IF Grand Prix for (mostly) German language games

Competitions
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After a long period of speed IFs and corporate projects the 8[sup]th[/sup] IF Grand Prix 2014 interactive fiction competition for (mostly) German language games can be announced!

Competition schedule:
March 1, 2014 12 p.m. CET: Deadline for submission of intents.
April 1, 2014 7 p.m. CET: Deadline for entries.
April 1, 2014 12 p.m. CET: Entries will be released to the public.
May 1, 2014 11.45 p.m. CET: Voting deadline.
May 2, 2014: Results will be published.

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

IF Grand Prix 2014 website;
if-de Forum (feel free to post in English language);
Twitter hashtag #ifGP14.

Good luck for authors and have a good time with the entries!

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Four entrants are ready for download and voting now. Voting period ends on May 1st, 2014, 11:45 p.m. CEST.

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Results has been published yesterday, thanks to all authors and voters!

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The 9[sup]th[/sup] IF Grand Prix 2015 interactive fiction competition for (mostly) German language games can be announced!

Competition schedule:
March 1, 2015 12 p.m. CET: Deadline for submission of intents.
April 1, 2015 7 p.m. CET: Deadline for entries.
April 1, 2015 12 p.m. CET: Entries will be released to the public.
May 1, 2015 11.45 p.m. CET: Voting deadline.
May 2, 2015: Results will be published.

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

IF Grand Prix 2015 website;
if-de Forum (feel free to post in English language);
Twitter hashtag #ifGP15.

Good luck for authors and have a good time with the entries!

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The German language IF Grand Prix presents four games:

Michael Baltes: Die Akte Paul Bennet (Z-Code)
Freya: Das Schwert der Macht (HTML)
Hannes Schüller: Die schwarze Lilie (Z-Code)
Vincent Zeng, Chris Martens und Marius Müller: Anfänge (HTML)

The comp entries can be voted until May 1st, 2015
Downloads: ifwizz.de/grand-prix-2015-spiele.html

Edit 02.04.2015: I forgot to mention that there are two translations of IF comp 2014 entries: “The Black Lily” (Die schwarze Lilie) by Hannes Schüller and “Origins” (Anfänge) by Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens.

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IF Grand Prix 2015 is over, we have two winners:

1st place Michael Baltes: Die Akte Paul Bennet
and also Hannes Schüller: Die schwarze Lilie
3rd place Vincent Zeng, Chris Martens, Marius Müller: Anfänge
4th place Freya: Das Schwert der Macht

You can read detailed information about the votes on the results page.

Thanks to the authors and voters!

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And in case anyone doesn’t know, 1st place co-winner is also available in an English translation, which is über(insert your favourite positive adjective here). Seriously, many thanks for that. “The Black Lilly”.

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Congrats to the winners! I unfortunately don’t read German, but it’s cool to hear about it [emote]:)[/emote]
When you say HTML (for two of the 4 games), is it Twine? Or ChoiceScript, or another engine? I’m curious [emote]:)[/emote]

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Marius Müller transferred the special coded HTML/JavaScript game “Origins” from Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens to German language, the other click game “Das Schwert der Macht” (“Sword of force”) is also HTML/JS by its own system. The other two entries are Z-Code.

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Ah ok, cool ! Thanks [emote]:)[/emote]