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A new Recommended List by vinceren, Now That’s What I Call Wordplay! May 3, 2024
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GOD i love word puzzles :D or, I liked The Phantom Tollbooth a LOT as a kid.
MathBrush reviews The Wolf: "A funny take on fairy tales, with simple parser" May 3, 2024
"This game is part of the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The competition requires games to have a tutorial and to be gentle for beginners,..." - See full review
A new competition page: Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2024 created May 1, 2024
This is the fourth annual Text Adventure Literacy Jam. The aim of the jam is to write a text adventure that is suitable for players with little or no prior experience of playing text adventures. The game...
A new listing for The Wolf, by Leo Weinreb May 1, 2024
I am a wolf of dashing features and stunning intellect. I am also a renowned home and flooring inspector who regularly makes house calls to ensure all intelligent creatures' abodes are up to safety code....
A new listing for Who Kidnapped Mother Goose?, by Garry Francis May 1, 2024
You feel your brain rattling around inside your head. Someone is shaking you. "Wake up! Wake up!" You rub your eyes and squint in the bright morning sunlight. You vaguely make out the silhouette of your...
A new listing for Their First Meeting, by dravianis May 1, 2024
This is a story set in the fictional universe of Lestaria. An unknown deserter from a terrible war winds up in a forest, one so dangerous that only one woman resides there. Begging her for shelter, you find...

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