The Short Game

IFComp, the annual interactive fiction competition, has come to a close and we’re discussing the results. How did your favorites do?

We covered many of the games in this year’s competition in our two earlier episodes:

IFComp 2016 Results

Main Voting

5th Place: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds by Abigail Corfman
4th Place: Stone Harbor by Liza Daly
3rd Place: Cactus Blue Motel by Astrid Dalmady
2nd Place: Color the Truth by mathbrush
1st Place: Detectiveland by Robin Johnson

Miss Congeniality

3rd Place: Detectiveland by Robin Johnson
2nd Place: Fair by Hanon Ondricek
1st Place: Inside the Facility by Arthur DiBianca

Golden Banana of Discord

A Time of Tungsten by Devin Raposo

Links of note:
Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
Golden Banana of Discord trophy


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Your hosts this week were:

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (03:54) - 5th: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
  • (06:40) - 4th: Stone Harbor
  • (12:06) - 3rd: Blue Cactus Motel
  • (14:07) - 2nd: Color the Truth
  • (19:19) - 1st: Detectiveland
  • (23:36) - Miss Congeniality 3rd: Detectiveland
  • (25:00) - Miss Congeniality 2nd: Fair
  • (28:26) - Miss Congeniality 1st: Inside the Facility
  • (31:30) - Golden Banana of Discord: A Time of Tungsten
  • (34:50) - Conclusion & Outro

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