As promised:
The 2006 Interactive Fiction Competition's results are up!
I'm really pleased to see that my personal favorite, The Primrose Path, placed second. I was surprised because some of the other IF's were tighter narratives or better games, but there was a weird and surprising beauty to Primrose Path, so I'm glad.
By some coincidence, the few games I did play (so busy with schoolwork!) were the ones that placed. Floatpoint is fantastic, of course, but it's Emily Short, so it can hardly be anything but fantastic. Elysium Enigma is a solid sci-fi game with good puzzles.
I mean, you're probably safe downloading any game down to the twentieth place. Anything below that and you run the risk of the game being unplayable or incredibly, incredibly unfun.
I'm really pleased to see that my personal favorite, The Primrose Path, placed second. I was surprised because some of the other IF's were tighter narratives or better games, but there was a weird and surprising beauty to Primrose Path, so I'm glad.
By some coincidence, the few games I did play (so busy with schoolwork!) were the ones that placed. Floatpoint is fantastic, of course, but it's Emily Short, so it can hardly be anything but fantastic. Elysium Enigma is a solid sci-fi game with good puzzles.
I mean, you're probably safe downloading any game down to the twentieth place. Anything below that and you run the risk of the game being unplayable or incredibly, incredibly unfun.