Zero Summer is a wordy western about choice, violence and emotions. Nearly two decades after monsters poured out of Corpus Christi and divided the United States between civilization and the New West, players assume the role of A MAN WITH NO NAME, a gunslinger with no memory or past. – [Description]
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Zero Summer (Gordon Levine)
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on November 11, 2012
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Ectocomp 2012 (Carolyn VanEseltine, DCBSupafly, HulkHandsome, Wade Clarke, Marius Müller, Mel Stefaniuk)
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on November 10, 2012
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Ectocomp, Interactive Fiction’s Official Hallowe’en Speed-IF, is a competition for Hallowe’en-themed works written in three hours on any platform… – [Comp description]
What Are Little Girls Made Of? by Carolyn VanEseltine
Beythilda the Night Witch by DCBSupafly
The Hunting Lodge by HulkHandsome
Ghosterington Night by Wade Clarke
Parasites by Marius Müller
The Evil Chicken Of Doom 3D by Mel Stefaniuk – [List of games]
Zaboodles (Kurt Waldowski and Daniel Firsht)
Posted by Porpentine
on November 10, 2012
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Jump around frantically dodging incoming zaboodles while utilizing various power-ups to stay alive and rack-up points! – [Author’s description]
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters (Jose Ignacio Moreno Ferrer)
Posted by Porpentine
on November 9, 2012
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Anamnesis attempts to recreate a Pen and Paper role playing experience in a single player videogame.
The game is driven through narrative and offers at all times a high level of freedom of action.
The elements of the game, such as plot elements, characters and locations, are manually developed, but their selection is randomized for each gameplay to guarantee replayability
In the colony in which the players are dropped, they are free to play a grand role as governors, a humble one as adventurers, or something in between as explorers. Once the game starts, it is solely the player’s choice to develop militarily, economically, personally, romantically or in any way he or she chooses. – [Author’s description]
Will You Ever Return? (jackspinoza)
Posted by Porpentine
on November 9, 2012
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As the world left him behind and he fell to Inferno he heard some sobs “Will you ever return? Will you ever return?” from his good girl. He was moving in a series of convulsive spasms, like someone with an epileptic fit, his face distorted and his eyes wild like a lassoed horse bracing his legs. But something kept pulling him on. And now he’s picking up the skulls and making the circle in Inferno so that he might revisit Jenny on that holiest of nights Halloween. – [Author’s description]
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Mainichi (Mattie Brice)
Posted by Porpentine
on November 8, 2012
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This is an experiment in sharing a personal experience through game mechanics. It helps communicate daily occurances that happen in my life as a mixed transgender woman. It also explores the difficulty in expressing these feelings in words. As well, it stands as a commentary of how we currently use game design for broad strokes of universal experiences instead of the hyper-personal, and often excludes minority voices. – [Author’s description]
Atticus and Boy Electronic (Bloomengine)
Posted by Porpentine
on October 31, 2012
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A person once said this:
“But there can be no dramatic irony in videogames, because dramatic irony depends on a knowledge differential between spectator and protagonist — yet in a videogame the player is both spectator and protagonist at once.”
This is an experiment to see if it could be done. It cheats a little because there are two protagonists. – [Author’s description]
Mothhead (Massive Black)
Posted by Porpentine
on October 30, 2012
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Mothhead is an interactive art demo built in Unity by San Francisco-based industry art studio Massive Black. Explore the beautifully dark and whimsical underground grotto as a moth, meet a new friend, and find your other physical half. – [Author’s description]
[Windows Download]
[Mac Download]
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Walking Story (Michael Brough)
Posted by Porpentine
on October 30, 2012
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