- A Bear's Night Out
An Interactive Children's Story
- Play release 2 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 4 - German translation
Play release 4 - Spanish translation
Play release 5
Copyright © 1997-1999 by David Dyte.
Copyright © 1998 by Gunther Schmidl (German translation).
Copyright © 2002 by Zak (Spanish translation).
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Competition 1997: 5th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Setting
Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it...
- A Good Breakfast
An Interactive Feeding
- Play "A Good Breakfast"
Copyright © 1997 by Stuart Adair.
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Competition 1997: 23rd place
You are longing for a good breakfast, but where do you get the ingredients from?
- A New Day
- Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 3
Copyright © 1997-8 by Jonathan Fry.
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Competition 1997: 10th place
For some reason, the author of this game died while writing it, and so you're stuck in an unfinished room. The
author's creation, Winston, asks you to find out what happened. Can you finish an unfinished game full of bugs?
- Aunt Nancy's House
An Interactive Simulation
- Play "Aunt Nancy's House"
Copyright © 1997 by Nate Schwartzman.
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Competition 1997: 33rd place
This is an interactive tour of the author's aunt's soon-to-be former home.
- CASK
My first stab at Interactive Fiction
- Play "CASK"
Copyright © 1997 by Harry M. Hardjono.
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Competition 1997: 31st place
The author's first stab at interactive fiction. A very buggy game that consists mainly of obscure puzzles, with no story
at all.
- Coming Home
A Simple Home Adventure
- Play "Coming Home"
Copyright © 1997 by Andrew Katz.
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Competition 1997: 34th place
Expect no more than what the title says. No plot, but lots of strange or time-dependent puzzles.
- Competition '97
An Interactive Guide
- Play "Competition '97"
Copyright © 1997 by Lucian Paul Smith.
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A program to sort, describe and rate all of the games in the 3rd Annual IF Competition (1997).
- Congratulations!
- Play "Congratulations!"
Copyright © 1997 by Frederick J. Hirsch.
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Competition 1997: 30th place
A short game in which you must take care of your newborn baby.
- Friday Afternoon
or: Escape from MicroSun
- Play "Friday Afternoon"
Copyright © 1997 by Mischa Schweitzer.
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Competition 1997: 16th place
Trapped in the MicroSun offices, you have just one wish: get out of there by six, to meet your date, and prove
that you're not a nerd.
- Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit
An Interactive Fiction
- Play "Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit"
Copyright © 1997 by Ian R Ball, Marcus Young.
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Competition 1997: 17th place
For Madame L'Estrange, contacts with beings from the ghost world are everyday routine. This case, however, is not.
Did Dr. Taverner really kill himself? If not, who did it? And what about that beast?
- Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza
An Interactive Errand
- Play "Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza"
Copyright © 1997 by Michael Zey.
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Competition 1997: 19th place
The Royal Court Jester wants his pizza, and he wants it quickly. So his chef, Chet, sends you out to get all the
necessary items. Along the way, you discover there just might be something going on...
- Pintown
- Play "Pintown"
Copyright © 1997 by Stefan Blixt.
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Competition 1997: 28th place
As you are leaving your home, you must return the keys to your small home to the janitor. First, however, you must
transform yourself into a human being again, and clean up a bit.
- She's Got a Thing for a Spring
An Interactive Dip in a Hot Spring
- Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 4
Copyright © 1997 by Brent vanFossen.
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Competition 1997: 4th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Individual Non-Player Character, for "Bob"
It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove
of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring.
- Sins Against Mimesis
An Interactive Theosophy
- Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 3
Copyright © 1997-8 by Adam Thornton.
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Competition 1997: 9th place
Your lover Black left, and your days are full of loneliness. Your progress in finding him, however, is blocked by none
other than the Devil himself; and to get rid of him, you must commit the seven deadly sins. And that is just the
beginning...
- Sylenius Mysterium
An Interactive Transcendence
- Play "Sylenius Mysterium"
Copyright © 1997 by Christopher E. Forman.
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Competition 1997: 18th place
You are Sylenius Mysterium, video game player par excellence. At a mall, you discover a long-lost arcade game,
and excitedly start to play. But nothing could have prepared you for what happens...
- Symetry
A Matter of Self Trust
- Play "Symetry"
Copyright © 1997 by Rybread M. Celsius.
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Competition 1997: 32nd place
This new mirror you bought really is something. But in the night, it has a life of it's own...
- The Edifice
An Interactive Allegory
- Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 2
Copyright © 1997-8 by Lucian Paul Smith.
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Competition 1997: 1st place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Puzzles and Best Individual Puzzle, for the language puzzle
Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from?
Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a choice.
- The Family Legacy
An Interactive Ghost (???) Story
- Play "The Family Legacy"
Copyright © 1997 by Marnie Parker.
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Competition 1997: withdrawn
You are to inherit $10 million from your uncle Arnold, but only if you can find the lost family heirloom in the course
of 48 hours. But beware - the mansion is haunted. Or is it?
- The Lost Spellmaker
An Interactive Mission
- Play release 2 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 3
Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Neil James Brown.
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Competition 1997: 8th place
Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find
the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his spells.
- The Tempest
An interactive performance
- Play "The Tempest"
Copyright © 1997 by Graham Nelson.
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Competition 1997: 25th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Use of Medium
You play Ariel in William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest. The text and descriptions are lifted from the original
works, i. e. in old English.
- The Town Dragon
- Play "The Town Dragon"
Copyright © 1997 by David A. Cornelson.
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Competition 1997: 24th place
A dragon is terrorizing your home town, and the mayor is looking for volunteers to get rid of him. Fortunately,
someone other than you becomes "volunteer." Unfortunately, it is still you who has to do the dirty work...
- Travels in the Land of Erden: In Quest of the Adventure
- Play Release Version 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play Release Version 2 (Beta)
Copyright © 1997-8 by Laura A. Knauth.
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Competition 1997: 14th place
When you arrive in the Land of Erden, thriving for adventure, you learn that the most dangerous enemy of the land
is already defeated. A challenge less, but there is still the tale of the beautiful ruby, rumored to be hidden somewhere
in the mountains surrounding Shalandria...
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