IFComp 2023

IFComp 2023
Competition
Frequency
Part of series	The Annual IF Competition
Website	https://ifcomp.org/comp/2023
Organiser	Jacqueline Ashwell
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries	74
Event dates
Registration began	1 July 2023
Registration ended	1 September 2023
Submissions ended	28 September 2023
Voting began	1 October 2023
Voting ended	15 November 2023
Results announced	19 November 2023
Results
1	Dr Ludwig and the Devil
2	LAKE Adventure
3	The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls
4	Honk!
5	The Vambrace of Destiny
6	Bali B&B
7	LUNIUM
8	How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title
9	Assembly
10	Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
11	To Sea in a Sieve
12	Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates
13	Paintball Wizard
14	Tricks of light in the forest
15	Citizen Makane
16	Dysfluent
17	Hand Me Down
18 (tie)	Eat the Eldritch
18 (tie)	One King to Loot them All
20	Fix Your Mother's Printer
21	CODENAME OBSCURA
22 (tie)	Gestures Towards Divinity
22 (tie)	Ribald Bat Lady Plunder Quest
24	Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando
25	My Brother; The Parasite
26	The Whisperers
27 (tie)	Death on the Stormrider
27 (tie)	Last Valentine's Day
29	My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition
30	Detective Osiris
31 (tie)	The Gift of What You Notice More
31 (tie)	Kaboom
33	The Whale's Keeper
34	One Does Not Simply Fry
35	All the Troubles Come My Way
36	Bright Brave Knight Knave
37	Beat Witch
38	All Hands
39	The Finders Commission
40	Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?
41 (tie)	Artful Deceit
41 (tie)	One Knight Stand
43	The Ship
44	The Long Kill
45	DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS
46 (tie)	Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
46 (tie)	Trail Stash
48	GameCeption
49 (tie)	Escape your psychosis
49 (tie)	20 Exchange Place
49 (tie)	All Hands Abandon Ship
52	Please Sign Here
53 (tie)	Lonehouse
53 (tie)	A Thing of Wretchedness
55	Barcarolle in Yellow
56	Help! I Can't Find My Glasses!
57 (tie)	Have Orb, Will Travel
57 (tie)	Lake Starlight
59	Last Vestiges
60	Shanidar, Safe Return
61	Out of Scope
62	We All Fall Together
63	The Sculptor
64	Magor Investigates...
65	The Paper Magician
66	The Witch
67	Virtue
68	In The Details
69	The Enigma of Solaris
70	Creative Cooking
71	Into The Lion's Mouth
72	Meritocracy
73	For Eternity, Again and Again
74	Hawkstone
Miss Congeniality 1st	Dr Ludwig and the Devil
Miss Congeniality 2nd (tie)	Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
Miss Congeniality 2nd (tie)	How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title
Rising Star Award	LUNIUM
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Competition Schedule

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

• July 1, 2023: The competition website opened for entry registration and prize donation.
• September 1: The last date that authors could register their intent to enter.
• September 28: The last date that authors could upload their games to the competition site.
• October 1: The games were released to the public, and the judging period began.
• November 15: Voting deadline (end of the day).
• 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).
• Unofficial trailer video, by Ryan Veeder.
• IFComp 2023 Review Spreadsheet (and forum thread).
• IFComp 2023 in Mathbrush's History of IFComp, Year by Year (2024).