{"id":277,"date":"2013-11-17T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-11-17T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:57:22","slug":"ifcomp-2013-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/17\/ifcomp-2013-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2013 is OVER."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINISHED. <a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\/comp13\/results.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the results.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winning game,\u00a0<em>Coloratura,<\/em> definitely deserves its victory and its .41-point margin over the second-place game. If you haven&#8217;t played it yet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\/comp13\/play.php?id=305\" target=\"_blank\">you have got to get on that.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am very proud of the second-place game, and I&#8217;m immensely grateful to Emily Boegheim for all the hard work and genius she contributed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also very glad and kind of astonished that my other game got fourth place. If you look at the statistics,\u00a0<em>Captain Verdeterre<\/em>\u00a0beat\u00a0<em>Tex Bonaventure<\/em> by only a hundredth of a point, and\u00a0<em>Tex<\/em> beat\u00a0<em>Solarium<\/em> by the same tiny margin. A very serious and interesting game was edged out by two very goofy games by a very narrow margin. You ought to give\u00a0<em>Solarium<\/em> a look is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>With 35 games in the running, one will naturally expect some games that are not that great, but a lot\u00a0<em>a lot<\/em> of these games are quality pieces of work that deserve your attention.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\/comp13\/info.php\" target=\"_blank\">Go ahead and direct your attention to these games.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on releasing the source code from both games I worked on, and I have some words and thoughts about\u00a0<em>Captain Verdeterre<\/em>\u00a0to broadcast, and maybe I could stand to pretty up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/interactive-fiction\/\">this page<\/a>\u00a0a bit, and now this post has become a checklist purely for my own benefit. This post is OVER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINISHED. Here are the results. The winning game,\u00a0Coloratura, definitely deserves its victory and its .41-point margin over the second-place game. If you haven&#8217;t played it yet\u00a0you have got to get on that. I am very proud of the second-place game, and I&#8217;m immensely grateful to Emily Boegheim for all the hard work and genius she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-adventures","category-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}