SMWHR

[serenyssime]

Bienvenue à Vous, Vysiteur, sur les terres d'Ys !

Envie de vivre une vie passyonnante, pleines de rencontres et d'aventures ? Rejoignez un Clan arystocratique, choysissez votre camps politique, et devenez (quy sait ?) le nouveau dirigeant d'Ys !

Quelques explicatyons

Ys est une natyon virtuelle appartenant à l'Archipel du Micromonde,c'est à dire un immense et perpetuel jeu de rôle se déroulant dans un vaste univers. Mays à la différence des jeux de rôles tradityonnels, il vous est icy proposé d'incarner un cytoyen yssois, de participer à la vie du pays, et de faire vivre ainsy votre personnage aux milieux de ses concytoyens, jours après jours.

Particyper aux électyons, séduire votre voisyn(e), amasser des Yris (la monnaie locale), défendre votre honneur lors de retentyssants procès, être un poète, un écrivain, un peintre, bref, un artyste à la mode, devenir le fidel vassal d'un Seigneur quy vous protegera et veillera sur vous, ou au contraire devenir totalement indépendant et libre de toute contraite, tout est possyble !

La culture Yssoise

Ys est une natyon de plus de vingt ans maintenant, quy a acquys de nombreuses spécyficytés, comme sa langue, ponctuée de "y", sa monnaye l'Yris (Y€), son immense sentiment de supériorité vys-à-vys des autres peuples, son amour certain pour les procès, les débats publics, mays aussy... la débauche : sexe, absynthe et opium sont en effet vénérés par les yssois. Mays attentyon ! Point de vulgarité icy, l'humour et le second degré (voire le troisyème ou le quatrième) sont de rigueur. Un peu de culture est également appréciée.

Devenir Yssois

Décydé ? Vous désyrez rejoindre le Serenyssime Empire ? Rien de plus simple : faîtes une demande de vysa via le formulaire "Devenez yssois" en haut de cette page !

En attendant que votre vysa soit examiné, lysez le Guysde du Routard Yssois (bientôt en ligne) pour connaitre tout ce que vous devez savoir sur Ys.

Les sytes à voir

Envie d'en savoir plus sur Ys ? Vous pouvez chercher à avoir un aperçu plus complet de notre pays :

En lisant les règles fondatryces du jeu

En jettant un oeil à la constitutyon temporaire

En vous demandant ce qu'est un vrai yssois

Et de manière générale, en allant fureter dans les archyves !

[serenyssime]

Acte de Réjuvénatyon Sérényssime portant créatyon de la Haute Autorité de Régence de la Populatyon de l'Empire

Constantant un vide hystorique dans la directyon de l'Empire Sérényssime, un groupe de citoyens issus de divers groupes socio-géographiques se sont rassemblés sous le porche du Palays Dogéal vacant pour rédiger cet acte qui vaut Constitutyon de l'Empire. Après seize jours de dur labeur, elle fut soumyse à ratificatyon par vote électronique le 16 Juyllet XXIII et adoptée à l'unanimité des âmes votantes.

Préambule

Le Serenyssime Empire d’Ys adopte, en présence et sous les auspyces de Son Seigneur Poseydon, la présente Constitutyon, applicable tant à l’intérieur de ses frontières qu’à l’extérieur d’ycelles.

Article I

Le Sérényssme Empire d'Ys est dirigé par la Haute Autorité de Régence de la Populatyon de l'Empire (HARPE). Cet organe est constitué du Délégataire de l'Organisatyon Générale de l'Empire (le DOGE), du Juge Universel Général de l'Empire (le JUGE) et de l'Assemblée Générale Ordonatryce des Lois Applicables (AGORA)

Article II

Le DOGE est rituellement désygné par Poséydon tous les 12 moys minimum.

Le JUGE est rituellement désygné par Poséydon tous les 24 moys minimum.

La Grande Loge Unifiée du Rite Atlante Ancien et Accepté (GLURAAA) est responsable de l'interprêtatyon des sygnes envoyés par Poséydon.

Article III

Le DOGE est le délégataire de tous les pouvoirs de Poséydon sur la Terre qu'il exerce, en Son Nom, librement par Édyt.

Il peut nommer ou révoquer, par domaine de compétence, un Conseyller à qui il pourra déléguer partie de Ses pouvoirs.

Le DOGE siège au Palays Dogéal dont il peut librement faire sa demeure pour la durée de son mandat.

A compter du 16 Juyllet 2023, Pierre Paul d'Andrésy est nommé DOGE de l'Empire.

Article IV

L'AGORA est constituée de tous les citoyens désireux de prendre part à la vie politique de l'Empire.

L'adhésyon à l'AGORA se fait par libre annonce en place publique sous réserve d'au moins troys (3) moys de citoyenneté active.

L'AGORA est consultée par le DOGE pour la réflexyon et la rédactyon des lois de l'Empire.

L'AGORA peut, sur vote d'une Motyon de Défiance, saysir le JUGE et demander le réexamen constitutyonnel d'un Édyt ou la destitutyon du DOGE.

L'AGORA siège dans l'Hémicyle Saunatorial.

Article V

Le JUGE a en toute matyère, autoryté suprême sur toutes les décysions de justyce et litiges de l’Empyre.

Le JUGE est chargé de veiller au bon respect de la présente Constitutyon dans les différents Édyts et Loys de l’Empire.

Article VI

En toute chose, la Coutume prévaut sy aucune autre loi ou Coutume ne s'y est substituée. La Coutume émane des archives impériales ou de tout autre document authentifié par voix d'expert.

Article VII

La religyon officielle de l'Empire est le Poséydonnisme.

La pratique des autres cultes est tolérée lorsqu’elle est le fait de communautés d’origine étrangère ou de communauté pratiquant leur culte de longue date et par une tradytion solidement établie. L’autorisatyon d’autre culte ne se fayt que par la loy. Le DOGE peut interdire la pratique d’un culte qui trouble l’ordre public, dans les condityons que fixe une loy.

Article VIII

Certaynes terres échappant provysoirement à l’autoryté de l’Empire, il est loysible à celuy-ci de conclure avec leurs maytres des accords, dans les condityons et sous les réserves prévues par le présent article.

Le DOGE est seul habilité à ratifier les Traités.

Que Poseydon pardonne aux étrangers d’être

Article IX

Terre Sacrée, toute force armée étrangère dysparait à son entrée dans l’Empire. Les prétentyons contraires de tout Etat, groupuscule ou individu seront présumées inexistantes de droits.

Article X

Les décisyons de la GLURAAA priment sur le droyt yssois et sur la présente Constitutyon. Elles s’imposent à tous, états, assocyatyons, citoyens, étrangers.

[justalittlesolarpunk]

There is hope. I promise. Young people just won their case against the state of Montana. Ecuadoreans braved escalating political violence to vote against oil drilling in the Amazon. Brazilian deforestation is down by enormous amounts since Lula took office. They’ve invented hydropanels that synthesise pure water from the air. People are farming in solar parks. A ship just launched for its maiden voyage using rigid sails designed to mimic wind turbine blades. EV sales are taking off, and, more crucially, cities are re-assessing their very relationship with the car. By the 2024 Olympics the river Seine will be safe for people to swim in again. More and more people are replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps. Solarpunks are growing crops in their back garden and distributing them to their neighbours. Great tracts of land are being given back to nature. Young people are channelling their energies into meaningful careers. Pilots are leaving the aviation industry. Yes, the world is dark and terrible and full of awful dangers that keep you up at night, but we are a huge movement that grows every day in numbers and power. Your small actions matter. Our collective triumphs are increasing. Things are going to get harder, extreme weather will be more common, but with ingenuity, resilience and crucially, COMMUNITY, we can build an equitable world on this strange, tired old planet. See you in the future.

[brucesterling]

[hpowellsmith]

anyway you should play SPY INTRIGUE by furkle

[seedcomp-if]

The Planting Round - Rules

Forenote: the rules of the SeedComp! have been revised as of the 2023-2024 edition. Please read these rules before submitting to a round.

In this 1st Round, the Planting round, we welcome you to submit 'seeds' into the competition, to inspire authors in the next round to create their entries!

These seeds can be absolutely anything! From game introductions, visual pieces, blurbs, design drafts, full puzzles, poems, music, characters, I7 extensions, settings, feelies, or even code... we will take anything you have!

You can submit:

As many 'seeds' as you'd wish.

Seeds in any format you wish to use. -> Unfinished  IF projects, only if you are the author of said entries.

NSFW  seeds as long as content warnings are included.

Other guidelines:

Submitted Seeds must be your own creation.

Seeds must be submitted with a license as or less restrictive than CC BY-NC. -> You can also submit seeds under a CC-BY license or equivalent, or a less restrictive license (ex: public domain).

All seeds must be downloadable.

While there is no minimum word count for static text seeds (like blurbs/intros), we encourage you to submit more than just one sentence.

All seeds will be screened by the organisers for trolling/abuse.

Auto Re-enrollment:

When submitting a seed, there is a chance that it might not be among the selected ones to help sprout a game this year.  This is to be expected, as more seeds have been submitted than games in any given year (which is why we encourage the use of multiple seeds in game development).

So, when submitting a seed, you will be asked, if your seed is unused in this year's SeedComp!, whether you would like it to be resubmitted on your behalf every year until it is either used or 5 years have elapsed, whichever happens first.

This allows seeds a better chance of finding the right creator without leaving them in the active competition forever.

The Seedbank:

The SeedBank is a database of past seeds created during SeedComp! 

The individual licensing requirements of seeds found in the SeedBank, like Author attribution or restrictions against commercial works, remain in force into perpetuity. When submitting a seed, you will be asked whether you would like to have it added to the database when no longer active (i.e. used in a previous SeedComp!). If you opted for auto re-enrollement, being added to the database would occur either after your entry is finally used or the auto re-enrollment period ends after 5 years.

[smwhr]

inkJam 2023

A game jam from 2023-10-20 to 2023-11-04 hosted by paulloz. Welcome to the sixth edition of inkJam ! The inkJam is an annual community organ

The inkJam is an annual community organised jam focused on storytelling and narrative games written in ink.

When does it begin? The jam begins on Friday, October 20th, 9PM CEST.

Who can enter? Everyone is more than welcome, either alone or as part of a team.

Is there a theme? Yes, and it will be announced as soon as the jam begins.

What tools can I use? As long as you are using ink in a way or another, you can use absolutely anything! You can find a (probably incomplete) list of engines and integrations here.

Should I write my game in English? You can write in any language you like. Though, keep in mind that fewer people will probably be able to try a game only available in French or Czech than one available in English.

Where can I find help? You can join the community on inkle's Discord server, where a dedicated channel has been created.

How does the voting work? Once the jam is over (on Monday, October 23rd, 9PM CEST), the public will have a twelve-days period to review the games.⁣

[smwhr]

[smwhr]

Last time I registered to a major Interactive Fiction Competition, instead of working on my game, I (my brain) decided to port the entire ink compiler to javascript. Of course I submitted nothing to the comp.

I've registered to IFComp. The deadline to upload my game is september 28. What will I accomplish _instead_ ?

[secondlina]

I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~

Hiveworks Comics

It's time! Today is the day. Share the comic you've been working on all summer with the tag #MicroComicSummer

[manonamora-if]

SUPER IMPORTANT ITCH NEWS

Hello everyone, Our current CDN provider is shutting down and we’ll me migrating to a new provider. This should not affect you in any way un

Itch is changing hosting domain soon.

This change will affect any game saving as localStorage (cookies/cache). Your old saves won't be available after the change of server occurs!

This is especially important for Twine games, saving in the localStorage of your browser (when you use the autosave/save function). Saves in localStorage are URL dependent (so server dependant). If you play the same game in different URLs different saves will appear for each URL.

Export your saves now!

EDIT: a neat helpful tool to mass download/mass load your local saves

[manonamora-if-reviews]

Neo Twiny Jam - bite-sized review

The Neo Twiny Jam (@neo-twiny-jam) is an interactive fiction game unranked jam where participants could not write more than 500 words per entry.

You can find every submitted piece on the jam's Itch Page.

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Palazzo Heist by Ju / smwhr

Entry - More by Ju / smwhr - @smwhr

An introduction to breaking and entering Trying to enter a palazzo at the dead of night is not an easy feat. Less so when you start from a gondola and there are no clear way to break in. Maybe that door or the window would do? I really liked the interactivity of the game, and how the puzzle is quite simple... if you examine your environment properly. I would play a longer version of this game in a heartbeat!

[manonamora-if]

In 2015, Portentine ran a mini Twine jam, called the Twiny Jam. During the three-week the jam ran, creators were asked to submit a Twine game with no more than 300 words. Porpentine ran this jam on Tumblr, which has now be deactivated.

Over 200 pieces were submitted. (sadly, about a 5th of those is now lost...)

So, 8 years later, to commemorate this piece of IF History, Autumn (@cyberpunklesbian) and I are bringing back the Twiny Jam - but with a bit of a twist...

Announcing the Neo Twiny Jam

The Neo Twiny Jam is an Interactive Fiction Jam with one rule:

Don't write more than 500 words

Any piece of Interactive Fiction is welcome, from any kind of IF system/format, regardless of genre/theme. - You are not limited to Twine only. You can choose any program you want as long as the output is an Interactive Fiction piece. - It also accepts NSFW work (NSFW themes must be clearly indicated in the submission). - Sounds, graphics and code don't count in the word count.

The Neo Twiny Jam will run from June 1st 2023 (12:00 AM/00:00 EST) to June 30th 2023 (12:00 AM/00:00 EST).

Want to join? Sign up here!

This Jam is unranked.

Follow @neo-twiny-jam for more information and updates!

[smwhr]

Let's do this.

[thebksllr]

My name is Meri. I'm a young capybara.

A few years ago, I saw an ad for the job of Bookshop Assistant in the The Flowing Times and enquired. My resume was very scarce and my cover letter very generic. I actually did not really know what I wanted to do with my life. My studies just ended and though I was a good student in my department, I was not really interested in the subject. But I thought maybe the Floating Bookshop would allow me to see more of the world. Books themselves had always been a way to go on adventures ever since I was a young cub, from the comfort of my bed. Now I could only imagine the thrill of actually travelling The River !

I received a response that materialized as a letter with a single word on it :

Come !

I went. The Bookshop was moored and, as you would expect, Floating. I knocked. No one answered. I sat, waiting for the owner to come back from their errand. I waited for the best part of an hour. I tried the door. It wasn't locked. I entered. Feeling like I was trespassing, I went back outside.

At that exact moment, an old lizard came upon me and asked for help finding a book for their grandson's birthday. "I am not the Bookseller" I replied. "Ok, whatever, but can you help me son ? I really need a present, the party has already begun !". Then a wren needed a self-therapy book, a platypus asked for a good thriller and a few hours later I had sold a dozen books.

They say that those born under a Brimming moon (I am from the 16th) are fast-moving, adaptable and those few hours on the Floating Bookshop seemed to have proved it. They say we get caught up with ideas and swept away by others and obsessions and I was : each new request was a brain tease and each patron a challenge. They say we are fidgety and dislike sitting still and I thrived running around the bookcases, stacks and displays. They we make excellent water guides, called ❦riverstriders but that, I'll let you, reader, be sole judge from what you read in this journal.

[golmac]

Brian Rushton has been working on an alternative to the big, annual IF awards (XYZZY) and is trying to build a list of potential awards.

He's polling over at the IF Community forum re: possible categories. I know that place can tilt toward parser IF, but Brian has made it very clear that he wants to hear from voices in the broader community.

I thought I'd post this here, in case anyone is interested in proposing categories, endorsing categories (by liking the post), and so forth. Much more information here:

Announcing a new set of Interactive Fiction Awards - Competitions - The Interactive Fiction Community Forum (intfiction.org)

We'll have to see how it goes, but I like the idea of recognizing different/more types of IF.

Announcing a new set of Interactive Fiction Awards - Competitions - The Interactive Fiction Community Forum (intfiction.org)

[cy-lindric]

✹Ilo Circulàri✹

Excerpts fom the work I did for l'Atlas des Mondes Fantastiques !

[smwhr]

A little known fact about #goncharov is that it is almost a frame by frame remake of a silent french film from 1917 named "Le Retour du Soviet" produced by Louis Feuillade and Musidora (she plays the role that will later becomes Katia's) where the titular Soviet comes back to Paris and try to fit in between two rival Appaches street gangs.