The entries to the 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2008).
A Date With Death, by David Whyld. Version 1.
LAIR of the CyberCow, by Conrad Cook (writing as Harry Wilson).
The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom, by Anssi Räisänen.
A Martian Odyssey, a science fiction text adventure of space exploration and interpersonal communication, by Horatiu Romosan. Release 2 / Serial number 080929. Story file and walkthrough.
Channel Surfing, by Mike Vollmer. Release 1 / Serial number 080929. Story file and walkthrough. (a newer version is at games/glulx/chnlsurf.ulx)
Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker. Release 1 / Serial number 080929. Story file and walkthrough.
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe, with illustrations by Michael Cho. Release 1 / Serial number 080915. Story file and walkthrough. (a newer version is at games/glulx/EverybodyDies.gblorb)
Nightfall, An Interactive Short Story by Eric Eve. Release 1 / Serial number 080909. Story file, map, and walkthrough. (a newer version is in games/glulx/Nightfall.zip)
Recess At Last, An Interactive Restlessness, by Gerald Aungst. Release 1 / Serial number 080929. Story file and walkthrough.
Nerd Quest, by Gabor de Mooij (writing as RagtimeNerd). Story file, MechaniQue/J interpreter (version 2.0) and source code, and walkthrough.
Berrost's Challenge, by Mark Hatfield. Version 1.0. Story file and hints.
April in Paris, by Jim Aikin. Version 1.0. Story file and map.
Magic, by Geoff Fortytwo. Version 1.01. Story file and walkthrough.
The Hall of the Fount of Artois, by Simon Ellis. Version 080904. Executable (Intel 32-bit) and walkthrough.
The Missing Piece, by C. Yong. Installer (Intel 32-bit) and walkthrough.
Project Delta, by Emilian Kowalewski (writing as Comazombie). Node-X. Executable (Intel 32-bit) and walkthrough.
Search for the Ultimate Weapon, by Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee (writing as Sharilynn). SUDS. Executable (Intel 32-bit), data files, and walkthrough.
Afflicted, by Doug Egan. Release 1 / Serial number 080906. Story file and walkthrough.
Ananachronist, a puzzle in four dimensions, by Joseph Strom. Release 1 / Serial number 080927. Story file, hints, and walkthrough.
The Absolute Worst IF Game in History, by Dean Menezes. Release 1 / Serial number 080614.
Buried In Shoes, by Kazuki Mishima. Release 3 / Serial number 080912. Story file and walkthrough. (a newer version is at games/zcode/bishoes.z5)
Dracula's Underground Crypt, by Alex Whitington. Release 1 / Serial number 080929.
Freedom, by Anonymous. Release 0 / Serial number 080929.
Grief, by Simon Christiansen. Release 1 / Serial number 080929.
The Lighthouse, by Eric Hickman and Nathan Chung. Release 1 / Serial number 080921. Story file and walkthrough.
The Lucubrator, by Ricardo Dague. Release 1 / Serial number 080928. Story file and walkthrough.
wHen mAchines aTtack, A Technological Horror, by Mark Jones. Release 1 / Serial number 080927. Story file and walkthrough.
Opening Night, by David Batterham. Release 3 / Serial number 080920. Story file and walkthrough.
Piracy 2.0, A Text Adventure in Space, by Sean Huxter. Release 1 / Serial number 080926. (a newer version is at games/zcode/piracy_2.z5)
Red Moon, by Jonathan Hay. Release 1 / Serial number 080905. Story file and walkthrough.
Riverside, by Jeremy Crockett and Victor Janmey. Release 1 / Serial number 080903. Story file and walkthrough.
Snack Time! by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba. Release 1 / Serial number 080929. In zblorb and bare z8 formats.
Trein, by Leena Ganguli. Release 2 / Serial number 080718. Story file and walkthrough.
Escape from the Underworld, by Karl Beecher. Release 1 / Serial number 080922. Story file, hints, and walkthrough.
Violet, A Distraction, by Jeremy Freese. Release 1, September 2008. Story file and walkthrough. (a newer version is at games/zcode/Violet.zblorb)
The unofficial "front-end" game for the 2008 competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith. Release 2 / Serial number 081003.
All of the entries in the 2008 competition in one package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option to preserve the original subdirectory structure. This file is around 65MB in size.
All of the entries in the 2008 competition in one Windows self extracting archive. This file is around 63MB in size.
Stephen Granade's note about the 2008 competition. Read this to find out where to get more information.
The results of the 2008 competition.
All of the Windows interpreters needed to play the competition games.