now that there’s three months from the start of Comp 26 I’ll open the obligatory general talking debate !
there’s already a problem: seems that the SSL certificate of the ifcomp site is expired, or at least is what firefox reports.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
I plan to join the IFComp authors this year…
Perhaps you’ll see me with a friend there… perhaps not. We’re still debating
I’ll be there.
I have two projects well under way for it! With any luck they’ll both be ready in time!
Two?? I find it hard enough just to get one done! And up to now my entries were originally targeting another comp. So I will refrain from mentioning I will participate in IFComp just in case the IF gods are looking in my general direction…
In fairness, both of them were really intended for last year’s IFComp…
Consider this a context-free spoiler: the name of my game is Fnegir ni Ahreh na Frehn gi do Uvama.
I’m not entering this year, but have a (taking too long haha!) work in progress that I hope to enter next year.
I do plan to play, judge and review loads of games this year though.
Good luck to all prospective entrants!
I have just emailed IFComp re the security certificate, in case they don’t know. They’re not always reading here.
I will enter another game this year.
I’m acceptably sure that this year I can do a decent judging & reviewing (last year I was forced to put on hold my IF activities for RL force majeure) so I hope to have fun (and perhaps some interesting source code to browse… 
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Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
Are judges going to have the patience for this? We’ll find out!
Or, if that seems too straightforward…
I’m hoping that between “click any word to see its definition” and “double-click any word to add it to your command” I can get the barrier to entry low enough that people will give it a shot. After getting Miss Congeniality last year I’m no longer worried about how I’ll place; it’s time to get experimental with these things!
It looks awesome to me, and I really liked The Wise-Woman’s Dog, too. Feels like the best kind of edutainment. The cuneiform is very cool. I’ve never really thought about how cuneiform might work, but just based on the screenshots, I’m reminded of the Korean alphabet?
I’m thinking of submitting this game I’ve been working on for a while, which I was going to submit to this year’s Spring Thing and then gave up on. But it’s very hard for me to stay motivated, so even with two months of time, I may just have to call it quits early. I don’t want to give up on it entirely, but at the same time I find myself fundamentally dissatisfied with the direction, which makes it harder to see the point. Reworking things is possible, but also a major pain.
I’ve got plans for three. All of them are at a pretty promising point in the planning stage, but I suspect I’ll end up holding one back for next year.
I don’t hide that a pair of years ago I actually plotted planned an choice-based comp “entry” in strict Italian as revenge for the well-known incidents, but in the end, I choose to never partecipate again in scoreboard-based competitive IF…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
All I’ve got in my game are phony ancient languages 
I’m in this year with a comic puzzler inspired by Agatha Christie and The Superfriends Hour. Sorry, no ancient languages.
Does it have Gleek?
Just submitted my intent! Who else?
Ah, thanks for the reminder! August is really coming up fast!
