The 2007 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Voting ended on April 25, 2007. 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	Fate	Victor Gijsbers	7.89	1.49	19	$140
2	The Reluctant Resurrectee	David Whyld	6.53	1.84	19	$85
3	Starship Volant: Stowaway	C. Henshaw	5.37	1.95	19	$37.85
4	The Epic Origins of CamelGirl!	Brandi Wilcox	5.26	2.42	19	$30

All four games in one archive		SpringThing2007.zip	915 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
The Epic Origins of CamelGirl! by Brandi Wilcox	TADS 3	CamelGirl.zip	372 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Fate by Victor Gijsbers	Z-Code	Fate.z8	471 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
The Reluctant Resurrectee by David Whyld	ADRIFT	With graphics: rking (graphics).taf	180 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
		Without graphics: rking (no graphics).taf	97 kb	ST.net	ST.net Mirror	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Starship Volant: Stowaway by C. Henshaw	ADRIFT	volant.zip	65 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, TADS 3, 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;
Peter Seebach, for hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
all of the prize donors, for their generosity. here here

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. (The entry fee seems to be fairly effective for this purpose, usually weeding out substandard games.