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.