According to Cain: IF Comp 2022 results

Cover image of According to Cain by Jim Nelson

Well, the results are in: My interactive fiction game According to Cain placed 6th in the 2022 Interactive Fiction Competition (IF Comp). This is my first IF Comp, and my first full-length interactive fiction, so I’m more than pleased to have placed in the top ten. (There were 71 entries total, and over 4,000 votes cast this year.)

Notably, According to Cain took 1st place in the Miss Congeniality contest. This is the award given to the game rated highest by the other game competition authors. I’m honored that the other creators rated Cain this way.

It was quite the haul getting to this point. Writing and debugging the game took a year’s time, and the competition itself lasts 45 days, which is nerve-jangling in its own right.

Congratulations to everyone else in the competition, including the top three winners: The Grown-Up Detective Agency by Brendan Patrick Hennessy, The Absence of Miriam Lane by Abigail Corfman, and A Long Way to the Nearest Star by SV Linwood.

4 thoughts on “According to Cain: IF Comp 2022 results

  1. Massimo says:

    A little detaile and a minor bug in the online version at https://iplayif.com/?

    >x crow
    The crow stares down upon you with passive, observant eyes.
    >x crow’s eyes
    The crow doesn’t appear to have any eyes.

    >put cloth and book in rucksack
    rucksack: The rucksack wasn’t designed to carry that.
    rucksack: The rucksack wasn’t designed to carry that.

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