Here’s the 2024 update of my Excel spreadsheet listing all IFComp games by development system back to 1995. The spreadsheet includes the place in the relevant comp and where available (i.e.: for 1999 onwards), average score, number of votes received, standard deviation, and Miss Congeniality outcomes, and a separate tab with all the Spring Thing games.
NOTE (Oct 20): The results for IFComp 2024 have now been included.
Last year, by request, I added a parser vs non-parser column and the version of the development system used for systems such as Inform, TADS, ADRIFT, Quest, etc.
I’ve also now added columns for the number of votes by score for every IFComp game since 1999.
The number of games by development system for IFComp 2024 is:
There are 26 games with some form of parser, and 41 without. BTW, I’ve included one of the Twine games in the parser tally.
For those interested in such things, there are 13 “Inform 7” games, and 2 created using “Inform 6”.
Thanks for that. I was aware of the IFWiki page, but hadn’t paid it much attention.
In matching the content of the page to my spreadsheet I did find one error on my part which I’ve now fixed.
As it stands, the Game Counts table on the Statistics from IFComp page is skewed towards the original parser file formats and provides no granularity for later web-based systems.
It’d be easy enough to extend in its current form through to 2024. The continuation would be:
The table could be changed to provide separate columns for the more common non-parser dev systems of today such as Twine, Ink, ChoiceScript, etc. However, it should then ideally be revisited each time a new dev system starts to become popular. Whether it’s worth changing the table columns/format I guess depends on what people want to get out of it.
There’s also the issue of how it lines up with all the other IFComp wiki pages, such as the “Platforms” lists. At the moment it doesn’t.
The Voting Statistics section of the page can easily be fixed. Presently, it tries to distinguish between short and detailed results for each year, but both now redirect to the same IFComp page. All that’s required is to provide a single IFComp url for the results of each year from 1995 through to 2023.
I haven’t played around with wikis much but am happy to look at updating the IFComp Statistics page unless there’s someone else who would like to.
Apologies for the multiple edits to this response.
On the “half” TADS game last year, personally, after the introduction of the numbered disambiguation and numbered/hyperlinked conversation thread in a3Lite, perhaps the initial basis for successfully introducing CYOA-style scenes in said core library are available…
