I completed my last update on Saturday. If I changed anything now I would worry I was just making it worse. Now holding my breath.
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First post and first time submitterā¦ phew. (wipes brow).
Good luck everyone. Canāt wait to pour through all the games.
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Welcome and good luck!
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I stumbled in with my entryā¦ almost fell into the pit.
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AND THATāS TIME!
Congrats everyone!
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Iām equal parts relieved and terrified! I discovered a couple of big problems with the code in the last few hours ā I scrambled to fix them but I didnāt have time to make sure theyāre truly gone 
Iām really, really glad the comp allows updates for bug fixes, haha.
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Last night I found a bug in literally the very last thing in the game. Luckily I managed to fix it before pencils down.
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As always, I am here to BRING THE DRAMA.
Some of you know my tragic history of failing to absorb the information that the IF Comp (that Iāve entered a bunch of times) ends on the 28 September. Not 1 October. Not 30 September.
TWENTY-EIGHT.
Well, I got it wrong again this year. I was so convinced it was due Friday (for some reason) and/or so confused about dates that I realised right on 2pm (the actual submission deadline in my time zone) that I DIDNāT have another 10-14 hours (living in Australia time). But none. No hours, no minutes.
I tried to compile an html file last night (while travelling) and didnāt panic when it didnāt work. My friends have terrible internet so maybe that was the issue. I also didnāt panic when it didnāt work this morning (at my home). Iām sure I managed to enter last year (yes, I did) so I probably made my partner do it when he came from work, and thatās what Iād do this year.
Iād already put the web link into the description.
So I saved everything, backed up everything, and went to the IFComp web site to see that submissions were indeed closed.
Is the web link enough? Or have I YET AGAIN failed to enter the comp due to never knowing what day it is (despite massive emotional trauma from last time I did this).
Iām somewhat less traumatised this year, as I was just doing checks todayāthe game is fundamentally done.
But am I entered?
I donāt know.
Have emailed to ask.
Since I didnāt actually drop dead last time, I will probably survive this time.
Probably.
EDIT: YES my link was sufficient to gain entry to the wondrous secrets of the Author-only forum. And also enter the contest, which is merely a pleasant side-effect.
And I found two coding errors since then, so I guess Iāll be updating my entry sooner rather than later.
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Luckily, mine is like ten hours+ (in other words, a classic Infocom game size), so even if there WAS, which there probably is in mine, nobody will see it (because of the maximum 2 hrs playing rule).
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Oh, people play (and review) the long games too - they just stop at two hours to finalize the rating. There are some judges who actually prioritize the long games!
(I should say, Iām looking forward to yours!)
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You could try asking if they can make the link into the file, and explain you couldnāt seem to be able to. As long as itās not just āI need more time.ā
I hope you can get in.
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Take heart, you arenāt the only one whoās made some mistakes!
I submitted my entry under the wrong title because I forgot to change it from the time I submitted my intent to enter. Whoops.
I noticed the problem, of course, at 12:01.
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And of course I discover an infuriating bug right after the deadline. Thereās a special message that prints when you examine a portable thing, and thereās a lever thatās part of a control panel. I forgot that things in Inform are portable by default, and being part of the panel prevented it from being takenāso I never removed the āportableā property from it, meaning itāll print a nonsensical message after examining it.
Not a game-breaker, but it looks sloppy. Sigh.
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Ok thatās annoying, but itās going to be awesome when IFCOMP_ENTRY_PLACEHOLDER1111 wins some XYZZYs!
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I like your angle.
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Fingers crossed for you. Testing your entry was a pleasure and I really hope others get to experience it.
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After my dramatic failure to bring my game to term for Spring Thing, I finally pushed it over the finish line with just nine minutes to go. During the week before that, I was busy writingā¦
ā¢ On my phone at work
ā¢ At my home between meals
ā¢ In the hotel room where I was vacationing with my girlfriend, while she slept
ā¢ In a peaceful tea room in Japantown San Francisco with two delightful older ladies
ā¢ In a slightly sleazy McDonalds in the slightly sleazy town of Modesto
But it was worth it to finish. Hereās to the comp!
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I forgot to put my name and the entry title on the cover art someone else worked hard to make look very nice.
Hooray for updates!
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x me
You are exhausted after the deadline. You want to collapse.
x deadline
What was once your shadow is now a stone wall behind you. For good or bad, there is no going back.
climb wall
Now that the deadline has passed, you find itās an easy climb. Your work wasnāt perfect, but you sprinkled bits of yourself into it. You realize what you accomplished is good enough to bridge the gap between where you were and the adventure you wanted.
Your exhaustion is replaced with exhilaration as you near the top of the wall ā¦
Congratulations to those who finished!
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I very nearly submitted the game with a for-testing hack around a password-guessing little puzzle. Considering how surprisingly hard it was to implement (see the thread where people much smarter than me solved the coding problem, thank goodness), it would have been a massive bummer to use the hacked version insteadā¦
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