The 2009 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.
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What to Do
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Voting ended on April 27, 2009. 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.
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Results
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| Place | Game | Author | Avg. | Std. Dev. |
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Prize Chosen |
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| 1 | A Flustered Duck | Jim Aikin | 7.28 | 2.56 | 18 | $165 |  |
| 2 | Vague | Richard Otter | 6.06 | 1.98 | 18 | $90 | |
| 3 | Realm of Obsidian | Amy Kerns | 4.25 | 2.52 | 16 | $48 | |
| 4 | The Milk of Paradise | Josh Graboff | 4.00 | 1.28 | 18 | $25 | |
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Downloads
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| All four games in one archive | SpringThing2009.zip |
17,849 kb
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ST.net | ST.net mirror | IF Archive | IF Archive Mirror |
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| A Flustered
Duck by Jim Aikin |
Glulx | A Flustered Duck.ulx |
1,051 kb
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ST.net | ST.net mirror | IF Archive | IF Archive Mirror |
| The Milk of
Paradise by Josh Graboff |
Z-Code | TheMilkOf Paradise.zip |
113 kb
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ST.net | ST.net mirror | IF Archive | IF Archive Mirror |
| Realm
of Obsidian by Amy Kerns |
Windows | With sound: Realm_of_Obsid- ian_v062.zip |
17,190 kb
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ST.net | ST.net mirror | IF Archive | IF Archive Mirror |
| Without sound: Realm_of_Obsid- ian_v062_NS.zip |
757 kb
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| Vague by Richard Otter |
ADRIFT |
vague.zip |
156 kb
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ST.net | ST.net mirror | IF Archive | IF Archive Mirror |
| readme.txt |
4 kb
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You'll need an interpreter to play most of 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.
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Special Thanks
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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 past hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
the prize donors, for their generosity.
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:
- To provide a place for promoting medium-sized to long works of interactive fiction.
- To provide some springtime relief to the dry season between the autumn deluges of the IF Comp.
- 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.)
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