the Underworld

By Karl Beecher
Filename: underworld.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt
Blurb: Take control of Bobby T. Minion, the demon who has had a change of heart, and help him escape from the Underworld, the place to where torturing the souls of the damned has been outsourced.

 Everybody Dies

By Jim Munroe
Filename: EverybodyDies.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: Ever see a shopping cart in a river? Ever wonder how it got there? And who has to fish it out? In a suburb of Toronto, three grocery store employees discover the answers to these questions... with disastrous consequences.

 Freedom

By Anonymous
Filename: freedom.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary person.
Filename: Grief.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game

 The Hall of the Fount of Artois

An interactive distraction
By Simon
Filename: Fount.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file Fount_Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Pierre Artois, the scion of the Artois, lies spellbound and immobile in a room in his family's home. You have one night in which to break an evil curse and restore the hopes and future of the ancient family!

 LAIR of the CyberCow

...Moooooo...
By Conrad Cook (writing as Harry Wilson)
Filename: lair-of-the-cybercow.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: One of the few games in the neglected Farm Noir genre, <b>LAIR of the <i>CyberCow</i></b> takes a stylishly chilling, ambivalently moral look at the social themes of our times -- or, does it?

Play it now: don't wait for the movie. (Requires ADRIFT 3.9)

 The Lighthouse

By xyzzyman
Filename: lighthouse.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: The Lighthouse is a small game in where your main foucus is to turn on the light in the Havenworth lighthouse. This game is very short and also is my very first game!

 The Lucubrator

By Rick Dague
Filename: The Lucubrator.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file lucuwalkthru.txt

 Magic

a story of the dangers that magicians can face
By Geoff Fortytwo
Filename: Magic.t3
System: TADS 3
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt

 A Martian Odyssey

A science fiction text adventure of space exploration and interpersonal communication
By Horatio
Filename: AMO.blb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file AMO.sol
Blurb: You are D. Jarvis, chemist of the famous crew, the Ares expedition, first human beings to set foot on the mysterious neighbor of the earth, the planet Mars.

 The Missing Piece

By C.Yong
Filename: MissingPiece.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file Solution.htm
Blurb: Complete "the missing piece" to escape from the evil world in this GUI text-based CRPG game.

 Nerd Quest

Escape from the server room.
By gabor de mooij (writing as RagtimeNerd)
Filename: nerdquest.xbook
System: Java
Walkthru: In file nerdquestwalkthru.pdf
Blurb: This is a snack-sized adventure game written in my own hobby programming language MechaniQue. I will make it available as a web page so you don't have to install anything (see walkthrough for details and URL).

 The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom

By Anssi Räisänen
Filename: forbidden.a3c
System: ALAN
Walkthru: available in-game

 Nightfall

An Interactive Short Story
By Eric Eve
Filename: Nightfall.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file Nightfall Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment.
Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing for it but to find her before it's too late.

 Opening Night

By David Batterham
Filename: OpeningNight.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory.

 Piracy 2.0

A Text Adventure In Space
By Sean Huxter
Filename: Piracy_2.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Admiral Copeland entrusted you with a mission to bring a pirate to trial. En-route the pirate's band attacks, boards your ship and kills your crew, throwing you into the brig. But you're not going to let that stop you from completing your mission are you?

 Project Delta

The Course
By Emilian Kowalewski
Filename: nxi.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file Help/walkthru.txt
Blurb: The Course is a short prequel to Project Delta, a CYOA-style text adventure inspired by Area 51 conspiracy theories, set in its own universe and scripted in "Node-X", a game system developed by the author himself.

 Recess At Last

An Interactive Restlessness
By Gerald Aungst
Filename: recess.gblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file recess.txt
Blurb: After endless months of indoor recess, an eager student's plan to try out his brand new sneakers is thwarted by one missing assignment.

 Red Moon

By Jonathan Hay
Filename: Red Moon.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Red Moon Walkthrough.txt
Filename: Riverside.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file RiversideWalkthrough.txt

 Search for the Ultimate Weapon

By SHARON LYNN CHU YEW YEE (writing as Sharilynn)
Filename: Search for the Ultimate Weapon.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file SUW Game Guide
Blurb: The interactive fiction is very loosely based on the story of Wu Mei, a legendary Kung Fu nun during the Qing Dynasty in China. She is said to be the founder of various Chinese martial arts such as Wu Mei Pai and Wing Chun Kuen.

 Snack Time!

An Interactive Break for a Bite
By Hardy the Bulldog & Renee Choba
Filename: Snack Time!.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot.

 Trein

By Leena Ganguli
Filename: Trein.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Trouble has been brewing in Trein Hill. The people stopped playing their taxes and all is silence. What's worse, there's rumors of disappearances and even rebellion! It is up to you to find out what is happening in that isolated territory.

 Violet

By Jeremy Freese
Filename: violet.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon.

 When Machines Attack

By Mark Jones
Filename: machines.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file wmasol.txt

This year's organizer is Stephen Granade.