First Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

First Annual Interactive Fiction Competition
Competition
Frequency
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Part of series	The Annual IF Competition
Website	[http:// ]
Organiser	Gerry Kevin Wilson
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Event dates
Submissions ended	31 August 1995
Voting began	1 September 1995
Voting ended	30 September 1995
Results announced	4 October 1995
Results
1 of 6 (Inform division)	A Change in the Weather
1 of 6 (TADS division)	Uncle Zebulon's Will
2 of 6 (Inform division)	The Mind Electric
2 of 6 (TADS division)	Toonesia
3 of 6 (Inform division)	The Magic Toyshop
3 of 6 (TADS division)	The One That Got Away
4th of 6 (Inform division)	Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents 'Detective'
4th (tie) of 6 (TADS division)	A Night At The Museum Forever
4th (tie) of 6 (TADS division)	Undertow
5th of 6 (Inform division)	All Quiet on the Library Front
6th of 6 (Inform division)	Tube Trouble
6th of 6 (TADS division)	Undo (game)
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The First Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was created and organized by G. Kevin Wilson in 1995. Only Inform and TADS games were eligible, and were ranked in separate divisions; this changed in the following year.

The top three entries in each category were included in Activision's 1996 commercial release of "Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom".

1995 IF Comp Results -- Inform Division

1. A Change in the Weather (Andrew Plotkin).
2. The Mind Electric (Jason Dyer).
3. The Magic Toyshop (Gareth Rees).
4. MST3K1: Detective (C. E. Forman). Based on Detective (Matt Barringer; 1993; AGT, Z-code).
5. All Quiet on the Library Front (Michael S. Phillips).
6. Tube Trouble (Richard Tucker).

1995 IF Comp Results -- TADS Division

1. Uncle Zebulon's Will (Magnus Olsson).
2. Toonesia (Jacob Weinstein as "C. J. T. Spaulding").
3. The One That Got Away (Leon Lin as "The Author").
4. A Night At The Museum Forever (Chris Angelini); tied with
   Undertow (Stephen Granade).
6. Undo (Neil deMause as "Null Dogmas").

Miss Congeniality Awards

These awards, voted by the authors of the entries, began in the following year.

Links

• Results, on ifcomp.org.
• Older ifcomp site (archive), including rules and prizes.
• Newsgroup postings:
  • The first annual I-F Tournament: Announcement Post, rules finallized. on rec.arts.int-fiction (29-May-1995).
  • The IF Gates are Closed. Let the voting Begin!! on rec.games.int-fiction (01-Sep-1995).
  • One last attempt to explain voting. on rec.games.int-fiction (25-Sep-1995).
  • Ah Ha! The Results of the First Annual "Iffys". on rec.games.int-fiction (04-Oct-1995).
• Baf's Guide (dead link 🔍).
• games/competition95/ at the IF Archive.
• SPAG #7: Special 1995 I-F Competition Issue - October 14, 1995.
• IFComp 1995 in Mathbrush's History of IFComp, Year by Year (2017).

Reviews

• Comments by Julian Arnold
• Comments by Trevor Barrie
• Comments by Colin Turnbull (ct)
• Short reviews by Palmer Davis
• Comments by Michael Kinyon
• Results of the First Annual IF Competition (archive) by Eileen Mullin
• Comments by Andrew Plotkin
• Comments by Dan Shiovitz
• Comments (TADS entries) by Jacob Weinstein