Inspired by the film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Sir Charles Warner, industrial magnate and gold-mine nvestor has sadly passed away at 82, quietly in his luxury home in New Hampshire. His family, all of them, money-grabbing, avaricio...

These three related themes are intended to be played, on a loop, in the background of interactive fiction or similar games. They're released under CC-BY. They were originally an entry into the SeedComp jam.

"While Rome Burns" is a game intro/writing prompt created for the SeedComp! 2023 Planting round . It goes like this: You are Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the fifth Roman emperor, beloved by the people and hated by the Senate. T...

UFOs A Sci-Fi Horror. You are abducted by a UFO. The ship is alien and weird. You do not understand anything aboard. The aliens are weird and scary. They do not speak, but instead communicate telepathically. They use some kind of "mind cont...

Flee from the Farao's guards with your loot-packed donkey! Hide in an ancient tomb! Grow an Egyptian Cursed Garden?

This seed is an Inform 10 riff on the eponymous Blake poem, but leaving the thematic and story pieces to the Sprouter in order to focus on a possibly-novel-to-IF puzzle mechanic. Focusing on the "fearful symmetry" phrase, the idea is that t...

"Of Message-Boards and Murder" is a writing prompt/game concept created for the SeedComp! 2023 Planting round . The prompt is this: You are an investigative journalist, and you think you've found a lead on a cold case from years ago. Unfort...

a poem seed for seedcomp 2023 , round 1. (CC BY-NC.) cw: car crash, injuries. cover image credit is here. The following games in Seedcomp 2023 Round Two used this seed: Amanda Walker's 'After the Accident' Bez's 'Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets...

"Novum Instrumentum" is a setting for a game, created for the SeedComp! 2023 Planting round . It was inspired by one of Leonhard Zubler's Novum Instrumentum Geometricum illustrations (which is in the public domain, and is included in the do...

An entry for the "planting" phase of SeedComp! Check out https://seedcomp.org/ to get involved!

This is a way to hack together Inform and a javascript game. It consists of an Inform 7 source file. When you download it and hit 'release', it creates several pages of javascript, scc, and html. These files need to be edited; one way to do...

"Room; Closed Door" is a writing prompt/game concept created for the SeedComp! 2023 Planting round . The prompt is this: Write a room escape game (preferably Twine or other hypertext) where the prose and choices are comprised only of nouns...