The 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction nominees await nomination!
#SpringThing
What are you doing this weekend?
You need more video games in your life, and Spring Thing is a great place to find them. Enjoy more than 30 works of interactive fiction, and nominate your favorites for ribbons:
https://www.springthing.net/2025/play.html
#springthing2025 #interactiveFiction #IndieGame #SpringThing
Drawing up my initial target list of games to play from the 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. Have noted down 20 games for starters, a mix of parser and choice based. May well not get through them all - I am very ill. But will play and review all I can. #SpringThing #interactiveFiction #game #IndieGame
Entries from the annual interactive fiction competition, Spring Thing, are now playable.
https://www.wraithkal.com/spring-thing-2025-entries-playable/
#InteractiveFiction Spring Thing is available now!
34 games in exhibition!
Mathbrush presents the opening at intfiction dot org.
Attend now! #SpringThing
This year's Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is open for judging. There are 34 new games entered this year, a mix of choice, parser and more. All entries are well worth checking out. The festival runs until 9th May. https://www.springthing.net/2025/play.html #interactiveFiction #SpringThing #game #games #IndieGame
Looking forward to the Spring Thing interactive fiction festival which will be running very soon. Good luck to all the entrants! I'm looking forward to hopefully trying as many of the games as possible. Ditto for IFComp in the autumn - I've postponed my next entry to 2026. https://www.springthing.net/2025/ #SpringThing #interactiveFiction #IndieGames #Games #IFComp
@nomiddlename If it helps, you can skip steps 3-12. I don't think many #SpringThing games have had a dedicated domain name or website.
I'm pretty sure people used to just submit a compiled story file (.z5 or whatever) and that was pretty much it.
Hear ye, hear ye: The 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction now accepting submissions!
https://www.wraithkal.com/spring-thing-2025-submissions-open/
When I entered my #interactivefiction game in the 2024 #SpringThing festival I had no idea that people would play it so much. The reviews so far have been very kind.
And check out this fan-art that a player sent me.
Reminder for fans of #interactiveFiction including choice based pieces and old style #textAdventure games that the #SpringThing annual festival for interactive fiction is running at the moment, with 32 new games to play. Huge range. All free to play. Hugely imaginative stuff. https://www.springthing.net/2024/play.html #IndieGames #ComputerGames #TextGames #RetroGaming
I was reluctant to post about this game in public because I was afraid it was totally broken lol. But it seems to have gotten popular on twitter, so it can't be *that* bad.
Anyway, this is the Social Democracy Game, a game where you play as the Social Democratic Party of Germany between 1928 and 1933, and try to stop the rise of Hitler. Made for Spring Thing 2024.
The Trials of Rosalinda is a fun game, like most of Agnieszka Trzaska's are. I love how they're like point and click adventures.
I'm a bit stuck at the minute though.
#SpringThing #InteractiveFiction
'The 2024 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction' Awaiting Submissions
https://www.wraithkal.com/spring-thing-2024-submissions-open/
Really interesting writeup about learning #Inform7 (the #textAdventure #programming language I use), from one of this year's Best In Show winners from the #SpringThing #interactiveFiction competition. https://golmac.org/about-the-time-i-wrote-an-inform-7-game/ #GameDev #IndieGames #CreativeWriting
I've written a post about learning Inform 7, among other things. I share my messy code in hopes of encouraging non-programmers to try Inform 7 if it interests them.
My Inform 7 game, Repeat the Ending, received a Best in Show in this year’s Spring Thing. Wild! When I upload the post-festival release in a day or two, I’ll post a link.
Today is the last day to nominate ribbons for the Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction.
There's still time to play/nominate some games!
Check it out! #AdventureSnack is recommending Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King. #InteractiveFiction #SpringThing #fantasy #comedy #parody https://adventuresnack.substack.com/p/earn-your-planet-destroyer-license
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