The Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction

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The Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction
Competition
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Part of series The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction
Website https://rcveeder.net/expo/2020/
Organiser Ryan Veeder
IFDB event page Event
IFDB series page Series
Total entries
Event dates
Event begins 29 Nov 2019
Registration begins 21 Jan 2020
Event ends 10 Mar 2020
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The second edition of The Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction was held mainly in 2020.

Dates

  • The Exposition was announced on November 29, 2019.
  • Registration opened on January 21, 2020.
  • Event One: Began on January 31, 2020. Entries due on February 3, 2020. Scores announced on February 4, 2020.
  • Event Two: Began on February 6, 2020. Entries due on February 21, 2020. Scores announced on February 28, 2020.
  • Event Three: Began on November 29, 2019. Entries due on February 29, 2020. Scores announced on March 10, 2020.

Event One

Entries in Event One were written over the course of one weekend. The challenge of Event One was to create a game in Inform 7 with beautiful source code text. Here are the entries in Event One:

  1. Caduceus (Sarah Willson, as "Mala Costraca"). Awarded 9.5 points out of 10.
  2. Antique Panzitoum (Caleb Wilson, as "Abandoned Pools"). Awarded 8.3 points out of 10.
  3. Scarlet Portrait Parlor (Mathbrush, as "Prismatik"). Awarded 8 points out of 10.
  4. The Gay Science ("Capricorn van Knapp"). Awarded 7.3 points out of 10.
  5. The Magnificent Museum of Masterly Masterworks (Nils Fagerburg, as "Inverted Normals"). Awarded 6.67 points out of 10.
  6. A Whispered Dream ("Depetrification"). Awarded 5.98 points out of 10
  7. Upon the Spooky House ("Ben Poisonor"). Awarded 5.7 points out of 10.

Event Two

Entries in Event Two were written over the course of two weeks. The challenge of Event Two was to create a game with no ending that takes place in a zoo. Here are the entries in Event Two:

  1. Gaia, Živa, Jarilo (Harkness Munt, as "Formless"). Awarded 20 points out of 20.
  2. Old King Nebb (Caleb Wilson, as "Abandoned Pools"). Awarded 18.4 points out of 20.
  3. Indistinguishable (Mathbrush, as "Prismatik"). Awarded 17 points out of 20.
  4. Chimeric Park (Nils Fagerburg, as "Inverted Normals"). Awarded 16.6 points out of 20.

Event Three

Entries in Event Three were written over the course of up to three months. There were no constraints upon the content or format of Entries in Event Three. Here are the entries in Event Three:

  1. Mr Cuddle Cuddle Bop Bop (Nils Fagerburg, as "Inverted Normals"). Awarded 19.9 points out of 30.
  2. 85 Verbs (MathBrush, as "Prismatik"). Awarded 19.8 points out of 30.
  3. Upon the Spooky House ("Ben Poisonor"). Awarded 19.7 points out of 30.

Overall scores

Each Entrant's scores from the three events were added together, and additional prizes awarded on this basis.

  1. Mathbrush, as "Prismatik". 44.8 points out of 60.
  2. Nils Fagerburg, as "Inverted Normals". 43.17 points out of 60.
  3. Caleb Wilson, as "Abandoned Pools". 26.7 points out of 60.
  4. "Ben Poisonor". 25.4 points out of 60.
  5. Harkness Munt, as "Formless". 20 points out of 60.
  6. Sarah Willson, as "Mala Costraca". 9.5 points out of 60.
  7. "Capricorn van Knapp". 7.3 points out of 60.
  8. "Depetrification". 5.98 points out of 60.

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