# Context The Interactive Fiction Competition is the internet's oldest game programming competition, starting in 1995 and continuing to this day. Interactive Fiction is an unusual genre because it has been centralized in the Interactive Fiction Database for the last decade, and essentially all games of interest are recorded there. It is also a niche genre, and the amount of public interest has varied much less than other genres since 1995. # Content This database contains the placement (i.e. 1st place, 2nd place, etc.) of all games ever entered into the IFComp, together with their genre, number of ifdb ratings and average ifdb rating. It also contains the system; a few programming languages have tended to dominate the competition. It also contains the forgiveness rating, which indicates how difficult the game can be expected to be. Much of the information is null. Note that the IFDB was created in 2006, 11 years after the competition began. # Inspiration IFDB ratings represent lasting interest, as these have been gathered over many years, while IFComp rankings represent a short, 6-week period. It would be interesting to see the relationship between the two, how that relationship has changed over time, etc. Also, Inform and TADS have always dominated the competition, but it's recently been changing. The change in systems over the years should be interesting. Finally, it would be interesting to see time-adjusted averages of reviews for comp games over time, to see if new games are receiving less interest than old games. # Acknowledgements Mike Roberts has been the curator of IFDB since its inception. The IFComp is currently run by Jason Macintosh under the aegis of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.