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My game The Warbler's Nest tied for 9th place (of 26 entries) in this year's IFComp, which wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. I am quite pleased with this outcome; it was a very strong year, and the games in slots 1 through 9.5 all had it coming. Furthermore, nearly all the entries have something to recommend them; there were arguably no utter-garbage games this year, quite unusual in the comp's 16-year history.

I mention this now because I have just released the "post-comp" version of Warbler, which fixes all the bugs and integrates many of the stylistic critiques offered to me by its many players and reviewers. I consider this version its "1.0" release: I will continue to welcome feedback and bug reports, and quietly release fixed versions, but do not plan on any further significant changes to the game.

You can play, download, or just read more about the game at its homepage: http://jmac.org/warbler. Enjoy!
prog: (galaxians)
Hello friends,

I am pleased to announce that the 16th annual Interactive Fiction competition is now underway, and that I have an entry in it: a short work of horror fiction called The Warbler's Nest.

Competition judging is open to all, so if you have an interest in (or a curiosity about) interactive text games, I'd very much appreciate it if you played and rated this years' entrants by the mid-November deadline. Please visit http://ifcomp.org/ to play the games and learn how to judge them. (You don't have to play all the games to rate them, but the rules do hold you to rating at least five games, if you rate any at all.)

This year looks like a pretty solid comp, actually, so if you haven't judged the comp before -- or haven't in several years -- now's probably a good time to get into it.

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