How did it take this long for someone to come up with “Citizen Makane”??
And yes, lotta boats.
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That’s great!
I know @cchennnn created some scripts last year to automatically create ifdb pages. Does anyone know how to run those?
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Indeed. Although I think non-nautical mysteries might be our majority. Are there always this many detective stories? I don’t think I recall so many from the last few years. Will be interesting to compare them!
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Ha - thanks. We’ve been doing the normal post-launch scramble on other things and I just realized that I had not posted here about going live. Appreciate it, Mike!
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“Comp is live!”
Na na, na na na!
Co-co-comp is live!
Na na, na na na…
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So much so that there are two game names which start (and one that ends) with the words “All hands”!
And a game about fixing broken tech for an older person, which is what I do in my day job… Still, it could be worse, I could be a sailor!
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As a request, please tag your original posts appropriately:
- ifcomp2023 for general discussion (sometimes these posts might fall outside the category - it also helps when searching and filtering for messages applying to specific years, since there are similarly-titled “The Comp is Live!” type messages every year.)
- ifcomp2023-game for reviews and specific game discussion. This will allow people who haven’t played the games yet to avoid spoilers.
Anyone who is a forum Regular can edit tags by clicking the pencil icon next to the title of the first post in a topic.
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Boats must be the zeitgeist. The “ending” of my game involves a boat too.
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Of course! Plus this way I get to soak up a bunch of likes on a zero-effort post 
Thanks for all your work!
Oops, sorry, I thought I used the right one, but I was doing this on my phone, so see above re zero-effort.
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No problem! I actually goofed up and had an extra hyphen in the tag in my message - now “ifcomp-2023” should replace itself with “ifcomp2023” (minus the hyphen) as a synonym.
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Lot of murder mysteries in the mix also. Usually there’s several in an IFComp but there’s like eight in this one.
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Seems like there’s a weird number of games about painters? As well as the general nautical boatery and murder mysteries that everyone else has pointed out already. Wonder what’s been in the air…
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Transcript question. I would like to include transcipts in this year’s reviews where possible. If I play through the web, are these logged for authors automatically? Or should I manually generate them as I go?
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They are logged for authors if you play on the Comp site, yeah, so that works. I do think it can be nice to post transcripts to the forum, though - I’ve sometimes gotten stuck in a game without complete hints, or been curious about a reviewer’s experience, and it’s nice to be able to check that out.
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Oh no, just when I finally have all the interpreters I need downloaded and customized, a reason to revert to playing online comes along 
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You can always save a transcript locally and post it with a review, or send it to the author directly! I actually prefer offline play too.
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Thanks Jacq and the other organisers for your tireless efforts to allow us to get words in front of other people.
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