The 2008 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Voting ended on May 5, 2008. If you haven't already played the games, you can download them below.

A big thanks to all who voted in the comp, and to those who donated prizes. And congratulations to the entrants.

Place	Game	Author	Avg.	Std. Dev.	No. Votes	Prize Chosen
1	Pascal's Wager	Doug Egan	6.93	1.98	15	$100.00
2	Without A Clue	David Whyld	6.07	2.27	14	$56.63
3	Blue Lacuna: Sneak Preview	Aaron A. Reed	5.86	3.25	14	2 RPGs

All three games in one archive		SpringThing2008.zip	1,966 kb	ST.net	ST.net mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Blue Lacuna: Sneak Preview by Aaron A. Reed	Glulx	bl-preview-1.zip	1,720 kb	ST.net	ST.net mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Pascal's Wager by Doug Egan	Z-Code	Replay.zip	233 kb	ST.net	ST.net mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Without A Clue by David Whyld	ADRIFT	Without.taf	115 kb	ST.net	ST.net mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
		readme.txt	4 kb	ST.net	ST.net mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror

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

The Spring Thing would like to thank the following people:

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

May 6, 2008: Results announced on rec.games.int-fiction and results posted here.
April 27, 2008: The voting deadline has been extended from April 28 to May 5.
April 6, 2008: David Whyld has submitted a new version of his game Without A Clue. The new version is identical to the previous one, except that it can be run with SCARE, making the game playable on non-Windows platforms. Download it from the link(s) above.
April 2, 2008: The games are available for download! You have until May 5 (extended deadline; was April 28) to submit your vote.
September 21, 2007: The site was down for a few days because I changed hosts. But it's now back up again.
August 27, 2007: Deadline for sending me your finished game has been moved from March 31 to April 2. (The other deadlines remain unchanged.)
August 22, 2007: Spring Thing 2008 has been announced, and the site is up and running.

Obviously, the general purpose of Spring Thing is to promote interactive fiction. More specifically, there are three aims that make the 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 in game authorship and discourage shoddiness. (The entry fee seems to be fairly effective for this purpose, usually weeding out substandard games.)