Saturday 27 August 2022

2022 Minicomp Announcement: Minicomp Romp

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:

  1. No interactive sex scenes are allowed. Non-interactive sex scenes are allowed in the game, and there are no restrictions on the number or content of these non-interactive sex scenes
  2. No multimedia or graphics are allowed
  3. The game must be winnable (or at least it must have an ending that the player can reach)
  4. No playable part of your game can have been previously released to the public before August 25

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.

Archives of Yahoo! Groups AIF Archive

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:

AIF Archive

Messages

Files

Internet Archive

AIF Archive 2

Messages

Files

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.