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Spring Thing 2021
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The Spring Thing 2021 stories are now available for download. There are thirty-eight entries this year:

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

An Amical Bet, by Eve Cabanié (Quest)
Baggage, by Katherine Farmar (Inform/Glulx)
A Blank Page, by Edu Sánchez (Twine)
Copper Canyon, by Tony Pisculli (Ink)
Eleanor, by Rob (Windows)
Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris and Duncan Bowsman (Twine)
Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games (Twine)
Hand of God, by Dana Freitas (Twine)
Heroes!, by Bellamy Briks (Quest)
Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, by Havilah "mwahahavilah" McGinnis (Ink)
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier (Twine)
Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella (Inform/Glulx)
Medicum Veloctic, by Lawrence M Marable (Twine)
Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks (Twine)
Misty Hills, by Giuliano Roverato Martins Pereira (Twine)
Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job, by Eric Crepeau (Twine)
Perihelion, by Tim White (Twine)
Picton Murder Whodunnit, by Sia See (Strand)
Project Arcmör, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross (as Bitterly Indifferent Studios) (Twine)
[PYG]MALION*, by C.J. (Twine)
Queenlash, by Kaemi Velatet (Twine)
The Secret of Nara, by Ralfe Rich (Twine)
Some Space, by rittermi (Twine)
Sovereign Citizens, by Laura Paul and Max Woodring (Twine)
A strange dream, by Anaïs Tn (Quest)
Sunny's Summer Vacation, by Lucas C. Wheeler (Twine)
Take the Dog Out, by Ell (Inform/Z)
Those Days, by George Larkwright (Twine)
The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong (Inform/Glulx)
Wintervale, by Ethan Erh (Twine)


In the Back Garden:

Blue November, by Lawrence Furnival (Twine)
Budacanta, by Alianora La Canta (Ren'Py)
Cycles (Excerpt), by Mike Marttila (Ink)
Eyewear Cleaner 2077: Demo, by Naomi Norbez (Twine)
Manikin Demo, by Rose Behar (Twine)
So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest, by Anssi Raisanen (Inform/Glulx)
Space Diner, by Marta and Alexej (Python)
Theatre of Spud, by D E Haynes (Python)


The 2021 festival opens April 2, 2021 and closes May 7, 2021. You can find out everything you need to know at:
http://www.springthing.net/2021/

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 7, 2021.

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! 

Aaron


CHANGELOG

Apr 2: "Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!" updated PC build.
Apr 4: "Take the Dog Out" updated with bug fixes.
Apr 10: "Fish & Dagger" was updated to add a workaround for folks trying to do the hacking minigame on a Safari mobile browser.
Apr 11: "Hand of God" was updated to fix a game-breaking bug.
Apr 11: "The Weight of a Soul" was updated to fix a major bug in the second half of the game.
Apr 13: "Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires" was updated with some small bug fixes.
Apr 13: "Budacanta" was updated.
Apr 13: "Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!" updated PC build with some light bug fixing.
Apr 16: "Budacanta" was updated with additional fixes.
Apr 18: "Eleanor" was updated to fix some minor bugs.
Apr 20: "Baggage" was updated.
Mar 29: "Sovereign Citizens" was updated.
Mar 29: "Eleanor" was updated.