TWIFcomp
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| TWIFcomp | |
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| Competition | |
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| Website | https://blog.templaro.com/twifcom/ |
| Organiser | Jack Welch |
| Total entries | 61 |
| Event dates | |
| Submissions ended | 25 April 2010 |
| Voting ended | 1 May 2010 |
| Results announced | 2 May 2010 |
| Results | |
| 1 | By @ |
| 2 | Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis |
| 21 | 43 |
| Edit this infobox | |
TWIFcomp was 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), the maximum length (at the time) of a Tweet. This first (and probably only) TWIFcomp was 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
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 | Page | 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.
- Announcing TWIFcomp - announcement on rec.arts.int-fiction, April 10, 2010. (Also the intfiction forum.)
- Scores (archive) on the TWIFcomp site. ("I only received votes from about fifteen people")
- twifcomp_kitchen_sink.zip - zip containing all materials from TWIFcomp (including TWIFplus games).
- Blog posts by the organiser (see also reviews):
- Announce TWIFcomp, April 10, 2010.
- TWIFcomp prizes, April 22, 2010.
- TWIFcomp: Programming Languages, April 25, 2010.
- TWIFcomp: Lessons Learned part I and part II, May 4-7, 2010.
- Ten Twitter-length IFs by Matt Weiner, including some submitted to this comp; April 14, 2010.
Reviews
- Reviews and analysis by the organiser.
- A Survey of the TWIFComp Entries by Valentine Kopteltsev, in SPAG #58.