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Sunday, September 29, 2013
IF Competition 2013
The 19th annual Interactive Fiction competition has just opened and this is really the year CYOA-style storygames have flooded in, presumably following Porpentine's distinguished placing last year for Howling Dogs. There are over a dozen of them (plus more-traditional-for-this-comp text-parser adventures, plus a couple of real outliers like a StoryNexus game, for the Fallen London fans.) Who knows, some of them that don't automate their own play (like the PDF (!) submission) may end up converted for web play someday as was done with Pray for Your Enemies. In the meantime, you can check them out (congregated near the bottom, desigated "Web-based games") at http://ifcomp.org/comp13/games.php
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Thanks for bringing my attention to this and also the fact that they accept pdfs. Means I won't have to learn code in order to enter, then.
ReplyDeleteThe PDF business is really a new frontier for this crew, but while enjoying the current hyperfiction bloom... why not?
ReplyDeleteMy pick of the CYO comp games I've played through thus far would have to be Bell Park, Youth Detective as at http://youthdetective.com/ ... nothing groundbreaking, just effective humour writing.