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!
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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.
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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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Eyewear Cleaner 2077: Demo, by @NaomiNorbez - new interactive fiction #Twine #sciFi #cyberpunk
"A response game to Cyberpunk 2077. Play as a glasses cleaner as they go on with their daily life, & spark within them feelings of rebellion."
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Fish & Dagger, by @theiceberge - new interactive fiction #Twine #spyAction #parody #existential #SAVEMIRVIL #graphicsAndSound #augmentedReality
"You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed..."
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Hand of God, by Dana Freitas - new interactive fiction #Twine #twine #puzzleless #violence #death #robot #religion #sciFi
"...Suddenly, the robots revolt, led by a religious fanatic believing a corrupted form of a dead belief system."
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Heroes!, by Bellamy Briks - new interactive fiction #Quest #hasGraphics #fantasy #manyEndings #comedy #supernatural #notManyPuzzles
"You are given the reins of 3 magical young adults. You could lead them to glory or to their doom...it’s all up to you."
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Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, by @mwahahavilah - new interactive fiction #Ink #hasGraphics #mouseControl #touchControl #mobileFriendly
"Right in the middle of the final climactic showdown... the connection suddenly goes out."
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Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier - new interactive fiction #Twine #humor #crime #alternateHistory
"Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia..."
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Manikin Demo, by @rosebehar - new interactive fiction #Twine #murderMystery #humor #branching #twine #chat #maritimes
"When your mom’s friend — an eccentric old man with a ‘manikin’ farm — dies in a fire, she decides to investigate."
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Mean Mother Trucker, by @bitterkarella - new interactive fiction #Inform #comedy #truckers #trucking
"Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road..."
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Medicum Veloctic, by @projectmarbles - new interactive fiction #Twine #graphicViolence #superhero #medical #romance
"The city’s hero: Veloctic. A man of great skill and great power..."
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Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks - new interactive fiction #Twine #comedy #reallyReallyCool #puzzleless #supernatural #highschoolSimulator
"A really popular kid is trying to find out the name of the mysterious girl that sits in the front of the class..."
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Misty Hills, by @KnightRamen - new interactive fiction #Twine #chill #easy #noPuzzles #potentialDeath
"Wait for a tram in a weird fantasy world."
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Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job, by Eric Crepeau - new interactive fiction #Twine #comedy #farce #dialogueChoices #punching #multipleEndings #puzzles
"Bluff your way through a job interview with the the weird CEO of a mysterious company..."
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Perihelion, by @TimAlanWhite - new interactive fiction #Twine #scienceFantasy #scenery #dreamlike #closeEncounters #poetic #puzzles
"What comets may come"
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Picton Murder Whodunnit, by Sia See - new interactive fiction #Strand #strand #speech #mystery
"Who shot Major Stephenson? ...I don’t know either because the villain changes for each game!"
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Project Arcmör, by @https://twitter.com/conmaned @https://twitter.com/pmjgross - new interactive fiction #Twine #sciFi #antiSurvival
"You were thrilled to be selected as one of StarQuorp’s colonizers. However, the experience is atypical."
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[PYG]MALION*, by C.J. - new interactive fiction #Twine #hasGraphics #mystery #surreal #narrativeDriven #exploration
"A story about you — The Murdered God — and your attempt to solve the mystery of your death in places beyond."
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Queenlash, by Kaemi Velatet - new interactive fiction #Twine #matureAudiences
"An interactive novel about the life of Cleopatra told from the perspectives of eight women."
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The Secret of Nara, by Ralfe Rich - new interactive fiction #Twine #sliceOfLife
"Matters of life from the viewpoint of a deer."
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So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest, by Anssi Raisanen - new interactive fiction #Inform
"The fate of the world could be in your hands, or then it could be just an innocent shopping list."
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Some Space, by rittermi - new interactive fiction #Twine #space #puzzles
"A story about immigrating...in space."
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Sovereign Citizens, by @laura_n_paul - new interactive fiction #Twine #housing
"A transient duo finds an abandoned mansion to camp out in, but comes to find many details of the estate inhospitable."
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Space Diner, by @martadendron - new interactive fiction #Python #sciFi #sim #food
"You run a diner and your customers are aliens with various dietary restrictions and tastes..."
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A strange dream, by Anaïs Tn - new interactive fiction #Quest
"A man wakes up in an abandoned mansion. He needs to find the key of the front door to get out."
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Sunny's Summer Vacation, by @LucasCWheeler - new interactive fiction #Twine #lgbtq #forgiving #fantasy #graphics #puzzles #minigames #animal
"You play as a Corgi with your family on vacation..."
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Theatre of Spud, by D E Haynes - new interactive fiction #Python #demo
"An alpha demo of a pure Python, parser-based web-enabled narrative."
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Those Days, by @Larkwrighter - new interactive fiction #Twine #linear #prose #minimalist
"Funny how some friendships end in a thunderstorm of insurmountable differences, whilst others slowly dim out of sight."
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The Weight of a Soul, by @ckychinkeeyong - new interactive fiction #Inform #parser #forgiving #mystery #steampunk #horror
"In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor’s apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim." springthing.net/2021/play.ht…
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Wintervale, by Ethan Erh - new interactive fiction #Twine #mystery
"An ill fate is about to fall upon Wintervale, a city of commerce founded upon the nests of a mighty winter dragon..."
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The 2021 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is now open, featuring thirty-eight brand new works of #interactivefiction in #Twine, #Inform7, #Ink, #Quest, #RenPy, #Strand, #Python, and more, all freely available to read and play.
springthing.net/2021/play.ht…
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The 2021 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is now accepting intents to enter! Find out more about this annual online celebration of new text games, and start brainstorming your own entry.
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Some game tags in this year's festival of text games: space exploration, love story, kitten, poetry, puzzleless, lots of puzzles, parody, dreamlike, fairytale, cyberpunk, historical, sand, epic fantasy, apocalyptic, Scottish, occult.
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Just two more weekends to play and make nominations for this year's fresh crop of interactive fictions!
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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/2020/play.ht…
(Thanks to @gamebooknews for the header montage!)
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Thanks to @nujakujata for donating to the prize pool a copy of his game Flux: "interactive fiction and a series of mini-games that challenge you to type, hack-n-slash, organize or fidget."
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Among the Seasons, by @Kieranuuu - new interactive fiction #Twine #mildViolence #choicesMatter springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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The Missing Ring, by @DrakeFelicity - new interactive fiction #Twine #mystery springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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Darkness, by @jschomay - new interactive fiction #HTML #Javascript #textBased #adventure #parable #multiplePaths springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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a short walk in the spring, by @_morphous - new interactive fiction #Twine springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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Do I Date?, by Aurora Kakizaki - new interactive fiction #RenPy #disability #datingSim #depression #romance #adultThemes springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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The Empty Chamber - A Celia Swift Mystery, by @tomdavidsykes - new interactive fiction #Inform #Glulx #mystery #detective springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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Quiet, by Martyna "Lisza" Wasiluk - new interactive fiction #Twine #conversation #choiceBased #puzzleless springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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The Ballroom, by @liza - new interactive fiction #Windrift #choiceBased #someViolence #oneRoom springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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WE R THE WORLD, by @deathbedhoy @thefancymike - new interactive fiction #Twine #occult #graphics #celebrityStuff #poem #1985 #horror springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel - new interactive fiction #Inform #Glulx springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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The Devil and the Mayor, by @BornToPootle - new interactive fiction #Twine #noPuzzles #comedy springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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Dashiell Hamlett: The Blue Dane Meets the Black Bird, by @tonypisculli - new interactive fiction #Ink #violence #innuendo #shakespeare #filmNoir springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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San Francisco, 2118, by @leahthecase - new interactive fiction #Twine #scienceFiction #fantasy #hasGraphics springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
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ICYMI: the 2019 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is now open, featuring twenty brand new works in Inform, Ink, Twine, Ren'Py, and more.
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The 2019 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is now open, featuring twenty brand new works in Inform, Ink, Twine, Ren'Py, and more. springthing.net/2019/play.ht…
#indiegames #interactivefiction #twine
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Congrats to Michael J. Coyne, whose "Illuminismo Iniziato" took home both the Audience Choice and Alumni's Choice ribbons in this year's festival! springthing.net/2018/play.ht…
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Sherlock Indomitable, by Brian Craig Rushton - new interactive fiction #Inform #Glulx #mystery #murder #detective #conversation
"Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories."
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Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash, by @bitterkarella - new interactive fiction #Quest #comedy #puzzles #bizarro #historical #grossHumor
"It's 1929. Incorrigible street urchin Lil' Ragamuffin and her sewer rat pal Percy are imprisoned in the cellar..."
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Zeppelin Adventure, by @rdouglasjohnson - new interactive fiction #puzzle #scifi #ParserChoiceHybrid
"Piloting a tea-zeppelin on Mars is a lonely job, but this run is nearly over..."
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The 4th Break Up, by @imnotill - new interactive fiction #OHRRPGCE #autobiographical
"Here is the spring, choose your mate. Or choose your own mental disorder."
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Ultramarine: A Seapunk Adventure, by @vextera @fetishismm @bluespacequeen @cscribes - new interactive fiction #RenPy #visualNovel #actionAdventure #turnBasedBattle #PG13
"Sacrificed to the sea, a pirate travels to the underwater Kingdom of Atlas..."
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Murder on the Big Nothing, by Tony Pisculli - new interactive fiction #Inform #noir #mystery #parserBased #minorPuzzles #someViolence
"In its heyday, the Burlington-Northern Railroad criss-crossed the country, a favorite of tramps and vagabonds..."
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A Bunch of Keys, by Mike Gerwat - new interactive fiction #Inform #Glulx
"A time travel story of a real life piano tuner and repairman who just happens to be blind."
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Spy EYE, by @markcmarino @ @MCMarino_kids - new interactive fiction #Undum #kidFriendly #choiceBased
"Juan and Ichel are recruited for a spy mission to find their birth parents, only to find that the reunion is not what they expected."
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Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca - new interactive fiction #Inform #kidFriendly
"Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.)"
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The Imposter, by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano - new interactive fiction #Windrift #puzzleless #mystery #surreal
"A man wanders the streets of Paris after a personal tragedy."
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The Eyes That Look Back, by @LenoGalaxies - new interactive fiction #Twine #textOnly #psychologicalHorror #depression
"We are surrounded with faces. The ones of the people around us and the ones we carry with ourselves." springthing.net/2018/play.ht…
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Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne - new interactive fiction #Inform #Glulx #oldSchool #cheese #builtInHints #wackyWizard #fantasy #sequel #zorkian
"Full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry)."
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Venience World, by @venienceworld - new interactive fiction #parser #experimental #excerpt
"Interpret the aphorisms of a mysterious, wise figure from your past."
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Confessions of an NPC, by @charleshhuang - "Interview characters in a kingdom not unlike our own who face the problems of our generation." new interactive fiction #Twine #drama #interviews #depression #suicide #youthViolence #IntergenerationalConflict springthing.net/2018/play.ht…
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REALLY, IF / REALLY, ALWAYS, by Dawn Sueoka - "An experiment in human-mediated computer-computer interaction." new interactive fiction #Twine #immersive #unsettling #music springthing.net/2018/play.ht…
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The festival is now open! Twenty new works of interactive fiction from authors working in #Inform, #Twine, #Quest, #TADS, #Windrift, #Undum, #inklewriter, #RenPy, and several homegrown systems to boot. Go play them! springthing.net/2018/play.ht…
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The 2017 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction site has launched, and is accepting intents to enter!
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Dead Man's Hill, by Arno von Borries. Northern France, spring 1916. #InteractiveFiction springthing.net/2016/play.ht…
Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game, by P.B. Parjeter - Twine, satire, social politics springthing.net/2016/play.ht…
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Evita Sempai, by @Rumpelcita: "a game about family, duty, idealization and heartbreak." springthing.net/2016/play.ht…
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Famous Baby, by N.C. Kerklaan: interactive fiction in Spring Thing '16. springthing.net/2016/play.ht…
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson: parser-driven noir adventure, winner #rvexpo springthing.net/2016/play.ht…
