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Unfortunately, no entries were submitted to the minicomp this year.
I did create a game for the minicomp myself, but it is not possible to run a competition with only a single game, so there will be no voting this year. I will make this game available to play here:
It is intended to be a tiny open world sandbox game written in a boardgame-style.
There's two weeks until the suggested minicomp submission deadline of November 1st. Are there any authors working on submissions for the minicomp? Do you need more time? If so, just post a comment in the post, and the submission deadline can be extended as needed.
Update (10/16/22): The minicomp submission deadline is extended to November 15.
I'm Max Ingram, indie developer behind the new text-based, adult title Sanctuary in Time.
The AIF minicomp is back! The minicomp is a mini-competition of small adult text-based games. Make a game, submit it to the minicomp, and the AIF community will play them and judge them.
This year, the minicomp will use a relaxed set of rules:
The purpose of the rules is to make it easier for authors to create games by disallowing complicated interactive sex scenes. During sex scenes, players cannot be presented with any choices over what happens and players cannot be allowed to issue any commands. Before a sex scene starts, players can be given choices about what will happen, but once it begins, players should not be able to influence or interact with the scene until it ends. This restriction means that authors do not need to design any sex mechanics for their games, and they do not need to use any special sex engines or sex frameworks in creating their games.
Although games with multimedia and graphics are generally not allowed, if your game requires graphical or audio elements as part of its interface, such elements are acceptable.
Over the years, the AIF community has gathered in many different places, such as BBSes, the alt.games.xtrek newsgroup, various forums, Discord and Reddit. For many years, the AIF community was primarily hosted by the Yahoo! Groups AIF Archive, and lot of discussion, game hints, and files were hosted there. Unfortunately, when Yahoo! Groups was shut down by Verizon, all of those resources were lost. In order to preserve some of that history, here are archives of the AIF Yahoo! Groups:
The AIF Archive 2 was a secondary Yahoo! Group used to store overflow files that couldn't be stored at the main AIF Archive due to quota limits
These archives are compressed using 7-zip format, so you will require 7-zip to decompress them. Online file hosting is often unreliable, so if you find alternate hosts of these archives, let me know so that I can link to them.
