I’m 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!
Authors chose whether to submit games to the Main Festival, where they are eligible for ribbon nominations and the prize pool, or the Back Garden, which opts out of ribbons and prizes but has looser entry requirements (including allowing excerpts from unfinished or commercial games).
The Wolf and Wheel, by Jason Ebblewhite, Angus Barker and Milo van Mesdag - Ren’Py
You can play the games and find out everything you need to know about the festival at the official site, or follow us on Twitter at @SpringThingFest.
Instructions for making ribbon nominations will go up next week. Two Best in Show ribbons are awarded each year to the games that get the most nominations, and players can also create their own “Audience Award” ribbons that can be anything they like. The festival will be open for ribbon nominations until 11:59 PM EDT, May 10, 2021.
To all the players, and all the entrants, have fun!
Yay, so exciting! Lots here I’m looking forward to digging into. Thanks so much for organizing and thanks to all the authors!
CHURLISH BUT PERHAPS HELPFUL EDIT: looks like the download all from itch.io link isn’t working, though the individual game downloads are. So figured I’d flag that in case there’s something borked behind the scenes.
Super exciting! I’m looking forward to playing some of the games- and am quite stoked about seeing my first game out and stumbling about in the world! So many entries!!
Better late than never. As last years I have been waiting for a long time. It is time for my dine… Tomorrow I will see. By the way there is no manner to download the games, slow and fail.
I want to thank organizers an participants, good luck in the festival and win a lot of ribbons for your games.
Reminder for all participants if you’d like to join the Spring Thing 2022 group, that will give you an optional participant title for your username. If it doesn’t change automatically (if you had a different title already set) check your profile in the same place you edit your name, and you can change to any title you have access to.
As Iam trying to download some games to “play on the road” I want to say that I am impactated and good mood surprised for the big amount of titles. As I have betatested a bunch of then, I can say there is a high level in imagination, hard work, and I know we have to be a pleasure time during this festival playing as much as we can.
Thanks for the downloadable stuff.
Jade, you are a gift to IF writers. You don’t get enough credit for all the work you do behind the scenes to help these games be better. Three cheers for Jade!
I like very, very much the bottom of the page where is explained the way to run any platform/interpreter. And there is a pretty bunch of it this year.
This year I see most of the games are Twine ones (26), also I can see a lot of different authoring systems (7) with one or two games and a few parser ones (12 though the Parsercomp is knocking on the door)
Woohoo! Super exciting! Just a heads up, the Play Online option for Another Cabin In The Woods is broken. Excited to play all the other entries this year
