New to this [Comp submission strategy]

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

Perhaps this is call for ReboundComp - a festival of games that may have been forgotten or did poorly on release which are updated for a second try.

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

@HanonO

ReboundComp

…ok my brain went somewhere entirely different with that prompt.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@DeusIrae

…ok my brain went somewhere entirely different with that prompt.

I was trying to think of a better term, like you broke up but are on friendly terms and considering getting back together. My initial impulse was BootyComp. Or Friends with benefits Comp… no, horrible. No. I know, I’ll do better in the future.

[LapinLunaireGames (Jinx)]

That would be the Broke Upish Comp, right @anon66621404 ?

[anon66621404]

Ahahaha, can you imagine? Enoch and Esme would be a shoe in for little meowmeows to toss into a Twine for that.

[Warrigal (Garry Francis)]

@AmandaB

Seriously, though, why shouldn’t Comps give cash prizes?

Seriously though, Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2023 has about US$350 in cash prizes, so you should all be working on a text adventure suitable for beginners, rather than all this frivolous chit chat. You can put your winnings towards that luxury yacht.

[AndyG (Andy Galilee)]

@AmandaB

Ask for beta testers here, and do it pretty early, because there will be so much wrong with it that you will need a lot of time to fix it all.

I am beginning to realise this from my first ‘spring thing’ entry this year! (wish I had seen this sooner ) - In my defence, other ‘life’ things got in the way - but really should have asked the community for help. I also think that, from the few people who have reviewed my game, diversity is the key. We all seem to have differed ‘ideas’ of how to tackle a problem in a game and the goal is to cover as many of these bases as possible.

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

@AndyG

I also think that, from the few people who have reviewed my game, diversity is the key. We all seem to have differed ‘ideas’ of how to tackle a problem in a game and the goal is to cover as many of these bases as possible.

From my point of view, this is exactly right. I like to have a lot of testers because each one tries things in a different way (maybe one tester closes every door after they go through, one types GET instead of TAKE, one tries to examine the location itself, etc.). It makes the game a lot better to have more testers since collectively they’ll try just about anything a general player will.