Since I’m about to complain, let me first prove that’s not all I ever do around here.
This Comp is phenomenal! There are a lot of great games, even for a parser-only guy like me.
I know I’m a curmudgeon (though not the only one) for wanting to play IF on my own computer–not online, not with javascript and tracking cookies and all the annoying crap.
I know the bulk of the community is focused on online play.
But I think it’s still important to be clear and accurate.
Here’s what I’ve noticed on the Comp website:
Eat Me is listed as “Format: Web” even though it’s actually Glulx. Fake News is listed as “Format: Web” even though it’s actually TADS 3.
Also, the “Download” link for My night downloads a page that’s just a link to a website. Maybe that’s common practice nowadays, but I fer one am agin it. There really shouldn’t be download links for games that can’t be played offline.
Fake News is available in both formats as a standalone game for traditional interpreter and also as a webplay. Download and Play online buttons side by side
It’s automated; Mike had to work really hard to set up the TADS 3 website, and Ifcomp.org can’t recognise it automatically because no one had done it before; he had to out an index.html file in and redirect to the TADS 3 page.
Chandler’s game is intentionally modified to provide a more tailored web experience, so it breaks the automatic recognition.
So Jason Mcintosh would probably have to manually change the display somehow.
