Interactive Fiction Competition 2006 Voting Begins

An anonymous reader writes "Voting for the 12th annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IF Comp) has begun! Standout entries this year include a new game from acclaimed writer (and previous IF Comp winner) Emily Short, an interactive moebius strip, the requisite bible game(s) and a game about making games. A full list is available on the IF Comp website, and eToychest kicks off their IF Comp coverage with an interview with Stephen Granade, the competition organizer."

What's wrong with the IF community?

[Anonymous Coward]

In today's ADHD plagued world, most causal web surfers are weary of anything that might take even five minutes of their time. If a piece of IF requires some kind of weird player to run, 99% of all newcomers to it won't ever run it. With the IF subgenre being probably the best suited to implement with hyperlinks, you might guess that this is what they do, or at least that they have a player written in flash or javascript or processing or whatever. Well, you'd be wrong. They actually require you to download some obscure player before you can have any fun at all. That's really amazingly dumb.

Please don't skew the voting....

[Futaba-chan]

Standout entries this year include a new game from acclaimed writer (and previous IF Comp winner) Emily Short, an interactive moebius strip, the requisite bible game(s) and a game about making games.
Um, it's considered bad form to single out specific games for discussion before the end of the voting period. Especially on a widely read site like Slashdot. Please don't do this next year.