Spring Thing 2006
It has commenced: the Spring Thing 2006 . Four pieces of interactive fiction have been entered, among which is my The Baron . I am not allowed to discuss the game during the voting period, which lasts until the 23rd of April, but I sure hope you will take a look at the offerings. Unfortunately for those who are new to IF, you need no less than three different interpreters (Z-code, Hugo and Adrift) to play these four pieces, but following either the instructions on the Spring Thing page or here , you should be fine. (And it works under Linux too!) The best place to talk about these pieces is the IF newsgroup: rec.games.int-fiction. (Which you can either access through a newsreader, a good mail-program like Thunderbird, or a webbased interface like Google groups. There are actually two IF newsgroups, the other one being rec.arts.int-fiction, but the latter is for authors and the former for readers.) I definitely recommend you to play all four pieces and submit your votes before the 23rd.