Updates:
4/26/26 Universal Robot Assembled By Hex updated.
4/20/26 Coffee Cake Caper updated
4/20/26 Meminerimus updated
4/17/26 Meminerimus updated
4/14/26 Before the Snow Melts updated
4/12/26 String updated
4/10/26 Our Lady of Thorns updated.
4/9/26 Our Lady of Thorns updated.

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Spring Thing 2026
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The Spring Thing 2026 stories are now available for download. There are twenty-two entries this year:

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

23 Minutes, by George Larkwright (HTML/Javascript)
Before the Snow Melts, by Zach Crowe (Ren'py)
The Coffee Cake Caper, by Darius Foo (Fable)
Crier, by Antemaion (Ren'py)
Cryptid Hunter, by Adam Wade, Alex Kutza, Skye Murrell (Twine)
Cyclic Fruition Number One, by D E Haynes (Spiki)
Enigmart, by Sarah Willson (Twine)
Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory, by Lamp Post Projects (Ink)
The House, by Miles Poehler (Twine)
Latinorum, by Roberto Ceccarelli (Commodore 64)
Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead, by Ellric Smith (Twine)
meminerimus, by diluculum (Inform/Glulx)
The Missing City Council, by Solarius (Inform/Z)
Our Lady of Thorns, by Joel Burton (Inform/Z)
The Perilous Plot, by Carrie Berg (Twine)
A Quiet Scurry, by Moss & Quill Studios (Twine)
Social Democracy: Popular Front, by Autumn Chen (Dendry)
Strings: a (bug)folk song, by Tabitha & baezil (Inform/Glulx)
The Universal Robot (Assembled By Hex), by Agnieszka Trzaska (Twine)


In the Back Garden:

Exchange, by Peter Johnston (Ink)
Join the Swarm, by Senica Interactive Fiction Thing (Twine)
Unseelie, by Alun Clewe (TADS 3)


The 2025 festival opens April 6, 2026 and closes May 9, 2026. You can find out everything you need to know at:
http://www.springthing.net/2026/

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 9, 2026.

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.

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

Brian