Spring Thing 2016
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| Spring Thing 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Part of series | Spring Thing |
| Results | |
| Alumni's Choice | The Xylophoniad |
| Audience Choice | Tangaroa Deep |
| Participant | Dead Man's Hill |
| Participant | Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game |
| Participant | Evita Sempai |
| Participant | Famous Baby |
| Participant | Foo Foo |
| Participant | Fourdiopolis |
| Participant | Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony |
| Participant | Ms. Lojka |
| Participant | Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood |
| Participant | Rough Draft |
| Participant | Shipwrecked |
| Participant | Sisters of Claro Largo |
| Participant | Standoff |
| Participant | Standoff |
| Participant | Superhero Stress |
| Participant | Three-Card Trick |
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The fourteenth Spring Thing was organized by Aaron A. Reed.
Dates
- March 8, 2016: Deadline for authors' intents to enter.
- April 1, 2016: Deadline for games to be submitted.
- April 6, 2016: Entries released.
- May 7, 2016: Ribbon nomination deadline.
- May 8, 2016: Results announced.
Entries
Seventeen games were released on April 6, 2016: ten in the Main Festival, and seven in the Back Garden.
Main Festival
Recipient of the Audience Choice ribbon:
- Tangaroa Deep (Astrid Dalmady; Twine).
Recipient of the Alumni's Choice ribbon:
- The Xylophoniad (Robin Johnson; HTML/Javascript).
Other entries (in alphabetical order):
- Evita Sempai (Florencia Rumpel Rodriguez a.k.a Rumpelcita; Twine).
- Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony (Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw; Z-code).
- Ms. Lojka (Jordan Magnuson; Twine).
- Rough Draft (Erica Kleinman; Ren'Py).
- Shipwrecked (Andrew G. Schneider; Twine).
- Sisters of Claro Largo (David T. Marchand; Twine).
- Superhero Stress (Michael Yadvish; Twine).
- Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover; Glulx).
Back Garden
- Dead Man's Hill (Arno von Borries; Glulx).
- Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game (P.B. Parjeter; Twine).
- Famous Baby (N.C. Kerklaan; Twine).
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson; Glulx).
- Fourdiopolis (Andrew Schultz; Glulx).
- Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood (Andrew G. Schneider; Twine).
- Standoff (Matthew R.F. Balousek; PDF).
Links
- Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction - The official Spring Thing 2016 site.
- IF forum threads:
- The 2016 Spring Thing Festival is now open! - April 6, 2016.
- Spring Thing '16 Results! - May 8, 2016.
Reviews
- Reviews at IFDB.
- Reviews (in Italian) [1] [2] at oldgamesitalia.net.
- Reviews by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
- Reviews by Brendan Caldwell at Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Sisters of Claro Largo, Tangaroa Deep
- Reviews by Wade Clarke.
- Reviews by Christopher Huang.
- Writeups by Robin Douglas Johnson.
- Reviews by Emily Short.
- Reviews by snowblood.
- Reviews by verityvirtue.
- Reviews by Caleb Wilson.
Author Commentary
- Tangaroa Deep Postmortem by Astrid Dalmady.
- Three-Card Trick postmortem by Chandler Groover.
- The Xylophoniad (and Draculaland) post-mortem by Robin Douglas Johnson.
- Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony postmortem by mycroftiv.
- Fourdiopolis/Spring Thing 2016 postmortem by Andrew Schultz.
- Dead Man's Hill post-mortem by Arno von Borries.