PREVIOUS GAMES IN THIS SETTING:
🔮 made for Divination Jam |
🥚 made for Bitsy Egg Jam |
🕯️ Valentine's Day 2020 |
Manipulate an eerie videotape and confront a dangerous infatuation by rewinding, fast-forwarding, and pausing the tape to alter its contents and reshape the fate of your love. Featuring small Bitsy scenes, audio, branching paths leading to two different endings, and LOVE, "raw and unfettered," in less than 1,000 words, as requested.
Originally submitted to sub-Q's Love Jam, UNMAKING, UNMADE was one of two entries awarded Judges' Choice and selected for publication in sub-Q Magazine. It appears in the February 2019 issue. UNMAKING, UNMADE was also exhibited at WordPlay 2019. 956 words • Interactive Fiction • Twine + Bitsy • sub-Q Magazine's Love Jam |
The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must see to the task with care. Unearthly eyes gaze down upon you from the sea above. Will your devotion reach them?
Does it matter? A text-based ritual simulation governed by player choice. Originally submitted to the 24th annual Interactive Fiction Competition, DEVOTIONALIA tied for 20th place out of 77 entries and was nominated for Best Use of Multimedia in the 2018 XYZZY Awards. The post-competition version adds new content in the form of an unlockable epilogue. DEVOTIONALIA can be played on itch.io, and its reviews can be read (or added to) on IFDB. For more information, visit the Sacred Tides page. ~10k+ words • Interactive Fiction • Twine • IFComp 2018 • post-competition release Dec. 31 2018 |
Explore the abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress; accept or resist its perpetual motion.
(PLAY) 1,000 words • Twine • Sub-Q Jam • 2019This program assesses your compatibility with one of three fathomless gods and then teaches you the corresponding ritual to remake the world in its image.
(PLAY) Twine • Twine Survival Game Jam • 2021 |
You were murdered two years ago. It didn't take. Now, you've been reborn as most recently-hatched member of a quadrumvirate of lich-lords.
(PLAY) ~1,000 words • Twine & Bitsy • Bitsy Egg Jam • 2020A glimpse into the painful symbiotic relationship between a pilot and his mech. A price must be paid.
(PLAY) Collaboration with @Ghastarium • Bitsy • Bitsy Mech Jam & Emotional (Digital) Mecha Jam • 2018 |
Cosmic horror inspired by the Fermi Paradox, Isaiah 34:14, and asteroid #1181. (PLAY)
~ 6,666 words • collaboration with @notgojira • Twine • Fermi Paradox Jam • 2016 |
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