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The annual competition that decides what interactive fiction is this year, with every entry free to play in the browser.
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Interactive Fiction Competition sits in Text Adventures under Play, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Interactive fiction, MUDs and choose-your-path stories. Some are forty years old and still better written than most things released this year.
Yes. Interactive Fiction Competition is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Interactive Fiction Competition without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Interactive Fiction Competition as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Where interactive fiction authors argue about parser design, post works in progress and review each other with alarming thoroughness.
Point it at any classic story file and it runs in the tab, which makes the whole Infocom era playable without installing an interpreter.
You are a colony ship AI choosing which disasters to absorb, and every run ends with a summary of how badly humanity settled.
Thousands of browser-playable parser and choice games, plus Quest, the authoring tool most of them were written in.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
Archived research papers, including preprints and journals that have since folded, kept readable rather than merely cited.
A vast and aggressively plain archive of religious and mythological texts, essentially unchanged since the old web.
A stock market simulator with real prices and imaginary money, which is very much the correct order to learn that in.
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