Sorry I missed that, I’ll include it in next week’s edition!
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IF Weekly Roundup, 1 November 2025
Cross-posted to my Neocities site.
Competition/Event News
- ECTOCOMP 2025 has begun! The rating period for the 62 entries runs from now till November 30.
- PunyComp 2025 opens to submissions tomorrow. The submission period runs through 2025-12-01T22:59:00Z.
IF Jams
- The 2025 Bare-Bones Jam has ended with 29 entries.
Other Jams
Jams that aren’t IF-specific, but are IF-friendly
- The Robotic Romance Jam is accepting entries from now through 2025-12-16T06:00:00Z.
Other
- The BDB Project is releasing updated versions of 1980s Italian text adventure games, translated to English and adapted for a modern audience.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week. 
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IF Weekly Roundup, 8 November 2025
Competition/Event News
- Spring Thing 2026 has been announced.
IF Publications & Posts
- New essays at The Imaginary Engine Review:
- “The world is sick and ugly” (on the game Horse Master by Tom McHenry)
- IF’s Retrofuturist Roots
- Blog post by Dan TheMan: Installing Adventure, Thisala, Ferret, and Other Games onto a Data General MV AOS/VS Minicomputer Simh Emulator
- Choicebeat Issue #15 is out now.
Other
- Twine version 2.11 has been released.
- Michael Newton is seeking teachers interested in using his Visual Ink tool in the classroom.
- There’s a memorial thread up for IF author Ricardo Oyon Rodriguez, who recently passed away.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week.
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It’s a one-day-late…
IF Weekly Roundup, 15 November 2025
Cross-posted to my Neocities site.
- The Electronic Literature Organization is open to submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection through January 6. A new collection is published approximately every 5 years.
- The Community Picks section of the Indie Game Awards is now open to voting, and there’s an IF category! Vote via the Google form linked on that page for “The game that captivated you with its storytelling above all else. Through rich writing, meaningful choices, and minimal gameplay, it drew you deep into its world and let your decisions shape the journey.”
- StoryNexus Worlds is shutting down on January 27, 2026. This means that after that date, non-Failbetter games made with StoryNexus will no longer be available to play. [Edit: Actually it seems that all StoryNexus games save Fallen London are going to become unavailable, even those that were official Failbetter releases.]
- Mathbrush is featured on the latest episode of the Retro Adventurers Podcast.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week.
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5 posts were split to a new topic: StoryNexus Worlds Shutting Down
IF Weekly Roundup, 22 November 2025
Cross-posted to my Neocities site.
Competition/Event News
- The IF Short Games Showcase 2025 is now open to submissions until December 31.
IF Publications & Posts
- I missed sharing an issue of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin, so I’ve got two this week:
IF Authoring Tools
- The Visual Ink engine for creating visual novels with Ink has launched.
- Hituro has released a chat macro for Twine SugarCube.
Other
- Microsoft has officially made Zork I, II, and III open source.
- Andrew Plotkin published a blog post providing context for this change: Zork is now open source.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week.
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AdventureX ?
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Taking this week off; the roundup will be back next week!
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IF Weekly Roundup, 6 December 2025
Competition/Event News
- The ECTOCOMP 2025 results have been announced.
- Voting for PunyComp 2025 is open through January 1.
- ShuffleComp 2025 signups are open through December 15.
Other Jams
Jams that aren’t IF-specific, but are IF-friendly
- The End of Year Fairytale Jam is open to submission through 2026-02-01T04:59:00Z.
- Polyjamorous 2025 is open to submissions through 2026-02-14T14:00:00Z.
IF Publications & Posts
- Issue 50 of the Amare Fortnightly Bulletin is out now.
Other
- Critical Distance is now open to submissions for “This Year in Videogame Blogging,” a collection of the best games criticism/analysis published in 2025. Works about any type of games are eligible, including IF.
- The latest version of Atrament, an interactive fiction engine powered by Ink is now available.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week.
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Taking another week off; see you next week!
EDIT: Actually going to take two three weeks off; next IFWR will be on the 27th January 3rd!
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IF Weekly Roundup, 3 January 2026
Competition/Event News
- The PunyComp 2025 results have been announced.
- Voting/rating for the IF Short Games Showcase 2025 is open now through January 25.
Other Jams
Jams that aren’t IF-specific, but are IF-friendly
- Gaming Like it’s 1930 is open for submissions from now through 2026-02-01T07:59:00Z.
IF Publications & Posts
- The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
- Amare Bulletin Issue 51 and Issue 52
- Phinxel’s Phield Notes: a guide to the Decker engine
- LONG0751 has been found!: a post about the discovery of David Long’s 751-point version of Adventure
- An episode about IFComp 2025 from The Short Game podcast
Other
- The location and dates for Narrascope 2026 have been announced. Submissions of talk proposals, games for the annual showcase, and works for The Experience are now open.
- The deadline for submissions to Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection has been extended to January 31.
That’s what I’ve got for now! If you have any corrections or want to share anything relevant from this past week that I missed, please DM me! And as always, feel free to DM tips/suggestions for next week.
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IF Weekly Roundup, 10 January 2026
Competition/Event News
- The Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2026 has been announced. Submissions open on February 28.
Other Jams
Jams that aren’t IF-specific, but are IF-friendly
- The This House Wants to be Empty Jam is open to creative works of all kinds on the theme “you haunt the house”. Submissions open on February 1.
IF Publications & Posts
- Post by Jason Dyer at Renga in Blue: Adventure 751 (1980)
Other
- Andrew Plotkin has released The Visible Zorker: Zork 2
- Announcement of the Zart interpreter library
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A note about the future of the IF Weekly Roundup: as you may have noticed, I haven’t actually been adhering to a weekly posting schedule recently. I’m going to put the IFWR on hiatus while I consider a different model/schedule. Whatever and whenever I end up deciding, I’ll announce it here.
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