"CLEAN BANKS" Micro-Game Challenge
For the third time in a
row the SENICA THING gamebook competition team announces the call for
entries to the national round of international micro-gamebook challenge
on non-linear fiction created in TWINE.
All the gamebooks shall employ the motif of an object found on a riverbank or a sea shore.
21 March 2025 at 15.00 CET - deadline for submitting an entry
2 April 2025 - entries available to play online
24 April 2025 at 13.00 CET- decorations announced
All entries must be finished, with no major bugs or language issues and submitted in a form of directly playable HTML file to the address:
lovcimikroplastov@gmail.com
In the e-mail please clearly state:
- gamebook title
- name of the author/authors (please use pseudonyms different from the author´s real name)
- age of the author/authors
- contact e-mail of the teacher/tutor/parent (for game-bound issues communication and sharing of reviews)
Attached you may find a presentation with basic steps of how to
create a Twine story. For more examples and information please visit:
- www.twinery.org
- www.intfiction.org
- https://sif-gamebook.webnode.sk/senica-thing/
- + many youtube tutorials
Please note, that our jury may decide to pass the most excellent entries to the international SPRING THING Festival:
https://www.springthing.net/2025/
It is possible only on the condition that the gamebooks are:
- written in English without the usage of machine powered translator or AI (bilingual gamebooks are welcome)
- finished (without dead-ends and "to-be-continued" unfinished storylines)
- well-polished (without bugs, typos and format issues)