Matt Bates's Played Games
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| 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Matt Bates's rating:   Average member rating: You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
| 1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating:  "Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political... |
| 500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: 500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries... |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
| The Adventure of Esmeralda and Ruby on the Magical Island, by Marco "Erik108" Anastasio Average member rating: A story about two brothers looking for their missing friend, set in a special place. Who or what will they find on their adventure? |
| Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles, by Hippodamus & Company Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: To understand the life of Zephyra, my Parthenos and protector, I have to take you back many years. We need to return to Kyzikos, the heavily-wooded little moon that orbits Arctonnesus, the giant... |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
| All I Do is Dream, by Megan Stevens Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Your girlfriend has gone to work and you're alone in the house. What will you do? Learn a new language? Take up an instrument? Train for a marathon? Or I guess you could take a nap. |
| AND WHEN I SQUINT IT LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS, by Norbez Average member rating: Oh no! Young Polly has been transported to a strange, magical land by an evil wizard. Help her get back home in this Twine adventure! This game was designed as a young player's first introduction to... |
| Ariadne in Aeaea, by Víctor Ojuel Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan... |
| Ash, by Lee Grey Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Ash is an autobiographical story about the final days of life, and the loss of a parent. |
| Because You're Mine, by Owlor Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Find the various components necessary to perform a dark ritual in a swamp populated by Horses. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra Average member rating: Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those... |
| Black Rock City, by Jim Munroe Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: You're at Burning Man, with six choices to make before the world goes white. Choose wisely. Or wildly. The dust storm won't care. Zero puzzles, sixty-four endings. Cover: Trish Lamanna |
| Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
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| Cinnamon Tea, by Daffs O'Dill Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: You've only heard that one could see past or future lives through the use of certain teas, and a good rest. Surely you weren't expecting this. [This game contains a death scene, blood in multiple cases, and... |
| Color the Truth, by mathbrush Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
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| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (253 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
| Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
| Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell, by Marco Vallarino Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Ovranilla: a gloomy land full of traps. And wicked monsters. Carmilla, Millarca and Mircalla: the priestesses of the god Valmar, waiting for you in the devil's hole. Welcome back, Martin Voigt. Will hell be... |
| A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
| Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
| Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: |
| Edith's Cats, by Roboman Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Eight characters, a number, and a happy ending, by K.G. Orphanides Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War As you wake to find yourself on the acceleration couch in Control, you can expect the muscle memory of your... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Evermore, by Adam Whybray and Edgar Allan Poe Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: "MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch". (Edgar Allan Poe, 'Berenice', 1835) This... |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
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| Four Sittings in a Sinking House, by Bruno Dias Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The thing about sinking is: the sea is not a void. If you're sinking, you're displacing something. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016 |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
| The Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!, by Ade Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: It is a long million, this. The Septem Tower, held in the Manifold by the Tagides Rings, grinds on and on - its grey walls pressing close. The only thing to look forward to is the long, cold, endless Waste.... |
| The God Device, by Andy Joel Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: What is in the blood-soaked envelope the archaeologist gave Tanya just before she died? |
| Hill Ridge Lost & Found, by Jeremy Pflasterer Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: When he fears that a reclusive neighbor’s weird ministrations are leading the locals astray, an old cowboy takes it upon himself to amble back up to Hill Ridge and set things a-right. Note: This game was... |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
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| How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure. |
| Labyrinth of Loci, by anbrewk Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: “What distinguishes a memory palace from a memory labyrinth is that each place of memory in a palace is intended to be found, while in a labyrinth the structure is more than a means of storage: it is a way... |
| Letters, by Madison Evans Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A twine game where the reader explores a stack of letters left on their desk from someone they cared about. She has hidden herself inside her words, and all you can do is read between the lines. Can you find... |
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| The Little Lifeform That Could, by Fade Manley Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A little microbe in the primordial ooze has grand dreams! Dreams of survival, by and large, but small goals lead to large ones. Can you climb your way out of the ooze onto the land, into civilization, and up... |
| Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| Low, by Peregrine Wade Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Manlandia, by Rob Chateau Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Manlandia is a utopian interactive fiction that describes an isolated society composed entirely of men, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of... |
| The Matter of the Great Red Dragon, by Jonas Kyratzes Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: As is written in the Book of the Carvings of Narm, every one hundred years the Great Red Dragon rises from his lair in the Clawed Mountain, and descends with terrible fire on all the people of the Land of... |
| Moonland, by BillyJaden Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Kims love smells like a poppy, sedating your body and senses until only darkness is left. But something is whispering from beyond; a long since forgotten memory of consciousness . A poetic sci-fi story with... |
| The Mouse, by Naomi Z (as Norbez) Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Better get home quick if you don't want to get hurt, Evelyn Grey. **This game contains mature language, alcohol, abuse, and a brief scene of violence. Player discretion is advised.** |
| Night House, by Bitter Karella Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has... |
| Not Another Hero, by Cecilia Rosewood Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: You're probably familiar with those stories where people suddenly develop mysterious powers, and save the day. Well, this isn't one of those. Not the 'saving the day' part, at least. In this game you'll play... |
| Nyna Lives, by Sarah Rhiannon Nowack Average member rating: The life of a witch's cat is no stroll in the park. It's more like a stroll through monster-infested woods, over temperamental streams, and across festering swamps. But you can handle it, right? Hurry home,... |
| Off the Rails, by Katie Benson Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: You're on your way to your parents for a very ordinary weekend. But you wish it wouldn't be so ordinary. What secrets are hidden in a mundane magazine? Where will the night take you? How far will you go to... |
| a partial list of things for which i am grateful, by Devon Guinn Average member rating: i hope that this list will never be finished |
| The Periwink, by Jedediah Berry Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: It's your last day as her ladyship's groundskeeper—but you still have a little work left to do. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
| Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it! |
| Psychomanteum, by Hanon Ondricek Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Every year your friend hosts a Halloween party where guests are expected to complete three dares. This is the third. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
| Riot, by Taylor Johnson Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Your city is burning. Parker, a riot control officer, is thrust into the heat of his first riot when one mistake changes everything. Now he wanders through the bedlam, harbouring a deadly secret. |
| Rite of Passage, by Arno von Borries Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A comedy in four parts about exciting games of instinct and wits, set in childhood. Not necessarily for children. |
| Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich, by Bitter Karella Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1983. You are Roberta Williams -- Imagineer, Dream Weaver, and Renegade Adventure Game Designer. Sierra, the fledgling video game company that you founded with your husband Ken Williams, is in... |
| SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!, by Xalavier Nelson Jr. Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters. Also - bears. [Note: game contains strong language, and brief... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| The Shoe Dept., by Aquanet Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: What has two tongues but can't talk and follows us everywhere we go? Our lovely, leathery shoes, of course, the absolute last thing any person would ever expect to harbor a terrible secret. Fifteen-year-old... |
| Sigil Reader (Field), by verityvirtue Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: I am a sigil reader. I work in a city where sigils are a matter of public health, for a maliciously inscribed sigil could mean the ruin of a business - or a soul. Except today I wake to a changed world. The... |
| The Skyscraper and the Scar, by Diego Freire, Ruber Eaglenest Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The skyscraper is silhouetted against the horizon, an open scar on the skyline, rising until it’s lost in the clouds. A promise of prosperity, of something never reached. A monolith of what we once were... |
| Snake's Game, by Nahian Nasir Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: When a multi-dimensional snake asks you to play a game, you literally can't say no! Is the Red Apple the only place in the world that has hosted a god within its walls? Float through several psychedelic... |
| Steam and Sacrilege, by Phil McGrail Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: The Automatic Hotel, once hailed as a symbol of scientific progress and invention, stands crumbling. Surrounded by protesters trying to save the historic landmark and mired in rumors about the hotel's... |
| Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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... |
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| Theatre People, by Michael Kielstra Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: ToiletWorld: it's time to enter... the world of toilets. |
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| The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw, by Caleb Wilson (as Lewis Blanco) Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: 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: Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: ... 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: 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... |
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| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
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