Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for... |
Stuff and Nonsense, by Felicity Banks Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) The year is 1860. The place is Bearbrass, Australia: a sprawling metropolis of tin, steel, brick, stone and brass. Queen Victoria is visiting Bearbrass for Australia's own Great Exhibition. All the sharpest... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,... |
Take Over the World, by Marie L. Vibbert Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Guess it's time to take over the world. Somebody has to. You live in East Cleveland, Ohio, so your options are limited, but urban-chic. Find the right evil lair, recruit a mad scientist, and foil the East... |
Theatre People, by Michael Kielstra Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) The dazzle of the theatre: the footlights, the bows, the adoring crowd! It's your job, as a tech crew member, to make sure that the actors and, especially, the actresses, get enough of that. Not for you the... |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (76 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
This is My Memory of First Heartbreak, Which I Can't Quite Piece Back Together, by Jenny Goldstick, Stephen Betts, Owen Roberts Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A graphic memoir exploring the author’s memory of her first heartbreak. |
A Time of Tungsten, by Devin Raposo Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) The walls are high, the hole is deep. She is trapped, on a distant planet. Watched. She may not survive. But, she did live. |
To The Wolves, by Els White Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Offered up as sacrifice to the wolf-gods of the forest, hunted by beasts and man alike, Ella must find a way to survive. |
Toiletworld, by Chet Rocketfrak Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) ToiletWorld: it's time to enter... the world of toilets. |
The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw, by Caleb Wilson (as Lewis Blanco) Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) The heat is stifling, the hotel room is vastly overpriced, and your heart is in pieces. But the worse is yet to come... WARNING: This story contains potentially humorous depictions of Mexican headgear. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Vlad the Impala, by Pumpkin B. Parjeter Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) Years ago, the identity fraud began. Vlad the Impaler is a vampire. You are a hooved herbivore. You are the unfortunately named...Vlad the Impala. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (75 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
Yes, my mother is..., by Skarn Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Counseling is no easy job. When someone requests your help, within the space of a few questions, you must have learned enough about them, about their strengths and weaknesses, about what they want and what... |
You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) ... you do not know how you got here. The last thing you remember is going out to eat at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps you were drugged. Perhaps you had a bad case of food poisoning and wandered off, feverish,... |
Zigamus: Zombies at Vigamus, by Marco Vallarino Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Vigamus, the Video Game Museum of Rome, has been attacked by zombies. To save it from the monsters, you can only count on your brain and the relics and gadgets exhibited in the building. This game is also... |