The link send me to Spring Thing page, not to itchio. Furthermore, I can’t find out your game in itchio…
Yes the game is working fine by now.
Just fixed this as well! It has 7 individual stories, so the link from the title and cover art had nowhere to go, and those have been removed.
YAY!! It’s ALIVE
Such a good harvest of games, this is exciting!!
Thanks a lot! You are awesome!
Hi @Jade I seem to remember you had some issues playing the original version - well this new version has been entirely remade in Twine (with new features and story elements). You should find it a lot easier to play. I think @mathbrush has made all games available to download, but if you need the files for this game, let me know and I can PM you a link.
Yeah, we all had to include a downloadable version when we submitted to the comp (unless it had to be hosted on a server to function), so we should all have one available; if downloading the whole bundle of games becomes a hassle, I’ll put that version on the Archive separately so you can download it from there.
Yes, MB has released a zipped version of the games. Thank you.
Uff, which part, Jade? …oh, I see, Brian has already repaired it.
I already fixed it! Deep Dark Wood had links on its cover art and name that I forgot to change. I changed those, though. So I removed 2 404 errors that were caused by me.
Happy to hear
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What a lovely bunch of new IF pieces! I’m afraid I’m too ill at the moment to do my usual Spring Thing reviews. I’m also - limited time and energy permitting - having to focus on finishing my own game for IFComp. But I’ll be popping in here, reading other people’s Spring Thing reviews, and making a note of which things to try myself in future Good luck all entrants, and happy Spring Thing / Autumnal Jumble all!
Alltarach is set in 6th century Ireland, when priests and Christianity were just arriving in the land of druids and paganism.
Whoever made Deep Dark Wood happen, kudos. The innocence of it all is charming.
Sweet minds at work and play.
It’s Slovakia high school students
I think the same class or teacher organising the entries as last year?
They’re students from primary and middle schools from Senica, Slovakia - enthusiasts forming an informal IF writers’ club. [spoiler] Last year at Spring Thing there were just three attempts (not counting mine, the IXI puzzle). One author was very promissing, but my hands are tied as to making a promissing author continue - this year she abstained. But new blood apeared with the Thaw and here comes Spring Thing with skilled and unbiased “jury” - who just by offering feedback can change much more than I can.
The current seven stories show rising awareness of the authors here that they actually can write and let others enjoy their writing. Some stories were written just within two hours on a workshop in December, other authors spent much more time, hours and hours, in the silence of our IT room, after school. For some a review is just a nice treat making their day more interesting, for some, yet, you’ll never know, you just see the hunger in their eyes when you share the reviews.
In my country we are pioneers in IF. This also means no competition among students and also no other teachers to compare to. That’s why I formed a micro competition in Autumn, called SIF (with a wooden statuette of viking goddess of good harvest as the winner’s prize + author’s public reading at the prize ceremony) and am promoting it among other teachers. Brian helped me to set the guidlines for the jury last year.[/spoiler]