I’m very pleased to announce that the 2015 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is now open!
This year, there are nine games, spread across two categories. 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).
In the Main Festival:
Toby’s Nose, by Chandler Groover (Glulx)
Ruiness, by Porpentine Charity Heartscape (Twine)
A Trial, by B Minus Seven (Twine)
Sunrise, by Lucky Sun Scribes (Ren’Py)
Mere Anarchy, by Bruno Dias (Undum)
Doggerland, by A. DeNiro (Twine)
In the Back Garden:
Dirk, by Andrew Schultz (Z)
Aspel, by Emily Short (Seltani)
Missing Since '77, by Andrew Watt (Twine)
You can play the games and find out everything you need to know about the festival at the official site.
Instructions for making ribbon nominations will go up in a couple of days. There are two ribbons this year: an Audience Choice ribbon, which anyone may nominate games for, and an Alumni’s Choice ribbon, with nominations made by any prior participant in the Thing. (If you’re an alumni and not on our notification list yet, please PM me here or contact aaron at springthing.net.)
The festival will be open for ribbon nominations until 11:59 PM EDT, Monday, May 4, 2015.
To all the players, and all the entrants, have fun!
– Aaron