Winners of the 2002 IFComp
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1st place
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky
Paul O'Brian
This work also won 2nd place in the 2002 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 7.60 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 100 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.78 |
2nd place
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me
Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered history. It's just a shame that it's not going to work. And you're unlikely to stay alive through the consequences. TILL DEATH... and then some.
This work also won 1st place in the 2002 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 7.34 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 114 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.72 |
3rd place
Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection
Steve Evans
Photograph is a story-driven, almost puzzleless work about a man obsessed with what he perceives to have been a wrong turn in his life. The story has dark themes with elements that are either fantasy, or delusion on the part of the protagonist (depending on your view).
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| Score | 7.21 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 125 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.94 |
4th place
The Moonlit Tower
Yoon Ha Lee
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| Score | 7.14 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 110 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.87 |
5th place
Janitor
Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
This work also won 3rd place in the 2002 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 6.78 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 114 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.19 |
6th place
The PK Girl
Robert Goodwin, Helen Trevillion, Nanami Nekono, and Oya-G
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| Score | 6.56 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 66 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.08 |
7th place
Tookie's Song
Jessica Knoch
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| Score | 6.42 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 106 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.71 |
8th place
Fort Aegea
Francesco Bova
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| Score | 6.41 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 111 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.83 |
9th place
The Temple
Johan Berntsson
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| Score | 6.36 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 102 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.82 |
10th place
Jane
Joseph Grzesiak
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| Score | 6.33 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 116 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.14 |
11th place
MythTale
Temari Seikaiha
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| Score | 6.26 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 114 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.67 |
12th place
Unraveling God
Todd Watson
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| Score | 6.19 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 70 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.89 |
13th place (tie)
Identity Thief
Rob Shaw-Fuller
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| Score | 5.96 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 111 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.81 |
13th place (tie)
Augustine
Terrence V. Koch
St. Augustine, Florida is a city rich in history. Touted as the Oldest City in the United States, tourists flock to her to learn something of the nation's earliest settlers and get a sense of what life was like in the past.
But there is another side of St. Augustine that reveals itself when the sun goes down. It is a city steeped in legends of the supernatural, as evidenced by the many ghost tours that are offered along the city streets.
While on one of these tours you realize that the many stories are more than legends, they are chronicles of events that hold personal significance for you. In fact, your seemingly innocent decision to take the tour sets off a chain of events that trigger painful memories for you, endangers the life of an attractive tour guide, and brings you face to face with an ancient enemy.
Will questions that have haunted you for years be answered? Will an ancient curse be lifted? Will a 600-year-old conflict be resolved? These are questions you hope to find answers for tonight . . . in Augustine!
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| Score | 5.96 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 110 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.88 |
15th place
Rent-A-Spy
John Eriksson
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| Score | 5.51 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 113 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.80 |
16th place (tie)
The Granite Book
James Mitchelhill
IFComp 2002 entry.
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| Score | 5.41 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 103 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.15 |
16th place (tie)
Eric's Gift
Joao Mendes
Eric's Gift - A short interactive story about painting the future.
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| Score | 5.41 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 86 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.82 |
18th place
When Help Collides
J. D. Berry
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| Score | 5.40 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 108 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.25 |
19th place (tie)
Evacuate
Jeff Rissman
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| Score | 5.33 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 82 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.81 |
19th place (tie)
Constraints
Martin Bays
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| Score | 5.33 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 125 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.48 |
21st place
Sun And Moon
David Brain
Not a text adventure -- closer to an alternate reality game, with puzzles strewn across various web sites, comprising diaries by fictional characters, press releases by fictional companies, and so on.
The game is no longer playable as intended, as much of these resources have disappeared from the web. Some additional information is archved at its IFDB page.
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| Score | 5.16 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 62 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.46 |
22nd place
Not Much Time
Tyson Ibele
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| Score | 5.14 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 97 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.48 |
23rd place
Hell: A Comedy of Errors
John Evans
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| Score | 5.12 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 122 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.90 |
24th place (tie)
Out of the Study
Anssi Räisänen
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| Score | 4.92 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 73 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.92 |
24th place (tie)
Color and Number
Steven Kollmansberger
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| Score | 4.92 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 95 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.84 |
26th place
BOFH
Howard A. Sherman
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| Score | 4.83 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 113 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.21 |
27th place
The Case of Samuel Gregor
Stephen Hilderbrand
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| Score | 4.79 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 98 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.54 |
28th place
A Party to Murder
David Good
In financial difficulties, you go to meet with a neighbor during a party. However, he seems to be missing. Where could he be? And who are these mysterious party guests? Watch out for the police, they seem to be suspicious of you!
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| Score | 4.73 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 63 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.48 |
29th place
Screen
Edward Floren
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| Score | 4.69 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 117 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.53 |
30th place
Concrete Paradise
Tyson Ibele
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| Score | 4.43 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 103 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.77 |
31st place
Scary House Amulet!
Ricardo Dague
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| Score | 4.30 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 114 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.98 |
32nd place
Coffee Quest II
Dog Solitude
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| Score | 4.14 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 103 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.71 |
33rd place
Four Mile Island
Chris Charla
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| Score | 3.86 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 73 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.81 |
34th place
Moonbase
Mike Eckardt
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| Score | 3.74 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 91 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.69 |
35th place
Koan
Esa Peuha
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| Score | 3.59 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 133 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.88 |
36th place (tie)
Ramon and Jonathan
Daniele A. Gewurz
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| Score | 2.87 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 111 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.37 |
36th place (tie)
Terrible Lizards
Alan Mead and Ian Mead
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| Score | 2.87 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 98 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.45 |
38th place
Blade Sentinel
Mihalis Georgostathis
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| Score | 2.25 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 67 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.33 |
The organizer of the 2002 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.