"... eaten by a grue."
It's a rite of passage of the hard-core gamer.
The adventure game-files of "Infocom Inc." and "Sierra Games" are online: So are the cheat-sheets. The SCUMM interpreter required to use the game file is available for all popular Operating Systems.
See "IFwiki" and "IFcomp".
It's a rite of passage of the hard-core gamer.
The adventure game-files of "Infocom Inc." and "Sierra Games" are online: So are the cheat-sheets. The SCUMM interpreter required to use the game file is available for all popular Operating Systems.
See "IFwiki" and "IFcomp".
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"... eaten by a grue."
It's a rite of passage of the hard-core gamer.
The adventure game-files of "Infocom Inc." and "Sierra Games" are online: So are the cheat-sheets. The SCUMM interpreter required to use the game file is available for all popular Operating Systems.
See "IFwiki" and "IFcomp".
It's a rite of passage of the hard-core gamer.
The adventure game-files of "Infocom Inc." and "Sierra Games" are online: So are the cheat-sheets. The SCUMM interpreter required to use the game file is available for all popular Operating Systems.
See "IFwiki" and "IFcomp".
Entries now OPEN for the New Media Writing Prize (Feb 1 deadline), with categories for social good, new work, student work, digital journalism, and the Chris Meade top prize.
NMWP is about digital-forward storytelling—works that could not exist in print. Cash prizes. #elit #elo #ifcomp
NMWP is about digital-forward storytelling—works that could not exist in print. Cash prizes. #elit #elo #ifcomp
Enter Competition - New Media Writing Prize
Enter the CompetitionEntries to the Prize are now open for 2025.Check out last year's shortlist and our archive of previous entries before submitting and most importantly read the terms and conditions...
newmediawritingprize.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Tech, code, poetry? Apply by NOV 17
Of interest to the Wordhack crowd.
#elit #ifcomp #electronicliterature
Of interest to the Wordhack crowd.
#elit #ifcomp #electronicliterature
Announcing WINTER 2026 at SFPC! ࣪ ˖⿻
This winter, six beloved classes return as sanctuaries where technical & conceptual tools meet poetic inquiry—making space for reflection, creation, & subversion amid the violences of relentless technological acceleration
Read more + apply by Nov 17 @ sfpc.study
This winter, six beloved classes return as sanctuaries where technical & conceptual tools meet poetic inquiry—making space for reflection, creation, & subversion amid the violences of relentless technological acceleration
Read more + apply by Nov 17 @ sfpc.study
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tech, code, poetry? Apply by NOV 17
Of interest to the Wordhack crowd.
#elit #ifcomp #electronicliterature
Of interest to the Wordhack crowd.
#elit #ifcomp #electronicliterature
Started browsing this year's IFComp entries and was drawn to this game. Puzzles, Bronze Age history, spells, and dogs!
bsky.app/profile/radi...
bsky.app/profile/radi...
enjoying The Wise-Woman's Dog, 2nd place in this year's Interactive Fiction competition - you play as a dog in 1280 BCE and there's copper merchants and everything. play online in your browser -- ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
The Wise-Woman's Dog
A Bronze Age Adventure
Anatolia, 1280 BCE: the last swan song of the Hittite Empire. The Great King abandons the capital in the face of barbarian raids; moving south, he declares that his new city ...
ifdb.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Started browsing this year's IFComp entries and was drawn to this game. Puzzles, Bronze Age history, spells, and dogs!
bsky.app/profile/radi...
bsky.app/profile/radi...
It was originally intended to be entered into IFComp 2025, but well that didn't happen. Now crossing fingers for IFComp 2026. Though feeling rather overwhelmed by the amount of writing still to do! It's a traditional parser text adventure, so will need lots of time for thorough playtesting as well.
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It was originally intended to be entered into IFComp 2025, but well that didn't happen. Now crossing fingers for IFComp 2026. Though feeling rather overwhelmed by the amount of writing still to do! It's a traditional parser text adventure, so will need lots of time for thorough playtesting as well.
Or maybe I have. Back when we started fundraising for IFComp prizes, I came up with this prize amount schema:
blog.ifcomp.org/post/6597303...
We've used the same formula every year. (Quadratic curve.)
blog.ifcomp.org/post/6597303...
We've used the same formula every year. (Quadratic curve.)
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Or maybe I have. Back when we started fundraising for IFComp prizes, I came up with this prize amount schema:
blog.ifcomp.org/post/6597303...
We've used the same formula every year. (Quadratic curve.)
blog.ifcomp.org/post/6597303...
We've used the same formula every year. (Quadratic curve.)
It's about a play in which the player can't play! And to play, you have to break the game. The results are catastrophic to everything inside this reality, and you can reach one of multiple endings. There was an IFComp review I loved which said they couldn't keep on playing out of fear of [3/4].
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's about a play in which the player can't play! And to play, you have to break the game. The results are catastrophic to everything inside this reality, and you can reach one of multiple endings. There was an IFComp review I loved which said they couldn't keep on playing out of fear of [3/4].
"Let Me Play!" (2025/2026) was featured at IFComp 2025, but will get released next year on Steam! This is a short experimental thingy about authorship. It was supposed to be much more complex that what we ended up with, but the way I see each project it's [1/4]
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
Let Me Play! on Steam
Welcome to "Two Strangers in an Elevator"! The play is about to begin. Except it doesn't. And nothing works. And why can't I choose anything? Try getting to the end of this overly meta play,...
store.steampowered.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Let Me Play!" (2025/2026) was featured at IFComp 2025, but will get released next year on Steam! This is a short experimental thingy about authorship. It was supposed to be much more complex that what we ended up with, but the way I see each project it's [1/4]
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
For anyone who played or judged this year's #ifcomp , there's a post-event survey from @IFTF that allows for feedback on (among other things) the use of generated AI in cover art and entries themselves.
I didn't play a lot of entries because the whole thing left a bad taste, but glad to provide […]
I didn't play a lot of entries because the whole thing left a bad taste, but glad to provide […]
Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place
mastodon.gamedev.place
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm familiar with #ifcomp and #ectocomp as well as #springthing, but what other #interactivefiction comps and jams should I be checking out?
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I'm familiar with #ifcomp and #ectocomp as well as #springthing, but what other #interactivefiction comps and jams should I be checking out?
IFComp 2025, around since 1995, is (likely) the longest-running videogame creation contest.
Text adventures contests go back to near the beginning: what about Comp 1983?
I start into the games of the Falsoft contest, and the conditions which led to their creation.
bluerenga.blog/2025/11/01/p...
Text adventures contests go back to near the beginning: what about Comp 1983?
I start into the games of the Falsoft contest, and the conditions which led to their creation.
bluerenga.blog/2025/11/01/p...
Polynesian Adventure (1983)
This continues the story, more or less, from Rainbow Adventure (1982). I knew I had this particular set of games looming, and since the results of IFComp 2025 were announced a few weeks ago it seem…
bluerenga.blog
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
IFComp 2025, around since 1995, is (likely) the longest-running videogame creation contest.
Text adventures contests go back to near the beginning: what about Comp 1983?
I start into the games of the Falsoft contest, and the conditions which led to their creation.
bluerenga.blog/2025/11/01/p...
Text adventures contests go back to near the beginning: what about Comp 1983?
I start into the games of the Falsoft contest, and the conditions which led to their creation.
bluerenga.blog/2025/11/01/p...
Por otro lado, igual recibirá un lanzamiento en Steam "Let Me Play!", otro juego de Interactive Dreams que participó en la Ifcomp 2025. Será una nueva versión con añadidos y traducción al español.
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
Let Me Play! on Steam
Welcome to "Two Strangers in an Elevator"! The play is about to begin. Except it doesn't. And nothing works. And why can't I choose anything? Try getting to the end of this overly meta play,...
store.steampowered.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Por otro lado, igual recibirá un lanzamiento en Steam "Let Me Play!", otro juego de Interactive Dreams que participó en la Ifcomp 2025. Será una nueva versión con añadidos y traducción al español.
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859740/...
"Tus últimas palabras" que participó en la última IFComp bajo el nombre "Your Very Last Words", recibirá un lanzamiento en Steam en menos de un mes. Saldrá gratis, respetando que el proyecto original lo era.
store.steampowered.com/app/3859700/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859700/...
Steam Store
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
store.steampowered.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Tus últimas palabras" que participó en la última IFComp bajo el nombre "Your Very Last Words", recibirá un lanzamiento en Steam en menos de un mes. Saldrá gratis, respetando que el proyecto original lo era.
store.steampowered.com/app/3859700/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3859700/...
The Creative Process #40 - Going Out There and then Coming Back
the-creative-process.ghost.io/the-creative...
#ifcomp #creativity
the-creative-process.ghost.io/the-creative...
#ifcomp #creativity
The Creative Process #40 - Going Out There and then Coming Back
IF Comp is over so I finally get to rela-... Ah nuts.
the-creative-process.ghost.io
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The Creative Process #40 - Going Out There and then Coming Back
the-creative-process.ghost.io/the-creative...
#ifcomp #creativity
the-creative-process.ghost.io/the-creative...
#ifcomp #creativity
I've been too out of it to judge #ifcomp but has anyone played The Witch Girls? I keep hearing good things about it. https://amesyflo.itch.io/the-witch-girls
The Witch Girls by AmesyFlo
Play in your browser
amesyflo.itch.io
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I've been too out of it to judge #ifcomp but has anyone played The Witch Girls? I keep hearing good things about it. https://amesyflo.itch.io/the-witch-girls
Y otro Post Mortem, el de Whoami de @no2nsense.bsky.social, también presentado a la IFComp, un juego que explota al máximo las posibilidades de Twine, que encierra simulaciones dentro de simulaciones y plantea una idea de ciencia-ficción con fundamento sociológico.
intfiction.org/t/apropos-wh...
intfiction.org/t/apropos-wh...
intfiction.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Y otro Post Mortem, el de Whoami de @no2nsense.bsky.social, también presentado a la IFComp, un juego que explota al máximo las posibilidades de Twine, que encierra simulaciones dentro de simulaciones y plantea una idea de ciencia-ficción con fundamento sociológico.
intfiction.org/t/apropos-wh...
intfiction.org/t/apropos-wh...
Post Morten de Just Two Wishes, la aventura de texto que Kozelek presentó a la IFcomp.
Enhorabuena al autor por el excelente juego y por este artículo que no teme en meterse en el meollo moral de la trama y de la situación en Palestina.
intfiction.org/t/post-morte...
Enhorabuena al autor por el excelente juego y por este artículo que no teme en meterse en el meollo moral de la trama y de la situación en Palestina.
intfiction.org/t/post-morte...
Post-mortem for "Just Two Wishes"
This is the first time I’ve written a post-mortem for one of my games, so I apologize in advance if I don’t follow the expected structure in these cases. I will structure my article as follows: First,...
intfiction.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Post Morten de Just Two Wishes, la aventura de texto que Kozelek presentó a la IFcomp.
Enhorabuena al autor por el excelente juego y por este artículo que no teme en meterse en el meollo moral de la trama y de la situación en Palestina.
intfiction.org/t/post-morte...
Enhorabuena al autor por el excelente juego y por este artículo que no teme en meterse en el meollo moral de la trama y de la situación en Palestina.
intfiction.org/t/post-morte...
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
Ya está disponible la retransmisión de la ceremonia de entrega de premios de la IFComp. www.twitch.tv/interactivef...
También hay una encuesta para rellenar que será de gran valor de cara a la próxima edición.
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
También hay una encuesta para rellenar que será de gran valor de cara a la próxima edición.
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
InteractiveFictionComp - Twitch
The Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp) is a yearly festival that invites the world to share, play, and judge new works from independent IF creators. IFComp has been running since 1995, wh...
www.twitch.tv
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ya está disponible la retransmisión de la ceremonia de entrega de premios de la IFComp. www.twitch.tv/interactivef...
También hay una encuesta para rellenar que será de gran valor de cara a la próxima edición.
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
También hay una encuesta para rellenar que será de gran valor de cara a la próxima edición.
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
IFComp feedback form if you, say, want to express an opinion about LLMs or volunteer to help next year...
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
2025 IFComp Post-Competition Survey
Hello! Thanks for taking this survey. It's a bit longer this year as we seek detailed information about future approaches to the UK Online Safety Act and the use of generative artificial intelligence ...
forms.gle
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
IFComp feedback form if you, say, want to express an opinion about LLMs or volunteer to help next year...
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
ok i gotta do IFComp next year
October 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ok i gotta do IFComp next year
Anyway I should say this again now that the competition is over, but my favorite game out of the 30 or so I played in this year's IFComp was @amesyflo.bsky.social 's 'The Witch Girls' ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
The Witch Girls
A boyfriend was all you ever wanted, or thought you wanted, at least. But when your love spell goes wrong, you find yourself face-to-face with soulless husks, perfect parasites and jellyfish that grow...
ifdb.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Anyway I should say this again now that the competition is over, but my favorite game out of the 30 or so I played in this year's IFComp was @amesyflo.bsky.social 's 'The Witch Girls' ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
Blah blah anecdata blah blah bias but also: IFComp is over and as far as I can tell (the results page doesn't show the disclaimers, frustratingly) not one game that used an LLM for writing cracked the top half of the standings. Most are clustered towards the bottom.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Blah blah anecdata blah blah bias but also: IFComp is over and as far as I can tell (the results page doesn't show the disclaimers, frustratingly) not one game that used an LLM for writing cracked the top half of the standings. Most are clustered towards the bottom.
3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS got 30th place in ifcomp, which isn’t bad at all for a pretty out there title.
it was the second largest competition with a lot of good entries: ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=...
and i got positive emails and responses to the game, so i’m cool with that. that was fun.
it was the second largest competition with a lot of good entries: ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=...
and i got positive emails and responses to the game, so i’m cool with that. that was fun.
31st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2025) - Details
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...
ifdb.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS got 30th place in ifcomp, which isn’t bad at all for a pretty out there title.
it was the second largest competition with a lot of good entries: ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=...
and i got positive emails and responses to the game, so i’m cool with that. that was fun.
it was the second largest competition with a lot of good entries: ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=...
and i got positive emails and responses to the game, so i’m cool with that. that was fun.