Thanks to the people who’ve bid so far on my auction on custom IF: I’m thrilled that it’s been more successful than I had anticipated.
However, I’ve received some email from people disappointed that they were priced out of the auction and asking if I could make something else available as well. Multiples of that particular item are unfortunately beyond me because of the time commitment involved, but I have posted a couple of other smaller and more distributable items:
— source to one of my old games for which source is not publicly available (Galatea, Metamorphoses,
Savoir-Faire, Mystery House Possessed, Floatpoint); starting bid $5.
— light customization of one of my recent games for your personal amusement, or a cameo appearance in my WIP. Three such are available; starting bid $10, and the top three bidders will receive this item.
Silly stuff, I know, but perhaps it will amuse someone.
The cause is to help defray the medical expenses of someone who urgently needs heart surgery and cardiac rehab, and has no insurance. If you decide to bid, please note the instructions on bidding and payment. Auctions close at October 10, 2009, Saturday, 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 
Are the source codes to Pytho’s Mask and City of Secrets publicly available?
(The reason I ask is that those are the two games I would be most likely to bid on. I’ll probably bid on something else if they are not part of this bidding, but I wanted to make sure you didn’t simply leave them out because you thought there would be no interest in them.)
Pytho’s Mask I do have, so I’ve added that to the list and you can bid on it if you want.
City of Secrets, I discovered I couldn’t find all the files of when I was doing an inventory of my hard drive last night for this purpose. So hrm. It’s almost certainly *somewhere* — on one of my older computers, if nowhere else — but that may mean, e.g., in my parents’ garage. So I don’t want to list it because I’m not sure I can easily lay my hands on it.
I’d like to bid $10 for a cameo! That sounds like fun.
Cool, and thanks — but you need to put your bid on the auction thread (here: http://community.livejournal.com/care_faith_hope/25505.html ).
Done and done. It was unclear where to bid because I’m an idiot.
Nah, I could’ve been clearer. Sorry about that.
If I bid on a cameo, can I give it away as a prize in my IF 2009 Pool?
I don’t know exactly what you’re planning for the pool and hope whatever it is is okay by the comp organizers, but I’ve no objection to this being a transferable prize.