| Cover Stories was a game jam / minicomp* for artists and creators of interactive fiction. In the first stage, artists created or sourced images that they thought would make good covers for an IF game; in the second, authors chose covers and wrote games suggested by them. All the submitted covers (including many awesome ones which I am very sad didn't become games) can be seen at smallwhitehouse, courtesy of Mark Musante. The original thread on the intfiction.org forums includes boring details about the organisation and rules of the event. The call for art went out on April 17; authors chose art starting on May 6; games went into a betatesting phase on May 26; and coding ended on June 10, 2012. There were twelve entries. For now, you can download all of them from here (except Darkness in Daytime, which is resolving some last-minute bibliographic issues).
 
 
 * Minicomp seems to be a distinctly IF word, if not quite uniquely so. It can mean a literal competition, but more often it's a noncompetitive event. It might be considered a synonym for 'game jam', except that a minicomp stops being a minicomp if it's held regularly (thus, Introcomp is not usually counted as a minicomp), there's an expectation that minicomp entries be tested, and Speed-IFs are not minicomps either. I suspect that this usage can be traced back to Lucian Smith.
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 | Antifascista A picture from life's other side. Cover image by Duncan Bowsman. |
 | Darkness in Daytime Cover image by Daniel Zanetti; selected by Rowan Lipkovits. (Game pending; last-minute bibliographic issues.) |
 | The Feather Grange Job
Cover image by Carl Muckenhoupt. |
 | HOME SWEETIE-BOT HOME cover image by DUNCAN BOWSMAN |
 | IFDB Spelunking In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! Cover image by Sam Kabo Ashwell |
 | leaves Cover image by Jacqueline A. Lott |
 | The Legend of the Missing Hat A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat Cover image by Justin de Vesine |
 | Monkey Business From the pit of despair, a monkey's revenge original image selected by Rowan Lipkovits |
 | Offering A story about what it takes to give. Cover image by Marco Innocenti |
 | Olivia's Orphanorium Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. Cover image selected by Rowan Lipkovits. |
 | Sloth on a Stroller This is it. You've had enough of that damn Tortoise and his hijinks. This race will put him to his place once and for all! original image by Duncan Bowsman |
 | The Subtropical Server Room It's up to you to help get the old Unix servers replaced. Cover image by Sam Kabo Ashwell |
