SeedComp! is a 2-round interactive fiction game jam, run on itch.io, focusing on creativity and the growth of ideas.
While some parts of the world are participating in harvest festivals, here at SeedComp! HQ, we’ve gotten the ground ready for the planting of new seeds!
Come join us and plant a seed yourself, or maybe sprout a game from one of those seeds. Or maybe both! Or maybe look from afar and vote for your favourite entry!
→ Auto-Reenrolment
If you submitted a seed last year which was not used, and selected the re-enrolment option, you don’t need to resubmit it this year, we will do it for you!
And it’s here!
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So I’m totally not doing this super late at all like I promised I would… so very sorry. Turns out there was a whole lot more to do than I remember leaving myself.
Some little updates:
The Sprouting Round page is officially and for real this time online!
This year’s crop doesn’t tickle your brain? Check out the still eligible seeds from the previous edition through our Auto-Reenrollment program!
I still feel like there’s so much juice in the “Reverse a Poem” seed from last year. I know some people used it, but there are so many ways it could be used. Could I resubmit that? Or submit a couple of poems I feel like are ripe for reversal (funny to horror, happy to sad, scary to sweet, etc)?
I would be incredibly happy if this particular seed is resubmitted. One of my unfinished works intended to use this seed. So, if this did happen, I would be motivated to finish it.
I don’t want to give a definite answer just yet without checking with the other organisers. Will come back ASAP with a concrete response.
In any case, participants in the Sprouting Round can use any seed submitted to the SeedComp!, even if they were used by someone in previous edition. However:
All entries must be based on at least one seed from this year’s Planting round.
I’ve had some return back, so here is what we’ve agreed on:
Since Reverse a Poem was already used in a past entry, we would not accept a resubmission. As well with submitting with a new list of poem titles as example, the core would still be too much of the same compared to the original seed.
It is, however, included in the Seed Bank (as agreed upon when you submitted it last year). And like said in my previous message, anyone is allowed to use any past seed in their entry (as long as it is not the only one).
If you would like to include new titles to that original seen, please feel free to send me an updated version, and I’ll update the Seed Bank
Will there a be a spreadsheet for signing up for seeds? There aren’t a whole lot of them this year, so it would be good to know what others are thinking of using so I’m not picking the same thing as everyone else.
This year I didn’t have a lot of ideas I was willing to part with yet.
Thanks for organizing this again, the previous years were fun. Just so you know, the first “Planting” link on the 2025 Sprouting page links to 2024’s Planting round, which I’m guessing is unintentional.
Will there be an official zip file with all the 2025 seeds? I went and made my own folder with all the newly submitted seeds this year, though it doesn’t include the ones from past years. Zip linked here in Google Drive in case anyone else wants it.
