Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia’s data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.
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A Designer’s Game About Arranged Marriages, Inspired by Her Own Journey
In Nashra Balagamwala’s board game, players are teenage girls pursued by an aunty who wants to marry them to any boy she can locate.
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Join the “League of Lonely Geologists” on a Digital Quest for Strange Rocks
The League of Lonely Geologists is a game of finding rocks, sharing them with strangers, and hurling them into a mysterious space portal.
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A Game Challenges You to Find the Folks Hidden in Hand-Drawn Environments
Hidden Folks is a hand-drawn game of discovery by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg where you find hidden people and objects in an illustrated world.
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A Haunting Game of Survival Set During the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict
Liyla and the Shadows of War is a game set during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, in which you attempt to protect a young girl through the raging battle.
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Disrupt and Then Destroy the World with a Dystopian Startup Simulator
In the game The Founder, you build the most disruptive, innovative, synergized startup in the world, but your success destroys the planet in the process.
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Paint a Lost Past in a Game Inspired by Irish Folklore
“Scéal” is a game on a ghost’s journey that unfolds like a storybook, its painting-like animation inspired by Irish folklore.
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Urban Sprawl and Its Perfect Palm Trees Haunt This Eerie Game
Carl Burton’s “Islands: Non-Places” is an interactive exploration into the strangeness of the mass-produced modern world.
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Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game
Teku Studios spent four years hand-painting a watercolor world for their game Candle, in which players decode puzzles through clues embedded in the art.
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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards
In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.
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An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language
Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. ‘My Grandmother’s Lingo’ is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.
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Be a Better Robert Moses in Games that Deconstruct His Legacy
A competition challenged developers to reinterpret a biography of the “master builder” as interactive experiences.