This page is just some ramblings about the idea of running an AIF competition similar to what is held every year in the regular IF community. They also hold mini-competitions, sometimes several in a year. I'm thinking that if we do decide to go ahead with this idea, we should go with a small minicomp first.
Ok, so what sort of limitations would there be on this minicomp? The regular comp games have a limitation that they should be able to be finished in two hours or less. I think for our first comp, we should aim for about half of that. So games submitted for the AIF minicomp should be finishable in about an hour, give or take a little leeway of course.
Should there be a size limitation? Well, to fit into the above timeframe, I'd say a small game grid, most likely one area with a dozen locations or less.
Any limitation on objects or actors? Hell no, if we are going to do this you'll need to be able to add in all sorts of gadgets, people, toys, actions, and bagels. Yeah, there we go, every game will have to have bagels in it! OK, so I'm just being silly here, we'll save bagel sex for some other competition.
When to hold this competition. Well that's a good question that we'll all have to give some input on. It would probably be a good idea not to have it run concurrent with the IF Comp, although I've heard most people in this group don't play IF Comp games, I'm sure there are a few lurkers here that do. We'll see what happens with this one.
Another closely related question is how long will the programming period be? How long will we have to put these games together before we cut off and start the judging? I think the IF Comp is a couple of months. There are people who work on Comp games over the entire year to enter the next year. *shrug* We'll figure something out.
Who judges the games? This one is a bit more tricky than the IF Comp, there are less of us to do the judging. At a minimal, I'd say that everybody can judge. The only limitation on this is the obvious, you can't judge your own entry. Heck, we might find we've got people crawling out of the woodwork to do judging for us once this gets going.
These are just a few rambling ideas about the whole idea of a competition for AIF. The reality of it might change drastically between this writing and anything that comes from it. If you've got some comments about any of this, hit the feedback page and let me know.