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SeedComp! (2023) is separated into 2 distinct rounds: Planting and Sprouting. You can take part in either or both.

The first round runs from Dec 7th, 2022 to Jan 7th, 2023, the second from Jan 9th, 2023 to March 1st, 2023.

All indicated deadlines are set to midnight UTC -10/HST time. (Don’t worry, itch.io translates it to your local time automatically.)

Round 1: Planting (Sign up HERE!)

During the 1st Round, Planting, you are invited to submit 'seeds' into the competition. These seeds can be absolutely anything, from game introductions, pieces of art, blurbs, design documents, puzzles, poems, characters, I7 extensions, settings, feelies, or even code!

You can submit:

As many 'seeds' as you'd wish.
Unfinished IF projects, only if you are the author of said entries.
NSFW seeds as long as content warnings are included.

Other guidelines:

Seeds must be your own creation and licensed under a CC BY-NC license, CC-BY license or equivalent, or a less restrictive license.
All seeds must be downloadable.
While there is no minimum word count for static text seeds (like blurbs/intros), we encourage you to submit more than just one sentence.
All seeds will be screened by the organizers for trolling/abuse.
Seeds may be updated or changed up to the January 7th, 2023 deadline.

If your seed is not selected during this edition of the SeedComp!, you may choose to keep it in the seedbank and make it available for future editions until it is used.

Round 2: Sprouting (Sign up HERE!)

During the 2nd Round, Sprouting, you may declare your intent to nurture one or more seeds into an interactive fiction entry of your own design.

Discussion of seeds is encouraged in both our Discord and the Community Tab.

Submission Guidelines:

All entries must be Interactive Fictions.
All entries must be completed games. While there is no requirement in length, a reasonable target is about 15-30 minutes to play.
All entries must be based on at least one seed from Round 1. You may choose to incorporate more or even all of the seeds if you wish to.
- The entries must follow the licensing type of the most restrictively licensed seed used (indicated on the seed page).
All entries must indicate the seeds used in their submission form.
Seed use is not exclusive to one person; multiple people can sign up for the same seed. There is no 'dibs'.
You may use your own seed from Round 1.
- While you are encouraged to use your seed in conjunction with someone else's, you may choose to use only your own seed. This does, however, go against the spirit of SeedComp! and thus your submission won’t be eligible for awards.
Content Warnings must be displayed when submitting the entry.

You can also opt out of receiving awards on your own when submitting. Organizers may submit entries but are not eligible to receive awards (they can accept stickers if so inclined).

We encourage you to provide a downloadable copy of your entry on your game page, for accessibility purposes.

Possible Software to create Interactive Fiction:

Twine
Bitsy
Ren'Py
Ink
ChoiceScript
PunyInform
Inform 6
Inform 7
Adventuron
ADRIFT
and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

Playing and Voting for Awards

All Sprouting entries will be made available to play shortly after Round 2 ends.

Unless opted-out, every entry is eligible for Awards. Awards are titles set by the organizers (such as Best Overall, Best UI, Best Puzzle, etc...).

However, every entry can also be nominated for Stickers, which are unique awards submitted by voters for a specific entries (often fun or silly, i.e. Evilest Cat, Most Unexpected Kitchen Appliance Fatality, Least Helpful Tour Guide, etc...).

Note: All stickers will be screened by the organizers for trolling/abuse.

Separate awards will also be awarded to the seeds themselves, such as Most signed-up Seed, or Most Finished Entries for a Seed, etc...

You will be able to vote for Awards and submit Stickers starting March 2nd/3rd, 2023 until March 31st, 2023 through this form [LINK TBA].

The results will be released early April of 2023.