[Contest] ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS!
Gerry Kevin Wilson
Howdy, howdy, howdy:
First of all, it's been a great year for the competition. A whole slew of
entries, and most of them really good. We had some really bizarre entries,
which I always love to see, and we had a good voter turnout (60 votes, 8 of
which were for the Miss Congeniality vote.) Promoted! was the only game
that did not receive enough votes to qualify for prize competition,
presumably due to its choice of OS.
I haven't done the prize picks yet, preferring instead to get this posted as
soon as possible. SPAG 10 will contain those, as well as interviews with
some of the authors, and all the other usual rigamarole. If you want to
submit game reviews (contest entries only) now's the time. Reprints of
opinions posted to r.g.i-f are perfectly acceptable, but I may ask you to
spruce up things or something. When writing out the results, I may have
forgotten an alias that someone used or something of that nature, so I'll
apologize in advance. I'll email their scores to the authors, but other
than that I believe that the scores might just set some folks fretting
about how close they were, blah blah blah, so no public posting of scores,
just the raw place finishes.
I had a blast, guys. I hope next year's competition is half as good.
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Anyways, without further ado, here are the 1996 Interactive Fiction
Competition Results!
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1st Place: The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet
by: Angela M. Horns, aka: Graham Nelson
2nd Place: Tapestry
by: Dan Ravipinto
3rd Place: Delusions
by the author, aka: C. E. Forman
4th Place: Small World
by Andrew D. Pontious
5th Place: Kissing the Buddha's Feet
by Anonymous, aka: Leon Lin
6th Place: Fear
by Chuan-Tze Teo
7th Place: Maiden of the Moonlight
by Brian P. Dean
8th Place: Wearing the Claw
by Paul O'Brian
9th Place: Alien Abduction
by Charles Gerlach
10th Place: Aayela
by Magnus Olsson
11th Place: Lists and Lists
by Andrew Plotkin
12th Place: Ralph
by Miron Schmidt
13th Place: Reverberations
by Russell Wain Glasser
14th Place: The Land Beyond the Picket Fence
by Martin Oehm
15th Place: In the End
by Joe Mason
16th Place: Piece of Mind
by Giles Boutel, aka: Geoff Durden
17th Place: Phlegm
by Adjacent Drooler, aka: Jason Dyer
18th Place: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the Oriental Walk
by Gil Williamson
19th Place: Stargazer
by Jonathan Fry
20th Place: Of Forms Unknown
by Chris Markwyn
21st Place: The Curse of Eldor
by Stuart Allen
22nd Place: Don't Be Late
by Greg Ewing
23rd Place: The House of the Stalker
by Jason Clayton White
24th Place: Rippled Flesh
by Rybread M. Celsius
25th Place: Punkarita Quest One: Liquid
by Rybread M. Celsius
26th Place: My First Stupid Game
by Daniel McPherson
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And the Winner of the Miss Congeniality Award is:
Tapestry
by: Dan Ravipinto
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Great year everyone, and thanks for helping to keep text adventures alive!
--
"Ha. Made ya look!"
Andrew Plotkin
Gerry Kevin Wilson (whiz...@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:
> we had a good voter turnout (60 votes, 8 of
> which were for the Miss Congeniality vote.)
That seems awfully skimpy. Especially in the MsC section. Geez, folks,
you're willing to go to all the effort of writing a game, but you don't
bother to vote?
(No, I don't think it's actually a big deal.)
--Z
--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
Russell Wain Glasser
>1st Place: The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet
> by: Angela M. Horns, aka: Graham Nelson
>
I'm actually a bit upset about that... NOT because I don't think that
Graham's game deserved first place, but because the only entry which appeared
to have been written by a woman (and quite competently, too) was nothing more
than an anagram of Graham's name. It appears that interactive fiction is a
totally male-dominated domain after all. Were ANY of the 26 entries done by
a female?? Looks like not.
>3rd Place: Delusions
> by the author, aka: C. E. Forman
>
Very amusing, Forman, writing a review for your own game and
calling it "easily the most genuinely frightening game since 'A Mind
Forever Voyaging'." Delusions was actually my choice for first place,
so I can't complain too much... but HONESTLY, didn't you ever hear of
modesty? <g> At least next year you'll be disqualified for that
stunt. (Just kidding. Really.)
Okay, I'll bite: are there only 49 points available in the game, or
are you just making a smug challenge for us to find your last lousy
point?
At first I pegged Andrew Plotkin as the author, submitting
Delusions as his second (secret) entry. Based on the lousy review he
gave it, I have to say, once again -- Sorry, Andrew!!!
Russell
BPD
rgla...@ix.netcom.com(Russell Wain Glasser) wrote:
> At first I pegged Andrew Plotkin as the author, submitting
>Delusions as his second (secret) entry. Based on the lousy review he
>gave it, I have to say, once again -- Sorry, Andrew!
Did he post some reviews? I must have missed that one... :-\
Would some helpful soul mind e-mailing that article to me? I'd really
appreciate it!!
BPD
Werner Punz
erky...@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) wrote:
>
>That seems awfully skimpy. Especially in the MsC section. Geez, folks,
>you're willing to go to all the effort of writing a game, but you don't
>bother to vote?
Yup, and there are some people like me who wanted to vote and the
local pop mail server had something against it :-(.
(Just as explantation. My !"§$%&# local pop server was down the time I
tried to vote, which unfortunately was the last voting day. So no
votes from me )
Werner
we...@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at
http://witiko.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/~werpu
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C.E. Forman
> Very amusing, Forman, writing a review for your own game and
>calling it "easily the most genuinely frightening game since 'A Mind
>Forever Voyaging'." Delusions was actually my choice for first place,
>so I can't complain too much... but HONESTLY, didn't you ever hear of
>modesty? <g> At least next year you'll be disqualified for that
>stunt. (Just kidding. Really.)
I meant every word I said. Besides, I had to consider my need for
public opinion. (It's quite life-threatening, you know.)
> Okay, I'll bite: are there only 49 points available in the game, or
>are you just making a smug challenge for us to find your last lousy
>point?
There really are 50. I might announce where the last comes from. I
haven't decided yet.
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C.E. Forman
>Did he post some reviews? I must have missed that one... :-\
>
>Would some helpful soul mind e-mailing that article to me? I'd really
>appreciate it!!
Look for a reprint in the next SPAG.
Andrew Plotkin
C.E. Forman (cefo...@postoffice.worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> >Did he post some reviews? I must have missed that one... :-\
> >
> >Would some helpful soul mind e-mailing that article to me? I'd really
> >appreciate it!!
> Look for a reprint in the next SPAG.
Hey, wait, are you still talking about my reviews? My reviews aren't
being reprinted in SPAG. Strictly newsgroup-only.