Games like we worship at strange altars

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ content warning: mild screen shaking, animated violence, gender dysphoria  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A fast-paced card-battle game played on arcade cabinets is a new, local fav in your college town, and the community even has a spot in the city mall to play in! Let's go, CyDream! "You know it's fictional because there w…

1d roguelike action adventure originally created for the #lowrezjam 23 Play a (rather short) fresh graduate of Miskatonic University's Esoteric Inquiry Department sent out to investigate a strange cult in a remote village. Slash, block and bleed your way through 3 floors of ever stranger enemies and find out what the evil cult leader is coercing his acolytes into? Controls ActionControllerKeyboard…

This Is A Game About Aliens. was made by Kennedy Ritchie, Zining Guo, Allie Runser, Connor McCandless, and Noah Droege as a final project for the CMLIT 191N: Introduction to Video Game Culture course at Penn State University taught by Camila Gutierrez-Fuentes. The following is an excerpt from the essay that accompanied the game: In creating our video game, we wanted to immerse the player in a ridi…

A zine I made in two hours for the Electric Zine Maker jam. May or may not be poetry, may or may not be about queer hope. This zine was made with the Electric Zine Maker by AlienMelon and you can read it here thanks to Jeremy Oduber's EZM reader. I am aware the zine may be hard to read (like, in a visual way) so here is the text for accessibility purposes: "I stared at the static / so long / m…

A short interactive horror story about memor;, a memory of three teens exploring an abandoned house in their town and the strange things they find there. The names have been changed around to protect the living and dead. This game contains no jump scares or loud noises or gore (there is one potentially disturbing image of death). CW: Flashing textures, references to possible abuse, references to d…

Austria, 1800. You are a vampire, having walked this earth for 150 years. You hunt, you feed, and you never look back. Every person in this story is merely a potential prey to you, the world's most formidable predator. Here, you are the antagonist, inflicting harm and death upon others, consuming their blood, and enslaving their minds to create zombies. Gentleness and kindness are not within your …

Life's Little Snapshots is a series of short poems that all capture small moments and memories. How Do I Fold It Though? This video is a great example of how to fold an 8-page zine!  Did you know we have a Patreon? You can read more about Life's Little Snapshots there. The vast majority of our posts are free: we share news, updates, behind-the-scenes design stuff, and more. We do have pai…

In Flight of Celestia you take on a role of an engineer on starship Celestia. You wake up to find your ship in absolute dissaray. Very strange. Your task is to find out what happened. * the text says you can finish the game in one try. It's probably not true. * Controls: WASD - movementF - interactarrow keys - manualPageUp, PageDown - scroll chatMouse - interact with ship systems  Hints / m…

A file lands on your desktop: the last documents of the journalist Angus Bead. A small town has broken apart, and you must unravel what happened by searching through Bead’s interviews, diary entries, photos, strange stories and troubling testimony. Draw your own connections. Read like a detective. BEST EXPERIENCED IN FULL SCREEN.  Controls: Keyboard and mouse/trackpad. Not optimised for smartpho…

Sacrifice the raiders to create platforms and spring traps. Make them collect treasures so that their greed feeds the Gods. /// The Gods are displeased. Sacrifices must be made. Since the fall of the ancient civilization that worshipped Them, blood have ceased flowing. This cannot stand. You are greed. You are the ancient temple. You mind control the pillagers so they are sacrificed to the Go…