The author of Emily is Away has elected to withdraw the game from the 2015 IFComp. It is no longer visible on the online ballot. Judges who have already rated the game will still keep this rating as counting towards their minimum five ratings.
The competition’s organizers were unaware before recently that the game has been touring through various public independent-game festivals, with plans for a commercial release on October 16 — a third of the way through this year’s IFComp judging period. The author and the competition organizers have agreed that, while we love seeing another step in the very recent re-entry of interactive fiction into the commercial space, this renders the game essentially incompatible with the IFComp’s rules and intent.
We encourage the IFComp audience to visit the game’s official website. It does look like a personal, polished, and highly original work of interactive fiction that deserves the praise it has earned so far.
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