Erins

Erins
Competition (series of events)
Frequency	Discontinued
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Part of series
Website	http://erins.aifcommunity.org/
Organiser
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Events in this series
Erins 2002, Erins 2003, Erins 2004, Erins 2005, Erins 2006, Erins 2007, Erins 2009
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Browse the Erins by year:

• 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009

Or by award categories:

• Best PC | Best NPC
• Best Male/Female Sex Scene | Best Lesbian Sex Scene | Best Threesome/Orgy | Best Sex Overall
• Best Writing | Best Technical Implementation | Best Use of Multimedia | Best Atmosphere | Best Puzzles | Best Humor | Best Game
• Badman Memorial Award | Other Erins awards

The Erins is a yearly AIF competition, very similar to the XYZZY Awards, except for Adult IF games. It is also called The Adult Interactive Fiction Awards, or AIFAs; see The Erins history page.

As currently structured, eligibility for the Erins is for AIF games released in a twelve-month period from November 1st to October 31st. For example, AIF games written from November 2006 to October 2007 were eligible for Erins 2007.

Because so few AIF titles were released between November 2007 and October 2008, there will be no Erins 2008. It is anticipated that those games that would have been eligible for Erins 2008 will have to wait a year and be considered as contenders for Erins 2009.

Links

• Erins Website.
• Erin VS Erin - An alt.games.xtrek thread in 2002, begun by Wotan-Anubis, explaining that his game Dear Diary and its lead character, Erin, was written in response to The Gamma Gals (Christopher Cole) and its Erin character. During the course of this thread, "The Erins" won the poll (held on the AIF Archives) for the name of the then new AIF awards. The runner-up name, "The Adult Interactive Fiction Awards", was also adopted at the same time.