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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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An Interactive Fiction.
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Deity's Gift
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conversations about being online
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a piece of hypertext about files and circulation
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An iframe-elegy browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour.
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lesbian hyperspecificity
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A eulogy in honour of growing skies and shrinking possibility
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Queered-future festival manifesto for Speculation Jam
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speculative wordle fiction
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a love letter (zine) to unconventional game developers
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a collaborative poetry experiment
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A Kentucky Route Zero Fanzine drenched in bittersweet nostalgia
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A procedural urban narrative
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Three zines with some alternatives to a few money-based things
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a manifesto/rant about ableism and aesthetics
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A chance meeting.
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seek help in locating a game you played when you were young.
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They're all good dogs, except when they're not
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the textual detrius of a generated city
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A comprehensive dialogue engine for Gamemaker Studio 2.
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Cheeky 0.5 ways to stop yourself and others from being bullied!
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How colonialism, art and videogame tilesets are linked
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Un essai bitsy francophone sur les monstres mous dans les jeux vidéo
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Generate names of aesthetics imaginary or real
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A quiz where you decide whether a game is a roguelike
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Find Local Sapphic Monsters
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a zine about how to play text adventures
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concept collecting
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i literally just wrote this text right now & i am putting it immediately onto itch.io!!!
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Ten million invocations to a fictional god, recited by a robot.
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a public domain manifesto about "real" & "unreal" places
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adhd sucks and i'm bad at time management (minicomic/twine game combo)
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the repository of humanity's knowledge of dragons
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A manifesto to inform best practice across the digital arts creative and cultural sector.
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