IFComp News: "Emily is Away" is withdrawn

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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Renga in Blue: IFComp 15: Much Love, BJP

By Megan Stevens. Finished on computer. Let me get out of the way first: the structure and interaction aren’t too enthralling: So let’s talk about the story instead. It’s built of artifacts; a father has collected his daughter’s newspaper writings from different countries. It is very fragmentary. I was often unclear what was going on. […]

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IFComp 15: Much Love, BJP

By Megan Stevens. Finished on computer. Let me get out of the way first: the structure and interaction aren’t too enthralling: So let’s talk about the story instead. It’s built of artifacts; a father has collected his daughter’s newspaper writings from different countries. It is very fragmentary. I was often unclear what was going on. […]

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These Heterogenous Tasks: IF Comp 2015: Arcane Intern (Unpaid)

Arcane Intern (Unpaid) (Astrid Dalmady) does pretty much what the title implies. Trying to break into publishing, you stumble into a hidden society of magic-users. It’s still a crappy unpaid job, but with more magic sigils and dragon baristas. Games that … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: Cape (Bruno Dias)

The 21st annual Interactive Fiction Competition is currently on, through mid-November. Voting is open to the general public; the only prerequisite is that you not be an author, not vote on games that you tested, and submit votes on at … Continue reading →

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Rockies Retreat by Crystal Jordan

Ooh, there's nothing like a sad tortured creative soul of a hero who is blue without going all whiny and self-pitying.

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The Digital Antiquarian: MIT and GUE (or, The Annotated Lurking Horror)

We have a fair number of games and events still to cover in the ongoing history of Infocom that’s been biting such a good-sized chunk out of this blog for so long, but the end is slowly heaving into sight. The same was also true, albeit in a less certain and more intuitive way, for […]

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Doug's World: Why review?

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When nothing is on the table, everything is

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Wade's Important Astrolab: IFComp Thought Splatter: How/why I review

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Renga in Blue: IFComp 2015: Unbeknown

By Alan DeNiro. Finished. Played on computer with the Firefox browser. You start following the brook. Despite not being anywhere near your Poli Sci class, you feel at home. Silver minnows dart in your direction as you walk, as if you are a magnet and they are iron filings. The brook widens. You don’t see […]

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IFComp 2015: Unbeknown

By Alan DeNiro. Finished. Played on computer with the Firefox browser. You start following the brook. Despite not being anywhere near your Poli Sci class, you feel at home. Silver minnows dart in your direction as you walk, as if you are a magnet and they are iron filings. The brook widens. You don’t see […]

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Doug's World: SPY INTRIGUE (a review)

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Undo Restart Restore: Being brutally honest

I was writing a comment to The Many Authors of IFComp over at Sibyl Moon Games, but it became so long and slightly tangential that it's better to post a proper article instead. Historically there have been several parser IF writing communities with partially overlapping members. The "main" community, originating from rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroups before largely Continue reading Being brutally honest →

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