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I, The Living Flame is a puzzle game developed for the GameBoy Color. The core game is a reinterpretation of the classic „Theseus and the Minotaur“ logic-game: The player controls a girl that has to find a way through a dungeon maze while collecting notes and evading an angry Minotaur that chases her. You have […]

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Quantum Origination is a 3D exploration game, inspired by the developers dreams and the classic „LSD Simulator“ playstation game. Pouring dreams into media isn’t easy to do; dreams follow their own logic, and many of their aspects can’t be transferred by just retelling or recreating them, and creating a continuity needed for the audience to […]

Pocico is a minimalist abstract puzzle game. Some games can’t be assigned to a certain time or era – they might have been developed in the early years of the medium or only recently, and still seem so futuristic that they could be easily used as a prop when a video game happens to be […]

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 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 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 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 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 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 […]