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Games I'd like to play and/or make
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<em
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>🎶 Suggested listening:
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<a
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href="https://exquisitecorp.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-slab"
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alt="Untitled Slab album"
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>Untitled Slab</a
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>
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by ExquisiteCorp 🎶
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<img src="assets/document.png" alt="legal document" /> A game where you
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have to fill out generated grants and artists statements with your
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wildest ideas. Each form and RFP is different. But when you submit,
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there is some chance your grant will be <em>accepted</em> (maybe it
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depends on number of questions what your chances are?). Fireworks shoot
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off when one of your grants is accepted and your score increases by one.
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<img
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src="assets/occur.png"
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alt="rolling up a car, replacing with a tree"
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/>
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A game where you are pushing a katamari ball and you roll up and remove
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cars from the street. Eventually you are big enough to roll up
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McMansions, police departments, prisons, corporations.
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<img src="assets/read.png" alt="person reading a book" />a videogame
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where you read a book
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<img src="assets/penguin.png" alt="penguin" /> a videogame at the north
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(south?) pole. Made up of generated pokey the penguin characters and
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dialog and quests that don't need to be done.
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<img src="assets/monster.png" alt="monster" /> A roguelike where you
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play a monster trying to kill the player. When you get killed you are
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reincarnated as the next monster.
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<img src="assets/bridge.png" alt="bridge" /><del
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>A twine game version of Passage.</del
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>
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<em>update: actually, never mind</em>
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<img src="assets/treehouse.png" alt="treehouse" /><del>
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A 2d videogame where i am the main character and i live in a treehouse
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with lots of cats</del
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>
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<img src="assets/nintendo.png" alt="nintendo system" />an actual
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paperrad x corey arcangel homebrew nintendo game
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<img src="assets/bacteria.png" alt="bacteria" />a video game where you
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play as slime mold
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<img src="assets/lightbulb.png" alt="lightbulb" /> a videogame where the
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"screen" you are playing on is a strip of lightbulbs
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<img src="assets/chess.png" alt="poorly drawn pawn" /> a chess game that
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slowly unfolds with input via a blood sugar monitor. If I keep my blood
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sugar in check, my player (AI-controlled) is a bit "smarter"
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and does better. As I'm spiking or dropping, my AI makes bad moves
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against the opponent.
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<img src="assets/monome.png" alt="hardware music controller" />a
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roguelike played on the Monome Teletype that produces musical output as
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you battle and explore.
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<img src="assets/lattice.png" alt="lattice" />games that fit in the size
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of a tweet. any language. <em><a href="#" onclick="alert('1 Ask two of your friends to play chess\n 2 Pick one pawn and draw a face on it. This pawn is your Pawn.\n 3 If your friend wants to move your Pawn, they ask you what your Pawn does. Your Pawn may take any legal move. Or it can refuse to move, and your friend can move any other piece.\n--by Sam M / sam-m.itch.io');">1 chess variant</a> 2. <a href="https://slashie.net/rogue280/" alt="rogue280v2">rogue280v2</a></em>
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<img src="assets/hut.png" alt="hut in mountains" />a text game where you
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travel through rural parts of northern thailand, burma and laos that
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includes music from tribes of the region
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<img src="assets/hole.png" alt="black hole spiral" />a 3d game where you are
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a black hole that absorbs an entire IKEA
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<img src="assets/nose.png" alt="nose" />a videogame that you play with
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your nose
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<img src="assets/challah.png" alt="challah bread" />i think it would be
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cool to have a game played with a controller made out of bread. maybe
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some kind of cooking game.
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<img src="assets/muscle.png" alt="making a muscle" />lots of
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personalized remakes of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alrycItYV8&feature=emb_logo" alt="Muscle March gameplay on YouTube">Muscle March</a> (the GREATEST videogame of all
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time)
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<img src="assets/cart.png" alt="mine cart" />a donkey kong country mine
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cart level maker/generator
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<img src="assets/radio.png" alt="car radio" />make games where you can
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play the radio and change stations. <em>e.g.<a href="https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Stations_in_GTA_V" alt="Grand Theft Auto radio stations">GTA V</a></em>
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<img src="assets/morse.png" alt="morse code key" />a choose your own
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adventure played with morse code audio and a code keyer
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<img src="assets/bass.png" alt="bass musician" />a game like rock band
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except that it's a jazz quartet playing a simple 1-4-5 blues progression
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and you're playing keyboard accompaniment while NPCs take turns soloing.
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you have a midi keyboard controller and nothing bad happens if you hit
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off notes other than it may sound bad to you. it should have a bunch of
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fake book songs to choose from, slow blues, and the sounds of glasses
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clinking and clapping after solos.<em>e.g.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTwT89GOmU" alt="Jamey Aebersold Autumn Leaves no piano">1</a></em>
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<img src="assets/money.png" alt="briefcase with money inside" />a game
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where you collect snipped out letters and then compose a ransom note. it
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tells you who the ransom note should be written for.
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<img src="assets/parachute.png" alt="parachute" />a remake of the mac
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plus <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheDuaneBlehmCollection" alt="Stuntcopter emulated on Internet Archive">helicopter drop game</a>. needs some good music.
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<img src="assets/food.png" alt="food" />a game that asks you to list 15
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or 20 ingredients from your kitchen at the beginning, and when you
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finally win or lose it, it produces a recipe for you
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<img src="assets/tombstone.png" alt="tombstone" />a game based on Caves
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of Qud style graveyards. All you do is walk around explore the
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tombstones and epitaphs.
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<img src="assets/station.png" alt="radio station with antenna" />a
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shared online radio station you can DJ with your friends
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<img src="assets/questions.png" alt="question bubbles" />write a text
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adventure game based on the box art of the <a href="https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mastermind.jpg" alt="Mastermind box art">original Mastermind</a> game.
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(okay, you can have a version of the original game played within the
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text game as well).
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<img src="assets/writing.png" alt="writing at a desk" />a series of
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<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/172995/the-oulipo-groups-generative-word-games/" alt="Oulipo">oulipo</a> text games
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<img src="assets/dungeon.png" alt="dungeon" />Dungeon Painter. whatever
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that is.
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<img src="assets/form.png" alt="computer fillable form" />a game that
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can be played and experienced in google forms. <em>update: <a href="http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/timetossed/" alt="time tossed on Google Forms">timetossed</a> by Porpentine</em>
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<img src="assets/vape.png" alt="vaping device" />a game for that fancy
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ipod-like vape that comes with the game Simon. do they still have that?
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can you hack the firmware?
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<em
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><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAt7wfiNOdE">update</a></em
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<img src="assets/run.png" alt="running leg and shoe" />an interactive
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audio-based exercise game that you play maybe on a phone, like the
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zombies run game but the story is interesting
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<img src="assets/home.png" alt="2 story home" />a game where you draw
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all the rooms from your childhood home. you can add yourself as a
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playable character if you want. <em>update: <a href="https://notapipe.itch.io/232henley" alt='232henley on itch.io'>232henley</a></em>
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<img src="assets/leg.png" alt="prosthetic leg" />a game where robotic
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legs can try on many different silly shoes and you get to see how it
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affects their walk
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<img src="assets/caterpillar.png" alt="caterpillar" />Qwoperpillar - a
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qwop-like but with 20 legs
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<img
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src="assets/mushroom.png"
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alt="mario land blocks and mushroom"
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/>Mario Teaches Cooking
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<img src="assets/pizza.png" alt="pizza restaurant" />Felicia's Pizza
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(where i worked in high school) made in the Hotline Miami <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966323230" alt="Hotline Miami level editor tutorial">level editor</a>. <em>example: nilson's <a href='https://nilson.itch.io/barista-statement' alt='Barista Statement'>Barista Statement</a></em>
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<img src="assets/morris.png" alt="9 men's morris board" />9 men's morris
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played live (not turn-based) by 2 teams. Games will probably last just a
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<a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/226382/The_very_good_reasons_for_Bennett_Foddys_mad_Speed_Chess.php" alt="article on speed chess">few seconds</a>?
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<img
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src="assets/chess_pieces.png"
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alt="chess pieces and a hand on a piece"
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/>a chess RPG/ttrpg. <em>update: 1. <a href="https://twitter.com/alex_yoder/status/615587014944145408" alt="tiny-twitch">tiny-twitch</a>, 2. <a href="https://guillaumejentey.itch.io/chess-rpg" alt="CHESSrpg">CHESSrpg</a>, 3.<a href="#" onclick="alert('1 Ask two of your friends to play chess\n 2 Pick one pawn and draw a face on it. This pawn is your Pawn.\n 3 If your friend wants to move your Pawn, they ask you what your Pawn does. Your Pawn may take any legal move. Or it can refuse to move, and your friend can move any other piece.\n--by Sam M / sam-m.itch.io');">a mini tweet-size one</a>, 4. <a href="https://www.quaxio.com/bootloader_retro_game_tweet/" alt="nibbles">nibbles</a></em>
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<img
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src="assets/sleep.png"
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alt="a sleeping crescent moon in nightcap"
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/>a game you play by going to sleep. when you wake up you look to see
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how well your character did, read about their adventure, qquests,
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treasure gained, monsters fought, etc. Your character has greater chance
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of success and riches based on getting closest to adequate amount of
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sleep.
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<img src="assets/tamagotchi.png" alt="tamagotchi" />a Tamagotchi based
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on my exercising. <em>e.g. 1. <a href="https://wokamon.com/"> alt="Wokamon">wokamon</a></em>
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<img src="assets/needles.png" alt="needles and pins" />more games where
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you assemble scrap quilt parts. <em>e.g. 1. <a href="https://notapipe.itch.io/quiltfolk" alt="Quiltfolk">Quiltfolk</a></em>
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<img src="assets/joker.png" alt="joker character" />write back stories
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for all the characters in the boring Spades game I have on my iPad.
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What's their story? How did they come to be playing this game?
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<img src="assets/logo.png" alt="LOGO language example movement" />a
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LOGO-like where you can control the character in a roguelike game only
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by issuing instruction code. you have to write your own movement and
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action and combat functions and use them when you're not hungry.
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<em
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>update: this is actually how most kids' "learn to program"
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environments
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<a href="https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/"
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>are made now</a
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<img src="assets/level.png" alt="level" />a simple grid-based level
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editor. You can click to place enemies, power ups, potions, weapons and
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add the player. click to try the level, and a button to export or share. <em>e.g. <a href="https://www.puzzlescript.net/editor.html" alt="Puzzlescript">Puzzlescript</a></em>
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<img src="assets/talmud.png" alt="Talmud pages" />more games that are
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based on or use the Talmud
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<img src="assets/eyes.png" alt="spy person" />a really crappy trippy
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weird reimplementation of <a href="https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Where_In_The_USA_Is_Carmen_Sandiego" alt="Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego">Carmen Sandiego<a>
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<img src="assets/claw.png" alt="claw machine game" />a really crappy
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digital CLAW machine game where the prizes are generated and if you
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successfully grab one it gets added to your inventory and displayed on
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the desktop
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<img src="assets/chalkboard.png" alt="drawing on a chalkboard" />an
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adventure game (collaborative or solo) played on a chalkboard,
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whiteboard or post-it notes. <em>e.g. <a href="https://lazerwalker.itch.io/tubin-down-a-river" alt="Tubin' Down a River by Em Lazerwalker">Tubin' Down A River</a></em>
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<img src="assets/basketball.png" alt="basketball hoop" />a drawing app
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where there is an occasional sound affect playing from the original NBA
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Jam as you draw. ("Perfect!", "He's on
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fire!","Is it the shoes?!")
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<img src="assets/porridge.png" alt="bowl of porridge" />10,000 bowls of
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oatmeal, the game.
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<img src="assets/village.png" alt="village" />a game where you design or
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select a simple flag, motto, food, drink, flower favored in each village
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and then see how civilization plays out and cultures combine and
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influence each other
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<img src="assets/books.png" alt="stack of books" />a game where you
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collect and read library books. there should be a large number of books
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(from project gutenberg?) and nooks to read in. actually, maybe the
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virtual nook should drop away and the while the character reads the book
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on the screen you should mostly just have the ebook available for you to
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read in your own real nook somewheres
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<img src="assets/donkey.png" alt="donkey" /> a command line text-game
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where you wander between different villages with a donkey. You are
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trying to buy <del>silks</del> textiles. Like <a href="https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/" alt="Dopewars">Dopewars?</a> When you are
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successful, you return home to a feast. High chance of failure.
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<img src="assets/kudzu.png" alt="kudzu icon" /> a hand drawn black and
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white (charcoal? pencil?) and scanned in assets. You are wandering
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around a bombed-out post-apocalyptic landscape, but plants are taking
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back over (kudzu?). There are old broken bits of technology, like old
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keyboards and ethernet cables that you can find occasionally. At some
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point you find a gameboy and turn it on. It still works and you can play
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little games on it.
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<img src="assets/viking.png" alt="viking helmet" />what if the mechanics
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of the NES <a href="https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23609765/the-lost-vikings-and-how-we-learned-to-love-multiplayer-puzzles" alt="Lost Vikings">space vikings</a> game had gone on to become a canon genre of
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games and there were clones and variations of it available on every
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platform?
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<img src="assets/plant.png" alt="plant" />no more plant simulation
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games. get actual plants. jeez.
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<img src="assets/kitten.png" alt="kitten" />more games like <a href="http://www.robotfindskitten.org/" alt="Robot finds kitten">robot finds</a>
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kitten
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<img src="assets/can.png" alt="can" />root beer as possible inventory
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item
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<img src="assets/rain.png" alt="rain" />3d open world game but it's
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raining a ton, like Seattle
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<img src="assets/console.png" alt="console commands" />text game but in
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona" alt="Toki Pona on Wikipedia">toki pona</a>
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<img src="assets/tentacle.png" alt="tentacle" />a LOGO-like where the
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player issues the normal commands to move around and turn but also can
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augment and add arms, legs, other appendages like <a href="https://cavesofqud.gamepedia.com/Motorized_treads" alt="Tank treads augmentation on Caves of Qud">tank treads</a> and
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strange abilities
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<p>
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<em>Games I'd Like to Play and/or Make</em> was made for
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<a href="https://itch.io/jam/list-jam" alt="ListJam on itch.io"
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>List Jam</a
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2021 by Lee Tusman. It is
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<a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#Postcardware"
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alt="Postcardware on Wikipedia"
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>postcardware</a
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>. If you make a game or play a game based on this list, send me a
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postcard or <a href="https://leetusman.com/">email</a>.
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<p>
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<em><a href="credits.txt" alt="credits document">Credits</a></em>
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