Spring Thing2005
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The 2005 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Results
               
Place Game Author Avg. Std. Dev. No. Votes Prize Chosen  
1 Whom The Telling Changed Aaron A. Reed 7.13 1.62 24 $180.00 0 votes for 10 votes for 20 votes for 31 vote for 43 votes for 55 votes for 65 votes for 75 votes for 83 votes for 92 votes for 10
2 Bolivia By Night Aidan Doyle 6.77 2.39 22 $100.97 0 votes for 11 vote for 22 votes for 31 vote for 43 votes for 52 votes for 62 votes for 76 votes for 82 votes for 93 votes for 10
3 Threnody John "Doppler" Schiff 6.25 2.21 24 sonnets 0 votes for 11 vote for 22 votes for 32 votes for 45 votes for 52 votes for 65 votes for 73 votes for 82 votes for 92 votes for 10
4 Flat Feet Joel Ray Holveck 5.92 1.61 24 Neverwhere 0 votes for 10 votes for 21 vote for 33 votes for 46 votes for 57 votes for 64 votes for 71 vote for 81 vote for 91 vote for 10
5 Second Chance David Whyld 5.38 2.29 21 Mysterious Journey 2 0 votes for 12 votes for 25 votes for 31 vote for 42 votes for 53 votes for 64 votes for 72 votes for 82 votes for 90 votes for 10
6 Authority Eva Vikström 2.79 1.44 24 $60.00 6 votes for 14 votes for 27 votes for 34 votes for 42 votes for 51 vote for 60 votes for 70 votes for 80 votes for 90 votes for 10
               
Downloads

All six games in one
archive:

SpringThing2005.zip

  4713 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
 
 
Authority (Z-Code)
Authority.zip
94 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
Bolivia By Night (TADS 2)
bbn.gam
2106 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
Flat Feet (Z-Code)
flatfeet.zip
304 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive

Second Chance (ADRIFT)
Second
Chance.zip

259 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
Threnody (TADS 2)
Threnody.zip
2293 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
Whom The Telling
Changed
(Z-Code)
teller.zip
120 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive
readme.txt
3 kb  
IF Archive Mirror - ST.net - IF Archive

You'll need an interpreter to play these games. Actually, you'll need more than one interpreter, one for each game type (ADRIFT, TADS 2, and Z-Code). To find out which interpreters are best for your system, consult ifwiki.org's list of IF interpreters.

Special Thanks

The Spring Thing would like to thank the following people:

Adam Cadre, for starting the competition;
Mike Snyder, for writing the voting program;
Peter Seebach, for hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
all of the prize donors, for their generosity. here here

Purpose

Obviously, the general purpose of Spring Thing is to promote interactive fiction. More specifically, there are three aims that make Spring Thing different from the annual IF Comp:

  1. To provide a place for promoting medium-sized to long works of interactive fiction.
  2. To provide some springtime relief to the dry season between the autumn deluges of the IF Comp.
  3. To encourage excellence and discourage shoddiness. (To this end, there are entry fees, non-bugginess requirements, etc.

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