IFComp 2022 participants?

[The0didactus]

I’m participating with Lost Coastlines, my open-world text-based role-playing game.
Only a few days now until everyone finally learns what’s behind the Spider Door!

and yeah, there’s an official soundtrack:

Lost Coastlines

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

@The0didactus

Only a few days now until everyone finally learns what’s behind the Spider Door!

Is… is it spiders?

[The0didactus]

I hope so, but there’s only one way to find out

[BitterlyIndifferent (Peter M.J. Gross)]

@aschultz

The thing that helps most with this is implementing the boring or pedestrian or technical stuff.

That is the one area where I’ve seen some improvement in my own work. When I start something new, the story might be hot garbage, but I’m a lot faster with troubleshooting and figuring out why I implemented the mechanics wrong. That’s progress?

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@DeusIrae

@The0didactus

Only a few days now until everyone finally learns what’s behind the Spider Door!

Is… is it spiders?

Yep. That sign really wasn’t kidding.
You now have Arachnophobia.

[tundish]

Or maybe a stammering secret agent?

[Scrooge200 (Lance Cirone)]

Or it could be some Internet-crawling software. I’m sure there’s gonna be some kind of worldwide web behind it, though.

[aschultz]

I admit I poked at Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=ifcomp&src=typed_query&f=live with some familiar names and some new names. Which was neat.

I found a few typos and a silly error in my hints after the deadline. These aren’t things to beat myself up over. The hints had “(solution to puzzle x+1)” in place of “(solution to puzzle x)” – but I was glad just to get hints implemented! (Also, earlier this week I noticed some hints were completely missing.)

@BitterlyIndifferent

When I start something new, the story might be hot garbage, but I’m a lot faster with troubleshooting and figuring out why I implemented the mechanics wrong. That’s progress?

I think so. I find if I have trouble with the story I can fall back on mechanics and vice versa. Having something to poke at helps me just not feel stuck, which is important for any project.

Someone shared something useful on Facebook (!) a few days ago that compared the first draft of writing to the raw ingredients before you begin to cook. Which I found heartening.

[AmandaB]

@HanonO

You now have Arachnophobia.

The horse is so far out of that barn. I hate my arachnophobia. It’s embarrassing. I sometimes cry in public when I see a certain kind of spider. It makes me feel wimpy.

[The0didactus]

avoid my game

[AmandaB]

Like the plague. I’m working on the arachnophobia though, so maybe one day.

[inventor200 (Joey "Jess" Tanden)]

@HanonO

@DeusIrae

@The0didactus

Only a few days now until everyone finally learns what’s behind the Spider Door!

Is… is it spiders?

Yep. That sign really wasn’t kidding.
You now have Arachnophobia.

@AmandaB

The horse is so far out of that barn. I hate my arachnophobia. It’s embarrassing. I sometimes cry in public when I see a certain kind of spider. It makes me feel wimpy.

@The0didactus

avoid my game

@AmandaB

Like the plague.

Laughed out loud reading this exchange, and now my family is looking at me weird.

@AmandaB

I’m working on the arachnophobia though, so maybe one day.

Proud of you!!

[Graham (Graham W)]

Hello! I wrote The Thirty Nine Steps, which is one of the entries this year.

[TitoValenz]

So glad to hear you’re ok now!

[sophia (Sophia de Augustine)]

Thank you! As am I! It’s great to be feeling better and back in the swing of things.

[freakus (Frankie Kavakich)]

Howdy! This is my first year participating but hopefully not my last! I wrote CHASE THE SUN for a workshop in about three weeks, so she’s small but hopefully mighty enough to leave an impact on some people next year I’m hoping to write something longer, maybe using Twine. We’ll see!! Super excited to play everyone’s games!!!