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Z-Code Entries in 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Z-Code Entries in 1995

• All Quiet on the Library Front (Michael S. Phillips).
• A Change in the Weather (Andrew Plotkin).
• The Magic Toyshop (Gareth Rees).
• The Mind Electric (Jason Dyer).
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective" (C.E. Forman).
• Tube Trouble (Richard Tucker).

Z-Code Entries in 1996

• Delusions (C. E. Forman).
• Fear (Chuan-Tze Teo).
• The House Of The Stalker (Jason Clayton White).
• In the End (Joe Mason).
• Lists and Lists (Andrew Plotkin).
• The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (Graham Nelson as "Angela M. Horns").
• Of Forms Unknown (Chris Markwyn).
• Phlegm (Jason Dyer as "Adjacent Drooler").
• Piece of Mind (Giles Boutel).
• Punkirita Quest One: Liquid (Ryan Stevens as "Rybread Celsius").
• Ralph (Miron Schmidt).
• Reverberations (Russell Glasser).
• Rippled Flesh (Ryan Stevens as "Rybread Celsius").
• Stargazer: Prologue (Jonathan Fry).
• Tapestry (Daniel Ravipinto).
• Wearing the Claw (Paul O'Brian).

Z-Code Entries in 1997

• Aunt Nancy's House (Nate Schwartzman).
• A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte).
• CASK (Harry M. Hardjono).
• Coming Home (Andrew Katz).
• Congratulations! (Frederick Hirsch).
• The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith).
• Friday Afternoon (Mischa Schweitzer).
• A Good Breakfast (Stuart Adair).
• The Lost Spellmaker (Neil James Brown).
• Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit (Ian Ball and Marcus Young).
• A New Day (Jonathan Fry).
• Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza (Michael Zey).
• Pintown (Stefan Blixt).
• She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen).
• Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton).
• Sylenius Mysterium (C. E. Forman as "whomever wrote it").
• Symetry (Ryan Stevens).
• The Tempest (Graham Nelson).
• The Town Dragon (David Cornelson).
• Travels in the Land of Erden (Laura Knauth).

Z-Code Entries in 1998

• Acid Whiplash (Cody Sandifer and Ryan Stevens).
• Cattus Atrox (David Cornelson).
• The City (Sam Barlow).
• Downtown Tokyo, Present Day (John Kean).
• Enlightenment (Taro Ogawa).
• Fifteen (Ricardo Dague).
• Human Resources Stories (Harry M. Hardjono).
• In the Spotlight (John Byrd).
• Informatory (William J. Shlaer).
• Little Blue Men (Michael S. Gentry).
• Mother Loose (Irene Callaci).
• Muse: An Autumn Romance (Christopher Huang).
• Photopia (Adam Cadre).
• Purple (Stefan Blixt).
• Research Dig (Chris Armitage).
• The Ritual of Purification (Jarek Sobolewski).
• Spacestation (David Ledgard).
• Trapped in a One-Room Dilly (Laura Knauth).
• Where Evil Dwells (Paul T. Johnson and Steve Owens).

Z-Code Entries in 1999

• Beat the Devil (Robert M. Camisa).
• Calliope (Jason McIntosh).
• Chicks Dig Jerks (Robb Sherwin).
• A Day for Soft Food (Tod Levi).
• Death to my Enemies (Jon Blask).
• For a Change (Dan Schmidt).
• Guard Duty (Jason F. Finx).
• Halothane (Ravi Rajkumar).
• Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin).
• Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win (J. D. Berry).
• Lomalow (Brendan Barnwell).
• Lurk. Unite. Die. Invent. Think. Expire. (Ryan Stevens).
• Music Education (Bill Linney).
• Only After Dark (Gunther Schmidl).
• Outsided (Chad Elliott).
• Pass the Banana (Admiral Jota).
• Spodgeville Murphy and The Jewelled Eye of Wossname (David Fillmore).
• Thorfinn's Realm (Robert Hall and Roy Main).
• Winter Wonderland (Laura Knauth).

Z-Code Entries in 2000

• 1-2-3... (Chris Mudd).
• Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort).
• And the Waves Choke the Wind (Gunther Schmidl).
• Asendent (Sourdoh Farenheit and Kelvin Flatbred).
• Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler).
• Breaking the Code (Gunther Schmidl as Anonymous).
• The Best Man (Rob Menke).
• The Big Mama (Brendan Barnwell).
• Castle Amnos (John Evans).
• Comp00ter Game (Brendan Barnwell).
• Dinner with Andre (Liza Daly).
• The Djinni Chronicles (J. D. Berry).
• Enlisted (G. F. Berry).
• Got ID? (Marc Valhara).
• Guess the Verb! (Leonard Richardson).
• Happy Ever After (Robert M. Camisa).
• Letters from Home (Roger Firth).
• The Masque of the Last Faeries (Ian Ball).
• Masquerade (Kathleen M. Fischer).
• Metamorphoses (Emily Short).
• My Angel (Jon Ingold).
• Nevermore (Nate Cull).
• The Pickpocket (Alex Weldon).
• Prodly the Puffin (Jim Crawford and Craig Timpany).
• Punk Points (Jim Munroe).
• Rameses (Stephen Bond).
• Return to Zork: Another Story (Stefano Canali).
• Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand").
• Stupid Kittens (Marc Valhara).
• Transfer (Tod Levi).
• What-IF? (David Ledgard).
• Withdrawal Symptoms (Niclas Carlsson).
• YAGWAD (John Kean).

Z-Code Entries in 2001

• All Roads (Jon Ingold).
• Bane of the Builders (Bogdan Baliuc).
• Colours (J. Robinson Wheeler).
• Crusade (John Gorenfeld).
• Earth and Sky (Paul O'Brian).
• Elements (John Evans).
• The Evil Sorcerer (Gren Remoz).
• Film at Eleven (Bowen Greenwood).
• Fine Tuned (Dennis Jerz).
• The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt).
• Heroes (Sean Barrett).
• Jump (Chris Mudd).
• Moments Out of Time (L. Ross Raszewski).
• The Newcomer (Jason Love).
• Prized Possession (Kathleen M. Fischer).
• Schroedinger's Cat (James Willson).
• Silicon Castles (David Given).
• Timeout (Stephen Hilderbrand).
• Vicious Cycles (Simon Mark).
• You Are Here (Roy Fisher).

Z-Code Entries in 2002

• BOFH (Howard Sherman).
• The Case of Samuel Gregor (Stephen Hilderbrand).
• Constraints (Martin Bays).
• Fort Aegea (Francesco Bova).
• Hell: A Comedy of Errors (John Evans).
• Identity Thief (Rob Shaw-Fuller).
• Jane (Joseph Grzesiak).
• Janitor (Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn).
• Koan (Esa Peuha).
• The Moonlit Tower (Yoon Ha Lee).
• MythTale (Temari Seikaiha).
• Photograph (Steve Evans).
• Ramón and Jonathan (Daniele A. Gewurz).
• Rent-A-Spy (John Eriksson).
• Scary House Amulet! (Ricardo Dague).
• Screen (Edward Floren).
• The Temple (Johan Berntsson).
• Tookie's Song (Jessica Knoch).
• When Help Collides (J. D. Berry).

Z-Code Entries in 2003

• Adoo's Stinky Story (B. Perry).
• The Atomic Heart (Stefan Blixt).
• Baluthar (Chris Molloy Wischer).
• Caffeination (Michael Loegering).
• Domicile (John Evans).
• The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky (Somebody).
• Gourmet (Aaron A. Reed).
• Internal Documents (Tom Lechner).
• No Room (Ben Heaton).
• A Paper Moon (Andrew Krywaniuk).
• Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne).
• Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster).

Z-Code Entries in 2004

• All Things Devours (half sick of shadows).
• Bellclap (Tommy Herbert).
• The Big Scoop (Johan Berntsson).
• Blink (Ian Waddell).
• Blue Chairs (Chris Klimas).
• Blue Sky (Hans Fugal).
• Chronicle Play Torn (Penczer Attila as "Algol").
• Gamlet (Tomasz Pudlo).
• Goose, Egg, Badger (Brian Rapp).
• The Great Xavio (Reese Warner).
• Identity (Dave Bernazzani).
• Mingsheng (Deane Saunders).
• Murder at the Aero Club (Penny Wyatt).
• Order (John Evans).
• The Orion Agenda (Ryan Weisenberger).
• Splashdown (Paul J. Furio).
• Stack Overflow (Timofei Shatrov).
• Sting of the Wasp (Jason Devlin).
• Typo! (Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn).

Z-Code Entries in 2005

• The Colour Pink (Robert Street).
• Dreary Lands (Paul Lee).
• FutureGame (tm) (The FutureGame Corporation).
• Hello Sword - The journey a.k.a. Hello Sword - Il viaggio (Andrea Rezzonico). English and Italian versions.
• History Repeating (Mark Choba and Renee Choba).
• Internal Vigilance (Simon Christiansen).
• Neon Nirvana (Tony Woods).
• A New Life (Alexandre Owen Muñiz).
• On Optimism (Zach Flynn as "Tim Lane").
• Phantom: Caverns of the Killer (Brandon Coker).
• Psyche's Lament (Now We Have Faces).
• Snatches (Gregory Weir).
• Son of a... (C.S. Woodrow).
• The Sword of Malice (Anthony Panuccio).
• Tough Beans (Sara Dee).
• Unforgotten (Quintin Pan).
• Vespers (Jason Devlin).

Z-Code Entries in 2006

Inform 6

• The Apocalypse Clock (GlorbWare).
• The Bible Retold (Justin Morgan and "Celestianpower").
• Game Producer! (Jason Bergman).
• Labyrinth (Samantha Casanova Preuninger).
• Legion (Jason Devlin as "Ian Anderson").
• Madam Spider's Web (Sara Dee).
• MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - I (Bill Powell).
• MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - II (Bill Powell).
• Pathfinder (Tony Woods).
• Polendina (Christopher Lewis).

Inform 7

• Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (Riff Conner).
• Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter (Rob Myall).
• Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd").
• Fight or Flight (Sean Krauss as "geelpete").
• Hedge (Steven Richards).
• Möbius (J. D. Clemens).
• Moon-Shaped (Jason Ermer).
• The Primrose Path (Nolan Bonvouloir).
• Sisyphus (Theo Koutz).
• Star City (Mark Sachs).
• Strange Geometries (Phillip Chambers).
• The Tower of the Elephant (Tor Andersson).

Z-Code Entries in 2007

Inform 6

• Across The Stars (Dark Star and Peter Mattsson).
• Beneath: a Transformation (Graham Lowther).
• Eduard the Seminarist (Heiko Theißen).
• Fox, Fowl and Feed (Chris Conroy).
• Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk").
• Packrat (Bill Powell).
• Press [Escape] to Save (Mark Jones).
• Wish (Edward Floren).

Inform 7

• An Act of Murder (Hugh Dunnett).
• Deadline Enchanter (Anonymous).
• The Immortal (Just Rob).
• Lord Bellwater's Secret (Sam Gordon).
• My Name is Jack Mills (Juhana Leinonen).
• Orevore Courier (Brian Rapp).

Z-Code Entries in 2008

Inform 6

• Buried In Shoes (Kazuki Mishima).
• Escape from the Underworld (Karl Beecher).
• Freedom (Anonymous).
• Piracy 2.0 (Sean Huxter).
• wHen mAchines aTtack (Mark Jones).

Inform 7

• The Absolute Worst IF Game in History (Dean Menezes).
• Afflicted (Doug Egan).
• Ananachronist (Joseph Strom).
• Dracula's Underground Crypt (Alex Whitington).
• Grief (Simon Christiansen).
• The Lighthouse (Eric Hickman and Nathan Chung).
• The Lucubrator (Ricardo Dague).
• Opening Night (David Batterham).
• Red Moon (Jonathan Hay).
• Riverside (Jeremy Crockett and Victor Janmey).
• Snack Time! (Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba).
• Trein (Leena Ganguli).
• Violet (Jeremy Freese).

Z-Code Entries in 2009

Inform 6

• Condemned (a Delusioned Teenager).
• Eruption (Richard Bos).
• GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands! (Dave Horlick).
• Star Hunter (Chris Kenworthy).

Inform 7

• The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man (Hannes Schueller).
• Beta Tester (Darren Ingram).
• Byzantine Perspective (Lea).
• The Duel in the Snow (Utkonos).
• The Duel That Spanned the Ages (Oliver Ullmann).
• Gleaming the Verb (Kevin Jackson-Mead).
• The Grand Quest (Owen Parish).
• Interface (Ben Vegiard).
• Snowquest (Eric Eve).
• Spelunker's Quest (Tom Murrin).
• zork, buried chaos (bloodbath).

Z-Code Entries in 2010

Inform 6

• The 12:54 to Asgard (J. Robinson Wheeler).
• The Bible Retold: The Lost Sheep (Ben Pennington).
• The Chronicler (John Evans).
• Mite (Sara Dee).

Inform 7

• Death Off the Cuff (Simon Christiansen).
• East Grove Hills (XYZ).
• Flight of the Hummingbird (Michael Martin).
• Heated (Timothy Peers).
• Ninja's Fate (Hannes Schueller).
• Pen and Paint (Owen Parish).
• The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game (Taylor Vaughan).
• A Quiet Evening at Home (Anonymous).
• The Warbler's Nest (Jason McIntosh).

Z-Code Entries in 2011

Inform 7

• Andromeda Awakening (Marco Innocenti).
• Cana According To Micah (Christopher Huang as "Rev. Stephen Dawson").
• Cold Iron (Andrew Plotkin as "Lyman Clive Charles").
• A Comedy of Error Messages a.k.a. The Elfen Maiden (Adam Le Doux).
• Escape From Santaland (Jason Ermer).
• The Guardian (Lutein Hawthorne).
• Keepsake (Savaric).
• Last Day of Summer (Doug Orleans as "Cameron Fox").
• Professor Frank (Laurence Kilday).
• The Ship of Whimsy (U. N. Owen).
• Tenth Plague (Lynnea Dally).
• Vestiges (Joanna Houston as "Josephine Wynter").

Z-Code Entries in 2012

Inform 6

• Spiral (Justin Morgan).

Inform 7

• Body Bargain (Amanda Lange).
• Castle Adventure (Ben Chenoweth).
• Changes (David Given).
• Escape From Summerland (Joey Jones as "Jenny Roomy" (primary writer) and Melvin Rangasamy as "Jasmine Lavages" (primary programmer)).
• Eurydice (Anonymous).
• Fish Bowl (Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp).
• Lunar Base 1 (Michael Phipps).
• Murphy's Law (Scott Hammack).
• Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang as "Virgil Hilts").
• The Test is Now READY (Jim Warrenfeltz).

Z-Code Entries in 2013

Inform 7

• 9Lives (InformStorm).
• Further (Will Hines).
• The Paper Bag Princess (Adri).
• Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz).

Z-Code Entries in 2014

Inform 6

• The Black Lily (Hannes Schueller).

Inform 7

• Excelsior (Arthur DiBianca).
• Enigma (Simon Deimel).
• Fifteen Minutes (Ade).
• Tea Ceremony (Naomi Hinchen).
• Tower (Simon Deimel).