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14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Fall, 2008

The Results

Place Title Author
1 Violet Jeremy Freese  
2 Nightfall Eric Eve  
3 Everybody Dies Jim Munroe  
4 Afflicted Doug Egan  
5 Piracy 2.0 Sean Huxter  
6 Snack Time! Hardy the Bulldog & Renee Choba  
7 Opening Night David Batterham  
8 April in Paris Jim Aikin  
9 A Date With Death David Whyld  
10 Berrost's Challenge Mark Hatfield  
11 Cry Wolf Clare Parker  
12 Escape from the Underworld Karl Beecher  
13 Buried In Shoes Kazuki Mishima  
14 Magic Geoff Fortytwo  
15 Recess At Last Gerald Aungst  
16 Grief Simon Christiansen  
17 Trein Leena Ganguli  
18 The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom Anssi Räisänen  
19 Red Moon Jonathan Hay  
20 Dracula's Underground Crypt Alex Whitington  
21 Channel Surfing Mike Vollmer (writing as probabilityZero)  
22 Ananachronist Joseph Strom  
23 (tie) When Machines Attack Mark Jones  
23 (tie) The Lucubrator Rick Dague  
25 A Martian Odyssey Horatio  
26 The Hall of the Fount of Artois Simon  
27 LAIR of the CyberCow Conrad Cook (writing as Harry Wilson)  
28 Search for the Ultimate Weapon SHARON LYNN CHU YEW YEE (writing as Sharilynn)  
29 The Missing Piece C.Yong  
30 Freedom Anonymous  
31 Riverside Jeremy Crockett, Victor Janmey  
32 Project Delta Emilian Kowalewski  
33 Nerd Quest gabor de mooij (writing as RagtimeNerd)  
34 The Lighthouse xyzzyman  
35 The Absolute Worst IF Game in History Dean Menezes  

The Miss Congeniality awards (voted by the authors of the entries).

Place Title Author
1 Violet   Jeremy Freese
2 Everybody Dies   Jim Munroe
3 Nightfall   Eric Eve

The Games

The entries can be found on any of these servers:

Other Information

Here is the original competition web page, including the results, rules, schedule, judging rules, list of prizes, and list of prize choices.

The competition organizer for 2008 was Stephen Granade.

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