Spring Thing is an annual online festival celebrating new interactive fiction from all kinds of people.
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Congratulations to the winners of Spring Thing 2023:
Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook, and
Protocol by 30x30
These awards and the audience awards are visible at springthing.net/2023/play.ht…, where the games can also be played.
Thanks to everyone who participated! See yall next year!
A round of applause to Amanda Walker for "Fairest," and Agnieszka Trzaska for "The Bones of Rosalinda," the two Best In Show ribbon recipients of this year's festival of debut interactive fiction!
springthing.net/2022/play.ht…
ALT Cover art for The Bones of Rosalinda showing the title with bone and pawprint icons.
ALT Cover art for Fairest showing an enchanted forest and a shattered mirror reflecting a female face.
We're delighted to announce that the 2022 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction, featuring 47 new playable stories written in Adventuron, Bitsy, Dendry, Inform, Kreate, Perplexity, Ren'Py, Squiffy, Strand, and Twine, is now open! springthing.net/2022/play.ht…
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One month left to submit your intents to enter Spring Thing '22 (the deadline's March 1st). We want your interactive fiction, hypertext stories, choice-based narratives & text game experiments!
springthing.net/2022/submit.…
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Announcing the 2022 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction, celebrating new text games from all kinds of people. Authors can submit intents to enter starting today, with games due at the end of March. We can't wait to see what ideas you're growing!
springthing.net/2022/
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An Amical Bet, by Eve Cabanié - new interactive fiction #Quest #funny
"You’re Svetlana Asimov, a famous thief, and you’re chilling at a party with your partner Jodie. But boredom is never far away, and she decides to spice up a little your night."
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Baggage, by Katherine Farmar - new interactive fiction #Inform #psychological #semiAbstract #inGameHints #multipleEndings
"An exploration of stuckness, change, and the things we can’t let go."
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A Blank Page, by @creativwhisper - new interactive fiction #Twine
"A short story about creative block and the impostor syndrome."
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Blue November, by @furn - new interactive fiction #Twine #gameInAGame #university #wargame #paloma
"Four groups of university students play a cyber wargame on local election security."
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Budacanta, by @lacanta - new interactive fiction #RenPy #travel #sliceOfLife #autobiographical #choiceBasedInterface #containsTutorial #puzzleless #politeDifficulty #exploration
"Seek Szilvia on a boundary-testing voyage of discovery across Europe."
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Copper Canyon, by @tonypisculli - new interactive fiction #Ink #ya #western #violence
"After disaster strikes a small mining town in the Old West, it falls to a handful of brave teens to reclaim their home from bandits."
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Cycles (Excerpt), by Mike Marttila - new interactive fiction #Ink #storyRich #fantasy #magic
"Miranda finds herself drawn back to her grandmother’s old home for a family reunion..."
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Eleanor, by Rob - new interactive fiction #Windows #surreal #hasSounds #hasGraphics #puzzleGame #internalWalkthrough
"A tribute to The Beatles. A souls game."
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Excalibur, by @JJGUEST_IF @ @grimoirtua & Duncan Bowsman - new interactive fiction #Twine #hasGraphics #hypertext #scienceFiction
"The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans."
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