Key & Compass: Interactive Fiction

👉 Site Index

• Interactive Fiction: Overview. My Games. Sites. People. Events. Companies.
• Personal: About me, David Welbourn; Stuff I've made; Where I am on the web.
• Programming and Web Markup: General. Images. Perl. Web Markup. Uncategorized.
• Miscellanea: Games. Humour. Literature. Local to Kitchener-Waterloo. Reference. Webcomics.

💻 Overview of Interactive Fiction

• Blogs:
  • Planet IF by everyone;
  • The Digital Antiquarian by Jimmy Maher;
  • Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling by Emily Short;
  • Key & Compass blog by David Welbourn (that's me!);
  • No Time To Play by Felix Pleşoianu;
  • Renga in Blue by Jason Dyer.
  • Also, I have a very new IF Articles page for stuff I've written. Not much there yet.
• Companies: See IF Companies below.
• Events: See IF Events below.
• Games:
  • IF Works by David Welbourn. My most recent game is Easter Egg Hunt 2020.
  • IF Works Index tries to list every IF game I've ever heard of with as much info as I can reasonably provide for each. Keeping it up to date gets more impossible each year. Compare with other indexes at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.de.
  • Works of Interactive Fiction is a list of short descriptions of many IF works tagged and linked for your browsing convenience! Begun in the last third of 2016, this is a page to watch!
  • Abandoned, Lost, Orphaned, and Missing IF Works. (NEW!) Sometimes I find games on my hard drive that I can't refind on the internet, so I'm making new unofficial homepages for those games here so they're not lost forever. This page was begun on October 30, 2020.
• ifMud: My ifMUD Stuff including my map of ifMud.
• People: See IF People below.
• Projects: I have a habit of picking apart features of IF works and comparing them. They include:
  • Challenger (NEW!): IF Challenges. I shall describe some coding, programming, and writing challenges related to creating parser-driven IF games. Hopefully the challenges won't be too difficult for you! Try writing up a test program that does what I ask in your favourite IF authoring system. The Challenger project was begun in December 2020.
  • Code Compare – A bold, unfinished attempt to compare ALAN, Hugo, Inform, TADS 2 and TADS 3 on a feature-by-feature basis. (NOTE: I plan to eventually move this information into the Code Compare project at IFWiki as well.)
  • Puzzler (NEW!): IF Puzzles, an attempt to describe what a puzzle in IF is, what types of IF puzzles there are, and give examples. This project was begun in October 2020.
  • Reporter: IF Reports about ClubFloyd, extensions, genres, IF Comp statistics, IFIDs, lists, room counts, room types, status-lines, testers, IF's timeline, and titles.
  • Responser: IF Responses to XYZZY, PET, PLUGH, PLOVER, PRAY, SING, THINK, and not understood verbs.
  • Thinger: IF Things is my attempt to collect descriptions of all sorts of things in works of IF! Do you want to look at beds? pianos? screwdrivers? etc etc etc.
  • The Four-Eyed Guide to TADS 3 – This project was begun in September 2004, but it's still Very incomplete.
• Reviews: My Reviews of Works of Interactive Fiction
• Scans: Scans of My IF Play Session Notes. Look at my handwritten notes from the fabled binders!
• Sites: See IF Sites below.
• Tools: So far I don't have many IF-related tools, but it's a category I want to keep separate.
  • Map Creator – A JavaScript app to help me (or anyone else) create IF maps in HTML/CSS. (I started this project in March 2009.)
  • Zinnia v3.
• Topics: IF Topics. A rough collection of my pages related to IF that don't fit anywhere else, from Agency to Webcomics.
  The following pages will probably be moved into the topics directory:
  • Andrew Plotkin’s Cruelty Scale.
  • The Name Game – A list of IF games with related names.
  • My IF TODO List – A seemingly endless list of notes and things I want to do (or keep track of) related to interactive fiction.
• Walkthroughs: My Solutions, Walkthroughs, Maps, and Rough Notes of interactive fiction games.
  Note that the following pages will be deprecated in favour of merging their content into walkthrough pages:
  • Gostakian to English Dictionary - an attempt to translate the language used in The Gostak. CAUTION: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
  • Out of the Study – What if all the items in the room were visible? CAUTION: CONTAINS SPOILERS for Out of the Study.

🔗 IF Sites

• Intros for Beginners – IF Guide, Brass Lantern Beginner Resources, Ifaq, Cloak of Darkness.
• Downloads – IF Archive (mirrors: wurb, plover, jmac, f'plex, ibiblio), Home of the Underdogs, BlueChillies.
• Play IF Online at – ifiction.org.
• News & Reviews – Audyssey, Brass Lantern, Grand Text Auto (GTxA), (IF-Legends), IFDB, IFRC, IFRO, IF Ratings, IF-Review, Planet IF, Quandry, SPAG, Suite101, SynTax, Trotting Krips, XYZZYnews.
• Newsgroups – Welcome, rec.arts.int-fiction (FAQ, Google), rec.games.int-fiction (FAQ, Google), Rakontointeraktiva.
• Links – dmoz IF, ifFinder, ifHOS, Google IF, PARSIFAL, Yahoo IF.
• IF Languages & Development Systems
  • Adrift (ATTS, calendar, chat, Forum, Delron, InsideADRIFT, jAsea, MacScare, Network Forum, O.A.R.S., Scare, ShadowVault, webring).
  • Alan.
  • Hugo (manual, Hugonomicon).
  • Inform 6 (DM4, FAQ, IBG, Maintenance, patches, Blorb, OnyxRing, Platypus, Quetzal spec, V6Lib, Z-Spec).
    • Inform Tips (zarf, Roger Firth, Doe's Primer, Doe's Tips, lpsmith, Andrew Clover, two-star's Platypus Tips).
    • ZCode Interpreters (Amiga Zip, Dos Frotz, Frotz, Gnusto, JZip/JZExe, MacFrotz, Malyon, MaxZip, Nitfol, Pilot-Frotz, PocketPC Frotz, Rezrov, Windows Frotz 2000, WinFrotz, XZip, ZedFunge, Zip, Zip Infinity, Zonk, Zoom, ZPlet).
    • ZCode Utilities (BundleMonkey, Czech, IBlorb, Glulx-strings, MaxZIP, Plotz, Reform, TXD, XZip).
    • Glulx (Git, Glk, Gull, GWindows, WinGit).
  • Inform 7
  • TADS (Jetty, HyperTADS, MaxTADS, WinTADS).
  • TADS3 (ml).
    • Tads3 Docs (Tour Guide)
    • Tads3 Tips (Kwi, Edward L. Stauff's Proto-Docs, mine)
  • Others: AAS, Adventure Book, AGS, AGT (ml, Glk AGiliTy), CAT, IAGE, IF#, IFML, JACL, Linder, Mad, PAWS, PUB, QML, Quest, QuestBasher, Quill/PAW, Snap, SUDS, Text-World, Visionaire, ZIL (pdf manual).
    See also: Game Creation Resources.
  • Unsorted Utilities & Interpreters –
    (Note: I'm in the process of moving these to the appropriate language/development system, where appropriate.)
    Fink, Frobnitz (Palm), GlkDOS, IF-IDE, Imaginate, Zag, Zann, Zeal, Zinc.
• Non-English
  • General – rakontointeraktiva.
  • Croatian & Slovakian – ex-YU Computer Scene.
  • French – Anamnèse, Inform 6 en français, Inform_fr à Yahoo!, Fiction-FR, FrITES, Jeux Access.
  • German – Adventurearchiv, T.A.G., textfire.de, if-de forum (en), if-de Webring, ifwizz.de, German Inform Manual.
  • Greek – Adventure Advocate.
  • Italian – Guida alle avventure italiane, IF Italia, Informazioni, it.comp.giochi.aventure.testuali.
  • Japanese – Zork I.
  • Spanish – CAAD , SPAC.
  • Swedish – svenska-aventyr.
• IF Humour – Death of Adventure Games, IF-a-Minute (thanks to archive.org), Snap, Thy Dungeonman, Transcript, Tril's IF Humour page (wayback).
• Other – Adventureland (mirror), AIF/SAIFA (A Ninny's list), Assistance, Authorship, Beta-Testers, Blogs at IF Library, Bookclub, Cheese, Collaborators, Colossal Cave, Feelies, Foibles, Glossary, ifMud (lj, IF and a MUD), IFPatterns, Solutions, SpeedIF, Theory, Timeline, Translators, ifwiki (changes).

👤 IF People

• Some ifMudders – Acapnotic (lj), Adam (lj), Ampersand, amackinnon, andreaw, andyf (lj), Aris, baf, Barabbas, Bishop (lj), BoingBall, boucher, BrenBarn (lj), buzzard (lj), Chrysoula (lj), ctate, Dan_Wood, DanDawson, Daniel, Dave, DavidW, ddyte (lj), DejaDuo, devil, dfan (lj), DGlasser (lj), Dilbon, Dino, Doe, Domokov, DorianX, Duchess (lj), Eileen, elf (lj), Ellison, Emily (lj), Esrom (lj), Ferret (lj), gayla, ghira (lj), Ghogg (lj, IF blog), Golrien, Grocible, Gunther (lj), Hjalfi, Hugo, Iain (lj), inky (lj), Ivan (lj), Jacqueline (lj), JasonMel, Jaybird, Jearl, Jeff (lj), jess (lj), jnc, josh_g (lj), Jota (lj), jwalrus, kenf, K'tohg, K-Y, katre, Kiz (lj), Kwi, Limax (lj), Lionheart (j), liza (lj), lno (lj), lpsmith (lj), Lucea, lurd (lj), LyleBrown (lj), maga (lj, FR), mamster (lj), markm, (lj), Marvin, Matthew (lj), mcp (lj), mef (lj), Miseri, (lj), Mystery, Nate (IF, lj), neild, nm, olethros (lj), OnyxApe, Oren (lj), ParserGirl, Paul, Psmith, Q-Stone, Recchi, requiescat, rjbs, Rob (lj), RogerCarbol, Ryan (lj, blog), Sargent (lj), schep, Sean, Skeet (lj), Spatch, Sslaxx (lj), Stacey, Storme (lj), Tablesaw (lj), Thrax, thumper, Trent (lj), Tril, two-star (lj), Valancy (lj), veek (lj), Whizzard, Yoon (lj), zarf.
• Some ADRIFT-ers – Cannibal, Christopher Cole, Ken Franklin (KF), Mystery, Soothsayer, David Whyld (DavidW), Campbell Wild.
• Black sheep – AP Hill (Santoonie), Paul Allen Panks, Poster, Howard Sherman (Malinche).
• Other IF-ers – Rick Adams, Scott Adams, Martin Bays, Steve Barrera, Steve Bernard, Stephen Bond, Elise Boucher, Nikos Chantziaras, Tommaso Caldarola, Francesco Cordella, Michael Coyne, Chris Crawford, Kevan Davis, Joe DeRouen, Paul David Doherty, Florian Edlbauer, John Escobedo, Roger Firth, Star Foster, Roberto Grassi (IF Portal), Ben Hines, Jon Ingold, Michael Jachini, Dennis G. Jerz, Paul Johnson, Jessica Knoch, Stefano Lorenzin, Jimmy Maher, Graham Nelson, "Nerd42" (h2g2), Yassen Nikolov, Martin Oehm, Jonathan Partington, William Patterson (Ailanto), Fredrik Ramsberg, Daniel Ravipinto, Gareth Rees, Scott Neal Reilly, David Tanguay, Brian Uri, Stephen van Egmond, Paolo Vece, Don Woods.
• Graphical Adventure Authors: Jeroen Stout (author of Divided).

🏅 IF Events

IF Competitions, Contests, and Group Projects: Past and Present

(I'm in the process of consolidating all the comp info into one list. Hopefully this will be easier to manage. — David in March 2009.)

See also: Competitions, Anthologies, and Shows by Emily Short, 08-Jan-2015.

• 24 Hours of Inform ^ifwiki in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, and 2004 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Kevan Davis.
• 2K Comp a.k.a. The Annual 1 to 2K Classic Text Adventure Competition in 2004 ^ifwiki and 2005 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Paul Allen Panks a.k.a. Dunric.
• AbilityComp ^ifwiki (May 2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• Acorn User Competition ^baf's in ?–1996.
• ADRIFT Comps ^{baf's ifwiki delron shadowvault}
  • Adrift Annual Comp in 2002. (cancelled; may be same as ADRIFT Summer Comp 2002?). Organizer: Ken Franklin.
  • ADRIFT Minicomp 2003 ^{baf's ifwiki} a.k.a. Davidw's Minicomp (2003). Organizer: David Whyld.
  • Bryan's ADRIFT Comp (April 2002; cancelled). Organizer: Bryan Miller.
  • Cowboy's Comps for Non-Registered Users of ADRIFT presented as Comp With No Name ^ifwiki (2008), Second Comp With No Name ^ifwiki (2008), NEW YEAR Comp ^ifwiki (2008), and Spring ting ^ifwiki (2009). Organizer: Cowboy.
  • ECTOCOMP in 2007 ^ifwiki and 2008 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Jason Guest.
  • Finish the Game Comp 2005 (August 2005). Organizer: David Whyld.
  • InsideADRIFT Awards in 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, and 2006 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Ken Franklin.
  • InsideADRIFT Spring Comp (April–May) in 2001 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2002 ^{baf's wiki}, 2003 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2004 ^{baf's ifwiki}, and 2005 ^{baf's ifwiki}. Organizer: Ken Franklin.
  • InsideADRIFT Summer Comp (August) in 2001 ^ifwiki, 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2004 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, 2008 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Ken Franklin.
  • Intro Comp 2005 ^{baf's wiki} (May 2005). Organizer: Richard Otter.
  • NaAdWriMo 2007.
  • The Odd Competition ^ifwiki (Sept–Oct 2008). Organizer: Abbi Park a.k.a. alsnpk.
  • One Hour Comp styled as 1st ^{baf's ifwiki} (2002), 2nd ^{baf's ifwiki} (2003), 3rd ^{baf's ifwiki} (2003), and 4th ^{baf's ifwiki} (2004). Organizers: to be determined (for all four events).
  • One Room Comp a.k.a. Poodle's One Room Comp in 2003 ^{baf's ifwiki} and 2004 ^ifwiki Organizer: Jason Guest.
  • Random Comp #1 (February 2009). Organizer: Kingboo.
  • Three Hour Comp styled as 1st ^{baf's ifwiki} (July 2004) and 2nd ^{baf's ifwiki} (December 2004). Organizers: Woodfish (1st), and to be determined (2nd). (See also ECTOCOMP.)
  • Vaporware Awards 2005 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Stefan Donati a.k.a. Shuarian.
  • Writing Challenges Comp 2006.
  • ADRIFT Winter MiniComp a.k.a. InsideADRIFT End of Year Comp a.k.a. InsideADRIFT Game of the Year Comp in 2001 (January 2002), 2002 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2003 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2004 ^{baf's ifwiki}, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, and 2008 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Ken Franklin.
• Advent Children Minicomp ^ifwiki (April 2006; no entries). Organizer: Ben Caplan.
• AIF Minicomps ^baf's in 2004. Organizers: to be determined.
• ALAN-Comp (July 2003; no entries). Organizer: Walter Sandsquish.
• Annual IF Comp ^{baf's ifwiki} (October–November annually) a.k.a. IF Comp or the rec.arts.int-fiction competition in 1995 ^ifwiki, 1996 ^ifwiki, 1997 ^ifwiki, 1998 ^ifwiki, 1999 ^ifwiki, 2000 ^ifwiki, 2001 ^ifwiki, 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, 2008 ^ifwiki, 2009 ^ifwiki, 2010 ^ifwiki, 2011 ^ifwiki, 2012 ^ifwiki, and 2013 ^ifwiki. Organizers: G. Kevin Wilson (1995–1997), David Dyte (1998), Stephen Granade (1999–2013).
• BetaComp ^ifwiki in 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Jessica Knoch.
• BogusComp ^ifwiki (February–March 2009). Organizer: Conrad Cook.
• BreadComp ^ifwiki (August 2009). Organizer: James Wilson.
• BreveComp ^baf's (Spanish) a.k.a. Concurso de aventuras breves en castellano styled as I Brevecomp (when?) and II Brevecomp (when?). Organizers: to be determined.
• ChickenComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (June 1998). Organizer: Adam Cadre.
• ComedyComp ^baf's (Spanish) a.k.a. Concurso de aventuras cómicas breves. Organizer: Mel Hython.
• Commodore 32 Contest ^{baf's ifwiki} (December 2004). Organizer: Dave Bernazzani.
• Concurso de Aventuras de MicroHobby ^baf's (Spanish) in 1989.
• Concurso Nacional de Aventuras ^baf's (Spanish) in 1997 and 1998. Organizers: to be determined.
• DinoComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (2000). Organizer: to be determined.
• DragonComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (2000). Organizer: David Cornelson.
• EnvComp ^ifwiki (March 2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• Erins ^ifwiki a.k.a. Adult Interactive Fiction Awards (AIFAs) in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, and 2007 ^ifwiki. Organizers: TBD.
• ESDAComp ^baf's (Spanish) a.k.a. Concurso de aventuras ambientadas en la Tierra Media in 2002.
• First Ever (And Maybe The Only) Interactive Fiction Mini-Competition ^{baf's ifwiki} (June 1998). Organizer: Lucian P. Smith.
• GameplayComp ^ifwiki (2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• GESCH MiniComp ^wiki a.k.a. The Great Emily Short Cheese Heist MiniComp (when?; no entries). Organizer: Radical Al.
• Grand Prix ^{baf's ifwiki} (German) a.k.a. textfire.de Comp in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki. Organizers: Florian Edlbauer (2002), Martin Oehm (2003–2006).
• Great Excerpt Hunt Contest presented as The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (January 2005). Organizer: Jason Dyer.
• HighlandComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (2001). Organizer: Graeme Porter.
• HP Lovecraft Commonplace Book Project ^wiki (June 2007). Organizer: Peter Nepstad.
• Hours of Inform — see 24 Hours of Inform above.
• I-Comp a.k.a. InventoryComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (1999). Organizer: Michael Gentry.
• IF Art Show ^{baf's ifwiki} in 1999 Spring ^ifwiki, 1999 Summer ^ifwiki, 2000 ^ifwiki, 2001 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, and 2009 ^ifwiki. Organizer: Marnie Parker.
• IF Comp — see Annual IF Comp above.
• IF Dreams a.k.a. McDream Minicomp ^{baf's ifwiki} (2006). Organizer: David Cornelson.
• IF Fan Fest 1998 ^ifwiki (July 1998). Organizer: Stephen Granade.
• IFLibrary Comp ^{baf's ifwiki} in 2002 ^ifwiki and 2003 ^ifwiki. Organizer: David A. Cornelson.
• IF Logic Puzzle Minicomp ^{baf's wiki} (April 2003). Organizer: Andrew Plotkin (zarf).
• IF Marathon ^wiki (June 2002). Organizer: Ghogg.
• IF Whispers ^ifwiki
• International Obfuscated C Code Contest ^baf's had some IF in 1994 and 2001.
• IntroComp ^{was baf's ifwiki} in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, 2008 ^ifwiki, 2009 ^ifwiki, 2010 ^ifwiki, 2011 ^ifwiki, 2012 ^ifwiki, and 2013 ^ifwiki. Organizers: Neil deMause (2002), Jacqueline A. Lott Ashwell (2003–present).
• LoTechComp ^{baf's ifwiki} in 2001 ^ifwiki, 2002 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, and 2006 ^ifwiki. Organizers: Mark Silcox (2001–2002) and Roberto Grassi (2005–2006).
• Manos Minicomp ^ifwiki (May 2000). Organizer: Admiral Jota.
• McDream Minicomp — see IF Dreams above.
• MedievoComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (Spanish; September 2005). Organizers: Baltasar and Urbatain.
• Minicomp ^baf's (Spanish) a.k.a. Concurso de mini-aventuras en español styled as I Minicomp, and II Minicomp. Organizers: to be determined.
• Minigames Comp ^{baf's wiki} (June 2003). Organizer: Ben Caplan.
• Mystery House Taken Over ^{baf's wiki} (March 2005).
• Nanocomp ^baf's (Spanish) a.k.a. Concurso de nano-aventuras en español styled as I Nanocomp, II Nanocomp, III Nanocomp, IV Nanocomp, Xcomp 2005 ^{baf's ifwiki}, and Xcomp 2008 ^{ifwiki wikicaad} a.k.a. XComp 2. Organizers: to be determined.
• NPCComp ^ifwiki (2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• One Room Game Competition ^{baf's ifwiki} a.k.a. ORGC (Italian and English) in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^{eng ifwiki}, 2005 ^{eng ifwiki}, 2006 ^{eng ifwiki}, 2007 ^{eng ifwiki}, and 2008 ^{eng ifwiki}. Organizers: Sauron (2002), Giovanni Riccardi a.k.a. Infit (2003, 2006–2007), and Francesco Cordella (2005–2008).
• Politicomp ^wiki (May 2001; no entries). Organizer: Jason Melancon.
• Premios Hispanos ^{baf's ifwiki wikicaad} a.k.a. Premios Hispanos a la Aventura in 2000 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2001 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2002 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2003 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2004 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2005 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2006 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, 2007 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}, and 2008 ^{ifwiki wikicaad}. Organizers: to be determined.
• PrologueComp
• QML Contest 2002 ^ifwiki (June 2002). Organizer: Philipp Lenssen.
• RomanceNovelComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (February 2002). Organizer: Storme Winfield.
• Scott Adams' Ghost Town Redux ^ifwiki (August 2007). Organizer: Greg Boettcher.
• Segment Mini-Comp ^{baf's ifwiki} (May 2005). Organizer: David A. Cornelson.
• SenseComp ^ifwiki (2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• SimComp ^ifwiki (2009). Organizer: David Fisher.
• SmoochieComp ^{baf's wiki} (February 2001). Organizer: Emily Short.
• Softworks AGT Contest ^{baf's wiki} in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993. Organizers: to be determined, via the Compuserve Gamer forum.
• Speed-IF (English) ^{baf's ifwiki}
• Speed-IF (French)
• Speed-IF (German)
• Spring Thing ^{ac baf's ifwiki} a.k.a. Fall Fooferall in 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, 2008 ^ifwiki, and 2009 ^ifwiki. Organizers: Adam Cadre (2002–2003), Greg Boettcher (2005–present).
• StupidTitleComp ^ifwiki (March 2005). Organizer: Greg Boettcher.
• SwashComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (August 2003). Organizer: Emily Short.
• TematiComps ^baf's are thematic Spanish comps. See ComedyComp, ESDAComp, and MedievoComp.
• Text the Halls ^ifwiki (December 2007). Organizers: Derek Yu, Terry Cavanagh, and TIGSource.
• ToasterComp ^{baf's ifwiki} a.k.a. The Great IF Toaster Contest (August 2000). Organizer: Mark Musante.
• Transcript Comp ^wiki (June 2002). Organizer: Ryan Freebern.
• TravelComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (2001). Organizer: Alexander (Sasha) Spiridonov.
• UseComp ^ifwiki (2000). Organizer: Gunther Schmidl.
• WackyComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (1999). Organizer: David Glasser.
• WalkthroughComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (May 2001). Organizer: Emily Short.
• XComp ^{baf's ifwiki} (English; March 1999). Organizer: David Cornelson.
• Xcomp (Spanish) — see Nanocomp above.
• XYZZY Awards ^{baf's ifwiki wikipedia} (February–March annually) in 1996 ^ifwiki, 1997 ^ifwiki, 1998 ^ifwiki, 1999 ^ifwiki, 2000 ^ifwiki, 2001 ^ifwiki, 2002 ^ifwiki, 2003 ^ifwiki, 2004 ^ifwiki, 2005 ^ifwiki, 2006 ^ifwiki, 2007 ^ifwiki, 2008 ^ifwiki, 2009 ^ifwiki, 2010 ^ifwiki, 2011 ^ifwiki, 2012 ^ifwiki. Organizers: Eileen Mullin, Lucian P. Smith, Dan Shiovitz, Sam Kabo Ashwell, and David Welbourn.
• Z-Comp (2013). Organizer: Aaron Black aka zzo38.

Old info about comps to be absorbed into the above section ASAP

• 29 June 2005: CCAB Comp 2005 (Cole/Bomire)
• October 2005: French Comp #1 (Otto Grimwald)
• 2004 – Fourth One-Hour Games Comp (Mar; Woodfish; ADRIFT; ftp)
• 2002 -- Premio Avventura dell'anno 2001 (Mar; Italian)

®️ IF Companies

• Infocom & Zork – Activision, Chronology of Quendor, Faye's Shrine of Zork (Archived), FrobozzMagicCo., Infocom Bugs and More Infocom Bugs, Infocom Documentation Project, infocom-if.org, Invisiclues, Andy Edwards' The Big Zork Page, Zork Library.
• Others – Cascade Mountain Publishing, DreamCatcher, Legend Entertainment (Unofficial Legend), Level 9 Memorial, Magnetic Scrolls Memorial, Penguin/Polarware, Sierra, Sierra-Online, Topologika, Uru (at UbiSoft), World of Spectrum.