Games like Spring Thing 2016

The 2017 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty-two stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text games. Authors chose whether to place their games in the Main Festival, where they are up for ribbons and prizes, or the Back Garden, with looser entry requirements allowing for more experimental or work-in-progress entries.Main FestivalBack Then, by Janelynn C…

The 2022 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features forty-eight 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 entr…

The 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty 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 were 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.…

The 2021 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features thirty-eight 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 ent…

The 2019 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty 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 were up for ribbons and prizes, or the Back Garden, with looser entry requirements allowing for more experimental or work-in-progress entries. Main Festival Amo…

The 2018 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction features twenty new interactive stories submitted by authors working across the spectrum of text games. Participants choose to place their games in either the Main Festival, where they are up for ribbons and prizes, or the Back Garden, with looser entry requirements allowing for more experimental or work-in-progress entries. Main Festival Bes…

Cragne Manor is a text adventure commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead. It's also a huge, ridiculous experimental collaboration.   ✑ The game was written and programmed by more than eighty authors. ✑ Each contributor was assigned one room. ✑ We didn't tell anybody what was going on in anybody else's room. Your name is Naomi Cragne. Your husband is missing. That's w…

The Attic: Author’s Statement Before I began to make my playable story I had a few things I wanted to achieve through it. The most important one was to incorporate choice and discovery in an intriguing way. I wanted the player to be extremely curious about what would come next. I also wanted to give each player a chance at exploring the story in their own way. There are a number of stories that a …

SCENARIO Clicky click the dolphin has found a coffee shop where they can show their artwork. The only problem is that the coffee shop is in a working dungeon! FEATURES Multiple choice your way through the dungeon looking at art and meeting characters.Not really any puzzles but you can take a wrong turn.Short! It takes about five minutes to go through and maybe a couple of trips to max out all it h…

The Pawn is a text based adventure game released by Magnetic Scrolls in 1985 to wide acclaim. Remastered by Strand Games for 2017, 2019 Set in the mythical world of Kerovnia, it is an amusing and complex tale. You, the player, are there by total accident. The adventurer is meant to rescue his Princess, not you. Can you escape, back to your own world? If so, not easily and certainly not without lea…