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[Terry]

It's over! 19 people voted in total. Here are the results:

1. Snowblind Aces (10 votes)
2. The Snowman (9 votes)
3. TIGSaga (6 votes)
4. Breathe (4 votes)
4. My Magic Tire Hoax (4 votes)
6. The Christmas Party (3 votes)
6. Panorama (3 votes)
8. Capture Santa! (2 votes)
8. Midwinter Rites (2 votes)
10. X-Maton 2010 (1 vote)

For the Miss Congeniality vote, six people voted, and the results are:

1. Snowblind Aces (5 votes)
2. The Snowman (4 votes)
3. My Magic Tire Hoax (3 votes)

Congratulations everybody!

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The original voting post:

Apparently Derek's off to Australia or something, and he's asked me to take care of things with this contest. So I'm going to run a forum poll for the next week to decide on a winner! Like with the B-Games contest, you can choose up to three games.

There are ten entries in total, please play all of them before you vote! Authors are free to vote for their own game if they wish.

In grand IF tradition, we'll also be holding a Miss Congeniality contest! Everyone who completed an entry for the contest may PM me with a vote for three games (in this case, excluding their own) before next week. This is totally optional. Winners to this will be announced only if at least half the participants vote.

I think that should about do it for the rules. If you've got any questions, feel free to post them in this thread!

How to play these games:

To play these games, you'll need to download an interpreter for each format. I recommend the following:

• Inform: For windows, try WinFrotz . For Macs, try Zoom.
• Tads 3: For windows, try the TADS3 Player Kit. For Macs, try Spatterlight.
• Alan: For windows and Mac, try ALAN V3.

Alternatively, there are a few multiformat players available. For windows, try Gargoyle (WARNING: It's a nice player, but it messes up the colours and formatting in some games). For Macs, try Spatterlight.

Alright then! Without further ado, here are the games, sorted by format and then alphabetically:

ALAN Games:

"The Christmas Party" by OldGrover
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.A3C]

"Panorama" by Ereth
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.A3C]

Inform Games:

"Capture Santa!" by Blademasterbobo
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.ZBLORB]

"My Magic Tire Hoax" by N Day
(No forum link, submitted by email)
Direct Download [.ZBLORB]

"The Snowman" by Akhel
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.ZBLORB]

"X-Maton 2010" by MedO
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.ZBLORB]

TADS3 Games:

"Snowblind Aces" by Pacian
Forum Thread
Direct Download [.T3]
Direct Download [Windows EXE]

Online Games:

"Breathe" by Daniel Benmergui
Forum Thread
Play Online [Java]

"TIGSaga" by Terry, Kinten, Akhel, Xander, Haowan, Shinygerbil, and #tigIRC
Forum Thread
Play Online

Windows Games:

"Midwinter Rites" by Colossus Entertainment
Forum Thread
Direct Download [Windows EXE]
Direct Download [Source Code]

You can download all of the games (except Breathe, sorry Daniel) in one zip file here:
http://distractionware.com/junk/textthehalls/text the halls.zip

Congratulations to everyone who took part! I know a lot of people entering this were new to IF in general, so I hope you learned a lot and had fun! You people are a credit to this already awesome community

[Terry]

Just a reminder, since the forums were down and everything:

If you intend to vote for this, you've only got another two days to do so. That's still enough time to try out all the entries.

And authors: If you want to take part in the Miss Congeniality voting (wherby the entrants choose the winner), you'll have to send me a PM before voting ends.

Best of luck to everyone taking part.

[Terry]

Voting's over. Check the first post in this thread for the results!

[jeb]

Congratz Pacian!

Also glad to see that Akhel got so many votes!

[Zaphos]

Congrats Pacian and Akhel!  And all the other entrants -- a lot of great work!

[Daniel Benmergui]

Congratulations Pacian and Akhel!

You deserved it.


Based on the amount of votes, IF is definitely not a very popular genre .

[skaldicpoet9]

Man, I feel like such a douche.

I meant to vote (really).

I just didn't know it ended so soon

Well congrats to Pacian and Akhel

[Terry]

Based on the amount of votes, IF is definitely not a very popular genre .

Well, not around here, anyway Maybe we should start posting more IF stuff to the frontpage?

Also, looks like Derek is still off in whereever he is, so I'm going to go ahead and post this to the frontpage...

[jbd]

Congrats to the winners! I plan to be posting reviews over the next couple days in my blog at

http://bluerenga.wordpress.com

(EDIT: Snowblind Aces review is up. Working on the other two, although they may not go up until this weekend. MORE EDIT: TIGSaga review up.)

[george]

I also was a player who didn't get to the voting. This forum definitely has opened my eyes to a lot of cool games and ideas, so apart from the competition itself I'm hoping there'll be some crossover for people here to what's going on in IF too.

[MedO]

I'm not surprised, there was less time and more work than I had thought, and my game only got "finished" after I came home from a Christmas party around 4am.

It was a lot of fun to play through the entries though. All of them had something that made them interesting and worth playing. So congratulations to everyone who took part, and until next time.

[Caio]

Hey, awesome! I honestly didnt't expect to go this well. Thanks a lot, guys, and congratulations, Pacian, for a well-deserved victory!

[Alec]

Great job guys!

I think if we kept doing this one on a regular basis it would grow in popularity. I know I wanted to enter, but didn't have enough time to learn Inform with everything else going on.

[mjau]

I would've voted if it wasn't for the shortness and/or timing of the voting period..

[Terry]

I would've voted if it wasn't for the shortness and/or timing of the voting period..

Oh, sorry - why didn't you say something? It wouldn't have been a big deal to change that...