The 25th Annual IFComp is here

Competitions IFComp
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At least one game (Bad Water) seems to be packaged wrong in IFComp2019.zip and is not playable. Maybe there are more.

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Hooray!

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Wow 82 entries. New record! This’ll keep me busy for quite a while :slight_smile:

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Indeed, Bad Water was badly packaged – I’ve repaired it just now. Thank you for pointing it out!

(And, of course, anyone should feel free to email ifcomp@ifcomp.org, or contact me directly, with any other ifcomp.org-related problems.)

– jmac, who is ifcomp.org tech lead this year

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I cannot download the .zip archive (https://ifcomp.org/static/downloads/IFComp2019.zip) containing all the games of this year’s competition. Am I the only one?

<Error>
    <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
    <Message>Access Denied</Message>
    <RequestId>1CC8881E9050124A</RequestId>
    <HostId>
        5vZq3b/X7vTJ2hwjPolhK5ByS2iRiH10tOS8Tsc7i91zGkqWiAZtRxIb119dtpVCFxkgxULFuIQ=
    </HostId>
</Error>

By the way, it redirects it to https://iftf-ifcomp.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/IFComp2019-3.zip.

Edit:
Additionally, the download link for “The Untold Story” https://ifcomp.org/play/2082/download downloads “The_Untold_Story.gblorb.js” in plain text.

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Thanks for pointing that out! It should work now.

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Island in the Storm also seems to be missing some files in the download package.

When I start the program, I get

ERROR:root:current PATH: (text dump of user path)
Could not create pixmap from island_bg2.png
Could not create pixmap from island_bg2.png

Also, the in-game instructions refer to a walkthrough text file which is nowhere to be found. The only files present are island-mac and island-windows.exe.

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The walkthrough link on the competition page works for me; it is also present in the complete competition zip I originally downloaded.

(This doesn’t have the missing island_bg2.png file though.)

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Yeah, I noticed the separate link to the walkthrough after posting. :face_with_hand_over_mouth: Maybe after I get some practice at finding a button on a web page, I can eventually move on to navigating a Twine game… I expected each download link would include all the files associated with the game, though. (I’m not using the comprehensive download, because why miss out on bug fixes?)

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This seems to still be an issue.

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Has anyone played RĂ­o Alto? The IFComp entry only contains a Windows executable, and there is no contact info for the author. I was wondering if it is possible to get a file that can be loaded in a standard interpreter.

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It was made with the Unity Engine, which means, on the one hand, that there won’t be a file that can be loaded in a standard IF interpreter, but on the other hand, that it is possible to get executables for other platforms, because Unity can export to a lot of formats.
I started up the game, but could not find any contact info inside either.
Maybe the comp organizers have the author’s email address and could forward a kind request for providing MacOS and Linux versions, that would be cool.

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The author of RĂ­o Alto has now uploaded an online version: