HYPERTEXT (Twine)
climbing 208 feet up the ruin wall
-OVER 207 FEET
-MORE THAN 1,000,000 PROCEDURALLY GENERATED VINES
-REALISTIC WEATHER SYSTEM
-LOOKS LIKE WE GOT A “CLIMB”-INAL INVESTIGATION
[top 25 in Mood and Humor for Ludum Dare 26]
Naked Shades
a collaboration between Andi McClure and Porpentine
made for the ludum dare 26 jam
the world’s first online multiplayer Twine game
hungry ghosts scavenging for identity, sucking color from the dead
identity-driven esoteric shortform MMO
the ecosystem is the puzzle
there is a way to escape
LOOTER
just a tiny lil 10 second game i made for madam luna
it’s the perfect encapsulation of her criminal lifestyle
HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE
made last minute for Oakland Nights Live to be played by a crowd
UNTIL OUR ALIEN HEARTS BEAT AS ONE
two-player experimental twine game made for the PULSE POUNDING HEART STOPPING DATING SIM JAM
this is the Twine prototype for a card game that i’m kind of working on with andi. [image]
HOW TO SPEAK ATLANTEAN
GENRE: HYSTERIA
ALL I WANT IS FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO BECOME INSANELY POWERFUL
[Hypersexed Hypertext: Porpentine and the Twine text game revolution (review/interview)]
happy valentwine’s day
please turn on your speakers and your monitor and your mouse and your keyboard when you play this
thank you
CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA
THIS GAME IS 100% CANON
SPREAD MY GAME SO I CAN GET ON STAGE WITH KE$HA
SAVE MUSIC
MUSIC IS REAL
EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUSIC OR BELIEVE MUSIC EXISTS, HELP ME GET ONSTAGE WITH MY BIGGEST #IDOL #KESHA A GIRL CAN #DREEAM
2013
Bloody Princess Farmer
(source)
(node map)
(walkthrough/review)
created in 48~ hours for BIG CHAOS TWINE JAM.
unbalanced strategy-exploration, Harvest Moon with violence. im so sorry for this sadistic game
CYBERQUEEN
6th place in Mood category for Ludum Dare 25‘s 48 hr competition.
praised by Harvey Smith who worked on deus ex and i dunno some little game called SYSTEM SHOCK
remember, integration necessitates integration
howling dogs
(node map)
(source)
(afterbirth)
two endings
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Nominated: Best Game, Best Setting, Best Use of Innovation
Won: Best Writing, Best Story – 2012 XYZZY Awards
I came away thinking howling dogs should be an assigned text of study for people considering writing link-based fictions. [emily short]
…a dour enchantment in that holy dread kind of way… [richard hofmeier]
Top 5 Indie Games of 2012 [Boston Phoenix]
IGF 2013: Won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Nuovo Award, and Excellence in Narrative
[formal analysis by naomi clark]
[world record speedrun by james lantz]
created for the 18th Annual IF Comp.
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inspiration
schooltree | grimes | susumu hirasawa | 277 antioch
paprika | source code | moon
the day he himself shall wipe my tears away by oe kenzaburo | i hope i shall arrive soon by pk dick
feminism
metrolith
inspiration
zdzisław beksiński | romanticism
cover art: zdzisław beksiński
THE SKY IN THE ROOM
created for Ludum Dare 24 in 48 hours, winning top 25 in the Mood category out of 1406 entries
inspiration
queerness | sex | drugs | A Scanner Darkly | Aeon Flux | Naked Lunch | eXistenZ | Razor Wire Pubic Hair | Italian pop music
Myriad
Myriad (HyperCard edition)
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branching outcomes of a fetid day. 115 nodes. suited for treaders, meat-eaters, plant-eaters, students, anti-students, arthropods, starvers, and victims.
inspiration
HyperCard shareware adventures packed on cd-roms with 500+ games on them | All The Depression
the drawing on my hand looks sort of like story nodes so that’s the cover art
BATMAN IS SCREAMING
A PLACE OF INFINITE BEAUTY
inspiration
“The Black Riders and Other Lines” by Stephen Crane | books written before people knew a lot of stuff
cover art: Erin‘s new painting
GRAPHICAL GAMES
i made a game in 2hrs for klit of the month about being a floating woman’s head who has to avoid projectiles until her baby dies…also she has to avoid those fatcat bigwig’s in washington who want to control her bod…very political game, very topicaluuurrgh
sound effects by REAL WOMENS MOUTHS INC (ultra friend erin) (my directorial style consisted of alternating between “GIVE ME SOUNDS OF TRIUMPHANT WOMANHOOD” and “It needs to be more…*vague hand gesture*”)
inspiration: Kumiho
WASD to move | click to teleport to cursor position
INTERACTIVE FICTION (Inform 7)
How to play these games: Download Gargoyle or your preferred interpreter. Install. Open the game file with Gargoyle.
Most of these games can be played online for convenience, but you may find that desktop play looks nicer and runs more smoothly.
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Description: Enter the life of a wonderful swamp crab. Made for Klik of the Month Klub.
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Description: YOU ARE A BOUNTY HUNTER WHO SEEKS HER FORTUNE AMONG THE STARS. CAN YOU TRACK DOWN TWO-EYED JACK McCRACK…AND LIVE?
Notes: “kill x with y” is how you kill something. The game is short, but modestly replayable.
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Description: A haunting delve into the nature of sorrow and loss in post-war Europe. Has been hailed as a “sweeping, elegiac piece told tautly by turns, tenderly by others” and “a rare glimpse, a symphonic vignette that perfectly encapsulates the austere heartbreak of the turn of the century“.
Notes: Requires sound for audio cues. “dig” to use the shovel.
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Commands
Map
Walkthrough
Description: I made Cloadokum for the Super Friendship Club Mysticism Pageant. My first Inform game.
Notes: Click Story File to download and play in Gargoyle, or Play In-Browser to play online. Only difference is that the online version can’t handle displaying the map, so during the middle of the game you can load it manually from my link if necessary. Commands.txt is a list of every command used in the game.
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