I have a new game for Shufflecomp 2024 & Seedcomp 2025!
Friends Humphrey & Jayden have died. In the afterlife, they drift on a never-ending sea on a ship with no destination. One day, they have the dialogue archived in this game.
James Fagan & Ryan Gaiser star in this game as Humphrey & Jayden respectively. This game would also not exist without the Public Domain Image Archive -- as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to make a game with the images there! They inspired this project.
I would love to hear thoughts on this project. Thanks for playing!
The Voting period of the SeedComp! is now open! You can vote for your favourite games and seeds in different categories, as well as handing out some ‘stickers’ in recognition for something a game or a seed did well.
Game Award Categories:
Best Overall
Best Story
Best Technical
Best UI/Visual
Best Prose/Writing
Best Puzzles
Most Sequel-Worthy
Best Seed Subversion
Best Seed Hybridization
Seed Award Categories:
Best Seed
Most Innovative Seed
You can find the Voting Form here!
Play the SeedComp! entries here.
Find the Excel Sheet with all Seeds and Games listed here,
The update for Meeting the Parents is finally out! Almost two months after I thought I would be done with it...
Go play it!
My first ever IF event (that only took 14 days to organise lol) SeedComp! is online! Come participate with me in this 2-Round fun game jam!
Do you have a prompt lying around catching dust? An idea you were never able to code? A piece of code you could not include in a project? A UI mockup/code you could not use? Or a piece of music or art?
Submit it as a seed and see it being nurtured by another creator!
Or come use the submitted seeds to create something new!
Check @seedcomp-if for info and announcements!
Also yes... that seed is kind of a pushed concept for the sci-fi theme template I've been working on.
Since we are talking template... Here (a.k.a. my comp seed) is a bit of a preview. It is not complete (I didn't do the Dialog Boxes for example) and definitely not easy to edit as of now. It is also not mobile compliant, maybe tabled, but def not mobile.
My plan is to strip it a bit down to an easier form, finish the dialog boxes, add the usual settings/controls, and trying to make it mobile accessible (haven't decides on the orientation yet). It will have 3 colour scheme, 3 fonts (incl. OpenDyslexic), annotated stylesheet and JavaScript, etc...
If you think I wasn't going to use my comp seed as is right now (well more edited actually), well, you're wrong :P
Coming next weekend: P-RIix : Space Trucker
A Slice-of-life Sci-fi IF game about a space trucker doing a delivery.
That's what I'll be submitting to the Twine Sci-Fi Jam and the 2 Buttons Jam (because challenge :D). This past week, I have done quite a bit: coded most of the UI (duh) and mocked up the rest, plotted the story (it's a very simple one), coded part of the mechanic (if you've played Goncharov Escapes, you won't be surprised to see some thing in this one), and started writing.
I have to figure out the resource management of this thing... If I could do CSS animations, I CAN DO THAT!
Some other stuff:
The Confessions Time moved to @if-confessions. Send your IF confessions there!
The Goncharov Jam is now over so go play some Gonch games (play mine, it's fun!) !
Closed Door; Key? is an interactive fiction game based on the seed "Room; Closed Door" by Charm Cochran. The challenge from this seed was to make an escape room game using Twine and using only nouns or adjectives. No verbs allowed!
You will play as a secret agent trying to escape a locked office with your secret file of incriminating evidence. Solve a few simple puzzles to find the hidden key and unlock the door.
This game is my submission for the SeedComp!--Sprouting Round Game Jam, which is an IF game jam where participants take entries, or "seeds," from the first round (the Planting Round) and transform them into games.
Forenote: this was posted ahead of the 2022-2023 edition of the Seedcomp!
For current information about the competition, see the pinned post.
SeedComp! is a newly created 2-round interactive fiction game jam, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas, happening over on Itch.io.
SeedComp! is separated into 2 distinct rounds: Planting and Sprouting. During the Planting Round, you are invited to submit 'seeds' into the competition (text, images, code, etc...). In the Sprouting Round, you get to select one or more seeds and use them as inspiration for your interactive fiction entry for fun, awards, and bragging rights!
You can take part in either round or both. The first round runs from Dec 7th to Jan 7th, the second from Jan 9th to March 1st. You can sign-up to Round 2 here.
All indicated deadlines are set to midnight UTC -10/HST time. Don’t worry, they are translated to your local time automatically on Itch.
Signing up to Round 1
Signing up to Round 2
Join our Discord!
Official Website
The full list of Rules and Guidelines can be found under the cut.
Round 1 : Planting
During the 1st Round, Planting, you are invited to submit 'seeds' into the competition. These seeds can be absolutely anything, from game introductions, pieces of art, blurbs, design documents, puzzles, poems, characters, I7 extensions, settings, feelies, or even code!
You can submit:
As many 'seeds' as you'd wish.
Unfinished IF projects, only if you are the author of said entries.
NSFW seeds as long as content warnings are included.
Other guidelines:
Seeds must be your own creation and licensed under a CC BY-NC licence, CC-BY license or equivalent, or a less restrictive license.
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.
If your seed is not selected during this edition of the SeedComp!, you may choose to keep it in the seedbank and make it available for future editions until it is used.
Round 2 : Sprouting
During the 2nd Round, Sprouting, you can sign-up your intent to use Seeds (optional, via this form [TBA]) and submit your entry to Round 2.
Discussion of seeds is encouraged in both our Discord and the Community Tab (Itch).
Submission Guidelines:
All entries must be Interactive Fictions.
All entries must be completed games. While there is no requirement in length, a reasonable target is about 15-30 minutes to play.
All entries must be based on at least one seed from Round 1. You may choose to incorporate more or all seeds if you wish to.
The entries must follow the licensing type of the most restrictively licensed seed used (indicated on the seed page).
All entries must indicate the seeds used in their submission form.
Seed use is not exclusive to one person, multiple people can sign up for the same seed. There is no 'dibs'.
You may use your own seed from Round 1.
While you may use only your own seed, this does go against the spirit of SeedComp! and thus your submission won’t be eligible for awards.
Content Warnings must be displayed when submitting the entry.
You can also opt out of receiving awards on your own when submitting. Organisers can submit entries but are not eligible to receive awards.
We encourage you to provide a downloadable copy of your entry in your game page, for accessibility purpose.
Possible Softwares to create Interactive Fiction:
Twine
Bitsy
Ren'Py
Ink
ChoiceScript
Inform 7
Adventuron
ADRIFT
and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.
Playing and Voting for Awards
All Sprouting entries will be made available to play shortly after Round 2 ends.
Unless opted-out, every entry is eligible for Awards. Awards are titles set by the organisers (such as Best Overall, Best UI, Best Puzzle, etc..). However, every entry can also be nominated for Stickers, which are unique awards submitted by voters for a specific entries (note: all stickers will be screened by the organisers).
Awards will also be awarded to seeds, such as Most signed-up Seed, or Most Finished Entries for a Seed, etc..
You will be able to vote for Awards and submit Stickers starting March 2nd/3rd until March 31st through this form [LINK TBA]. The results will be released early April.
