[IF-COMP97] Contest Results (sans Prize Draft)
Gerry Kevin Wilson
Well, you folks obviously can't wait, and I'm still shy 6 authors (you know
who you are, you naughty authors you.) so I'll go ahead and post the prize
winning games (apologies in advance for any misspelled names and so
forth):
The Results:
1 - The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
2 - Babel, by Ian Finley
3 - Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
4 - She's got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
5 - A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
6 - Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
7 - Poor Zefron's Almanac, by Carl Klutzke
8 - The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil Brown
9 - Sins Against Mimesis, by Adam Thornton
10 - A New Day, by Jonathan Fry
11 - Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifier
12 - Zombie!, by Scott W. Starkey
13 - The Frenetic Five vs Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
14 - Travels in the Land of Erden, by Laura A. Knauth
15 - Unholy grail, by Stuart Allen
16 - Friday Afternoon, by Mischa Schweitzer
17 - Madame L'estrange and the Troubled Spirit, by Ian Ball and
Marcus Young
18 - Sylenius Mysterium, by C.E. Forman
19 - Phred Phontious, the Quest for Pizza, by Michael Zey
20 - Down, by Kent Tessman
21 - Virtual Tech, by David Glasser
22 - The Obscene Quest of Dr Auurdvarkbarf, by Gary Roggin
23 - A Good Breakfast, by Stuart Adair
24 - The Town Dragon, by David A. Cornelson
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G. Kevin Wilson: Freelance Writer and Game Designer. Resumes on demand.
Steven Howard
Dammit, Whizzard, I need the whole list -- I need to know
who came last so I can score and announce my side bets.
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Steven Howard
bl...@ibm.net
"Are you a COBOL programmer?" "No, but people tell me I look like one."
Andrew Plotkin
> 1 - The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
> 2 - Babel, by Ian Finley
> 3 - Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
By the way, all three of you are entitled to call yourselves "respected
masters of the genre" now, just like me.
Now you too can experience...
* people saying that your presence scares off new authors.
* people accusing you of being responsible for any anonymous game which
is even slightly clever or off-beat.
* people telling you that you live in an ivory tower, not to mention:
* people saying that the IF audience is worshipping your incomprehensible
games instead of playing games that are fun.
Hell, you can have *my* shares of those things.
(Sorry about cutting that off at three people. I was intending to just
include the top-ranked entry, but then it turned out that I liked Babel
more than Edifice -- and also Ian Finley has wowed a competition with his
first game -- remind you of anyone? -- and then there's Nate Cull, who has
now come out with *three* respected games -- well, you get the idea.)
--Z
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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
Linards Ticmanis
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Andrew Plotkin wrote:
> more than Edifice -- and also Ian Finley has wowed a competition with his
> first game -- remind you of anyone? -- and then there's Nate Cull, who has
Incidentally, it's a bit sad that Daniel Ravipinto never got around to
doing a bugfixed version of "Tapestry". Of course he certainly had a good
reason not to do so, but I hope that doesn't happen this time.
Linards Ticmanis
Graham Nelson
In article <69774v$s...@chile.earthlink.net>, Gerry Kevin Wilson
<URL:mailto:g...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The Results:
>
> 1 - The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
> 2 - Babel, by Ian Finley
> 3 - Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
> 5 - A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
> 6 - Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
> 7 - Poor Zefron's Almanac, by Carl Klutzke
> 8 - The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil Brown
> 9 - Sins Against Mimesis, by Adam Thornton
> 10 - A New Day, by Jonathan Fry
> 11 - Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifier
> 12 - Zombie!, by Scott W. Starkey
> 13 - The Frenetic Five vs Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
> 14 - Travels in the Land of Erden, by Laura A. Knauth
> 15 - Unholy grail, by Stuart Allen
> 16 - Friday Afternoon, by Mischa Schweitzer
> 17 - Madame L'estrange and the Troubled Spirit, by Ian Ball and
> Marcus Young
> 18 - Sylenius Mysterium, by C.E. Forman
> 19 - Phred Phontious, the Quest for Pizza, by Michael Zey
> 20 - Down, by Kent Tessman
> 21 - Virtual Tech, by David Glasser
> 22 - The Obscene Quest of Dr Auurdvarkbarf, by Gary Roggin
> 23 - A Good Breakfast, by Stuart Adair
> 24 - The Town Dragon, by David A. Cornelson
But hey... guess who was first runner-up?
Congratulations to everyone above, and perhaps I could propose a
vote of thanks to Kevin.
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Graham Nelson | gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk | Oxford, United Kingdom
LucFrench
[Snip listings up to 24th place]
Would an author care to post the *COMPLETE* results?
(BTW, I've heard a rumor that the last two games were both about Houses. Can
you guess which ones? I can. (Although I did like one of them.))
Thanks
Luc French
Jonathan Fry
Graham Nelson (gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: But hey... guess who was first runner-up?
Geez, Graham, with all your posts about "The Tempest" lately, I think
you're giving C.E. Forman a real challenge for the 1998 Shameless
Self-Promotion award. A bit of over-compensation on your part,
perhaps? ;)
--Jon
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Neil Brown
At 18:06:55 on Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Jonathan Fry wrote:
>Graham Nelson (gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: But hey... guess who was first runner-up?
>
>Geez, Graham, with all your posts about "The Tempest" lately, I think
>you're giving C.E. Forman a real challenge for the 1998 Shameless
>Self-Promotion award. A bit of over-compensation on your part,
>perhaps? ;)
If anything, Graham seems to be knocking his entry at every opportunity.
Maybe a self-depreciation award would be more appropriate. :)
- NJB
Joe Mason
In article <69b1nv$pjv$2...@calvin.skidmore.edu>,
Jonathan Fry <jf...@saims.skidmore.edu> wrote:
>Graham Nelson (gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: But hey... guess who was first runner-up?
>
>Geez, Graham, with all your posts about "The Tempest" lately, I think
>you're giving C.E. Forman a real challenge for the 1998 Shameless
>Self-Promotion award. A bit of over-compensation on your part,
>perhaps? ;)
I was trying to do my part to resurrect "In The End", but I blew it today by
referring to it as "my previous game" instead of giving the title. Or does
this cancel that out?
Joe