TWIFcomp

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TWIFcomp is 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). This first (and probably only) TWIFcomp is 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 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 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

Links

  • TWIFcomp homepage.
  • TWIFcomp - announcement on rec.arts.int-fiction, April 10, 2010.

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