Spring Thing may be over, but never fear, reviewers… your services will soon be called upon again for the second annual Review-a-thon!
When: July 1, 2025 to July 31, 2025
What: The IF Review-a-thon is a chance for authors of minimally-reviewed games to receive more feedback on their work. It’s not a comp itself, but it replicates the reviewing side of comps by encouraging simultaneous reviewing of the submitted games by anyone who wants to write about them. See last year’s post for more details on the background (note: some of the rules have changed since last year! See below for current rules). I’ll provide a list of the included games when the event opens.
How to submit games: Check the eligibility guidelines below, and then add them to this IFDB poll! Or if you don’t have an IFDB account, you can DM me and I’ll add the game(s) on your behalf. I plan to lock the poll, closing it to new entries, on June 28 so that I’ll have time to vet them before the event opens.
Game eligibility: Changing things up a little this year, any game that has fewer than five reviews (across this forum and IFDB) is eligible. All IFComp games are probably still out, but this lets in some Spring Thing games that have received less reviewing attention. The only other limitation is that each author should submit no more than five games. EDIT: Adding an additional limitation—please do not submit games that include art, code, or writing produced by generative AI. This is an event where humans review games made by humans!
I think that covers everything for now, but if you have any questions, feel free to reply here or DM me!
Oops, I just reviewed one of these and was thinking of reviewing another. Shouldn’t push either of them over the limit, but maybe I’ll wait for the other…
Yay, looking forward to participating again this year. Thanks very much for organizing, Tabitha! I was sick in bed all day today, and really enjoyed getting a jump on playing and thinking through some of this year’s games.
Just entered my little quickie released few days ago; but I ask if someone can check its IFdb entry (it’s the very first time I entered an IF in it instead of reviewing/rating it) because I’m not sure if it is done correctly.
You’d put the link under download notes rather than download options, but I just fixed that. Looks all right to me!
(Though linking to another site which has the files, and making the files txt files may make it harder for people to play your game, and could affect review numbers…)
Poor planning on my part puts me in the middle of a particularly sensitive phase of my WIP. I don’t want to miss this if I can help it though. My plans are to dive into the entries mid-month (NLT the 14th), and hopefully I can make a major dent by end of month!
Apologies to authors and organizers for my VERY POOR long term planning.
