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Spring Thing 2022
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The Spring Thing 2022 stories are now available for download. There are forty-seven entries this year:

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

Abate: Hide Behind the Curtains, by Rohan (HTML/Javascript)
Another Cabin In The Woods, by Quain Holtey (Twine)
Baby on Board, by Eric Zinda (Perplexity)
Beneath the Stones, by Kieran Green (Twine)
Bigfoot Bluff, by P.B. Parjeter (Inform/Glulx)
The Bones of Rosalinda, by Agnieszka Trzaska (Twine)
The Box, by Paul Michael Winters (Kreate)
The Bright Blue Ball, by Clary C (Inform/Glulx)
Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer (Twine)
Crow Quest, by rookerie (Twine)
Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure, by Christopher Merriner (Adventuron)
Digit, by Joey Acrimonious (Inform/Glulx)
externoon, by nune (Squiffy)
Fairest, by Amanda Walker (Inform/Glulx)
The Fall of Asemia, by B.J. Best (Twine)
Filthy Aunt Mildred, by Guðni Líndal Benediktsson (Twine)
fix it, by Lily Boughton (Twine)
George and the Dragon, by Pete Chown (HTML/Javascript)
Good Grub!, by Damon L. Wakes (Twine)
Graveyard Shift at the Riverview Motel, by Seb Pines (Twine)
Half-Alive, by Bellamy Briks (Twine)
Hinterlands: Marooned, by Cody Gaisser (Inform/Glulx)
The Hole Man, by E. Z. Poschman (Twine)
Hypercubic Time-Warp All-go-rhythmic Synchrony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw (Inform/Z)
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier (Twine)
The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella (Inform/Glulx)
Let's Talk Alex, by Stephanie Smith (Twine)
The Light in the Forest, by Emily worm (Twine)
Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip, by Travis Moy (Twine)
New Year's Eve, 2019, by Autumn Chen (Dendry)
Orbital Decay, by Kayvan Sarikhani (Twine)
The Prairie House, by Chris Hay and Kelsen Hadder (Adventuron)
Roger's Day Off, by Sia See & Jkj Yuio (Strand)
A Single Ouroboros Scale, by Naomi Norbez (Twine)
Super Mega Tournament Arc!, by groggydog (Twine)
Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine (Twine)
Thief of the Thousand Suns, by Dom Kaye (Twine)
Thin Walls, by Wynter (Twine)
Tours Roust Torus, by Andrew Schultz (Inform/Glulx)
Wry, by Olaf Nowacki (Inform/Z)
You, Me and Coffee, by Florencia Minuzzi (Bitsy)


In the Back Garden:

5e Arena, by Seth Jones (Twine)
Confessing to a Witch, by HeckinRobin (Twine)
A D R I F T, by Pinkunz (Inform/Glulx)
Manifest No, by Kaemi Velatet (Twine)
Phenomena, by Dawn Sueoka (Twine)
The Wolf and Wheel, by Jason Ebblewhite, Angus Barker and Milo van Mesdag (Ren'Py)


The 2022 festival opens April 5, 2022 and closes May 10, 2022. You can find out everything you need to know at:
http://www.springthing.net/2022/

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 10, 2022.

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.

________springthing_dot_net
aaron_at

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

Aaron


CHANGELOG

Apr 5: "Digit" fixed a typo.
Apr 5: "Super Mega Tournament Arc!" fixed an issue with offline fonts.
Apr 5: "The Prairie House" v1.1.0, various bug fixes.
Apr 7: "Wry" was updated to fix an early game-breaking bug.
Apr 7: "Phenomenoa" was updated with some minor tweaks to wording.
Apr 10: "Half-Alive" was updated.
Apr 10: "Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi" was updated to fix a typo.
Apr 10: "Tours Roust Torus" fixed typos and a help-code bug that blocked players from winning.
Apr 11: "The Box" was updated with a few fixes and improvements.
Apr 11: "Manifest No" was updated with various fixes.
Apr 13: "Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi" fixed a game-breaking bug.
Apr 13: "Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure" was updated to version 1.0.1.
Apr 14: "Tours Roust Torus" redacted errant/irrelevant text.
Apr 15: "Graveyard Shift at the Riverview Motel" fixed some errors.
Apr 15: "The Box" updated to address some performance issues.
Apr 15: "The Bones of Rosalinda" fixed some typos and an inventory bug and added an alternate puzzle solution.
Apr 22: "The Prairie House" was updated to v1.2.0.
Apr 30: "Tours Roust Torus" tweaked clue text and added RESTORE/RESTART custom text.
Post-comp: "Digit" was updated.
Post-comp: "The Hole Man" fixed typo corrections and broken links.
Post-comp: "Another Cabin in the Woods" submitted a revision.
Post-comp: "Tours Roust Torus" added some new features.
Post-comp: "Phenomena" submitted an update.