ZIL Comp (tangent from Hugo Open House Comp 2012 reviews)
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:57 am
Last year, the ZIL-curious among us agreed to postpone a ZIL comp until sometime this year. Well, I have both good news and bad news about that.
With how fast the year is flying by and the state of my own projects, I can't say I would ever have gotten around to setting up a proper ZIL comp. That said, I was recently informed that the "@ party demo scene" convention still has an IF category:
http://atparty-demoscene.net/competitions/
I think such a setting calls for old-school games, so piggybacking onto that might be a good way to get our ZIL-writing out of the way. The deadline for this year's games is June 10th, which I think is too close to start making a big deal about it now, but if anybody wants to write something, well, great. Then, next year, we can give several months' notice and make a big deal.
While most (if not all) won't be at the convention itself, at least we'd have the assurance that people are checking out what we have written. Another perk is that they are specifically looking for games that take 5-10 minutes to get through, so it wouldn't be a big obligation on our part.
Anyhow, I think @ party sounds like a good idea, but there are also other competitions we can piggyback onto. For instance, there's that Saugus.net (some city in MA, I think) Halloween IF contest. I believe it only accepts z-code games, but hey, ZIL -> z-code!
With how fast the year is flying by and the state of my own projects, I can't say I would ever have gotten around to setting up a proper ZIL comp. That said, I was recently informed that the "@ party demo scene" convention still has an IF category:
http://atparty-demoscene.net/competitions/
I think such a setting calls for old-school games, so piggybacking onto that might be a good way to get our ZIL-writing out of the way. The deadline for this year's games is June 10th, which I think is too close to start making a big deal about it now, but if anybody wants to write something, well, great. Then, next year, we can give several months' notice and make a big deal.
While most (if not all) won't be at the convention itself, at least we'd have the assurance that people are checking out what we have written. Another perk is that they are specifically looking for games that take 5-10 minutes to get through, so it wouldn't be a big obligation on our part.
Anyhow, I think @ party sounds like a good idea, but there are also other competitions we can piggyback onto. For instance, there's that Saugus.net (some city in MA, I think) Halloween IF contest. I believe it only accepts z-code games, but hey, ZIL -> z-code!