In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying …

Slouching Towards Bedlam is an interactive fiction game that won the first place in the 2003 Interactive Fiction Competition. [1] It is a collaboration between American authors Daniel …

Sep 11, 2025 · XYZZY Awards 2003: Winner of Best Game, Best Story, Best Setting, Best Individual NPC (Triage). Finalist for Best Writing, Best NPCs, Best Individual PC (Dr Thomas Xavier), Best …

Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster are the duo behind Slouching Toward Bedlam, the winner of the 2003 IF Competition. Though it features a unique setting, a nonlinear plot with several endings, …

Overall, "Slouching Towards Bedlam" practically shines with the kind of originality that is so highly-prized in the IF community, and this probably is the best explanation for its record-breaking …

Written with Star C. Foster for the 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BEDLAM faces you with a mystery that could change the very nature of mankind - …

Subject: [IFComp] 2003 Results From: Stephen Granade The competition has ended. Congratulations to Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto, whose "Slouching Towards Bedlam" took …

An anonymous reader writes "The 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has now announced its winners - the start of the judging was previously covered on Slashdot."

The organizer of the 2003 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Stephen Granade.

He is a co-author of The Unknown, a Hypertext Novel, winner of the 1999 trAce/AltX International Hypertext Competition; the author of Kind of Blue, a serial novel for email (2002); and co-author …