ifwiki: IFComp 2004
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The entries to the 10th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2004).

# readme.txt

Stephen Granade's note about the 2004 competition.
Read this to find out where to get more information.

# results.txt

The results of the competition, posted by
Stephen Granade.

# Comp04.z5
ifwiki: CompXX
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The "front-end" game for the 2004 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 1 / Serial number 041001.

# Comp04.zip

All of the entries in the 2004 competition in one
package, plus walkthroughs and the competition
front-end "Comp04.z5".
Unzip into a directory with the -d option to
preserve the original subdirectory structure.
This file is around 22MB in size.

# IFComp2004.exe

All of the entries in the 2004 competition, plus
walkthroughs and the competition front-end
"Comp04.z5", in one Windows self extracting
archive.
This file is around 20MB in size.

# MacInterpreters.sit

All of the MacOS interpreters needed to play
the competition games.

# WinInterpreters.exe

All of the Windows interpreters needed to play
the competition games.

# adrift/hero
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ifwiki: A Day In The Life Of A Super Hero

A Day In The Life Of A Super Hero, by David Whyld.

# alan/01
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ifwiki: Zero One

Zero One, by Edward Plant.
Beta version 1.2.
Story files and walkthrough.

# glulx/eas3
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ifwiki: Luminous Horizon

Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian.
Release 1 / Serial number 040929.
Story file and comic summarising the previous instalments.

# hugo/trading
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ifwiki: Trading Punches

Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder (writing as Sidney Merk).
Version 1.6.
Story files and walkthrough.
(a newer version is in </if-archive/games/hugo/#trading.zip>)

# tads2/kurusu
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ifwiki: Kurusu City

Kurusu City, by Kevin Venzke.
Version 1.
Story file and hints.

# tads2/lighttale
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ifwiki: A Light's Tale

A Light's Tale, by Zach Flynn (writing as vbnz).
Story file, hints, and walkthrough.

# tads2/magocracy
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ifwiki: Magocracy

Magocracy, by Anton Joseph Rheaume (writing as Scarybug).
2004.09.29.0258 build.
Story file, text-based maps, and hints.

# tads2/ptbad3
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ifwiki: PTBAD3

PTBAD 3: A Mystery, by Jonathan Berman (writing as Xorax).

# tads2/realm
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ifwiki: The Realm

The Realm, by Michael Sheldon.
Story file and walkthrough.

# tads2/redeye
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ifwiki: Redeye

Redeye, by John Pitchers.

# tads2/ruinedrobots
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ifwiki: Ruined Robots

Ruined Robots: World Domination, With Robots or Without Them,
by Nicholas Dudek, Gregory Dudek, and Natasha Dudek (writing as nanag_d).
Story file and walkthrough.

# tads2/whocreated
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ifwiki: Who Created That Monster?

Who Created That Monster?, An Interactive Investigation,
by N. B. Horvath.
Version 1.0.
Story file and walkthrough.

# tads2/zero
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ifwiki: Zero

Zero, by William A. Tilli.
Version 1.0.

# tads3/imustplay
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ifwiki: I Must Play

I Must Play, an arcade adventure, by Geoff Fortytwo.
Release 42.00.009.
Story file and walkthrough.
(source code is in
</if-archive/games/source/tads/#IMustPlay.source.zip>)

# tads3/squarecircle
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ifwiki: Square Circle

Square Circle, by Eric Eve.
Version 1.0.
Story file and walkthrough.
(a newer version is in
</if-archive/games/tads/#SquareCircle.zip>)

# windows/exige
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ifwiki: Getting Back To Sleep

Getting Back To Sleep, by Patrick Evans (writing as IceDragon).
Windows executable (Intel 32-bit) and walkthrough.

# windows/ninja
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ifwiki: Ninja

Ninja v1.30, by Paul Allen Panks (writing as Dunric).
MS-DOS executable and BASIC source code.
(a newer version is in
</if-archive/games/pc/paul-panks/#ninja.zip>)

# zcode/aeroclub
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ifwiki: Murder at the Aero Club

Murder at the Aero Club, an interactive murder mystery by Penny Wyatt.
Release 1 / Serial number 040921.
Story file and walkthrough.

# zcode/bellclap
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ifwiki: Bellclap

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert.
Release 1 / Serial number 040930.
Story file and walkthrough.

# zcode/blink
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ifwiki: Blink

Blink, by Ian Waddell.
Release 1 / Serial number 040926.

# zcode/bluechairs
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ifwiki: Blue Chairs

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas.
Release 1 / Serial number 040930.
Story file, notes, and walkthrough.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#bluechairs.z5>)

# zcode/bluesky
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ifwiki: Blue Sky

Blue Sky, an Interactive Tourist Trap, by Hans Fugal.
Release 3 / Serial number 020408.
Story file, hints, and walkthrough transcript.

# zcode/devours
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ifwiki: All Things Devours

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows.
Release 1 / Serial number 040930.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#devours.z5>)

# zcode/gamlet
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ifwiki: Gamlet

Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo.
Release 1 / Serial number 040926.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#gamlet.z5>)

# zcode/geb
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ifwiki: Goose, Egg, Badger

"Goose, Egg, Badger", an Eccentric Girl's Birthday, by Brian Rapp.
Release 1 / Serial number 040930.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#geb.z5>)

# zcode/greatxavio
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ifwiki: The Great Xavio

The Great Xavio, a Todd and Hagerston Mystery, by Reese Warner.
Release 1 / Serial number 040930.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#GreatXavio.z5>)

# zcode/identity
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ifwiki: Identity

Identity, an Interactive Science Fiction Short Story,
by Dave Bernazzani.
Release 6 / Serial number 040928.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#identity.z5>)

# zcode/mingsheng
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ifwiki: Mingsheng

Mingsheng, a Chinese adventure, by Deane Saunders
(writing as Rexx Magnus).
Version Release 1.0.
Release 1 / Serial number 040907.
Story file and documentation/walkthrough, as plain text and PDF.

# zcode/order00
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ifwiki: Order

Order, by John Evans.
Release 0 / Serial number 040930.
Story file and map.

# zcode/orion
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ifwiki: The Orion Agenda

The Orion Agenda, by Ryan Weisenberger.
Release 9 / Serial number 040930.
(a newer version is at </if-archive/games/zcode/#orion.z5>)

# zcode/scoop
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ifwiki: The Big Scoop

The Big Scoop, by Johan Berntsson.
Release 1 / Serial number 040916.
Story file and walkthrough.
(a Swedish version is at
</if-archive/games/zcode/swedish/#pangnyheten.z5>)

# zcode/splashdown
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ifwiki: Splashdown

Splashdown, an Interactive Misadventure, by Paul J. Furio.
Release 1 / Serial number 040926.
Story file, manual, and walkthrough.

# zcode/stack
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ifwiki: Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow, An Interactive Delirium, by Timofei Shatrov.
Release 1 / Serial number 040925.
Story file and documentation/walkthrough.

# zcode/torn
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ifwiki: Chronicle Play Torn

Chronicle Play Torn, A Cyclopean Tale, by Penczer Attila
(writing as Algol).
Release 1 / Serial number 041001.

# zcode/typo
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ifwiki: Typo!

Typo!, by Peter Seebach & Kevin Lynn.
Release 1 / Serial number 040924.
Story file and hints.
(a newer version is in </if-archive/games/zcode/#typo.zip>)

# zcode/wasp
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ifwiki: Sting of the Wasp

Sting of the Wasp, interactive damage-control, by Jason Devlin.
Release 1 / Serial number 040622.
Story file and walkthrough.
(source code is at
</if-archive/games/source/inform/#wasp.inf>)
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Comp04.zip2004-10-08 01:10 21M
IFComp2004.exe2004-10-07 23:56 20M
Index2025-04-15 13:32 7.7K
MacInterpreters.sit2004-10-04 17:54 2.1M
readme.txt2004-10-01 18:39 5.9K
results.txt2004-11-16 16:43 1.9K
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