IFcomp2010 – Dhakajack

IF Comp 2012 – J’Dal

This work has been released into the public domain by its author, ???? at the Japanese Wikipedia project. — What’s Dal without Bhat?

From the first few paragraphs, I thought J’Dal was a piece about the early civil rights era set in the American South.

I was wrong on that account.

But first, a break to avoid spoilers.

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IF Comp 2010 is open and it looks like it will be an amazing year. My plan is to play through a few games at a time, say five, with transcript on, taking notes, and to complete Conrad Cook’s surveys right after each game. These surveys are not the basis for my scoring of games, but they address at least some of the criteria that I consider in rating a game, and I think they’ll provide some useful feedback for authors. As I complete each bunch of games, I’ll write them up on the blog and the move on to the next handful of games.