The video footage that you are going to watch is the property of GARHAM INDUSTRIES, pioneers of chrono-expeditions since 1878. This brief documentary piece, divided into two parts, corresponds to expedition 14, carried out in 1911 by the team of professor [deleted ]

Since the expeditions in the timeline do not allow to define in any way to which specific chronological point you want to travel, added to the very disturbing and extremely strange particularities of the destination of expedition number fourteen, it is impossible to specify in what year, or even time or approximate period, what happens in this footage is collected and you are going to see.

Expedición Nº14 by Dumaker

ECTOCOMP is an annual competition for interactive fiction celebrating the SPOOKY MONTH OF HALLOWEENTOBER. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Day of the Dead, All Saint's Eve, or just love ghost stories and creeping people out, this is your time to shine!

THE COMPETITION IS OVER, LET'S CHECK THE OFFICIAL RESULTS!

La Petite Mort - English

For those who want to speed-write their game in 4 hrs or less.

1st Place: The Enigma of the Old Manor House, by Daniel M. Stelzer
2nd Place: Untitled Ghost Game, by Damon L. Wakes
3rd Place: Something Blue, by E. Joyce
4th Place: Nightmares Within Nightmares, by Grahamw
5th Place: Starlight Shadows, by Autumn Chen
6th Place: BLACKOUT, by Playahead Games
7th Place: Buggy, by Mathbrush
8th Place: Cell 174, by Milo van Mesdag
9th Place: THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
10th Place: MARTYR ME, by Charm Cochran
11th Place: origin of love, by Sophia de Augustine
12th Place: ZIT, by Amanda Walker
13th Place: Zombie Eye, by Dee Cooke
14th Place: One More Page, by PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
15th Place: You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer, by Geoffrey Golden
16th Place: HSL Type Ω MEWP Certification Exam, by Duncan Bowsman
17th Place: There Those Dare Doze, by Andrew Schultz
18th Place: Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick, by Stewart C Baker
19th Place: Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy, by Caranmegil

Le Grand Guignol - English

For games that, for whatever reason, took longer than 4 hrs to write.

1st Place: The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato
2nd Place: The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
3rd Place: The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by manonamora and MelS
4th Place: God is in the Radio, by catsket
5th Place: Escape from Hell, by Nils Fagerburg
6th Place: The Sun Doesn't Shine Here, by Stanley W. Baxton
7th Place: Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire
8th Place: A Pumpkin, by fos1
9th Place: The Haunted Help Desk, by DSherwood
10th Place: Defrosted, by Riyadth
11th Place: Zombie Blast 2023, by Sam Ursu
12th Place: This Old Haunted House, by Jason Love
13th Place: You're In Deep, by Xuelder
14th Place: Nowheresville, by Morpheus Kitami and Cody Gaisser
15th Place: Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming, by Andrew Schultz
16th Place: Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)

This competition is for games done in English, French and Spanish. To make hosting the comp on itch.io work, we've split Ectocomp into three separate jam pages.

You are looking at the English ECTOCOMP jam page (use the link below to change language).

Visita la versión en Español aquí: --> ECTOCOMP 2022 Español

Veuillez visiter ECTOCOMP 2022 Français --> ICI

As per tradition, Ectocomp has two categories:

• La Petite Mort, for those who want to speed-write their game in 4 hrs or less
• Le Grand Guignol, for games that, for whatever reason, took longer than 4 hrs to write (perhaps a more thoughtful masterpiece? perhaps spent too much time writing GORY DETAILS?)

THE SUBTHEMES OR INSPIRATION PROMPTS

Additionally, here we have some optional subthemes or inspiration prompts to improve the diversity of topics and ambiances. But, feel free to ignore those and send whatever you want.

• Spooky adventure! That is, the common and loved usual ECTOCOMP games. Create a game destined to creep the hell out of players.
• Sweet supernatural. Yeah, your game can be supernatural, but maybe there is no need to be creepy. Maybe your ghosts and monsters are homies and sweet.
• Halloween fest. Base your game on the Halloween festivities, overall the activity of wear costumes and going out with friends doing the "trick or treat".
• Día de Los Muertos. Pay your tribute to the Mexican festivity. As Wikipedia says: "Day of the dead involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and helping support their spiritual journey." To celebrate Mexican folklore and mythology.
• All Saints', which commemorates the faithful departed. That is, an occasion to talk about how we miss the people we leave behind.
• All Souls' Eve, at the same time, the evening of All souls' is a special moment for some European countries to gather the family around the fire, eat sweet wheat porridge, and tell scary tales.
• Any other festivity or mythology around the world.

THE RULES

1. Games submitted for La Petite Mort should be written in 4 hours or less.
   1. Any time spent planning, thinking, doodling, researching, etc does not count.
   2. Any time spent writing words or code that end up in-game totally does count. 
      1. (With the exception of if you wrote game engine or library code in the past and now you're using it.)
      2. La petite mort games cannot be updated by any means.
      3. Less in the case you have a game-breaking bug, in that case, you are allowed to fix the bug to guarantee players can complete your game. But... remember, NO UPDATES!
2. Games submitted for Le Grand Guignol could have an indefinite amount of hours into its development. Either more than 4 hours or more than 1 week, even more than 1 month. And they can be updated to correct bugs or improve the present, but no additional content can be added during the competition.
3. Games should be recognizably "interactive fiction". (Comp admins are not here to police edge cases, but if your game isn't primarily text-based, why are you here?)
4. Games should be, y'know, spooky somehow. (Serious, psychological, campy, satire, etc. all included). Also, we have proposed some sub-themes, go and take a look at them. They are just up there!
5. The tradition is to work on the games during October, but you can start NOW to work on your game. The games should be available for 31 Oct, so we can enjoy them in the proper festivities.
6. The games should be original and previously unpublished. With the exception of localisations of previously unreleased games in the current competition language.
7. To participate properly, please choose the correct category for your game. And, please, select one of the main themes, just for taxonomy reasons.
8. ECTOCOMP is generally a light-hearted competition meant to have fun. If the objective of your game is to be directly offensive to any type of group or person, then you didn't understand ECTOCOMP and you shouldn't be here anyway.

Go forth and don't be cursed!

VOTES, FEEDBACK, AND COMMUNITY

To vote and participate as a jury, you must do so by giving between 1 to 5 stars on each entry page of the jam. The voting period ends on November 20.

Itchio doesn't allow to leave categories unvoted, so vote and judge the games just as normal. Later we'll make separate ranked lists with each category.

In addition to each entry page, each game has its own itchio homepage. It is somewhat confusing, but it is a way of distinguishing when a game belongs to a jam.

Receiving feedback from players is an essential part of participating in a competition about Interactive Fiction. Take the time to leave a kind comment for the authors to thank their participation and the good times with scary stuff. There are several places where the community can meet to discuss and comment on the works presented:

• Each page of each participant has a comment section enabled, here at itchio.
• In turn, on the main page of each game, you can leave comments but only if the author has enabled this section on the page of the game.
• In the intfiction.org forum of the English-speaking international community. This category includes the ECTOCOMP threads.
• In the CAAD forum, of the Spanish-speaking community. This way.
• Finally, you can talk live about the games in the Narrative Games Discord Server: https://discord.gg/YwMCbWa.
• The discord server for the community in Spanish is called Textualiza, invite link:  https://discord.gg/6cG4YAJ.

Have a terrific expedition!