Announce: Spring Thing 2024

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

Yes, as are other kinds of transformations, like translations or new versions of a game that significantly alter gameplay (like converting from parser to choice).

[Lancelot (Onno Brouwer)]

Ooh converting parser to choice also ok? Good to know

[mathbrush (Brian Rushton)]

More than one person has written asking if porting a game to a new system is enough to be allowed into Spring Thing.

I am currently saying ‘yes’ as long to requests where the system is visibly and apparently different than the original (parser → choice, proprietary online-only → Twine), as long as it is entered into the Back Garden. If more than 1 such game gets submitted, I plan on making a separate category specifically for such things.

An ‘invisible’ port like Inform 6 → Inform 7 or AGT → TADS 3 or a port like Ink → Twine where the player experience is substantially the same wouldn’t qualify.

Foreign language translations and Introcomp completions are still welcome in the main competition!

Edit: This policy will be re-evaluated after this year based on whatever player feedback comes up!

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@jjmcc

NONONonononono! I’m only just finished IFCOMP23 and not even returned to my patient WIP when the NEXT distraction is published? You couldn’t give me 3 DAYS of undiluted focus???

Sh…relax…breathe. Nobody¹ can enter every competition in a year. Pick one in the future and plan for it!

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¹ No, @mathbrush that is not a challenge!

[manonamora (Manon)]

@HanonO

Nobody 1 can enter every competition in a year.

Don’t tempt me

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@manonamora

@HanonO

Nobody ¹ can enter every competition in a year.

Don’t tempt me

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² No, @manonamora that is not a challenge!

[Piergiorgio_d_errico]

@jjmcc

NONONonononono! I’m only just finished IFCOMP23 and not even returned to my patient WIP when the NEXT distraction is published? You couldn’t give me 3 DAYS of undiluted focus???

well, is true that for poliedric people working round-robin in various different environment is the ideal, but as I noted hard-way, for multitasking people, having a deadline invites serious troubles.

So I subscribe to Hanon’s suggestion; personally I have some half-baked ideas, but I’ll take due time to see if I can reach a reasonable state of completeness in due time.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@Piergiorgio_d_errico

but as I noted hard-way, for multitasking people, having a deadline invites serious troubles.

To be fair, having a deadline is the only thing that has ever motivated me to finish a game, so Comps are useful to us procrastinators. Cragne Manor also provided a deadline outside of a Comp scenario.

I’m poking at a thing now which is way too dirty to be in any non AIF Comp, but I don’t think it would be appropriate for anything else. This is requests from itch players to provide more specific M/M gay content but there’s no deadline…