This year's crop of games is large enough to be divided up into any number of categories by subject, e.g., RPGs, sci-fi, murder mysteries, or structurally, e.g., parser-based, limited-parser, hypertext, CYOA, etc. Having
reviewed each and every game in the competition at this point, I'd like to propose a number of new and entirely arbitrary categories:
Games......mentioning cheese in some capacity (including in the context of Macaroni and Cheese):
Eat Me, What Once Was, Absence of Law, Run Of The Place, Nightbound, A Castle of Thread, The Skinny One, The Castle of Vourtram.....involving conversation with birds:
10 pm, Harbinger, Eat Me, Alice Aforethought, The Dragon Will Tell Your Future Now, Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, The Adventure of Esleralda and Ruby on the Magical Island, The Wand, and kind of,
The Owl Consults.
See the blog post for the full list:
http://blog.templaro.com/ifcomp-2017-extended-taxonomy/