IFComp 2022

IFComp 2022
Competition
Frequency
Part of series	The Annual IF Competition
Website	https://ifcomp.org/comp/2022
Organiser	Jacqueline Ashwell
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries	70
Event dates
Registration began	1 July 2022
Registration ended	1 September 2022
Submissions ended	28 September 2022
Voting began	1 October 2022
Voting ended	15 November 2022
Results announced	19 November 2022
Results
1	The Grown-Up Detective Agency
2	The Absence of Miriam Lane
3	A Long Way to the Nearest Star
4	The Archivist and the Revolution
5	Trouble in Sector 471
6	According to Cain
7	January
8	The Only Possible Prom Dress
9	The Princess of Vestria
10	Prism
11	A Chinese Room
12	Blood Island
13	The Thirty Nine Steps
14	A Walk Around the Neighborhood
15	Arborea
16	Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's
17 (tie)	Esther's
17 (tie)	Under the Bridge
19	The Alchemist (by MacBrayne)
20	Admiration Point
21	CHASE THE SUN
22 (tie)	Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency
22 (tie)	Crash (by Riley)
22 (tie)	Lazy Wizard's Guide
25	Into The Sun
26	No One Else Is Doing This
27	Nose Bleed
28 (tie)	Let Them Eat Cake
28 (tie)	Lost Coastlines
30	One Way Ticket
31	The Counsel in The Cave
32 (tie)	Elvish for Goodbye
32 (tie)	Lucid
34	A Matter of Heist Urgency
35	Who Shot Gum E. Bear?
36	You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book
37	The Thick Table Tavern
38	You May Not Escape!
39 (tie)	Graveyard Strolls
39 (tie)	Thanatophobia
41	Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey
42	Inside
43	The Last Christmas Present
44	U.S. Route 160
45	Campus Invaders
46	Witchfinders
47	i wish you were dead.
48	INK
49	Approaching Horde!
50	To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1
51	The Tin Mug
52	Zero Chance of Recovery
53	Glimmer
54	One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World)
55	Am I My Brother's Keeper?
56	The Lottery Ticket
57	Hanging by threads
58	The Pool
59	Death by Lightning
60	The Hidden King's Tomb
61	The Staycation
62	Through the Forest with the Beast
63	An Alien's Mistaken Impressions of Humanity's Pockets
64	Lost at the market
65	HOURS
66	Headlights
67	Jungle adventure
68	Tower of Plargh
69	4 Edith + 2 Niki
70	Traveller's Log
Winner: Miss Congeniality Award	According to Cain
2nd place: Miss Congeniality Award	The Absence of Miriam Lane
3rd place: Miss Congeniality Award	The Grown-Up Detective Agency
Rising Star Award	A Long Way to the Nearest Star
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Competition Schedule

As per the "about the Competition" webpage at the time:

• July 1, 2022: The competition website is open for authors to declare their intent to enter this year’s competition.
• September 1: The last date that authors can register their intent to enter.
• September 28: The last date that authors can upload their games to the competition site. Everyone starts counting down the hours, eager to explore all the new IFfy goodness.
• October 1: The games are released to the public, and the judging period begins.
• November 15: All votes must be submitted by the end of the day. The competition results are announced shortly afterwards. Prize choosing and distribution begins.
• November 19: Awards were announced on Twitch (ceremony recording) at 4pm on the Saturday after voting closed.

All deadlines were at 11:59 PM Eastern time on the given dates.

Links

• IF Comp website (archive), as it stood after the comp.
• Results archive.
• IF Archive (Guidebook).
• IFComp 2022 Review Spreadsheet (and forum thread).
• IFComp 2022 in Mathbrush's History of IFComp, Year by Year (2024).