{"id":2158,"date":"2011-11-15T23:53:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T07:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:53:15","slug":"ifcomp-2011-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/2158","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2011 Conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, the Comp results are up already. (I managed to play through the last of the games a couple of days ago, but I&#8217;ve been slow to write up my thoughts for this blog.) First place went to <em>Taco Fiction<\/em>, which isn&#8217;t a big surprise; I myself gave it the highest score this year. <em>Six<\/em> was second, and <em>The Play<\/em> was third, an amazingly high showing for web-based CYOA. <em>Doctor M<\/em> took the Banana, and richly deserves it.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious big pattern this year was of course the private eye, but that accounts for only four of the 38 entries: <em>PataNoir<\/em>, <em>Schlig<\/em>, <em>Camelot<\/em>, and <em>Falcon<\/em>. It strikes me that we had something of a stealth theme in religion. Aside from the two blatantly biblical games, we had four games (<em>Beet<\/em>, <em>Calm<\/em>, <em>Summer<\/em>, <em>Iron<\/em>) that had clergy of some sort as prominent background characters, seen or unseen. Benevolent background characters, at that. That&#8217;s a break from tradition. Back when IF was all about exploring dungeons, if you found a chapel or a shrine, it was a safe bet that it was used for the unholy rites of unspeakable and demonic gods, and probably human sacrifice as well. The only game in that tradition this year is <em>Kerkerkruip<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s it for this year. Next post, we get back to the Stack. I&#8217;ve already got some play to report on, days late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, the Comp results are up already. (I managed to play through the last of the games a couple of days ago, but I&#8217;ve been slow to write up my thoughts for this blog.) First place went to Taco Fiction, which isn&#8217;t a big surprise; I myself gave it the highest score this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,53,507],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if","tag-if","tag-ifcomp","tag-ifcomp-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}