Here is a list of novels, collections, and essays to use as inspiration for your game!

Fiction

• The Path to the Spiders’ Nests
• The Cloven Viscount
• The Argentine Ant
• Italian Folktales
• The Baron in the Trees
• A Plunge into Real Estate
• The Nonexistent Knight
• The Watcher
• Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City
• Smog
• Cosmicomics
• t zero (also published as Time and the Hunter)
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies
• Difficult Loves
• Invisible Cities
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
• Mr. Palomar

Fiction Collections

• Adam, One Afternoon and Other Stories
• Our Ancestors
• The Watcher and Other Stories
• Difficult Loves
• Under the Jaguar Sun
• Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
• The Complete Cosmicomics

Essays and other writings

• The Uses of Literature (also published as The Literature Machine)
• Fantastic Tales
• The Written and the Unwritten Word
• Collection of Sand
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium
• Why Read the Classics?

This is great! Thank you very much! 😉

Not necessarily v. developed inspiration, but I absolutely loved this from The Literature Machine in terms of thinking about player actions

Every animal, every object, every relationship took on beneficial or malign powers that came to be called magical powers but should, rather, have been called narrative powers, potentialities contained in the word, in its ability to link itself to other words on the plane of discourse.