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, weāve 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!
SeedComp! starts a bit longer this year, allowing participants a bit more time to submit both seeds and games:
Planting Round: Oct 1st to Dec, 1st
Sprouting Round: Dec 1st to March 1st
Voting Period: March 3rd to March 31st
All indicated deadlines are still set to midnight (00:00 - 12am) UTC -10/HST time, and Itch still translates it to your local time automatically.
ā Rules and Guidelines
Please note that weāve tweaked the rules and guidelines for the competition, clearing up the writing of some rules.
Weāve also added an auto-reenrolment system, if your seed was not chosen in this edition of the Seedcomp!, as well as introducing the SeedBank (a database of past seeds). Both are optional.
Before submitting a seed or an entry, please ensure to review them.
You can find the updated rules on both the Planting round and the Sprouting round itch pages, as well as the links on the pinned post of our Tumblr blog (the website is in reconstruction).
If you have any question about the rules or the competition, please let us know!
Even though much of my attention has gone to staring at the submission screen for a certain harvest festival, I have not forgotten about the seeds for next yearās early spring sprouting.
I have an idea or two/three for game premises/prologues, but Iāll let them ferment a bit further first. Just to let you know that there will be seeds coming your way soon.
Thanks for the reminder. Nothing immediately sprang to mind, so I went through my āadventure ideasā folder and discovered an old idea that I think could make a good game. Mind you, Iām biased, so Iāll have to see what others think. Anyway, seed submitted: 1984 by Garry Francis
I canāt remember, are you supposed to not start on the game until the sprouting round? I havenāt started anything, just interested in what the rules are.
Been feeling a lot under the weather lately, so I figured itād be topical for a seed. Plus, a chance to look at cute kitten pictures productively. Included a transcript in a plain text file and on the actual page itself for accessibility purposes since I defaced the actual image.
Hey, this looks like a really nice idea! I do have a question though.
Iām considering planting an unfinished project of mine from a previous Game Jam. The licence as it stands is GNU Affero GPL v3.
The rules around licences say:
Seeds must be your own creation and licensed under a CC BY-NC license, CC-BY license or equivalent, or a less restrictive license.
I guess I need to seek a decision on whether the AGPL is an equivalent or less restrictive licence compared with CC-BY.
Iād hazard that AGPL is compatible with CC-BY (and therefore equivalent in the sense that they donāt contradict each other), but that when combining with another seed the terms of the AGPL would apply to the aggregate.
It would be good to get a declared opinion from SeedComp organisers before I throw my hat into the ring
A question of vital importance concerning this Comp:
Will there be spreadsheets?
If not, weāre gonna lose a lot of traction with otherwise perfectly sane people who just have their head screwed on a peculiar way. Best to keep those enthusiasts on board and engagedā¦
It looks to me like the AGPL (like the GPL, but unlike the LGPL) is, unfortunately, more restrictive than CC-BY-NC. The AGPL says this:
You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.
b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is released under this License and any conditions added under section 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to ākeep intact all noticesā.
This means that any derived work (as I understand it) must also be licensed under the AGPL.
In contrast, the CC-BY-NC just says that you must include attribution and not commercialize it. You donāt have to provide source code, and you donāt have to make the new work CC-BY-NC; you could retain full copyright on it if you liked, as long as you didnāt commercialize it and as long as you included the attribution.
So the upshot is that Iām afraid that anything currently under the AGPL license doesnāt qualify as a seed in SeedComp. The LGPL would qualify, as it doesnāt place those added restrictionsāI donāt know if that might be an option for you? Thank you for checking, instead of assuming! That would have been a pain to untangle afterwards.
