vivdunstan: Art work for the IF Archive including traditional text adventure tropes like a map, lamp, compass, key, rope, books a skull, and a sigh referring to grues (interactive fiction)
vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2025-09-01 05:38 pm

IFComp 2025 opens

IFComp 2025 is now open for judging. There are 85 new interactive fiction games and stories in there. Free to play. Judging runs until October 15th.

This year the UK's Online Safety Act and very recent developments in it have posed considerable challenges to the IFComp organisers and IFTF folks. They have navigated their way through it as best as they can. But currently 24 of the 85 games are geoblocked to all UK players. Until a few days ago it was going to be all 85 ...

More details of the approach taken are in the IFComp blog at https://blog.ifcomp.org