Hey TADS people— You may have already seen it, but if not, there’s a new and unique IF competition brewing. It’s billed as “Iron Chef for interactive fiction” —or, Iron ChIF—but rather than cooks battling to produce dishes based on some mystery ingredient, it’s IF authors writing a (very short) gam…

Unfortunately I have way too many projects, a deadline for all of them that might not be possible, immense magnitudes of recent mental illness, and apparently my brain has tossed out a lot of TADS knowledge in favor of Rust knowledge, which is infuriating. Also, I was doing all of my TADS stuff in …

[image] Piergiorgio d'errico: but in exhcange I require an amendment of the rules explicitly excluding bad english from evaluation criteria. and this is non-negotiable. Honestly, 100% agreed. I haven’t checked the rules, but I would be against this criteria on principle. I thought Iron ChIF w…

I don’t see anything in the rules saying English skills will be evaluated. I assume Piergiorgio meant he would like a rule to be added that says explicitly that they will not be.

[image] Joey (Jess) Tanden: I thought Iron ChIF was supposed to be about mechanical implementation, and not English prose. Where did you get that idea? If that’s true, then I must have missed something in the flood of long messages.

[image] Would *you* want to be a contestant on IF Iron Chef? What sorts of “ingredients” would be used in the challenges? [image] Would *you* want to be a contestant on IF Iron Chef? The current idea is a short piece of code, something comparable in size to an example in the Inform 7 Recipe…

From the discussions going on in the background, I believe the idea of a code fragment has been quashed in favour of a seed-like (i.e. descriptive) ingredient. However, the format of that ingredient is still being discussed.

Ah, noted. I haven’t been following the more recent posts.

Note that I said “in the background”. I believe there are three private message groups for contestants, Iron Chefs and judges. I’m only privy to one of those. There may also be some discussion in individual private messages.

Ah, fair; I’m not privy to any of those lol

Iron Chef looking for TADS challengers

Authoring TADS

inventor200 (Joey (Jess) Tanden) July 20, 2025, 5:54am 8

This suggests to me that the focus of each challenge will be based on implemented game mechanics.