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An encounter with Odysseus at the festival of Athene leads into the first leg of a voyage that will eventually take Atalanta, Ariadne and Eurysakes across the seas to Thrace, where a false god is interfering with the worship of Ares and Dionysos... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The web version of the game is identical to the download, but…

Whirlwind WordSearch Lite is a word search puzzle maker that creates and prints uniquely engaging word search puzzles from your own lists of words. It is not just a pretty puzzle-maker though, underneath is a powerful puzzle-generating engine. It offers many different shapes, sizes, fonts, languages, and difficulty levels. It quietly removes any randomly created "naughty words". It lets you ea…

Whirlwind WordSearch is a word search (aka Word Find) puzzle maker that lets you create and publish uniquely engaging word search puzzles from your own lists of words. It is not just a pretty puzzle-maker though, underneath is a powerful puzzle-generating engine. It offers many different shapes, sizes, fonts, languages, and difficulty levels. It quietly removes any randomly created "naughty wor…

50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is an extensively researched book chronicling the first half-century of interactive fiction: video games made from words. Covering one text game released in each year from 1971 to 2020, in-depth chapters dive into classics like Zork, Trade Wars, and Hitchhiker's Guide; beloved fan games like Galatea and Photopia; wild experiments from Dwarf…

About Buzzy:In a world of chaos, mystery, and uncertainty, where gratuitous word limits are imposed on all, one heroic Bee, Buzzy, stands in the way of total disaster for all life. Using his mighty wings and pure determination, he fights not only against his own limits, but also against the limits of Mother Nature's mighty gusts, gravity itself, and the harsh terrain that he calls home in order to…

Opening the Horse is an approach to queer game design. The first part is a series of three zines that detail the approach. The second part is a series of three games that enact the approach. It was written by Matthew R.F. Balousek (itch, twitter). The cover illustration is by Sasha Reneau (website). Volume 0: A Manifesto for Lycanthropic Media attempts to distill the approach down into its simple…

A sixteen-page zine, collecting nine computational poems adapted from the first chapter of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. With each progressive poem the parameters of the algorithm are changed slightly, starting with a barely readable mash of characters and ending with something with diction which is recognizably Melville's own. It's recommended that these poems be read out loud—or at least attempt…

A sixteen-page zine, collecting nine computational poems adapted from a combined corpus of walkthroughs and queer fanfiction for Final Fantasy VII. It's recommended that these poems be read out loud—or at least attempted to. Alex was kind enough to perform the first poem in the collection for me, which you can listen to here. about the series A Hive of Mechanical Wasps, a procedural poetry series:…

About Do Something Is An Arcade Simulation Game, Where You Get Achievement For Clicking With Mouse And Pressing Any Key. This Game Is Very Challenging As It Is Almost Impossible To Complete All Advancements. How To Play Click The Mouse Button Or Press Any Key To Increase ScoreComplete All Advancements Features This Game Is Also An Open-Source Project, So You Can Remake It. Follow The Instruction G…

the Stationary Traveler and the Consciousness Transfer Machine is an easy to pick solo writing/role playing game designed for the Colin's Fortune Telling Cards deck. The player embodies a character who explores different places, and tells the story of his adventure. As the game progresses, cards determine the course of the story and the events that will punctuate the adventure. The game can be pla…