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It's December!

That means you have the rest of this month to send in an entry to the First Annual Lime/Coconut IF MiniComp! Right now, while a number of people have expressed interest only a few have sent actual entries in.

WHAT THAT MEANS IF YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT ENTERING:

It means you have less competition than you may have been previously expecting! How exciting for you! If you haven't started yet, you can probably do something pretty cool in a month. It's possible that you will be a little distracted due to the various holidays taking place around this time of year, but even so I have faith in you, hypothetical person! Get going!

WHAT IT MEANS IF YOU HAVE ALREADY ENTERED:

If I don't get more people participating, then as promised in the original announcement the contest will be called off and no prize will be awarded. I will re-announce the contest at some later date and notify you via email, and you can let me know if you want to re-enter. Your code will not be used or released in any way if there's no contest. The details of the contest are not guaranteed to remain exactly the same when re-announced, but are highly likely to do so.

WHAT IT MEANS IF YOU WEREN'T PLANNING ON ENTERING ANYWAY:

Nothing, really. You can just carry on with your day. But hey, since you're reading this there must be some small spark of interest. Think it over again, this time remembering that the odds are (at least for the moment) pretty favorable. I mean, yeah, it won't be determined by random so it's not just about how many people entered but don't sell yourself short! You're talented and have good ideas, you can totally compete with the others!

WHAT IT MEANS IF YOU ARE A LIME AND/OR A COCONUT:

It's a pretty safe bet to say that if you are a lime or a coconut you can't read, or even ask someone to read this to you. In fact, most studies indicate that neither limes nor coconuts have brains and wouldn't be able to comprehend or participate in this contest. Although coconuts do have some things in common with mammals. I mean, they have fur (of a sort) and produce milk (of a sort). Anyway, I remain fairly confident that what is needed here is a central nervous system (of a sort). And even then, not all things with brains are up to the task. Lemurs, for example, make terrible text adventures. Always a "guess-the-verb" situation with those guys.

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The Rest of Your Mice

It's official!

There aren't enough people in the contest. That's okay! This is still a thing. I'm trying to decide the timeline for the next iteration of the contest, which will be essentially identical to this one. I don't want to give too much or too little time, or have it overlap too much with other contests.

Any entries submitted thus far will not be released in any way. They can be resubmitted when the contest goes live again, either with a fresh version or a “hey, remember that entry? Yeah, that.” if you want me to just search through my Gmail and use the old version.

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The Rest of Your Mice