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Spring Thing

Spring Thing is an annual competition highlighting text adventure games and other works of electronic literature, also known as Interactive Fiction, or IF.

List of winners to date
• 2002: Tinseltown Blues by Chip Hayes - the sole entrant in that year • 2003: Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short • 2004: No competition • 2005: Whom the Telling Changed by Aaron A. Reed • 2006: De baron / The Baron by Victor Gijsbers • 2007: Fate by Victor Gijsbers • 2008: ''Pascal's Wager'' by Doug Egan • 2009: A Flustered Duck by Jim Aikin • 2010: No entrants • 2011: The Lost Islands of Alabaz by Michael Gentry • 2012: The Rocket Man from the Sea by Janos Honkonen • 2013: ''Witch's Girl'' by Mostly Useless • 2014: The Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost by Briar Rose • 2015: ''Toby's Nose'' by Chandler Groover (Audience Choice and Alumni's Choice) • 2016: Tangaroa Deep by Astrid Dalmady (Audience Choice), The Xylophoniad by Robin Johnson (Alumni's Choice) • 2017: Bobby and Bonnie by Xavid and Niney by Daniel Spitz (tie for Audience Choice) • 2018: Illuminismo Iniziato by Michael J. Coyne (Audience Choice and Alumni's Choice) • 2019: Among the Seasons by Kieran Green and The Missing Ring by Felicity Drake • 2020: 4x4 Galaxy by Agnieszka Trzaska, Hawk The Hunter by Jonathan B. Himes, and JELLY by Tom Lento and Chandler Groover • 2021: The Weight of a Soul by Chin Kee Yong and Fish & Dagger by Grave Snail Games • 2022: The Bones of Rosalinda by Agnieszka Trzaska and Fairest by Amanda Walker • 2023: Protocol by 30x30 and Repeat the Ending by Drew Cook • 2024: Social Democracy: An Alternate History by Autumn Chen and The Trials of Rosalinda by Agnieszka Trzaska • 2025: Cut the Sky by SV Linwood and The Little Match Girl Approaches the Golden Firmament by Ryan Veeder ==See also==
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