Competition 1998

Leaving the main room, you step into a side room where Competition 1998 is taking place.

Acid Whiplash Rybread Celsius Can't Find a Dictionary Play "Acid Whiplash" Copyright © 1998 by Cody Sandifer, Rybread M. Celsius. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 23rd place Tooth beavers, hermits, phallic-shaped dust tomatos. Billed a living memorial to the wit, style, and unintentional genius of Rybread Celsius by Cody Sanidfer. Cattus Atrox An Interactive Fiction Story Play "Cattus Atrox" Copyright © 1997 by David A. Cornelson. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 20th place A promising date devolves into violence, sex, more violence. Competition '98 An Interactive Guide Play "Competition '98" Copyright © 1998 by Lucian Paul Smith. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) A program to sort, describe and rate all of the games in the 4th Annual IF Competition (1998). Downtown Tokyo, Present Day Play release 1 (original IFComp 1998 entry) Play release 2 Copyright © 1998, 2000 by John Kean. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 10th place I-Comp 1999: 3rd place In this game you actually play two people - one is the real you, sitting in the dark in a movie theatre, and the other is the hero of the film that you are watching. Originally conceived for Adam Cadre's infamous Chicken-Comp of June 1998 (spot the chicken-crossing-the-road). Enlightenment An Interactive One-Room Absurdity Play "Enlightenment" Copyright © 1998 by Taro Ogawa. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 5th place The intepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and Advent, and begs people choosing their first piece of IF to play to look at other IF (preferably good IF!). Fifteen Play "Fifteen" Copyright © 1998 by Ricardo Dague, Ricardo Dague. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 25th place You stand in the kitchen. Sigh! Yet another darn treasure hunt game! Modeled after Scott Adams's "Adventureland." Dedicated to Sam Loyd (1841-1911), inventor of the 15-puzzle. Human Resources Stories In Search of Employment Play "Human Resources Stories" Copyright © 1998 by Harry M. Hardjono. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 27th place A state-of-the-art job interview for a position as computer programmer. In the Spotlight An Unexpected Intelligence Test Play "In the Spotlight" Copyright © 1998 by John Byrd. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 21st place A one-room game with one major puzzle. Tie two strings together. Simple? Informatory a not very interactive pastiche with tutorial pretensions Play release 1 (original IFComp 1998 entry) Play release 2 Copyright © 1998 by William J. Shlaer. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 11th place You feel like weeping; you might as well have stayed by the slit in the stream bed and waited for plate tectonics to widen it. You are in front of that all too familiar white house again! Replay the beginnings of Adventure/Zork, with a few twists... Little Blue Men An interactive object lesson Play "Little Blue Men" Copyright © 1998 by Michael S. Gentry. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 7th place and 2nd place Miss Congeniality award 1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Individual Player Character This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This game is a big, stupid shaggy dog story. Mother Loose An Interactive Nursery Rhyme Play release 1 (original IFComp 1998 entry) Play release 2 Copyright © 1998 by Irene Callaci. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 6th place It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For instance, today things got quite out of hand: you poured your own milk, but it spilled on the floor; the cat wanted out just as you slammed the door; you didn't remember to turn off the faucet; your brother, poor thing, is still locked in the closet. But that wasn't all. No, indeed. Did I mention that things got much worse? They did. Pay attention: you're lost and alone and nothing's familiar. You wander around for a while until you're ready to panic. Then, out of the blue, an egg on a fence asks for help--and from you! Muse: An Autumn Romance Play release 1 (original IFComp 1998 entry) Play release 2 Copyright © 1998-9 by Christopher Huang. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 2nd place and 3rd place Miss Congeniality award Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... Photopia Play original IFComp 1998 entry - black & white version Play original IFComp 1998 entry - color version Play Spanish translation (version 1.23.1E) Play version 1.30 Copyright © 1998 by Adam Cadre. Copyright © 1999 by Zak McKraken (Spanish translation). IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 1st place and 1st place Miss Congeniality award 1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Story and Best Writing Tragedy and otherwise in multiple personalities? Purple, a Passage through Disaster Play "Purple, a Passage through Disaster" Copyright © 1998 by Stefan Blixt. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 15th place Another Earth, another time. War. Disaster. Death. Air travel. Research Dig Play "Research Dig" Copyright © 1998 by Chris Armitage. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 17th place An apparently straight-forward archeological research dig at an old English churchyard leads to something not quite the norm... Spacestation Inform interactive fiction -- a science fiction story Play release 1 (original IFComp 1998 entry) Play release 2 Copyright © 1998-9 by David Magnus Ledgard. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 19th place Based on the example transcript that came with Infocom's "Planetfall", with extensions and improvements, of course. The City Play "The City" Copyright © 1998 by Sam Barlow. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 13th place "An interactive short experience." This game is intended not as an exploration or a challenge, more as a situation. Stylistically interesting for its lack of banners, opening-titles, location-headers, status-line and meta-verbs such as "save". The Ritual of Purification An Interactive Cleansing Play "The Ritual of Purification" Copyright © 1998 by Jarek Sobolewski. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 12th place Tha' art a magician, embarked on an astral projection. Danger. Romance, perhaps. Learning, maybe... Trapped in a One-Room Dilly Play "Trapped in a One-Room Dilly" Copyright © 1998 by Laura A. Knauth. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 8th place A one-room game. It's nicely appointed, but... Where Evil Dwells Play "Where Evil Dwells" Copyright © 1998 by Paul Johnson, Steve Owens. IFDB Baf's Guide (archived) Competition 1998: 14th place A few short hours ago you were in your private investigator's office sleeping- er, concentrating hard on your work when a frightened young girl named Elizabeth came to you with a sinister tale.