Just a quick note that since it’s the start of September, IFComp 2024 is on.
For the old-school type readers, only 20 of them are parser this time, although it does include a explicitly Zork-based game. Also the return of C.E.J. Pacian with a survival horror game.
One thing I didn’t comment on last year but I should note — there is allowed the use of artificial intelligence in cover art. The rules require they be labeled (although it is 100% obvious which ones are using it, they have all the same bizarro glossy sheen). Note well, please — this is the one sort of competition where it is totally OK to scrawl something out in Microsoft Paint. It will have much more soul. I’m sure you mean well and I’m not holding it against anyone, but still please consider if you enter in the future to simply not include a piece of cover art. It’ll be fine!
There’s a thread about the issue here at intfic.
Renga in Blue 
Kind of looks like Scott Adams in the lower right…
“A voice BOOOOMS out: Welcome to the Universe!”
A spoilery very general hint for A few hours later in the day of The Egocentric, since I got frustrated by this and had to look at the walkthrough:
Guvf vf n gel-naq-qvr tnzr, lbh ner rkcrpgrq gb hfr vasbezngvba sebz bar cynlguebhtu gb pbafgehpg lbhe jvaavat cynlguebhtu. Jura vg uvtuyvtugf gur “erfgneg” ohggba, nygubhtu lbh pnaabg jva va guvf cynlguebhtu, lbh znl unir tnvarq vasbezngvba sbe gur bar lbh arrq. (Be abg, V qvqa’g dhvgr xrrc genpx orpnhfr V jnf nffhzvat vg jnf abg guvf jnl.)
Come to think of it, I guess the blurb tried to convey the thing that I was rot13ing, but the phrasing is ambiguous IMO.