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| <h1 style="text-align:center;">Your Guide to the 2025 IFComp</h1> | |
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| <h1>Welcome to the 31st IFComp!</h1> | |
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| We’re glad you’re here. | |
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| If this is your first time joining us, welcome! If you’re already familiar with us, welcome back! | |
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| Either way, we hope you have a great time and enjoy playing the games we have for you this year. | |
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| Any questions? Contact us by email | |
| <a href="mailto:ifcomp@ifcomp.org"> | |
| ifcomp@ifcomp.org</a>. | |
| <br /><br />Thank you in advance for judging!<br /><br />Jacqueline Ashwell,<br />September 2025 | |
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| <h2>Reminders & Tips</h2> | |
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| <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! | |
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| <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. | |
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| <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. | |
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| <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!). | |
| <p> | |
| The awards ceremony will be held on | |
| <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/interactivefictioncomp">Twitch</a> at 4:00 PM | |
| Eastern Oct 18. To confirm what time the awards stream will be for you in | |
| your time zone, visit this | |
| <a href="https://everytimezone.com/s/4849cb8d">website</a>. | |
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| <h1>Browsing the games</h1> | |
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| <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/2025">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, 2025, 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 makes a better | |
| comp.</p> | |
| <p>After that date, the above link will take you to IFComp 2025’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> | |
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| <h1 id="ratingthegames">Rating the games</h1> | |
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| <p>If you’re playing these games on or before October 15, 2025 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> | |
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| <h1 id="newthisyear">New this year</h1> | |
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| <p>You can now choose whether or not to see content warnings. Authors | |
| still provide them, and they'll be shown by default, but if you’d prefer | |
| not to see them (for spoiler-related or any other reasons), you’ll find | |
| a setting at the top of the ballot that lets you hide them.</p> | |
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| <h1 id="discussingthegames">Discussing the games</h1> | |
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| <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, #IFComp on | |
| <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%23ifcomp">X</a>, | |
| <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/ifcomp.org">Bluesky</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>, | |
| <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/ifcomp.org">Bluesky</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> | |
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| <h1>Credits</h1> | |
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| <p><strong>Jacqueline Ashwell</strong> organized the 2025 Annual Interactive | |
| Fiction Competition.</p> | |
| <p>Our game curators this year were | |
| <strong>Brian Rushton</strong>, | |
| <strong>B.J. Best</strong>, | |
| and | |
| <strong>Mike Russo</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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