The great tree, long our home. This spring, weird bugs came. Ari Spider, pest controller! Help us! ari against the bug blizzard is a bullet hell/puzzle mashup. In an attempt to annihilate the robotic bugs that attack the aforementioned tree, you span up spider webs between (or on) the walls. Since the length of web […]
Tuuli
Tuuli is a text adventure game about life, death, fate, social roles, and black magic. You play a young witch apprentice, suddenly forced to replace her former teacher in performing a ritual to defend her home village against enclosing invaders. Will you succeed? And if so, for what cause and price? While the developers say […]
Kryftolike
Kryftolike is a minimalist dungeon crawler roguelike game. You control a tiny adventurer, roving through an infinite maze, collecting treasure. Points are awarded for gathering treasure and for exploring new tiles of the map. Monsters haunt the place, and will chase you once they become aware of you – you can’t fight back, only try […]
A row of chairs abandoned on the beach
A row of chairs abandoned on the beach is a short interactive fiction by LaughingPineapple about a person who melts with the ocean. The protagonist finds a row of verloren monobloc chairs on the beach, waiting for the flood to come. You might decide at any time to leave them and return to your warm […]
Shell Song
Shell Song is an interactive fiction or a digital essay about the voice as a medium, its relation to the body, the attempts to recreate it by technical means, and the ethical questions that are opened up by the advances in this field through digital means. At the beginning, the story mainly introduces the narrator: […]
PRAXIS FIGHTER X
PRAXIS FIGHTER X is a vertical SHMUP created for the PICO 8 fantasy console. You play a protester who hijacks a fighter plane from the militarized police apparatus that protects a big, ugly, chemical facility complex, and use it consequently to turn the plant and its guardians to ash and dust. Regardless of the slightly […]
The Archivist and the Revolution
The Archivist and the Revolution is a interactive fiction set in a dystopian future. You play a trans person who is working as an „Archivist“, extracting historical information that were decoded into the DNA of bacteria strains by preceding societies. Recently, you were fired from your job, and turned into a contract worker – getting […]
Solitary Stars
Solitary Stars is a hyperlink fiction game. I was tempted to write that the game circles around questions about the nature of memories, remorse, relations, or the entanglement of individuals within an imperfect world – and this would have been somewhat true, as these themes are present, yet it also would not do justice to […]
Inflorescence City / cartography of known spaces
Inflorescence City is a city with inhabitants, a graveyard, a public library, and citizens. Whenever you visit it, you’ll experience a wholly different town: The graveyard will have another name and other people lying there; the library will have other books in its shelves, different poems will be around, and the omnipresent mandalas (that might […]
Of Olden Tymes: A review of Nox Archaist
It has been a while since I’ve been asked by the editor of this blog to write review for the retro-CRPG Nox Archaist; since then, some things have happened that pushed my experience with the game into the hinterlands on my memory. A vacation in Norway, for one, a gruesome accident as well, but – […]