Winners of the 2013 IFComp
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1st place
Coloratura
Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand.
This work also won 1st place in the 2013 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 8.12 |
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| Votes Cast | 69 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.67 |
2nd place
Robin & Orchid
Ryan Veeder & Emily Boegheim
High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.
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| Score | 7.71 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 59 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.51 |
3rd place
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Carolyn VanEseltine
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter
This work also won 3rd place (tie) in the 2013 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 7.48 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 54 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.75 |
4th place
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.
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| Score | 6.78 |
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| Votes Cast | 72 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.46 |
5th place
Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life
A Tex(t) Adventure
Truthcraze
Tex Bonaventure has sought many things... fame, fortune, women.
Sought, yes. Found, yes. Kept? No.
But now, he must find the fabled Water of Life. Before it's too late.
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| Score | 6.77 |
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| Votes Cast | 57 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.73 |
6th place
Solarium
Anya Johanna DeNiro
The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do.
We were part of Solarium.
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| Score | 6.76 |
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| Votes Cast | 63 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.37 |
7th place
Threediopolis
Griddy and Gritty Word Puzzling
Even in the future with GPS, it's how you get there that matters!
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| Score | 6.22 |
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| Votes Cast | 59 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.61 |
8th place
Machine of Death
Hulk Handsome
In the near future, the world will be changed by a machine that predicts how a person will die with 100% accuracy... but not clarity.
Would knowing your demise change the way you lived your life?
A collection of three short interactive stories.
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| Score | 6.00 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 66 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.67 |
9th place
their angelical understanding
Porpentine
I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea.
Wear headphones.
TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.
This work also won 2nd place in the 2013 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 5.99 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 74 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.63 |
10th place
Bell Park, Youth Detective
A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.
This work also won 3rd place (tie) in the 2013 Miss Congeniality Awards.
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| Score | 5.73 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 75 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.91 |
11th place
Trapped in Time
A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!
Simon Christiansen
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| Score | 5.60 |
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| Votes Cast | 47 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.30 |
12th place
Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House
The Mysterious Floor
2 boys arrive at a magical foster home...
My kids & I wrote this as the 1st in a series for children 7-11. We aimed for simple choice-driven IF that emphasizes not so much the pyrotechnics but the pleasures of reading, something to snuggle up with...
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| Score | 5.45 |
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| Votes Cast | 60 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.21 |
13th place
Final Girl
Everyone is dead. You are still alive. The Skull Lake Stalker might have a trick or two left up his sleeve. Will you survive the last reel of the movie?
Requires a free StoryNexus account (Fallen London).
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| Score | 5.43 |
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| Votes Cast | 42 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.83 |
14th place
Autumn's Daughter
Ali Sajid Imami
(writing as “Devolution Games”)
The smallest choices have drastic consequences in this short story. Follow the girl as she tries to assert independence in a society that tries to cut her down.
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| Score | 5.37 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 83 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.87 |
15th place
Moquette
Alex Warren
Tuesday morning. London Underground. Hangover. Journey begins.
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| Score | 5.35 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 62 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.20 |
16th place
The House at the End of Rosewood Street
Michael Thomét
The manor house at the end of Rosewood Street has been vacant for as long as you remember, but a notice in the local newspaper reports that the historic house has been sold. How will this newcomer affect the peace of this quaint street you call home?
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| Score | 5.28 |
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| Votes Cast | 58 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.86 |
17th place
The Paper Bag Princess
an interactive fairy tale
Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed.
"The Paper Bag Princess" is an authorized retelling of the book of the same name by Robert Munsch.
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| Score | 5.13 |
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| Votes Cast | 70 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.60 |
18th place
Impostor Syndrome
some things never change
Deirdra Kiai (writing as “Georgiana Bourbonnais”)
You're giving a talk at a big important tech conference. But do you really deserve to be here, or were you selected just to fill a diversity quota?
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| Score | 4.99 |
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| Votes Cast | 70 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.88 |
19th place
Who Among Us
Tia Orisney
A noir-themed murder mystery story inspired by Agatha Christie's novel "And Then There Were None" and set in modern day Russia.
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| Score | 4.84 |
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| Votes Cast | 57 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.93 |
20th place
Dream Pieces
An Interactive Bedtime Story
Iam Curio
You are in a dream but if you stay you'll miss out on a great birthday!
If that line made you groan or scoff, an update lets you turn rhymes off.
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| Score | 4.78 |
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| Votes Cast | 58 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.99 |
21st place
Further
a color-coded existential tangle
Will Hines
You are a collection of energy loosely held. You are an echo of a person. Something holds you here.
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| Score | 4.77 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 66 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.61 |
22nd place
Blood on the Heather
Tia Orisney
A trio of college students visit Scotland and get sucked into a war between vampires.
An homage to the ridiculous and bloodsoaked vampire B-movies of my childhood. Black humor.
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| Score | 4.69 |
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| Votes Cast | 62 |
| Standard Deviation | 2.08 |
23rd place
The Wizard's Apprentice
Alex Freeman
As the wizard's apprentice, can you complete the challenges set by your master, the wizard Gwydion?
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| Score | 4.65 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 49 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.73 |
24th place
Saving John
Josephine Tsay
A hypertext short story, taking the player inside the fragmented mind of John's, as he struggles to find his way through looping, disjointed moments.
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| Score | 4.21 |
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| Votes Cast | 57 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.62 |
25th place
Sam and Leo Go To The Bodega
Sam And Leo Go To The Bodega is the second most financially-successful Twine videogame of all time. It is the story of Sam and Leo going to the bodega. Sam And Leo Go To The Bodega is a revolutionary example of powerful, personal videogame storytelling.
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| Score | 4.02 |
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| Votes Cast | 66 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.85 |
26th place
Dad vs. Unicorn
PaperBlurt
(writing as “PaperBlurt”)
A day like many others. Dad at the BBQ - his son walking in an empty house.
Remembering what's happened. Disappointment fills the void between the two.
And then, a UNICORN attacks!
what now..?
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| Score | 3.80 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 74 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.71 |
27th place
Our Boys in Uniform
World War II was widely regarded as the most justified conflict in American history. Decide for yourself in one short, cynical logic game.
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| Score | 3.71 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 66 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.81 |
28th place (tie)
A Wind Blown From Paradise
N.C. Hunter Hayden
If we live in the past, we aren't living in the present, and may as well be ghosts.
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| Score | 3.65 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 54 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.47 |
28th place (tie)
Mazredugin
Four teens, one...small part of a world
Jim Q. Pfygx-Vobk
They're not THAT important. They don't have to save the WHOLE place. But that's not why they're there.
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| Score | 3.65 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 52 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.61 |
30th place
9Lives
A “Psychological Adventure” game.
InformStorm
This IF was created as an assignment for ENG 437: Project Management, taught by Prof. Stuart Moulthrop at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
The authors were Bill Balistreri, Hal Hinderliter, Sean Klabough, Luke Michalski and Morgan Sokol.
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| Score | 3.45 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 75 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.63 |
31st place
Vulse
A dead body floats down a river into the heart of an infuriating small town. As the locals grapple with the murder, they must also contend with the breakdown of cause-and-effect and the realization that the world is not for them anymore.
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| Score | 3.33 |
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| Votes Cast | 63 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.65 |
32nd place
The Cardew House
Andrew Brown
Thought I'd give Inform7 a try for this comp... it can be a pain in the butt though, can't it? anyhoo... here's my game... after two other abortive attempts...
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| Score | 2.82 |
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| Votes Cast | 65 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.51 |
33rd place
100,000 Years
the longest short story ever
Pierre Chevalier
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| Score | 2.15 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 84 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.34 |
34th place
The Challenge
Comazombie (writing as “ViRALiTY”)
A short web-based CYOA/MCA game with 3D graphics illustrations, written and designed in less than 24 hours!
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| Score | 1.75 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 64 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.25 |
35th place
Reels
Find the missing reel-to-reel recordings by solving puzzles and answering questions.
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| Score | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Votes Cast | 60 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.97 |
The organizer of the 2013 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.