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Spring Thing 2023
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Updates (only latest update mentioned for each game):
-Write or Reflect, April 29th
-Roads Not Taken, April 29th
-I Am Prey updated, April 23rd
-Structural Integrity, April 15th
-The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, April 15th
-Stygian Dreams, April 14th
-Red Door, Yellow Door, April 6th
-Repeat The Ending, April 5th


The Spring Thing 2023 stories are now available for download. There are twenty-six entries this year:

In the Main Festival (eligible for prizes and ribbons):

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


In the Back Garden:

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


The 2023 festival opens April 5, 2023 and closes May 13, 2023. You can find out everything you need to know at:
http://www.springthing.net/2023/

You'll find the links to download the entries or play them online on that page.

Some games may require an interpreter program to open. See the festival site at the link above for details on running a particular game.

The deadline for submitting ribbon nominations is May 13, 2023.

The details on how to submit nominations will be available soon. Check the Spring Thing home page for details.

Feel free to contact me if there are any problems.

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To all the players, and all the entrants, have fun! 

Brian