SeedComp! Round 1 is now closed for submissions or edits! Round 2 coming soon!

[pinkunz]

Eat some soup and feel better! We’ll still be here when you do; seed submissions are accepted until January 7th.

[AmandaB]

@Warrigal

Anything with an interesting story or concept in an unusual setting…Oh, and something that lends itself to lots of puzzles, as I would be doing a parser-based game

I’ve got an idea I think you might like, Garry. And it’s about animals, which you have written about before! I’m just about to submit it: Feathered Fury. I even outlined ideas for some puzzles.

[Warrigal (Garry Francis)]

@AmandaB

Feathered Fury

That immediately reminds me of magpies. They’re lovely birds, but don’t go near their nests in nesting season or they swoop down and attack you.

Oh, and seagulls in the city. They’re smart. They swoop down behind you so that you can’t see them coming and try to steal your hamburger, chips, Subway or whatever.

And ibis. The beautiful wild ibis have become domesticated and spend all their time scavenging in garbage bins. They’re a big white bird with a long black curved beak. Perfect for getting under the lids of wheelie bins. We call them “bin chickens”.

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

Sheesh, cover art? Some of y’all are setting the bar pretty high!

I was just trying to figure out submitting a project on itch; for others with text submissions, I’ll suggest duplicating your text in the project Description box under Details – that makes it readable on the project page itself without downloading. And/or, if you’re comfortable generating an HTML page, upload an HTML file and choose “Automatically start on page load”.

[rovarsson]

A humble seed is planted…

[AmandaB]

@Zed

Sheesh, cover art? Some of y’all are setting the bar pretty high!

I notice you jumped on that bandwagon with a pretty snazzy piece of cover art. Love the seed.

[JTN]

@pinkunz

The concensus seems to be SeedComp! 2023.

Ta. I’ve created the eponymous IFWiki page, with the effect that the dates now show up on the front page.
(I had to take slight liberties with IFWiki’s date schema; should probably chase whether it can be made to better accommodate multi-round comps.)

@manonamora

Since I made the logo on Canva, I went and doubled checked for use rules and stuff: all good for using it All good for upload~!

Thanks! Now uploaded to the main SeedComp! page. (I picked the itch version, since it seemed to have original author metadata.)
(Also I renamed that page to “SeedComp!”, since y’all are going hard on the punctuation )

@pinkunz

Also, speaking of the other organizers, I am certainly not the only one, despite what the IFWiki says. @manonamora @MiloM @lpsmith and @Draconis all had a significant hand in organizing this affair, and you might want to check if they’d also appreciate a mention.

Sure! The first version was a placeholder just because you were the only name I found on a hasty scrat around the SeedComp website, no intention of not crediting everyone.
I’ve added all five of you, as mentioned here and on various itch.io pages.

Anyone else should feel free to jump in and edit/correct these pages, btw, I'm not the sheriff of IFWiki.

(this is the sheriff of IFWiki)

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[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@DeusIrae

StingComp.gblorb (1.1 MB)

(Yay, now I’ve released new IF in 2022!)

>play with character B
That doesn't seem like it would be very much fun.

Harsh, dude.

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

LOL yes there’s some legacy code that assumes the player is still a toddler playing in a backyard.

…I am this close to cleaning this thing up and running StingComp for real.

[pinkunz]

[AmandaB]

Yes please!

[AmandaB]

@Zed

Harsh, dude.

It does kind of seem like @DeusIrae is throwing some shade at me here. Surely not.

[sophia (Sophia de Augustine)]

Just submitted a seed into the mulchmix! I had a lot of fun picking through my old poetry collection, (I’ve hoarded all of the poetry I’ve written since I was about 16) and reworking something from seventeen year old Sophia.

[OverThinking (Charm Cochran)]

@Zed

Sheesh, cover art? Some of y’all are setting the bar pretty high!

I had an idea for cover art for the first one, and then the second just kind of felt naked without it. After that, well…

[jnelson (Jim Nelson)]

@OverThinking

I had an idea for cover art for the first one, and then the second just kind of felt naked without it.

Back in the day, science-fiction pulp staff writers would be handed an illustration from an artist and told to write a story based on it.

Would be interesting if the seed prompt was an illustration, rather than a summary or sample transcript.

(I’m not volunteering—my drawing skills are abysmal—but if I did, I might try using some of the new AI generative tools to create the prompts.)

[manonamora (Manon)]

@jnelson

Would be interesting if the seed prompt was an illustration, rather than a summary or sample transcript.

So far, no illustrations, but someone submitted a snapshot of a tarot reading (I think?)

[OverThinking (Charm Cochran)]

@jnelson

(I’m not volunteering—my drawing skills are abysmal—but if I did, I might try using some of the new AI generative tools to create the prompts.)

An interesting idea, but I think that technically AI art would be neither your own creation nor in the public domain–although I know the specifics around that are still pretty thorny.

[jnelson (Jim Nelson)]

Ah, that’s a good point. (I think some of the sites license the generated results as Creative Commons?)

[OverThinking (Charm Cochran)]

Oh nice! I’d still be cautious about it though–the Stable Diffusion model (which many of them use) was trained on copyrighted material without the original creators’ consent, so it’s entirely possible that the sites don’t have the right to license the images at all.

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

Seed the second planted! (And seed the first substantially reworked.)