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	<title>The 2024 Interactive Fiction Competition</title>
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	<h1 style="text-align:center;">Your Guide to the 2024 IFComp</h1>
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	<h1>Welcome to the 30th IFComp!</h1>
	</div>

	<figure style="margin-left:10px; margin:10px; float:right; max-width: 50%"><img
	src="assets/245x245-comp2024-logo.png" alt="IFComp 2024"
	style="float:right; max-width: 100%" />
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	<p>
	We’re glad you’re here.
	</p>

	<p>
	If this is your first time joining us, welcome! If you’re already familiar with us, welcome back!
	</p>

	<p>
	Either way, we hope you have a great time and enjoy playing the games we have for you this year.
	</p>

	<p>
	Any questions? Contact us by
	<a href="mailto:ifcomp@ifcomp.org">email
	ifcomp@ifcomp.org</a>.
	<br /><br />Thank you in advance for judging!<br /><br />Jacqueline Ashwell,<br />September 2024
	</p>

	<hr>

	<h2>Reminders & Tips</h2>

	<p>
	<strong>We would love to expand the number of judges!</strong> <strong>You can
	help!</strong> Talk about the competition on social media, and encourage
	others to check out all these new games. Consider playing with a friend or
	family member who is new to interactive fiction, talk about the games together,
	and encourage them to vote as well. Thanks!
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>You don’t have to play all the games.</strong> Really! You only need to
	play five games in order to vote. You can certainly play more, but you don’t
	have to play any more than five.
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>We give you a lot of information to help you choose which games to
	play.</strong> Most games come with additional information such as genre,
	estimated play time, and platform type, to help you pick which games might be
	more to your taste or mood.
	</p>

	<p>
	<strong>You can randomize your ballot.</strong> The ballot is now randomized by
	default (rather than alphabetical, though you can sort it alphabetically by
	title if you’d prefer). You can either randomize it in a stable way (use
	‘Personal Shuffle’ so that the order, though random, is always the same for
	you), or you can just press the ‘Random Shuffle’ button over and over. If
	you’re overwhelmed with where to start, just hit ‘Random Shuffle’ and play the
	first five games that look good to you. Come back later if you want to play
	more (but you don’t have to – vote for five games, and you’re good to go!).

	<hr />

	<div class="page-header">
	<h1>Browsing the games</h1>
	</div>

	<p>A complete summary of all this year’s competition entries, including
	each game’s cover art, blurb, and author information, is available on <a
	href="http://ifcomp.org/comp/2024">the ifcomp.org website</a>. We encourage you
	to visit this page to get a full overview of the directory you’ve
	downloaded.</p>

	<p>You can also read <a href="games.html">an offline “cover sheet”</a> with an
	alphabetized index of all this year's games, including their author-supplied
	cover art and blurbs.</p>

	<p>If you’re reading this on or before October 15, 2024, then that page
	will contain all the links and information you need to join the IFComp as a
	judge – and we hope that you do! <strong>As stated above, judging the
	IFComp simply means playing and rating at least five entries by October
	15.</strong> Anyone can rate these games, and more judges make a better
	comp.</p>

	<p>After that date, the above link will take you to IFComp 2024’s
	permanent results page. From there, you will still have the opportunity to rate
	and critique these games on <a href="http://ifdb.tads.org">the IFDB</a>, which
	houses community-reviewed entries for all the IFComp games going all the way
	back to 1995 (as well as every other IF work of note ever written).</p>

	<div class="page-header">
	<h1 id="ratingthegames">Rating the games</h1>
	</div>

	<p>If you’re playing these games on or before October 15, 2024 with the
	intent to rate them as a judge – well, first of all, excellent!
	We’re sincerely glad to have your help. </p>

	<p>Please take a moment to <a href="http://ifcomp.org/rules/#judges">read the
	rules for judges</a> before digging in. You may also wish to read <a
	href="http://ifcomp.org/about/faq#judginggames">the FAQ</a> and <a
	href="http://www.ifcomp.org/about/judging">the judging guidelines</a>. We
	ask especially that you keep in mind that your ratings must reflect
	<em>only</em> your experiences of the the first two hours of play (at
	most).</p>

	<p>When you’re ready to vote, head on back to <a
	href="http://ifcomp.org/ballot/vote">the online ballot</a> and use the
	controls found there to enter your ratings before 11:59 PM Eastern time on
	October 15. You can revisit that page as often as you need to, right up until
	the deadline. So long as you submit ratings for at least five games, we will
	count (and very much appreciate) your contribution.</p>

	<div class="page-header">
	<h1 id="discussingthegames">Discussing the games</h1>
	</div>

	<p>Join the conversation about the competition and its entries in the <a
	href="http://intfiction.org/">IF community forums</a>. You can trade hints,
	share your thoughts about the games, and read other folks’ reviews.</p>

	<p>Of course, we also encourage you to discuss the games on social media,
	blogs, or wherever else you’d like. If you have a website where you plan
	to write reviews, consider adding it to <a href="http://planet-if.com">the
	Planet IF news aggregator</a> so that more of your fellow interactive fiction
	fans can follow along!</p>

	<p>The official hashtag for IFcomp is, as always, <a
	href="https://x.com/search?q=%23ifcomp">#IFComp on X</a>,
	and likewise <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp">#IFComp on Mastodon</a>.


	<p>As the competition progresses, we’ll post pertinent links and other
	news and updates to <a href="http://x.com/ifcomp">the official
	IFComp X account</a>,
	or on <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@IFComp">Mastodon</a>,
	and <a href="http://blog.ifcomp.org">our own blog</a>.</p>

	<p>Finally, if you need to contact the organizer for any reason, feel free to
	<a href="mailto:ifcomp@ifcomp.org">email
	ifcomp@ifcomp.org</a>
	</p>

	<div class="page-header">
	<h1>Credits</h1>
	</div>

	<p><strong>Jacqueline Ashwell</strong> organized the 2024 Annual Interactive
	Fiction Competition.</p>

	<p>Our game curators this year were
	<strong>Brian Rushton</strong>,
	<strong>B.J. Best</strong>,
	<strong>Mike Russo</strong>,
	and
	<strong>Brett Witty</strong>.
	Our prize coordinator is <strong>Sarah Willson</strong>, and the
	technical lead is <strong>Mark Musante</strong>.
	<strong>Manonamora</strong> and <strong>Peri Wade</strong> are our social media & forum team.
	</p>


	<p>Special thanks to <a
	href="http://iftechfoundation.org/committees/ifcomp/"><strong>IFTF's IFComp
	advisory committee</strong></a> and, of course, to all authors, judges,
	prize-donors, reviewers, and other participants of the Annual Interactive
	Fiction Competition.</p>
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