I think my game, “Carriage Returns”, is quite simple. But if anyone needs a walk through or hints, my email address is in the splash at the start of the game.
Or you can PM me here.
With my thanks again, what an incredible Halloween! The community’s enthusiasm for Ectocomp has been humbling. Also a small note to say I updated Ectocomp2014.zip so that it now includes a plain text scoring sheet. You do not need use the scoring sheet in order to vote. It is provided merely as a convenience. You may take as much or as little space as you like writing notes/critique/reviews about each game. Though nothing is required aside from the score, we appreciate hearing a player’s thoughts. I’ve also reproduced the scoring sheet below for those who don’t want to download the .zip file again.
Name of judge:
Author: Yes/No
Another Cliched Adventure Game (ACAG), by David Whyld [ACAG.html]
Score: /10
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Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine [Candlesmoke - Ectocomp.html]
Score: /10
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Candy Rush Saga, by Andrew Schultz [Candy Rush Saga.zblorb]
Score: /10
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Carriage Returns, by David Good [Carriage Returns.gblorb]
Score: /10
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Character Creator, by Erin Gigglecreek [charactercreation.z8]
Score: /10
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Choose Your Own SPOOKY Death, by Healy [CYODEATH.html]
Score: /10
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City of the Living Dead, by Tanah Atkinson [CityoftheLivingDead.html]
Score: /10
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Devil’s Food, by Hanon Ondricek [devilsfood.zip]
Score: /10
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Eclosion, by Buster Hudson [Eclosion.html]
Score: /10
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First Person, by Buster Hudson [First Person.gblorb]
Score: /10
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A Fly on the Wall, by Nigel Jayne [A Fly On the Wall.zblorb]
Score: /10
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halloween candy triage simulator 2014 by j. marie [candysim.html]
Score: /10
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IDSPISPOPD, by Christopher Brent [IDSPISPOPD.zip]
Score: /10
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It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel [it-is-pitch-black.html]
Score: /10
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Lime Ergot, by Rust Blight [lime.z5]
Score: /10
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LISEY, by Marco Innocenti [lisey.gblorb]
Score: /10
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The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter [The Voodoo You Do 2.gblorb]
Score: /10
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Wedding Day, by E. Joyce [Wedding Day.zblorb]
Score: /10
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The Weird Mirror, by M.J. Antonellis [The Weird Mirror. html]
Score: /10
I am amazed and humbled by what people have accomplished in the SpeedIF form! Not quite done judging them yet, but BRAVO, participants!!!
I’m still looking forward to what there might be.
I also wanted to try to enter some of the games on IFDB, but I’ve been too lazy. Maybe we can try to do this in the next day or two, each participant adding theirs. Marshal already has.
I think we should do the IFDB entries upon the completion of judging, so the scores can be included on IFDB.
IFDB has the capacity to say “These games are part of an ongoing competition” or to list them out. We’d just all be “entrants” until placements came in. I like seeing star-ratings filter in before the comp’s end.
ifdb.tads.org/viewcomp?id=cgofhzc9s5no8ufo
Plus we added everything after a few days last year.
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I just posted a failed Ectocomp game to IFDB. (It took about 4 hours to finish.)
Most excellent! I have also posted a failed Ectocomp game to IFDB. It is here. I took way, way more than 3 hours on it…
OK I made an IFDB page for my game, but I gather the upload to the games archive needs to be approved.
Hooray Dave! Yes, I think the upload to archive.org will take a while. Until then, I think we can just point to the zip containing all the games.
Also hooray for failed EctoComp games! I may get through the regular ones first, though.
Bowsmand, permission to link the Ectocomp2014.zip from my IFDB page?
I say go ahead! [emote]:D[/emote]
I put mine up as well (ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=87kh7s3bczbdi1i). Looks like there’s no page for Ectocomp 2014 yet, though?
I’ve updated my entry so it can be played on the web without installing anything. Other than that it’s no different than the version in the .ZIP file, but it can be seen here:
I added a competition page, so now new games can be added. We probably shouldn’t worry too much about alphabetical sorting until everything’s there, but anyone willing to do a bit of extra work, it’s appreciated.
Has anyone posted reviews of these games? I’ve had zero input on “Carriage Returns” so I don’t know how well it was received.
Reviews will come in. Judging doesn’t end until the 22nd, so there’s plenty of time.
I’m going to set about over the week to create pages for all of the games entered that don’t yet have pages, with just a placeholder text (“Entry in Ectocomp 2014”) for the description. I’ll also add them to the competition page (thanks for making that). Authors should feel free to create their own pages on their own initiative if they wish, and to edit at their will any pages I might create that belong to them.
Last year’s topic, people generally dumped all their reviews at once. I’d expect a few to come in over the first weekend, then just before judging ends.
ETA: somehow, I missed the post above! I blame the page-split. I know some people reviewed immediately.
I just filled out the judging form and sent it to Bowsmand.
IFComp is still going, too. Some people (by which I definitely don’t mean me, no sir!) might still be caught up playing and reviewing those and have put Ectocomp on hold until they’re done.