As promised:

[mutecornett]

The 2006 Interactive Fiction Competition's results are up!

I'm really pleased to see that my personal favorite, The Primrose Path, placed second. I was surprised because some of the other IF's were tighter narratives or better games, but there was a weird and surprising beauty to Primrose Path, so I'm glad.

By some coincidence, the few games I did play (so busy with schoolwork!) were the ones that placed. Floatpoint is fantastic, of course, but it's Emily Short, so it can hardly be anything but fantastic. Elysium Enigma is a solid sci-fi game with good puzzles.

I mean, you're probably safe downloading any game down to the twentieth place. Anything below that and you run the risk of the game being unplayable or incredibly, incredibly unfun.

Comments

[axiom_of_stripe]

...!

i mean, yay i-f results going up! i can always use another hit. :)

but even more, yay another fannish person who loves i-f! *beams at you*

[mutecornett.livejournal.com]

Oh man, IF is my passion! Well, one of them. I'm really glad to find another fan who loves IF though--I think I managed to get a few interested with my first IF info post but I have no idea if they're still playing.

(I know this is kind of old news at this point, but isn't the Inform 7 language a-maz-ing? I tried developing a game with it, but I got distracted by schoolwork, but it is SO intuitive!)

[gulliblesnail.livejournal.com]

Hello! I found you through your lovely art, but I'm also really grateful to see all your interactive fiction links and recs. I used to play the old Infocom games years ago, so it's really exciting to hear about the new stuff people are making.