And we're officially kicking off the 2025 Edition of the IFComp!

From now until August 1st, you can submit your authorial intent!

Come show off the best of your best!

https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/788067590629146624/
#interactivefiction #gamedev #indiedev #ifcomp #ifcomp2025 #interactivefictioncompetition

Calling all artists on Mastodon!
The IFComp is seeking an artists for our 2025 logo!

Check this post for more info!

https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/785511692459294720/ifcomp-seeking-an-artist-for-the-2025-logo

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

Looking forward to the Spring Thing interactive fiction festival which will be running very soon. Good luck to all the entrants! I'm looking forward to hopefully trying as many of the games as possible. Ditto for IFComp in the autumn - I've postponed my next entry to 2026. https://www.springthing.net/2025/ #SpringThing #interactiveFiction #IndieGames #Games #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

New Rosebush article out! It's an interview with Chandler Groover, known for influential games such as Eat Me, Toby’s Nose and Midnight. Swordfight., as well as his contributions to Fallen London. He recently released The Bat, which won the 2024 #ifcomp .

https://the-rosebush.com/2024/12/chandler-groover-interview/

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

Haha, Latex, Leather, Lipstick, Love, Lust got the golden banana of discord in #IFComp this year, with a 2.59 standard deviation. Excellent. So glad it wasn't Uninteractive Fiction: it's so annoying when people make entries deliberately running for it.

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?

Today is the absolute last day to save your ratings for the IFComp entries!
At 23:59 EDT, we'll be closing the ballot and start counting the votes!
This is your last chance to tell us what you thought of this year's games!

https://ifcomp.org/ballot/vote
#interactivefiction #ifcomp #ifcomp2024

D-5 before the poll closes!
https://ifcomp.org/ballot/vote

Don't forget to save your votes! Only 5 are needed to be counted!

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.
https://ifcomp.org/ballot/

There's a full-on review of Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value over at Final Arc!
#IFComp #IFComp2024 #game #Review #IF #RPGMaker #RPGMakerMV
https://www.thefinalarc.com/quest-for-the-teacup-of-minor-sentimental-value-a-choice-based-rpg-maker-game/

Unlock the gazebo's door and find mysterious puzzles to solve!
Only at the IFComp!
https://ifcomp.org/ballot

Play and rate at least 5 games before October 15.
#ifcomp #ifcomp2024 #interactivefiction

I wrote about a few cool and noteworthy IFComp games for Room Escape Artist, specifically ones that involve puzzles :)

(You can still play and vote on the entries for 12 more days!)

https://roomescapeartist.com/2024/10/03/interactive-fiction-competition-2024-puzzle-game-highlights/

Only 2 weeks left to vote at the IFComp! https://ifcomp.org/ballot

You only need to play 5 games and rate them for your vote to be registered!

September is almost over, but the IFComp is still here! Help us put a smile on the sad elf's face by playing some cool games!

C.E.J. Pacian, author of such highly-regarded text games as Superluminal Vagrant Twin , Gun Mute, and Weird City Interloper, is back with a "survival horror" game: Forsaken Denizen.

I didn't find it particularly horrifying or find myself at risk of failing to survive, so it felt more like an action-hero game with light resource management, but people are telling me that's true to the Resident Evil games that it's taking inspiration from.

In any case, it's a fun weird sci-fi setting: Dor has been broken free from the grip of the life-draining cyber-tree/vine/??? by her black-sheep space-princess girlfriend so she can fight her way through to the source and try to save the planet.

Also fun mechanics, a little puzzle-solving... and then when you beat it you unlock outfits that give you new bonuses and abilities and you can play again to try them out and unlock the rest.

https://ifcomp.org/ballot?alphabetize=1#entry-2946