EnvComp: An IF Environment Competition

By: Derek Yu

On: December 17th, 2008

I’m not affiliated with this competition (although I am planning on entering it), but it’s doing something interesting and I think it could use a little more exposure. EnvComp, as those trendy kids in the IF community have abbreviated it, is looking for Interactive Fiction games with, and I quote, “interesting or unusual settings”.

Phrased like that it doesn’t sound too exciting, but then you remember that you won’t have to provide any graphics for the world you create, and you also remember how many IF games over the past couple of decades have been first rate mind-fucks. I think this competition could, if enough people set their minds to it, produce some of the most astounding landscapes you’ll see – uh, or read in a game in 2009.

EnvComp started officially on 15th December, and entries have to be submitted by 15th March. Submissions will be judged by an all-star panel of 13 IF authors. There’s more details, including the rules and guidelines for entering, on its IFWiki page.

Posted in Competitions, Developers, Interactive Fiction

Koroviev

Finally, a game that I can make!
null

I’m not a good writer. I need graphics and gameplay to get my point across.
Flamebait

As opposed to text and gameplay, I guess.
http://www.sophiehoulden.com GirlFlash

I totally have to get back to work on my hybrid IF game, dont know if it will be done by the deadline though
http://chaoseed.com/garden John Evans

Looks like there’s a whole slew of minicomps listed there.
null

Flamebait. I dunno, can you make a shoot em up with text? How about a platform game?

Hmm, on second thought, that would be rather interesting, although unplayable at the same time.
Flamebait

^ It could be done, but it’d probably suck. All I meant was that all IF has gameplay. Your original words could be interpreted as saying otherwise, although it might not have been your intention.
ultamashot

null: Gun Mute is a fantastic IF shoot m up.
http://db.tigsource.com/games/gun-mute
ultamashot

null: Gun Mute is a fantastic IF shoot m up.
http://db.tigsource.com/games/gun-mute
Voodoo Master

There’s also a game named after some type of soup that’s a platformer, only you enter text commands like an IF to do things. It was made for the B-game contest.

It’s called http://mjaupanda.com/betasuppe/.