Reminded of April 1 Source Code Amnesty Day for interactive fiction games, I've just uploaded Inform source code for my IFComp 2024 entry Bad Beer. Source uploaded to IFArchive, and will take some days to process. Maybe ready by April 1st or soon after? Fab initiative. https://www.ifwiki.org/Source_Code_Amnesty_Day #IFComp #interactiveFiction #coding #sourceCode #Inform #GameDev #IndieGame

I am terrified to announce that @bram and I are working on a game for #IFComp

More belated updates to my personal/professional website, now updating the interactive fiction section, to add my 2024 IFComp game, and mention - but not give the title yet - my next game due for release, which will also target IFComp, hopefully later this year. https://vivdunstan.co.uk/interactive-fiction/ #interactiveFiction #game #GameDev #IndieGame #IFComp #IFComp2025

If anyone's looking to help out with #Narrascope or #IFComp for 2025, donations to @IFTF are quite helpful and useful.

https://www.iftechfoundation.org/give/

As of this morning, the IFComp Award stream is officially available on the @IFTF Youtube channel!

Come (re-)watch our fun celebration of really neat entries!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5UdD1hmIE

#ifcomp #ifcomp2024 #interactive fiction

Thank you all for joining us once again for the 2024 Edition of the IFComp!
We hope you all enjoyed this year, and to see you next year!

If you want to share more about your experience this year, have any comments or feedback, please fill in our Post Competition Survey!
https://forms.gle/CmLJ8v5DVjZq4ieh6

We hope to see you in just a few hours for our Award Ceremony!
See you at 4pm EDT on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/interactivefictioncomp

Who do you think will reach the top of the ranking? Or get the Banana of Discord?

Hey, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the best #IFComp game I've played this year:

Sextuple L
https://lithobreakers.itch.io/latex-leather-lipstick-love-lust

It's about kink, transmasculity, sex, self, and social horror, and the writing, setting, and characterisation are the most utterly perfect and true things. Also, shout out to a game actually set in the North of England for a change.

It's a long one, but you still have until the 15th of October to give it 10 stars. (Edit: Not serious! Play the game and make your own minds! But you'll agree, I swear!)

https://ifcomp.org/ballot/

Found out when the IFComp 2024 results will be announced. In two weeks time, on a live stream on Twitch. I will be tuning in. I don't expect to rank highly, but will be happy if I improve on my showing last time I entered! Just delighted to have been able to finish another game to take part this year. And looking forward to seeing how everyone fares. https://ifcomp.org/about/schedule #IFComp #IFComp2024 #interactiveFiction #IndieGame #TextGame #GameDev #Twitch #Game #textAdventure

I entered a game into #ifcomp2024 called Birding in Pope Lick Park! Its a peaceful simulation of one of my #birding walks in my favorite park. It includes photos taken by me of actual locations in the park, and photos taken by me of many of the birds mentioned in the game.

Play here: https://ifcomp.org/ballot?alphabetize=1#entry-2985

It should take roughly 30 minutes. Play on WiFi because of the high resolution images. Should work on phones or computers.

IFComp has opened for another year, with 67 different interactive fiction games entered. Ranging from traditional parser text adventure games through to choice based pieces and RPGs. A huge range of genres, themes and styles. Judging is open to all comers, and runs until October 15th. https://ifcomp.org #IFComp #IFComp2024 #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventure #IndieGames #IndieGame #TextGame #CreativeWriting #Games

Calling all IF players!

The 30th Edition of the Interactive Fiction Competition is now live!

Come peruse and play this year's 67 entries!

https://ifcomp.org/

@IFComp is the world's longest-running annual game jam, celebrating its 30th year in 2024. And now it's on Mastodon! Very nice.

I organized the comp between 2014 and 2017, and by the looks of things it's still based on the web software I wrote a decade ago, for which I am proud, grateful, and deeply apologetic.

It's also running a month ahead of schedule! This year's trove of ifcomp.org entries will all be available to the public on September 1. #IFComp
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@IFTF/112997756968026639

In case you missed it: IFComp now has its own brand-new Mastodon account! https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@IFComp

Welcome to the official IFComp (https://ifcomp.org/) Mastodon account!

Announcements, news, reminders... this is your source for all IFComp content!

With the #IFComp registration deadline in the rearview mirror, we are now opening fundraising for the 2024 Colossal Fund!

https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/757904520590278656/the-2024-colossal-fundraiser-has-begun

Just like last year, we're shooting for $10k, which would be amazing!

As in previous years, 80% of the fund is redistributed to the top 2/3rds of entrants, and 20% goes to IFTF's general fund.

Fund the next generation of interactive fiction! And/or please boost! Thanks

The summer holidays motivate Eddie to go on a boat trip across the lake behind the house. This scene almost fully reveals the climax of innocent pubescent dreams, which some of us might have had on those occasions. In this ambiguous sense, however, #LakeAdventure brings far deeper insights to the surface via much longer ladders.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1594/LAKE-Adventure.html

#IndieGame
#InteractiveFiction
#IFComp
#AGT

IFComp’s registration deadline is *tonight*! (11:59 pm Eastern time)

https://ifcomp.org/about/schedule

If you want to enter, you must register your intent to enter by tonight. You then have until August 28th to submit the game itself.

It's the last day (until 23:59 Eastern Standard Time on 1st August 2024) to submit an intent to enter a new #interactiveFiction #game in #IFComp 2024. If you want to enter this year, don't miss out! You can't register after today. Your final finished game is due by 28th August, and the competition is open for judging in September. https://ifcomp.org #IFComp2024 #IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDev #TextGames

Reminder to any fellow #interactiveFiction authors planning to enter #IFComp this year: you must submit an intent to enter no later than 1st August. Game files then due 28th August. Everything is running a month earlier this year. Don't leave it too late if you want to enter. Good luck! https://ifcomp.org #TextAdventure #GameDev #IndieGames #TextGames #IFComp2024