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The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual competition for works of interactive fiction that has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many points to award it.

The first competition had separate sections for Inform and TADS games. Subsequent competitions have not been divided into sections and are open to games produced by any method, provided that the software used to play the game is freely available.

Anyone can judge the games, and anyone can donate a prize. Almost always, there are enough prizes donated that anyone who enters will get one.

Entries are required to be released as freeware or public domain, reflecting the general non-profit ethos of the IF community.

The following is a list of winners to date:

1995:
*Inform
category: A Change in the Weather by Andrew Plotkin
*TADS
category: Uncle Zebulon's Will by Magnus Olsson
1996: The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
1997: The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith
1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre
1999: Winter Wonderland by Laura A. Knauth
2000: Kaged by Ian Finley
2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold
2002: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam
by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
2004: Luminous Horizon by Paul O'Brian
2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin

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