Onward to the Spring thing!

Competitions Spring Thing
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Now that the IFComp '24 is done & gone, let’s look forward and onward to the Spring Thing !

I don’t know if I enter or not (because of my well-known commitment…) but for sure if I enter something, will be in the backgarden, for now-obvious reasons.

A crazy idea I have is a new rule, at least for the backgarden: an entry can be in multiple language (both selectable or separate story file) whose can be interesting for other IF communities, (French, Italian, Spaniard) and even the english one, I think.

Anyway, who will enter, or mull entering, the 2025 Spring Thing ?

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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I’m planning a back garden entry, which will be familiar to some.

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@EJoyce and I are going to try our hardest to bring yet another Lady Thalia game to the Thing!

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I am hoping to have two small back garden projects that I’ve been writing about at my blog. One is a short little story for children (with a cat protagonist) and the other is a weird art thing (poetry, I hope) that is not for children. Spring Thing is my favorite time of the IF year!

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I’m working on something as part of my thesis that I’m hoping to enter in Spring Thing. We’ll see if it’s any good or not!

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If my current game is ready, then yes.

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I’m working on a thing and if I keep up this pace I might even make it in time for Spring Thing! That’s a big “if”, though.

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I’m planning to submit my intent to enter as soon as the registrations open.

About 85% of the content is done, although there’s still a sizable amount of content left to finish. Moreover, it’s going to need a lot of polish. I have received plenty of feedback from a tiny handful of testers, but I’ll need to see if I can get more for the final draft (I’m quite worried about that already).

I’m also leaning towards forgoing a Hosted Games release entirely and making the Spring Thing release the full version… but this is still a decision I’m constantly going back and forth on.

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Just so you know, we have the French Comp happening just a month before the SpringThing deadline.

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Maybe I will submit a prologue of a longer game (but a complete story, even short), that will allow me to have feedback on the game universe, the atmosphere and the gameplay. We need to have a finished product by March, right?

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The deadline is usually the end of March, yeah :slight_smile:
Like the IFComp, you need to submit an intent beforehand. That deadline is end of February. (Brian will probably wait a couple of months before updating the website with the exact date though).

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