I was listening to the part of John Zhu's (Chinese Lore Podcast) retelling of Journey to the West where this old monk covets a fancy garment the pilgrims had, so the whole monastery joins in on trying to burn the building to the ground with them inside to avoid having to give it back so... yeah.

Oh yeah, I tried for 5 or 6 hours; I just suck at it.

Heck yeah! I never got good enough to get anywhere with the original 10S but I still do a playthrough of Water's Fine every so often...

And hey, check out Drew Cook's post on the subject: golmac.org/your-opinion...

I don't have anything too groundbreaking I want to do but there are *so* many little usability things that I'd like to put together in one tool because I think they'd add up to something really special.

A few more notes and a full-size (spoilery!) version at joshgrams.com/2025/09/28/

Whereas in Boston you can be wandering around at 6:30 in the morning and end up in a half-hour conversation with the giant philosophy nerd who happens to be sweeping the sidewalks...

Yeah, lots of people debating whether to scale back or sit it out next year... or this year...

AFAICT they did not e-mail out the survey last year. Just on their blog and social media: blog.ifcomp.org and mastodon.gamedev.place/@IFComp and now on here, so follow those?

People could keep an eye out for the post-comp survey, if you would? I think a lot of us felt we'd loudly said the anti-AI stuff on the forums and skipped the survey (I won't make that mistake again) so... "only about 10 percent of respondents mentioned it." blog.ifcomp.org/post/7934982...