Acorn User 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition
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This competition ran in July 1996 and was organized by Steve Mumford and judged by Graham Nelson.
Entries
Note: This may not be a complete list. Also, we don't know the rankings except for the first two places. All the known games entered in this comp are Z-code ones, possibly because there was a RISC OS version of Inform at the time.
Entries with known rankings
- BSE (Chris Smith). 1st place.
- The Wedding (Neil James Brown). 2nd place.
Other Known Entries
- Black'N'White Rag or, A Study in Something-or-Other (Jonathan Nowell).
- Cave Of Doom (A. Macfarlane Smith).
- Conspiracy - An Interactive Adventure (Robin Stout).
- The House of Doom (Andrew Hunt).
- Leopold the Minstrel (Jamie Murphy).
- MFI (Damian LeGresley).
- New Years Day - The Challenge Of The Year (Chris Armitage).
- Transporter (Andrew Laker).
Links
- R*IF announcements:
- Acorn User IF Competition - by Steve Mumford, March 7, 1996.
- IF Authoring FAQ - April 2, 1996. Section 2.4 contains info about this competition.
- Acorn User IF Competition - by Graham Nelson, July 3, 1996. Reminder about the competition.
- Other R*IF threads:
- Planning Ahead for 1997 I-F Contest.
- Announcement: BSE Version 3 - January 16, 1997.
- AU Competition winners - October 28, 1997.
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TODO: We don't know much about this competition at all, and most of the games were never uploaded to IF Archive. What little we know has been extracted from The Z-Files Catalogue and the help menus for The Wedding.
TODO: We don't know much about this competition at all, and most of the games were never uploaded to IF Archive. What little we know has been extracted from The Z-Files Catalogue and the help menus for The Wedding.