Ah, yes! I was doing a bad job of planning my route I see. So 7/9 with a medium course and 9/12 with a long course. And the remaining 2 or 3 will be a good chance to try out some IF that wasn’t previously on my radar, too.
Square B9 is Moondrop Isle, which, incidentally, is the combined product of all participants in the Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction.
If the title of a particular game on the field isn’t obvious, you’ll find an expandable key under the big board that lists every game on the field. It’s right below the expandable key for runner icons.
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A bit late, but I just want to say, in case someone feels adventurous: the game with a portrait of a girl, second to last on the last row, is Filaments, which is historically important since it’s the first modern original interactive fiction in French. (It’s at least the first original written with Inform or any “modern” authoring system.)
I haven’t played it myself, and it’s very likely to be buggy, but I believe it’s a good game otherwise. (I think its Italian translation won a comp or something.)
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OK, I’m officially signing up!
Color: #63A25C (‘Grasshopper’)
Type: Free Running
Starting position: Since I’m choosing randomly, can I start off the grid and choose on day 1? If need be, I can choose randomly now, but I’d rather not know yet.
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Welcome, runner #11: @lpsmith!
I’ve placed your runner’s icon on a randomly-selected square. If that one doesn’t suit you, you can change it any time before registration ends (which is April 30th, the day before the marathon starts) – just send a PM or post here.
That makes at least a dozen registered runners enrolled (including me). Can we get to fifteen?
Have I misunderstood how a long course works? I thought it had to include exactly two games from each row (one on the way up and one on the way down, or vice versa) which means it can’t be possible to hit more than eight of the ones @Draconis highlighted?
If I understand correctly, the short course is down/up, but the long course is right/left. And I thought you’d only play one game from the last row, instead of hitting it twice?
So, E1, [D2], [E3], E4, [D5], [E6], [E7], D8, C9, [C8], [B7], [C6], C5, [C4], C3, C2, C1
(Brackets are highlighted, non-brackets could shift if need be.)
If you hit the wall twice, you could pick up B9 after C9, but I think you’re supposed to go back to 8 after one from 9.
Unless I’ve got it totally wrong, a short course is top to bottom (6 games), a medium course is side to side (9 games) and a long course is top to bottom and back again (12 games). None of those options let you pick more than 7 games from the ones @Draconis highlighted.
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@lpsmith, what you’re describing is a hardcore free-running course of 17 games.
As jwalrus says, a normal long course involves 12 games, two from each horizontal row. A normal medium course is once across the board from left to right (or vice versa), like the E1 to C9 earlier portion of your hypothetical course (or C9 to C1 later portion). See the FAQ questions: “How does a short course work?”, “How does a medium course work?” and “How does a long course work?” for details.
Free-running courses are for those who don’t want a standard course type, and you’re welcome to create one that takes any path at all on the map so long as it dosn’t cross the same square twice.
Aha! Right, never mind me, then. Carry on!
Place me at F3 to start.
Done! I think that means all currently-registered runners have been placed.
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