{"id":215,"date":"2007-10-02T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/215"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:46:27","slug":"ifcomp-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/215","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of the people who read this blog are already aware of this, but: the judging period of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\/\">13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition<\/a> is now open, and lasts until November 15.  <em>You<\/em> can be a judge, and if you&#8217;ve never judged the comp before, I encourage you to give it a whirl.  There are 29 entries this year, expected to vary from brilliant to abysmal.  This is the smallest batch since 1998, so if you&#8217;ve found previous comps daunting, here&#8217;s your chance.  29 may still sound like a lot of games to play, but they tend to be short &#8212; judges are asked to judge each game after no more than two hours of play, finished or not, and the competitors know this.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;ll be devoting a large portion of my gaming hours to this for a while, <del>and not blogging about it until the judging period is over, as that would be against the rules.  So I don&#8217;t know how much I&#8217;ll be posting during that time.  Maybe I&#8217;ll make another go at <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> between comp games or something.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATE 3 October 2007]<\/strong> Correction to the above: the rule against discussing games in a public forum before the judging period is over has been relaxed somewhat this year.  Judges are now allowed to publish discussion of the entries as long as they &#8220;[m]ake appropriate allowances to hide spoilers, and don&#8217;t put spoilers in titles of posts or blog entries.&#8221;  Now that I know this, I shall do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of the people who read this blog are already aware of this, but: the judging period of the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is now open, and lasts until November 15. You can be a judge, and if you&#8217;ve never judged the comp before, I encourage you to give it a whirl. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,53,182],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if","tag-if","tag-ifcomp","tag-ifcomp-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}