ShuffleComp 2014

An interactive fiction competition organized in 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell. Participants sent in 8 suggested songs, received back a list of 8 suggested songs, and then wrote games based on one or more of those songs.

There will also be a 2015 edition of ShuffleComp, called ShuffleComp: Disc 2.

Dates

• Entry deadline/song submissions due: April 9, 2014
• First draft deadline: May 1, 2014
• Final games due: May 12, 2014
• Games released: May 13, 2014

Results

Commended entries:

• An Earth Turning Slowly (Mæja Stefánsson)
• Groove Billygoat (Hanon Ondricek as "Efrain Finnell")
• HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE (Caleb Wilson as "Ralph Gide")
• Light My Way Home (Caelyn Sandel as "Venus Hart")
• Mirrorwife (Yoon Ha Lee as "Virgil Caine")
• Monkey and Bear (Carolyn VanEseltine as "the opposite of sublimation")
• More (Jason Dyer as "Erin Canterbury")
• Sequitur (Nigel Jayne as "Tin Foil Jenny")
• Sparkle (Juhana Leinonen as "Karly Di Caprio")
• Tea and Toast (Matt Weiner as "Maria del Pangolin")

Other:

• 1982 (Zach Samuels as "Iblis Snowsdottir")
• 50 Shades of Jilting (Rowan Lipkovits as "Lankly Lockers")
• Bound (Ryan E. Holman as "Starfinger X")
• Cryptophasia (Alan DeNiro as "L. Starr Voronoi")
• The darkness of mere being (Marius Müller as "a lost kitten")
• Dead Man's Party (Royce Odle as "Morrissey")
• Eight Miles High (Josh Giesbrecht as "Lambert Lambert")
• Fallout Shelter (Marshal Tenner Winter as "Histroy Gloam")
• Fallout Shelter (Molly Geene as "Amadeo Voss")
• Flotsam & Driftwood (Peter Orme as "Conrad Elton")
• Illuminate (Christopher Conley as "Summer Del Mono")
• Invisible Parties (Sam Kabo Ashwell as "Psychopup")
• The Legend of Wooley Swamp (Molly Geene as "Elizabeth Daniels")
• Little Bird (Socks Meanie as "Dick Dawson")
• Lobster Bucket (Rick Yost as "Lady Tallhat")
• Look Around The Corner (Doug Orleans as "Robert Whitlock")
• nothing but flowers (Crabby O'Crankypants)
• Nova Heart or Don’t Be Standing Around While the Earth Dies Screaming, or: Who Is To Blame When the Owls Leave Candy Jail? (Zenith J Clangor)
• Out the Window (Molly Geene as "Bramble Bobonong")
• The Peccary Myth (Gerardo Aerssens as "Pergola Cavendish")
• A Summer's Rose (Adri as "Jed Brockett")
• Truth (Carl Muckenhoupt as "John Earthling")
• White Houses (Jason Lautzenheiser as "Mr Stamp")

Links

• Shufflecomp - official site.
• Shufflecomp 2014 - at IFDB.
• Announcements:
  • Shufflecomp Signup - Interactive Fiction Community Forum, March 24, 2014.
  • Shufflecomp Results/Unmasking - Interactive Fiction Community Forum, June 1, 2014.

Reviews

See also: Shufflecomp Reviews at The Interactive Fiction Community Forum.

• Reviews by Gerardo Aerssens.
• Reviews: 1 by ata.
• Reviews by Alan DeNiro.
• Reviews by Jason Dyer.
• Reviews by Yoon Ha Lee.
• Reviews by Tracy Poff.
• Reviews by Andrew Schultz.
• Reviews: 1 and 2 by Emily Short.
• Reviews by Mæja Stefánsson.
• Reviews by Caleb Wilson.