Spring Thing

El festival de Ficción Interactiva de Primavera ya tiene disponible todos los juegos de este año. 33 en total. Sigue a la cuenta oficial para informarte de este esencial evento: 👀👇

Not sure how many people are still using Twitter, but I'd like to announce that the games for Spring Thing 2024 have arrived! There are 33 exciting games, and we've added a special third category this year! springthing.net/2024/play.html

El festival de Ficción Interactiva de primavera se ha anunciado:

If you're feeling sad about there being only three days to go before IFComp ends, or if playing all these games has inspired you to become an IF author yourself, then this is the (spring) thing to look forward to!

Announcing the 2024 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. Can't wait to see what ideas you're growing! springthing.net/2024

Hello, everyone, and happy (slightly belated) July! That date means a new Interactive Fiction Competition season has arrived. More information at blog.ifcomp.org/post/721782049…

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.html, where the games can also be played. Thanks to everyone who participated! See yall next year!

Ribbon nominations are now open for this year's festival! Vote for your favorites for Best In Show or create your own Audience Award. Find out how to play and nominate this year's crop of new text games: springthing.net/2023/play.html

The SF Bay Interactive Fiction Meetup is meeting in a hybrid in-person/Zoom event, Sat Apr 8 at 1pm Pacific! meetup.com/sf-bay-area-in… We'll play the new @SpringThingFest games that just came out this week!

We're delighted to announce that the 2023 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction, featuring 26 new playable stories written in Adventuron, Google Forms, Inform, Ink, Python, Strand, TADS, and Twine, is now open! springthing.net/2023/play.html

Spring Thing authors! An email should have gone out with instructions on how to submit your game. Please contact us if you have any questions. Final submissions are due at midnight, Apr 2nd, in your local time zone. Good luck to all authors!

All Spring Thing participants, you should have just now received an email with further instructions. If you registered an intent and have not received an email, please let me know!

If you enjoy interactive fiction and would like to support those authors who make great games for Spring Thing, donating prizes is a great way to show your appreciation.

Spring Thing is looking for prize donations! In lieu of cash prizes, we are looking for fun little prizes that are fun or memorable for participants. Steam keys and copies of books are especially popular options. More details are available here: intfiction.org/t/looking-for-…

Announcing the 2023 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/2023/

A note: there will be a Spring Thing 2023, but the website will likely not go up for a few more months. New seeds sometimes take a while to sprout!

Did you see that NarraScope tickets are now officially on sale? We haven't announced the schedule yet (very soon!), but if you want to be part of this awesome event and network with narrative-minded colleagues, get your ticket now! eventbrite.com/e/narrascope-2…

Please join me in also congratulating all 47 of this year's authors, who brought their playable stories to the finish line in a challenging year. The Thing was honored to host your premieres!

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.html