PrologueComp
| PrologueComp | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Organiser | David Samuel Myers |
| Event dates | |
| Event begins | 26 Apr 2001 |
| Submissions due | 28 May 2001 |
| Results announced | 9 Jun 2001 |
| Results | |
| Winner | You: Tense, Ill |
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PrologueComp was a minicomp organized by David Samuel Myers in 2001. Entries were meant to be the prologue/first screen/intro/before-the-author-credit text from a hypothetical game and had to be 2001 bytes or less. Of the motivation for the comp, Myers wrote:
The purpose of holding this contest is partly to address some questions that have bubbling around in my head for a while. While the following were not explicitly set as criteria for use in judging the entries, they can be seen as "thought questions" or just the spirit of P-Comp.
- What makes a good prologue good?
- Or: put a different way- What make the best kind of "hooks" for prologues?
- What defines where the preamble/prologue ends and where the rest of the game/story begins?
- How does the opening text relate, in a literary sense, to the rest of a work of interactive fiction?
- Let's say I have 50+ comp games in front of me and no time to play them all. I open one up and read its prologue. I ask myself: Has it hooked me? Do I want to play the rest of this game?
More cynically, the motivation of P-comp is to serve as one more link in a nice list of non-comp activities which have gleefully made this year's "off season" a lot more fun.
The judges for the comp were Paul O'Brian, Nick Montfort, Dennis Jerz, Robb Sherwin, Digby McWiggle, and David Myers.
Links
- Official website
- Rules
- R*IF threads:
- {ANNOUNCE} PrologueComp - April 26, 2001.
- {PrologueComp} Clarification - May 7, 2001.
- PrologueComp results - June 9, 2001.
Reviews
- Reviews: 1 and 2 by Dennis Jerz.
- Reviews by John Kean (Digby McWiggle).
- Reviews by Nick Montfort.
- Reviews by David Samuel Myers.
- Reviews by Paul O'Brian.
- Reviews by Robb Sherwin.