The 18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

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Andromeda Apocalypse

By Marco Innocenti
Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind forever. (uploaded 2012-10-04)
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Body Bargain

A Tale of Transhumanism
By Amanda Lange
Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it...

(Warning: some blood and gore) (uploaded 2012-10-30)
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Castle Adventure

An interactive fiction for the not-quite-beginning adventurer
By Ben Chenoweth
You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who is reportedly being held prisoner in a labyrinth beneath the Castle... (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Changes

By David Given
Elysia: a new Earth. Possibly the greatest opportunity the starship Concerto has found in its thousand-year voyage. But with opportunities there are risks, and there's more going on on Elysia than meets the eye... (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Escape From Summerland

By Joey Jones (writing as Jenny Roomy and Jasmine Lavages)
In the near future a drone war rages in the skies, but below in Summerland there is only one thought: who's going to feed Jacquotte? (uploaded 2012-10-11)
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Eurydice

By Anonymous
A short game about grief with occasional snakes. (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Fish Bowl

An Interactive Horror
By Ethan Rupp
(uploaded 2012-10-11)
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Guilded Youth

By Jim Munroe
You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... (uploaded 2012-11-11)
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howling dogs

By Porpentine
mysterious game...hyperlink powered, yes, but what ethos does it promote? a death ethos? my god...or uh, visions, gender, the hyphen between dream-notdream, fascination, feeling anything at all?

two significant endings (uploaded 2012-10-04)
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In a Manor of Speaking

By Hulk Handsome
In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour.

Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the Manor itself as you save the land using the power of words! (uploaded 2012-10-18)
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Irvine Quik & the Search for the Fish of Traglea

By Duncan Bowsman
Science fiction adventure! Extinction looms for the fish, people, and entire planet of Traglea. Can one bumbling space cadet rescue enough alien fish before too late? Can he learn the secret of Traglean karate? Find out & help save the planet! (ADRIFT 4) (uploaded 2012-11-11)
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The Island

By Andrew Brown (writing as Old Andy)
to switch on walkthrough you must type "ftang" then "walkthrough" "shazam" will fill your inventory with useful things... "ftang" toggles cheat mode (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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J'dal

By Ryan Kinsman (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Kicker

By Pippin Barr
Kicker is an interactive sports fiction in which you take on the often derided role of a place kicker in a game of American football.

Walk the walk, talk the talk, drink the drink, kick the ball, and more! (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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A Killer Headache

A Distasteful Situation
By Mike Ciul
The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache.

Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological. (uploaded 2012-10-11)
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Last Minute

By Ruderbager Doppelganger
A desperate attempt at a story about a desperate attempt to enter into the 2012 IFCOMP at the last minute. (uploaded 2012-10-04)
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The Lift

By Colin Capurso
You wake up a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there.

You need to survive, that's all you know. (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Living Will

By Mark Marino
As an heir to the fortune of the Coltan-magnate ER Millhouse, you can expand your inheritance or become buried in medical and legal fees as you peruse his living will and discover the story behind the fortune he pillaged in the Congo. (Undum) (uploaded 2012-10-04)
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Lunar Base 1

By Michael Phipps
Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them. (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Murphy's Law

By Scott Hammack
Thing are looking up! After decades of scrimping and saving, you've finally pulled yourself out of debt. The only thing left standing between you and financial independence is one last mortgage payment. What could possibly go wrong? (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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The Sealed Room

By Robert DeFord
This conversation-based IF game is the equivalent to a short-short story in the non-IF world.


Name of the game file: The Sealed Room.a3c

Name of walkthru: The Sealed Room walkthrough.rtf (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Shuffling Around

Much more magical than plain old putzing around.
By Andrew Schultz (writing as Ned Yompus)
A weird special power can help save a weird world.

It'd be a lot harder with graphics. (uploaded 2012-11-11)
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Signos

An Essential Quest
By Mauricio (writing as M4u)
The essence of the game is the essence of any human life: fulfill our purpose through our mistakes to finally find our truly selves and reach our destiny, the one destiny. (uploaded 2012-10-18)
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Spiral

By Justin Morgan
Two people wake up in a train carriage, tied up and gagged, unable to speak, unable to escape and unable to die. All they can do is sleep, think and remember. (uploaded 2012-11-11)
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Sunday Afternoon

By Christopher Huang (writing as Virgil Hilts)
It's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from in here. It's not fair. All the servants have the day off, and you can bet they're not cooped up indoors in their Sunday best. If only there were some way to escape.... (uploaded 2012-10-30)
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The Test is Now READY

By Jim Warrenfeltz
A zombie apocalypse, with one dose of antidote, one bullet and two survivors.

A train hurtles towards your son - or five strangers.

You're kidnapped and forced to save an innocent life. Is there another way?

What do you do? Can you pass The Test? (uploaded 2012-10-04)
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Transit

By Shaye
Find your way through a foreign airport in search of your friend, understanding or just a safe flight home. (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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Valkyrie

By Emily Forand
This game was authored by the guild, Valkyrie, three students enrolled in a Game-based Learning Developmental English course this Fall semester at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, CO. (uploaded 2012-09-30)
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This year's organizer is Stephen Granade.