So, IFComp is underway again. I've set up this blog for reviews and maybe for other IF stuff I might come up with later on.

Initial impressions from the blurbs:

A new game by Eric Eve should be good as always. I'm expecting it to reach the top 3. Other works that look interesting are Broken Legs, The Hangover, The Duel in the Snow, Eruption, The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man and Rover's Day Out. Some for which I'm having serious doubts already are zork, buried chaos (exclamation marks and no capitals are suspicious) and Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort (ye faux olde Englishe nay bode well, even though it can be done well) but these are fortunately the only two that jump out, and of course I might be mistaken about them.

Seems to be a lot of traditional cave exploring and treasure hunting this year. Two games start with the player character having a hangover. Three with the word "quest" in the title. Two CYOAs and the other has the only homebrewn parser. No TADS games.

There are a lot of similar themes and names. This is the longest chain of names could find: The Grand Quest → Spelunker's Quest → Snowquest → The Duel in the Snow → The Duel that Spanned the Ages.

Coming up: A rating table and the reviews.