Spring Thing 2023
| Spring Thing 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Part of series | Spring Thing |
| Website | https://springthing.net/2023/ |
| Organiser | MathBrush |
| Event dates | |
| Registration begins | 1 Feb 2023 |
| Registration ends | 1 Mar 2023 |
| Submissions due | 2 Apr 2023 |
| Voting begins | 12 Apr 2023 |
| Voting ends | 13 May 2023 |
| Results announced | 16 May 2023 |
| Results | |
| Best in Show | Protocol |
| Best in Show | Repeat the Ending |
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Held annually since 2002, Spring Thing is a smaller, more informal counterweight to the busier fall Interactive Fiction Competition. Over the years, games have often debuted here that went on to become influential in the IF world or larger indie games scene.
Rather than a competition with rankings, the Thing focuses on bringing together new text games of all kinds: choice-based stories, gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, text adventures, narrative roguelikes, and wild new experiments.
Spring Thing especially welcomes diverse voices and populations traditionally underrepresented in gaming, including women, people of color, queer and LGBT+ folks, and blind, neuro-diverse, or disabled creators. People from all walks of life should feel encouraged to participate as players, authors, or reviewers.
Entrants to the Main Festival can be nominated for a “Best In Show” ribbon, and all entries are eligible for custom “Audience Award” ribbons. Prize donors also gift fun, unique prizes, which Main Festival entrants have a chance to receive.