Spring Thing 2023

The 2023 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty-six new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text games. Participants chose to place their games in either the Main Festival, where they are eligible for a Best In Show ribbon and prizes, or the Back Garden, with looser entry requirements allowing for more experimental or work-in-progress entries.

Main Festival

TitleSystemLengthAesthetics Over Plot, by ro-han Twine short Beat Me Up Scotty, by Jkj Yuio Strand micro Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King, by Damon L. Wakes Twine short Etiolated Light, by Lassiter W. Twine short The Familiar, by groggydog Adventuron full Galaxy Jones, by Phil Riley Inform/Glulx full I Am Prey, by Joey Cramsey TADS 3 short Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark, by Leon Lin Twine short The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Google Forms full Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by E. Joyce & N. Cormier Twine full Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke Inform/Z short Nothing Could be Further From the Truth, by Adam Wasserman Inform/Glulx full Protocol, by 30x30 Twine full Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran Inform/Glulx short Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Inform/Glulx full The Roads not Taken, by manonamora Twine short The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, by AndyG Inform/Glulx short A Single Ouroboros Scale: My Postmortem, by Naomi Norbez Twine Structural Integrity, by Tabitha O'Connell Twine short The Withering Gaze of the Earth, by Emily worm Twine short Your Post-Apocalyptic To-Do List, by Geoffrey Golden Ink short

Back Garden

TitleSystemLengthThe Mamertine, by K Vella Twine short Mirror, by Ondrej Odokienko Twine micro Secret of the Black Walrus, by spaceflounder HTML/Javascript short Stygian Dreams, by Giorgos Menelaou Inform/Glulx full Write or Reflect?, by Andrew Schultz Python short

The authors of individual games retain all rights over their work. You do not have the right to redistribute, sell, or modify these games without permission from the work's original author.

The stories.zip download contains all festival entries playable offline; some entries cannot be played online, and only have archival material in the zipped folder.