by Duncan_B » Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:07 pm
Gather 'round, ghasts and ghouls... do you hear a whisper in the chill wind this October night? Does the mewling of a black cat or the sight of a stranger in shadow seem more suspicious now than ever? Across the world, a terrible magick is in the air, the ghost of wicked deeds and monsters most mortifying, which will grow again into a three-hour scream the ancients knew as... ECTOCOMP!
Ectocomp, Interactive Fiction's Official Hallowe'en Speed-IF, is a competition for Hallowe'en-themed works written in three hours on any platform to terrify and delight the tortured minds all who dare speak its name. This year J.J. Guest returns from his dark tower to the mortal realm, that he might oversee this darkest of IF rituals. Summon your tales of the weird and the wicked, the funny and the fatal, all are welcome!
The DEADline for entries will be October 30th at midnight, so that audiences might witness these horrors on Hallowe'en. The length of the judging period will be determined by the number of victims-- I mean, entries we receive.
Authors may feel free to sacrifice more than one gruesome game, but no more than three. As has been determined in previous incarnations of the Ectocomp spirit, an author may spend as much time as he or she wishes in preparation for their three-hour fest of fear, but once your developer (whatever you use) is opened, start the clock. Your three hours also need not be consecutive.
Let the terror of Ectocomp 2012 begin!