The QuestComp organiser is Evan Williams. The competition is being set up and can be discussed in the QuestComp forum thread.
To declare your intent to enter or to submit an entry, please email Evan directly.
Update 18th March 2013: £££ Prize Money! £££ Many thanks to Phillip Zolla for sponsoring a first prize of £100.
Now over to Evan to explain the rules…
Welcome to QuestComp 2013, the very first Quest exclusive IF competition! With v5.4 (beta) up and running, Quest has more to offer designers than ever, like scripts for gamebooks, a new text processor, and script specific code viewing. So, join the adventure, and be a Questing hero!
Competition Overview
The primary goal of authors entering the competition (aside from making a quality game) is to use the features and capabilities of Quest in exciting and innovative ways.
Since IF is a text-based game medium, good writing is key to a good game. So, there is also a creative theme (Plague), to inspire and challenge your writing skills. Details are in the “Rules For Entrants And Submissions” section, below.
Like the classic hero, your reward will be honor, respect and glory. Fortune smiles upon thee! There is also no entrance fee.
Dates
March 31: Deadline for declaring intent to enter
I also ask that anyone interested in judging please volunteer by this date, as I will be using the ratio of entrants to judges in finalizing both the game length and judging period, should they need to be changed.
May 31: Deadline for submitting finished games
June 31: Date for completion of judging
This date may be extended after entrants and judges have been counted.
NOTE: To allow for time-zone differences, exact cut-off for deadlines is 12 noon GMT (8am EDT) of the following day.
Rules For Entrants And Submissions
With the exception of beta testing (which is strongly encouraged), entrants are not to discuss the contents of their game with anyone until after judging is completed and a winner is announced.
Features
It is recommended that you test how well your game works when played online - you can upload a game to the site and set visibility to “unlisted” for testing.
Rules For Judges
All rules, dates, terms, and conditions are subject to change with the exception of the creative theme and feature choices. All changes will be clearly noted here, and entrants will be directly notified of any changes made after March 31.
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