A social game for 5-8 players. Inspired by the 1923 short story ‘The Oracle of the Dog’ by G. K. Chesterton. Don’t Trust the Dog is a game of passing information among those who cannot be trusted. Players are either innocent witnesses...
The Jumping Jackrabbits of Rootabaga County Many years ago in the county of Rootabaga, in the center square of a great city there was an exhibition. A great display of power and grace! On that fine day several troupes of gifted jackrabbits...
Yes! We Have No Bananas is a print-and-play card game for 2-4 players designed by Mac McAnally. It's based on the 1923 song written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn, now in the Public Domain. You are a hard-working immigrant produce storeown...
A short, meditative game for two, after Yokoyama Taikan's Metempsychosis . Written for the Gaming Like It's 1923 Jam. " Metempsychosis invites players to step into a liminal space where they can meet, touch, and finally speak to their past...
The Garden of God is a short literary game made in RPG Maker MV for the Gaming Like It's 1923 Game Jam, where it tied for Best Visuals alongside Chimneys and Tulips by litrouke. It is adapted from the 1923 novel The Garden of God , by H. De...
In 1916, newspaper columnist Don Marquis created the character Archy, a poet who was reincarnated as a cockroach for the crime of writing free-verse poetry. Archy and his sometime friend Mehitabel, a cat who claimed to be the reincarnation...
Swing is a short 2D browser-based, clock-swinging game. The controls are simple: Space-bar to swing. When running on itch.io, you may need to click anywhere on the game before it registers key presses. This game was made for the 'Gaming Lik...
In 1923, Robert Frost published a half decent poem called "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this short browser game, you will improve that okay poem until it reaches its full potential. Won "Best Digital Game" in the Gaming Like It...
"Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless." - Kahlil Gibran Two players - one portraying a house, the other its imaginary dweller, slip into two separate but conne...
an arrangement of four poems from ee cummings' Tulips&Chimneys collection won Best Visuals in the Gaming Like It's 1923 Jam . cover images from here & here .
You were born with the gift of laughter, and the sense that the World was mad. It's the time right before the French revolution. In the provinces of France, aristocrats make the laws as they please, and the King's Dragoons enforce them. The...