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

Title	System	Length
Aesthetics 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

Title	System	Length
The 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.