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.
I tried to play it, but was not able to.
I’m sorry to hear that! If the in-browser version isn’t working, you might try installing QTads from https://realnc.github.io/qtads/ and playing it that way.
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.
Thanks for the reports! I’ll make these changes to the next version.