What better way to spend Oct 31 than to walk through the dark streets, moving quickly to avoid the stares of beast and men (women?) alike … hiding your true self behind a mask as you gather your hoard of INTERACTIVE FICTION to consume upon returning to your shadowed lair?
ECTOCOMP 2017 submission period is over, and that means you, the reader, have an amazing set of SCARY IF to play!
And for any Spanish speakers here, don’t forget to check out the entries to this year’s ECTOCOMP: Español Edition as well! https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp17lpm-sp
I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who’s contributed - this year’s lineup is fantastic, thanks to all of you!
Go! Play! Enjoy! Vote!
IF YOU DARE!!!
ps. There is one late entry coming very shortly, just FYI. Last-minute technical difficulties are a horrible reason to miss out on the fun!
La venganza, forta Vale, voy - Johan Paz En la oscuridad, Dark Mike Cinco divertidos juegos para Halloween, Santiago Eximeno Retratos sobre la Violencia Española, Ruber Eaglenest
Somos el espejo, Miguel Muñoz Martín Arkham Investigator, Delacannon
Don’t forget to make some nice comments on the games. Feedback would probably be very welcome to polish this gems. You can drop it here or in each comments section for each game at itchio.
Also, remember that you have just 6 days to play, judge and vote.
Minor note: the game pages linked above have the page set to an “almost black” text color on a black background. The game titles are unreadable unless you highlight them.
Do you mean the main Ectocomp pages on itch? They definitely hadn’t been intended to be unreadable!
Or did you mean individual games’ pages?
Edit: Never mind, I see what you mean! Don’t know why that text isn’t using the theme colors as per the rest of the jam page, but I’ve set the English sites to have a medium-tone grey for the time being so that hopefully it’s readable.
If things are still difficult to read, let me know and I’ll just overhaul! (Maybe msg me on Twitter if you can?)
Can anyone vote on these games? I noticed on my entry, it says: “This is your own project, you are not allowed to rate it. Other participants of the jam will be able to rate your project here.” Which makes it sound like only participants can vote. I assume the ratings on itch.io are what count as votes.
Is that on the actual competition pages for the games?
It looks like there’s two types of ratings. My game says it has 3 ratings on its jam page, but it only has 1 on its game page. make build --deity says it has 4 on its jam page, but it has 0 on its game page. YOUR PARTY IS DEAD has 3 on both pages.
I probably just don’t understand how the website works…
I was able to vote on a jam page that wasn’t my game. On the main jam page with all the listings in boxes it has a banner on it that says “voted”.
Of course anyone should be able to vote on the main game page for any game with itch.io’s normal star ratings. I’d assume those don’t figure for the jam voting, but for the games natural score on the site.
Yeah, my worry is that other people might leave star ratings that don’t count as jam votes, but they’ll think they left a jam vote. Maybe that won’t happen.