This week we talk about the entrants for this year’s Spring Thing interactive fiction festival. Spring Thing is an offshoot of IFComp that focuses on new works (they must debut as a part of the festival) that are freely available, and generally shorter and more experimental than IFComp entries. We collectively played all but one of this year’s entrants and talk about them in detail.
We recorded this on the evening that the voting closed for the Spring Thing Audience Choice ribbon. The winners have since been announced, and Toby’s Nose won both the Audience Choice and the Alumni Choice awards!
We also discuss the results of this year’s XYZZY awards, and some other interactive fiction. This is only the beginning of our coverage of the interactive fiction competition/festival scene, so stay tuned!
Links for this episode

Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction
IFComp 2014
The XYZZY Awards
The Short Game – 31: Interactive Fiction
The Short Game – 36: 80 Days
GDC video: Leading Players Astray: 80 Days & Unexpected Stories
Hadean Lands
Hadean Lands walkthrough from Key & Compass
The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo
With Those We Love Alive – By Porpentine
Creatures Such as We
Crystal Warrior Ke$ha
Toby’s Nose by Chandler Groover

Winner of both the Audience Choice and the Alumni Choice ribbons for 2015


Sunrise by Lucky Sun Scribes
A Trial by B Minus Seven
Ruiness by Porpentine

Porpentine’s website


Mere Anarchy by Bruno Dias
The Short Game – 28: A Dark Room
Aspel by Emily Short

Writing for Seltani: an Aspel Post-mortem | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling


Aaron Reed
Ryan North’s To Be or Not To Be


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Your hosts this week were:

Raygan Kelly – @raygank
Laura Nash – @laurajnash
Nate Heininger – @natestl
Shane Kelly – @8bitShane

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