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Games that heal
The games I make are more to me than just games -- they’re tools of healing and community. My first work, Penalties is about microaggressions I’ve witnessed and experienced as a Palestinian-Iraqi. I...
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Videogames for humans, a special book
Games can be conversations, and a new anthology curated by Merritt Kopas called Videogames For Humans aims to explore those connections. She's gathered Twine game creators and critics to annotate and...
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Make a text adventure using only 300 words
Do you have about an hour? Can you write 300 words? Then you can—and should—make your own text adventure today. (more…)
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7 cool text games with less than 300 words
The recent Twiny Jam, which challenged anyone and everyone to create their own tiny Twine text game in 300 words or less, has revealed the merit of constraint: The idea was to lower the hurdles to...
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In this elegant ritual horror, giant hornets are everywhere
I love Twine games that are able to create a strong sense of place. Despite being text-only, a beautiful typeface and atmospheric, well-selected words go beyond 'choosing your own adventure', to...
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Solve an occult mystery with two cake-selling trans women in this interactive...
As part of the larger Twitter Fiction Festival, author Jeanne Thorton will be creating a live, interactive mystery tale on Twitter today, and you can help write—and solve—it with your own tweets....
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Having Vin Diesel as your dungeon master is really soothing
What would it be like to have actor Vin Diesel gently and encouragingly DM a game of Dungeons & Dragons for you? Thanks to a new Twine game, you don't have to guess, and the result is joyful. (more…)
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A dungeon game within an experimental documentary book
Here's a fun idea: A digital book about the development of a game that's also a platform for that game's release. Game...book... ception? Nathan Meunier, author of This Book Is A Dungeon [This Dungeon...
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This game will make your morning coffee seem kind of scary
https://youtu.be/_RFruLTg1dE I think Keurig machines are awful—it's like fussing with a rocket launcher to make a small, bitter cup of plastic-tasting coffee. Even their own pod creator regrets...
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Eczema Orifice Angel collects the lovely, disturbing text games of Porpentine
Porpentine's interactive fiction games have won a lot of praise since she made headlines in 2012 with Howling Dogs, a metafictional text experience that leapt between lush virtual reality worlds....
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Play it now: You Are A Horse
Does the genre of 'animals who mingle in society as if they are people' have a name? Like, let's say there's an octopus just kind of walking around being a dad, and no one knows he's an octopus? Or...
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Stephen Colbert made a text adventure about getting locked in a closet
Stephen Colbert's new Late Show gig doesn't start till September, so what's he doing in the meantime? According to the free game released by his official website, the answer is "stumbling into a...
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What happens when your virtual pets die?
GHOSTZ recalls the virtual pet craze of the 1990s: simple digital beings in your care, marching obliquely against unchanging backdrops, whimsical of mood and utterly dependent on your actions. Death...
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Enjoy an atmospheric horror story about space travel
You've just been accepted to university on Earth; you say farewell to your family and start your comfortable, luxurious trip through space. Once you're on your way, though, you realize you might not...
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'They can't unsee what you have made'
[caption id="attachment_413140" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Via deeerssketchblog[/caption] This splendid little bit of artwork by Taylor Orendurff is in tribute to Tom McHenry's Horse Master, a...
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New horror text games give voice to marginalized women
Bitch Magazine has a wonderful article by Carli Velocci about Twine games, particularly the way women are using the text-only platform to express the unique body and gender fears of their experience....
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This 'empathy game' reveals a real challenge for indie games
https://youtu.be/MtzQ6ejDDzk The long-serving independent game maker and author Anna Anthropy was hit by a car over the summer and broke her arm. On her way to see some friends, she decided to walk...
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Industrial Accident: a short text adventure about going haywire
Industrial Accident is a short text game by John Ayliffe, creator of the amazing Seedship (play). You are (or control) an advanced industrial robot that makes a break for it, but whose freedom has,...
View ArticleTraditional industrial-scale rope-making is all kinds of neat
When it comes to making rope, there's no school like the old school. I love that, despite the advances made in the areas of fabrication and industrial automation, there are still products made using...
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How Twine revived interactive fiction
At The Verge, Adi Robertson posted Text Adventures: How Twine Remade Gaming, a detailed look at how the world's most accessible game development tool revived the classic text adventure and gave birth...
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