German IF Grand Prix 2025

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The 15th annual interactive fiction Grand Prix competition for German language games can be announced!

Competition schedule:
March 1, 2025 12 p.m. CET: Deadline for submission of intents.
April 15, 2025 7 p.m. CET: Deadline for entries.
April 16, 2025: Entries will be released to the public.
May 15, 2025 11.45 p.m. CET: Voting deadline.
May 16, 2025: Results will be published.

Everbody can paricipate as author or judge the comp entries. Rules, schedule, further information and discussions here:

if-de-Forum (feel free to post in English language)
IF Grand Prix website

Good luck for the authors and a lot of fun for all of us!

Edit 01.04.2025: The submission and all subsequent deadlines have been postponed by 14 days; see the forum posts starting from March 28, 2025 here: IF-Forum - Stammtisch - Spielen! - Start frei fĂĽr den 15. IF Grand Prix 2025!

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The results of #ifGP25 are in:

:1st_place_medal:1st place: Gefeuert (Fired) by Olaf Nowacki
:2nd_place_medal:2nd place: Das Schneemädchen (The Snow Maiden) by Michael Baltes
:3rd_place_medal:3rd place: Wo ist Mr. Beaver? (Where Is Mr. Beaver?) by Stefan Hoffmann
:sports_medal:4th place: Der Finale Tag (The Final Day) by Michael Wittmann

The full statistics are available at Interactive Fiction Grand Prix 2025 - Ergebnis (German language).

Congratulations to all four authors—and many thanks as well! It was a real pleasure.

Thanks also to all reviewers—this was a particularly interesting round with 14% native English speakers and 29% female participation!

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