#spring thing 2022

[cyberpunklesbian]

The 2022 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction

Spring Thing is an annual online festival celebrating new interactive fiction from all kinds of people.

Spring Thing 2022 is open now, with 47 new games (including one of my own)! The games include parser and choice-based games (twine is the biggest category), ranging from a few minutes to hours long, in a vast range of genres.

If you're not participating as an author, I would really encourage you to write reviews! Many authors are desperately awaiting any feedback or discussion of their games, and constructive reviews are some of the best gifts one can give to an author. Good places to post reviews include IFDB or the intfiction forums, or just here on tumblr!

[twinegardening]

Sweetpea by Sophia de Augustine [IFDB]

Someone claiming to be your father is trying to break in. Following the eponymous Sweetpea is: a mosaic faced guardian angel, something wearing her father’s guise, and the detritus of life in their gently crumbling mansion.

[twinegardening]

Phenomena by Dawn Sueoka [IFDB]

Shifting stories about UFOs. An interactive poem.

[twinegardening]

Super Mega Tournament Arc! by groggydog [IFDB]

TWO YORK CITY, THE YEAR 21XX The Super Mega B.O.X.ing Tournament at the Super Mega Dome is your last shot to pay off your debt with the city’s most notorious gangster. Do you have what it takes to fight your way to the top in this campy cyberpunk beat-em-up?

[twinegardening]

Computerfriend by Kit Reimer [IFDB]

The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy.

[twinegardening]

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi by E. Joyce and N. Cormier [IFDB]

Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than restful, as she crosses paths with foes both old and new. Case your targets, steal works of art, and team up with your Scotland Yard nemesis in this puzzle-based Twine game.

[twinegardening]

The Bones of Rosalinda by Agnieszka Trzaska [IFDB]

"Hey, you! Skeleton lady! Can you hear me? You've got to pull yourself together and run before the Necromancer turns you into one of his minions!"

Rosalinda realised she wasn't dreaming. She was in a dark cave, most of her body was missing and there was an agitated brown mouse yelling at her.

"O-okay," she said. "How do I get out of this place? And… where are my legs?"

Her first day of un-life wasn't going to be easy.

[twinegardening]

A Single Ouroboros Scale by Naomi Norbez [IFDB]

Algie was a Twine developer. Now he’s gone, but one of his online remnants is in your hands.

(One last game, for now or forever. Time will decide which one.)