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The Atterson Street House has been abandoned for at least 25 years, and someone finally stopped paying the taxes on the property. The city wants to get rid of the house quickly and make up the back taxes, but before that happens, the house might need some work to make it safe to sell. Enter the Atterson Street House and perform a loose inspection to determine if the house is salvageable or if the…

✷ A dynamic (less interactive than traditional interactive fiction, but more interactive than traditional fiction) short story for the Gothic Novel Jam, replete with gore, gay ghosts, and a grisly soundscape. ✷ ✶ ✶ ✶ "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor..."

Created in October 2023 for ECTOCOMP 2023 (English), La Petite Mort division (meaning the game was written and coded within four hours) &The Bare-Bones Jam--a game jam for text-based games where you cannot change the formatting of the chosen program. Not only are graphics prohibited, but so is changing the interface or presentation in any way from the engine defaults. 2nd place winner of La Petit…

"Her" is a short, interactive, linear, text-based story made with Twine! CW: mentions of blood in this story It is a somewhat abstract experience that describes the impact of a supernatural being on the (unnamed) genderless protagonist to talk about grief. This story was written from a queer perspective, so if you talk about this story with others, just keep that in mind when referring to the prot…

Among the Haunted is a interactive fiction game that combines a modern, cozy setting with elements of horror. The game is also a submission for the Cozy Halloween Jam and ECTOCOMP (Le Grande Guignol)!  Warning: this game has mentions of blood, ghosts, spiders and clowns, as well as disturbing themes. Please proceed with caution. SUMMARY Being a single parent is never easy, especially when you have…

Horror awaits in the deep. However, in this adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s classic short story you are not the protagonist. You are madness. You are the rats in the walls.   Created by Alex Blechman for Techdirt's Gaming Like It’s 1924 game jam, and won in the category of Best Digital Game.

Six Hands When Calaiean pilgrims arrive unexpectedly at Hemlock Weald Institution, the Handmaiden remains steadfast in her own plans for a night of Sehtian rituals. The provocative cordiality of their gathering surfaces demons from the Handmaiden’s memories as one of the pilgrims, a rebellious child, seeks her helping hand. Yet one hand ministers the Spider of Deliverance and the other, the Dog of…

This game is a playable version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart."  The original story can be found here: https://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/ This game is fully released, though the may be small updates in the future. The game is built in ink, an interactive fiction scripting language, using the inky editor. More information can be found here: https://www.inkl…

A lord living his life in pampered luxury suddenly encounters the ghost of his grandfather telling him that in order to truly be a good person, he must do good things, such as donating his gold to the person in the old tavern with the most sincere story.  This game was made for OGA Spring Jam for the theme Philanthropy and has 3 endings. I originally was trying to make a different game, but it wa…

Taken away from your home, your family and your future right before your wedding, you spent years as a captive, victim of an inescapable curse. At every dawn, you are turned into a swan. Only at night, when the moonlight touches the shores of the magical lake that has become your prison, can you return to your true form.  Swan Song is a short interactive story loosely based on Tchaikovsky’s balle…