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A literary game with a novel structure: a series of interlinking segments twisting text into action into strategy. – [Author's description]

[Play Online (Flash)]

An adaptation of the Fabled Lands gamebook series: travel through a fantastic world, amassing skill, wealth, and fame, while avoiding sudden death. – [Author's description]

[Windows/Mac/Linux Download (with illustrations)]
[Windows/Mac/Linux Download (without illustrations)]

Note: Open flands.jar to start game.

the best puzzle game of all time – [Ed Pegg, mathpuzzle.com]

Flash DROD is a reimplementation of the King Dugan’s Dungeon Hold in Flash, available to play online for free. It’s split into several chapters, the first three of which are already online, and the rest of which appear to be coming later.

I can’t recommend the DROD series highly enough. These are some of the cleverest games I’ve ever encountered, and have hugely influenced how I think about game design. – Terry

Arrow Keys to move
A/D to move sideways – [Author's description]

The project Ball is a First Person Puzzle based on trajectory transission between a ball thrown by the player and himself. – [Author's description]

This game was inspired by the Johnny series by Kim Okkerstrøm (Sparlatacus). Released in 2006. – [Author's description]

NOTE: This game was made with Game Maker version 5. To play it on Windows 7/Vista, you need to use a converter tool on the EXE, which you can download here. (I’ve also uploaded a working Win7 version below.)

I am so lazy about making games, there was a thread made about it. This is my first game. Dear god, what have I done? – [Author's description]

Controls:
Gamepad: Left stick to move, right stick to rotate camera.
Keyboard: WASD to move, J+L to rotate camera.

SHIFT – Jump
CTRL – Attack/Pickup
Z – Stop/Start time
You can remap the controls by pressing CTRL-Y in any Ikiki game.