games/springthing/2019/2019readme.txt

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Spring Thing 2019
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The Spring Thing 2019 stories are now available for download. There are twenty entries this year:

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

Among the Seasons, by Kieran Green (Twine)
Bullhockey 2: The Return of the Leather Whip, by B F Lindsay (Inform/Glulx)
Darkness, by Jeff Schomay (Elm Narrative Engine)
Dashiell Hamlett: The Blue Dane Meets the Black Bird, by Tony Pisculli (Ink)
The Devil and the Mayor, by Jonathan Laury (Twine)
Do I Date?, by Aurora Kakizaki (Ren'Py)
The Empty Chamber - A Celia Swift Mystery, by Tom Sykes (Inform/Glulx)
Escape!, by Marnix van den Bos (XVAN)
Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel (Inform/Glulx)
I Will Be Your Eyes And Hands, by Cam Miller (Twine)
The Missing Ring, by Felicity Drake (Twine)
Our Darkest Thoughts, by Jesse Villa (Twine)
Porter Cave Adventure, by Cam Miller (Inform/Z)
Quiet, by Martyna "Lisza" Wasiluk (Twine)
San Francisco, 2118, by Leah Case (Twine)
WE R THE WORLD, by Dan Hoy & Mike Kleine (Twine)
Writing Program Five, by Dan Cox (Twine)


In the Back Garden:

69105 More Keys, by Andrew Schultz (Inform/Z)
The Ballroom, by Liza Daly (Windrift)
a short walk in the spring, by Amorphous (Twine)


The 2019 festival opens April 4, 2019 and closes May 6, 2019. You can find out everything you need to know at:
http://www.springthing.net/2019/

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 6, 2019.

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.

________springthing_dot_net
aaron_at

To all the players, and all the entrants, have fun! 

Aaron


CHANGELOG

Apr 7: "The Empty Chamber" was updated to Release 2.
Apr 7: "Bullhockey 2" was updated.
Apr 7: The download files for "Escape" were updated to clean up unneeded meta files.
Apr 10: "The Empty Chamber" was updated to Release 3.
Apr 16: "The Empty Chamber" was updated to Release 4.
Apr 18: "Bullhockey 2" was updated to fix an issue with locking/unlocking.
Apr 18: "Darkness" updated with a small usability fix.
May 3: "Bullhockey 2" was updated with fixes to Instead rules.
May 9: "The Empty Chamber" was updated to Release 5.