MeFi Projects

"Come one! Come all! And welcome to the ultimate test of skill... That's right, live from the Independent Monetary Kingdom of Coinland, it's time once again for The Coin Toss World Cup! 8 billion players from all around the world! One solitary winner! Who will it be? Who knows! But it could be you! And it has to be someone!" The Coin Toss World Cup is an exciting game of skill and talent in which YOU could become the number one "heads-or-tailser" in the world! All you have to do is choose (and not lose)! [more inside]
posted by dng on Jul 27, 2023 - 3 comments

"Eyes of Tree" is a hypertext game about the price you pay for loving the fairy queen. [more inside]
posted by yarntheory on Dec 3, 2019 - 3 comments

"Home of Hell is an interactive fiction story in which YOU! must brave the horrors of the infamous Home of Hell to say goodbye to your grandmother one final time." A (slightly) humorous homage to classic Fighting Fantasy books (especially Steve Jackson's House Of Hell), this story contains scenes of sadness, despair and the proliferation of infuriating annoyances that lead inexorably to a mounting atmosphere of anxiety, terror and, eventually, scenes of mildly gruesome horror. [more inside]
posted by dng on May 21, 2019 - 0 comments

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. An interactive story about memory, loss, and love.
posted by sgranade on Jul 17, 2018 - 2 comments

What do the numbers coming from the shortwave station mean? Who is behind it? Who wants to help you find out... and who will stop you at any cost? A Twine game about numbers stations, made for Global Game Jam 2018, with music by Zarkonnen.
posted by daisyk on Jun 9, 2018 - 3 comments

Me: a person trapped in a toilet stall. You: a helpful person on Facebook Messenger trying to chat me through this mess. Involves time travel, the creative industries and swears. [more inside]
posted by nerdfish on Jan 16, 2018 - 1 comment

An old prototype SF game about mysteries, weird aliens, and managing your crew. [more inside]
posted by Zarkonnen on Sep 12, 2017 - 3 comments

An multimedia storybook and its inscrutable magazine, The Seers Catalogue is a world of weights and measures, strange encounters and necromantic cabals, where the key to all secrets is an obtuse and enthralling magazine. [more inside]
posted by Marquis on Oct 28, 2016 - 0 comments

I made an interactive fiction story with Twine. It's about finding out a childhood friend you lost touch with has died, and playing through an old video game you started together but never finished. [more inside]
posted by prize bull octorok on Jul 10, 2015 - 5 comments

My attempt at putting together a very simple javaScript plugin for creating dialog trees and interactive fiction games, complete with some javaScript hooks so you can tie it into other stuff. GitHub link, examples.
posted by Artw on Jun 9, 2015 - 7 comments

A humorous interactive fiction/visual novel game about dealing with customer service representatives. Available free for download on Windows, Linux & OSx (40mb .zip). [more inside]
posted by subject_verb_remainder on Aug 26, 2014 - 1 comment

Playfic is a community for writing, sharing, and playing interactive fiction games (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a bizarre and wonderful "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7. I wrote a bit more about it on my blog, along with some screenshots.
posted by waxpancake on Feb 15, 2012 - 5 comments

I've started work on my first Interactive Fiction. It is called: Island Of The Nightmare Maggots! [more inside]
posted by tumid dahlia on Jul 30, 2011 - 17 comments