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A new competition page: Locus Jam 2024 created May 25, 2024 The Locus Jam is an interactive fiction mini-jam all about places, spaces, and rooms. Come create an IF piece set in one specific place! This jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Locus Jam.

A new listing for Throne, by GamesByCam

A new listing for LIMBO, by KA Tan

A new listing for I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE GAME, by manonamora

A new listing for Room 2039, by JohnnyNeverWalked

A new listing for Aethers End, by Pest

A new listing for Ghost Hunt, by solipsistgames

A new listing for The Yard, by Bryanna

A new listing for La Maldición del Cruce, by Ibis Interactive

A new listing for Elysium, by Ethersic

A new listing for College Fever, by Pawz

A new listing for Terminal Point, by Strange Lantern Productions

A new listing for Nobody Cares About Charley, by PetricakeGames-IF

A new listing for Blossom, NY, by alyshkalia

A new listing for The Pit, by Guy Elder

News on Cubes and Ladders: Office Adventure Gets a Refresh! New Rooms, New Help for the Tricky Finale May 25, 2024 We've refreshed this office adventure game with new room images and a new help system for the final puzzle, which some players found too difficult. This help system takes the form of a character who assists... - Details

Drew Cook reviews Kiss of Beth: "The Trouble With Beth" May 25, 2024 "As a bit of background: I discovered this game via Tabitha's "Games Seeking Reviews" poll. I'm grateful for this initiative! "Kiss of..." - See full review

Fie reviews A Dream of Silence: Acts 1 and 2: "Not complete!! But very polished!" May 24, 2024 "This is a fangame for Baldur's Gate 3, the video game. It is fairly approachable, with detailed yet not overwhelming synopsis provided...." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Case #410113: "Feels like an experimental work" May 24, 2024 "This produces a story that describes what happened when a "domestic terrorist associated with various extreme Pro-Life movements" visited..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Snowhaven: "An atmospheric experience that focuses less on puzzles and more on details." May 24, 2024 "Snowhaven uses effective storytelling to deliver a complete experience in a small set of locations. The player uses simple objects to..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Kuolema: "Sink and swim" May 23, 2024 "(This is a review of the Twine version of The Kuolema, as entered in Spring Thing 2024, followed by a review of the Spring Thing 2023..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews One King to Loot them All: "Weapon of choice" May 23, 2024 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp COMBINED WITH a review of the Twine..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Time Machine: "Time after time" May 23, 2024 "(Note: this is a review of the Spring Thing 2024 version of The Time Machine, followed by my original review of its ParserComp 2021..." - See full review

A new listing for the sea god, by christine mi

TestTubeHuman reviews Provizora Parko: "Purgatory of some sort" May 22, 2024 "A bizarre and beautiful game. As given by the description, you are in purgatory after having apparently... died? But the nature of your..." - See full review

A new listing for Sky Caravan, by Studio Bravarda: Nicolas Leme (Lead Programmer), Maria Isabel “Mabel” May (Game Designer & Narrative Designer), Mateus Trigueiro (Game Designer & Narrative Designer), Yann Lemos (Game Designer, Programmer, Musician & Sound Designer), Cezar Loureiro (Environment Artist & Concept Artist), João Pedro Figueiredo (Character Artist & Animator)

Mike Russo reviews Deep Dark Wood: "A wood of forking paths" May 22, 2024 "Theme and variation is a solid approach for an anthology, and Deep Dark Wood – a collation of seven small Twine games written by..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Dream of Silence: Acts 1 and 2: "Throne of Bawl" May 22, 2024 "(This is a review of the incomplete version of the game entered into 2024's Spring Thing Festival) I’ve got a conundrum: what’s the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Provizora Parko: "Birds, flight, baggage" May 22, 2024 "I am not usually one to police genre boundaries – these are useful shorthands for discussion, analysis, and (mostly) marketing, nothing..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Ink and Intrigue: "Apostrophes and archetypes" May 21, 2024 "There are of course innumerable ways you can divide people in two – by which I mean, do the whole “there are two kinds of people in..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Escape From the Tomb of the Celestial Knights: "Not worth raiding" May 21, 2024 "There’s not much to say about Escape From the Tomb of the Celestial Knights – as its charmingly awkward,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Portrait: "Body art" May 21, 2024 "I throw around the term “old school” a fair bit when discussing IF, but it’s worth remembering that the scene has never been a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Provizora Parko: "Dada or Deep? Dunno." May 21, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/16/24 Playtime: 15min This is a fully realized work that really weaves a spell. A full-on..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Escape From the Tomb of the Celestial Knights: "Tomb Trainer" May 21, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/16/24 Playtime: 30min A small first time limited parser effort, on a web platform that was..." - See full review

A new listing for PARANOIA, by Charm Cochran

A new listing for Not Just Once, by TaciturnFriend

Mike Russo reviews Bydlo; or the Ox-Cart: "The rest is silence" May 20, 2024 "I’m a reasonably confident critic of several things: writing, first of all, but also characterization, plot, and puzzle design (whether..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Luna Gardens: "The tao that can be spoken is still hard to get the parser to understand" May 20, 2024 "(This is a review of the Spring Thing version of the game; I understand it's since been updated to address some of the implementation..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Noun the verb" May 20, 2024 "My wife recently decided she wanted to get into gardening, and as a result we’ve started to slowly make some improvements to our back..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Bydlo; or the Ox-Cart: "Metaphor Maze!" May 20, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/16/24 Playtime: 15min A second ST24 Bitly entry! I’ve only recently encountered my first!..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Deep Dark Wood: "Seeing the Forest AND the Trees" May 20, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/16/24 Playtime: 25min, lots of exploring the endings I was introduced (as was, I believe,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Portrait: "Pictures of Lily" May 20, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/16/24 Playtime: 1hr, 60/80 pts, art lover This work is a teaser for an anticipated (by me)..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Bakemono no Sekai - World of Monsters: "A game packed with outsider perspective on Japan" May 19, 2024 "This is an interesting game, entered into the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. It explores a small village and hotel in rural Japan, and..." - See full review

Fie reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Very short limited parser puzzle game" May 19, 2024 "A limited parser game, like Blue Lacuna in that you type keywords to interact with them, without verbs. You are in a workshop full of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Social Democracy: An Alternate History: "Antifascist Zeitgeist" May 19, 2024 "You’ll probably go into this death-of-the-Weimar-Republic simulator expecting a titanic struggle against Hitler, pouring all your wits..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Studio: "Sus-studio" May 19, 2024 "(This is one of those games that can’t meaningfully be reviewed without spoiling a particular narrative and gameplay twist, so it might..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Pass A Bill: "Whip it good" May 19, 2024 "(I beta-tested this game) In my first review of this year’s Thing, I lifted up Potato Peace as an example of a game that has the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Ink and Intrigue: "Shaken AND Stirred" May 19, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/15/24 Playtime: 1.75hrs, current ending ‘Product Misuse’ is a squirrelly legal tactic,..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Nonverbal Communication: "Verbs are for Nerds" May 19, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/13/24 Playtime: 40min, 4 plays, 3/3 endings There is something inspirational about the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Studio: "New Home Alone" May 19, 2024 "Adapted from a SpringThing24 Review Played: 4/10/24 Playtime: 1.5hr, 4 endings of at least 5 I really like what this game is doing, and..." - See full review

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