Matt Bates's Played Games

Low, by Peregrine Wade Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Manlandia, by Rob Chateau Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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: (13 ratings) 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: (7 ratings) 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: (10 ratings) 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: (18 ratings) 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: (8 ratings) 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: (11 ratings) 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: (8 ratings) 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: (14 ratings) i hope that this list will never be finished

The Periwink, by Jedediah Berry Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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: (559 ratings) "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: (25 ratings) 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: (19 ratings) 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: (39 ratings) These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.

Riot, by Taylor Johnson Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) 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: (10 ratings) 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: (12 ratings) 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: (24 ratings) 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: (413 ratings) "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: (10 ratings) 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: (17 ratings) 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: (12 ratings) 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 and...

Snake's Game, by Nahian Nasir Matt Bates's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) 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: (10 ratings) 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...

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