TWIFcomp

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TWIFcomp
Competition
Frequency
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Part of series [[]]
Website https://blog.templaro.com/twifcom/
Organiser Jack Welch
Event dates
Submissions due 25 Apr 2010
Voting ends 1 May 2010
Results announced 2 May 2010
Results
1 By @
2 Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
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TWIFcomp was a competition for tweet-sized interactive fiction. Why? Because the world needs more strangely-themed interactive fiction competitions and this one requires little time to write, play, and judge. The basic premise: write a complete game in 140 characters (not including white space), the maximum length (at the time) of a Tweet. This first (and probably only) TWIFcomp was organized by Jack Welch. Prizes include duct tape, ramen noodles, lucky dice, and pokémon cards.

Dates

  • Intent to Enter Deadline: We don't need no stinking intent to enter. Just enter.
  • Entry Deadline: 16:00 GMT on Sunday, April 25, 2010.
  • Voting Deadline: 16:00 GMT on Saturday, May 1, 2010.
  • Results Tweeted: Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 16:00 GMT (by @dhakajack).
  • Results Posted for the Tweet-Challenged: Sunday, May 2, at 22:00 GMT.


Results

Title Page Length Prg. Language Name Human Lang Score
> by @ 🗃 140 Inform 7 Aaron A. Reed English 7.80
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis 🗃 137 Perl Adam Thornton English 7.58
You See Chaos Here. 🗃 137 Inform 7, Inform 6 Andrew Plotkin English 7.43
SHOOT YOUR EVIL TWIN... 🗃 140 URQ Evgeny Bychkov English 7.33
Escape 🗃 140 Inform 7, Inform 6 Andrew Plotkin English 7.21
FGBG 🗃 140 Inform 7 Timothy Peers English 7.00
I have hands and I'm ready to LOOT! 🗃 140 MS-DOS batch Yuri Pavlenko English 6.77
SWEDUN 🗃 140 Inform 6 Chris Conroy English 6.62
Make all sad 🗃 140 Perl Alexandre Owen Muñiz English 6.62
Why? 🗃 140 Inform 7 Aaron A. Reed English 6.36
Travel 🗃 140 Python Jake Eakle English 6.00
Prepare sheet of squared paper and red pencil. 🗃 136 URQ Vyacheslav Dobranov English 6.00
Money 🗃 135 ChoiceScript Dan Fabulich English 6.00
L'oiseau 🗃 140 JACL Eric Forgeot English 5.92
CHZBGR 🗃 140 LOLCODE, Perl Jack Welch LOLCAT 5.90
Adventwiture 🗃 140 Inform 6 Admiral Jota English 5.85
LP0: A Prequel 🗃 140 Inform 7 Admiral Jota English 5.85
Sin 4 🗃 114 Inform 7 Matt Weiner English 5.83
Ring 🗃 140 ChoiceScript Dan Fabulich English 5.79
Duel in the Snow: abridged version 🗃 130 Inform 7 Utkonos English 5.79
43 🗃 120 Inform 7, Inform 6 Jack Welch English 5.77
Sin 6 🗃 95 Inform 7 Matt Weiner English 5.77
COD 🗃 139 Inform 7 Michael Martin English 5.77
Untitled 🗃 138 Inform 7 Aaron A. Reed English 5.77
Ocn bttm 🗃 110 Inform 7 Timothy Peers English 5.69
LOTR 🗃 139 Inform 7 Andrew Plotkin English 5.64
Decisions, Decisions 🗃 122 awk Johnicholas Hines English 5.64
Sin 5 🗃 119 Inform 7 Matt Weiner English 5.58
Metalanguage of Feeling 🗃 140 URQ Mikhail Fiadotau English 5.56
Monty Hall! 🗃 140 QBASIC Admiral Jota English 5.50
METEOR 🗃 109 GW-BASIC Gunther Schmidl English 5.40
Manifest Destiny 🗃 130 PLT Scheme Doug Orleans English 5.40
Navigator 🗃 139 JACL Stuart Allen English 5.36
Love 🗃 134 ChoiceScript Dan Fabulich English 5.36
Tumbleweed Hero 🗃 114 Inform 7 Rob Dubbin English 5.25
Do. 🗃 140 Inform 7 Vsevolod Zoubarev English 5.23
Maigo 🗃 138 URQ Mikhail Fiadotau English 5.18
The Mourning Do in Pinellas Park 🗃 138 Inform 7 Timothy Peers English 5.15
Void 🗃 122 sed Johnicholas Hines English 5.09
Twitterific 🗃 140 HTML Alexander Yakovlev Mykhalych 5.08
Bird 🗃 139 Inform 7 Eric Forgeot English 5.00
Paradox 🗃 130 ZIL Jesse McGrew English 5.00
Burning 🗃 116 Inform 7 Marius Müller English 4.93
:-| 🗃 136 Inform 7 Jack Welch English 4.92
Депрессия 🗃 140 QSP Arrow Ajenta Русский 4.88
Roulette 🗃 136 Python Vsevolod Zoubarev English 4.83
To be or not to be? 🗃 132 QSP Valeriy Argunov English 4.75
Dementia. An Epilogue. 🗃 115 Inform 7 Marius Müller English 4.47
Turns of Karma 🗃 139 URQ Sergej Skiba English 4.44
Short-Lived 🗃 123 ADRIFT Duncan Bowsman English 4.40
Zed 🗃 139 Inform 7 Michael Baltes English 4.36
Профессиональная ошибка 🗃 139 URQ Sergej Skiba Русский 4.33
Ramirez 🗃 131 Inform 7 Michael Baltes English 4.31
Три дерева (Three trees) 🗃 140 URQ uux Русский (& English) 4.29
Raison d'ȇtre, raison de ne pas ȇtre 🗃 140 URQ Mikhail Fiadotau English 4.22
A-small-casual-game... 🗃 138 Perl Martin Barth English 4.00
Buttons 🗃 140 Inform 7 Lucas Hartman English 4.00
Hunter 🗃 138 QSP Ajenta Arrow Русский 4.00
Daigoro 🗃 131 Inform 7 Michael Baltes English 3.73
TWIF 🗃 117 Inform 7 Jerome West English 3.44
У попа была собака… 🗃 96 URQ Vyacheslav Dobranov Русский 2.80

TWIFplus

A number of submissions drifted in after the two-week submission window and were not scored as part of the competition, but were collected under the heading of "TWIFplus".

Title Page Length Prg. Language Name Human Lang
Go North 🔍 91 Inform 7 Lea English
mz10 🔍 110 Python Rick Dague English
Gruesome 🔍 119 Inform 7 Neophyte English
Quack 🔍 128 Inform 7 Liz Heller English
Different 🔍 129 Inform 7 Neophyte English
Mars Needs Women 🔍 133 Inform 7 Riff Conner English
LoveBot 🔍 135 Inform 7 Jenni Polodna English
Farmville: The Compleat Text Adventure 🔍 135 Inform 7 John Zingaberries English
Cogito 🔍 136 Inform 7 Emily Boegheim English
Space 🗃 136 Inform 7 Riff Conner English
If Suicide 🔍 138 Inform 7 Neophyte English
Begatron 🔍 140 Inform 7 Liz Heller English
Romeo and Juliet 🔍 140 Inform 7 Emily Boegheim English
Logic 🔍 140 Inform 7 Emily Boegheim English
MMO 🔍 140 Inform 7 Jenni Polodna English

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