Nontradiational Parser, Gamebook, IF and Systems - an IFDB Poll
by thecanvasrose
RSS FeedI'm making a list based on this poll as I play the elected games and can write snippets about them.
See here: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=3n6rheokfkcsntf
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I'm looking for games which are:
》Neither parser nor gamebook games
》Highly nontraditional parser games
》Highly nontraditional gamebooks
》Those which bend the norm of traditional development systems
》Those which push the envelope of/with less common development systems
》Potentially foggy in their status as IF
| Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen 3 votes "An IF in print" [+]"An IF in print" --thecanvasrose... "Super original format" [+]"Super original format: Mixed feelings on overall story, but has a unique conceit and makes good use of it." ( ) --Cerfeuil... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --IFforL2...  Vote for this game | |
| All Your Time-Tossed Selves, by Porpentine 3 votes "IF in Google Forms" [+]"IF in Google Forms" --thecanvasrose... (No comment) [+](No comment) --CMG... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson 3 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --CMG... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Felix Pleșoianu... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Denk... Vote for this game | |
| Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --CMG... "A gamebook with..." [+]"A gamebook with an intensely parser feel" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Draculaland, by Robin Johnson 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --CMG... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Felix Pleșoianu... Vote for this game | |
| Heaven Will Be Mine, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Human Errors, by Katherine Morayati 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --CMG... Vote for this game | |
| Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| The Dead Tower, by Mez Breeze, Andy Campbell 1 vote "Poetry in a 3D Environment" [+]"Poetry in a 3D Environment" ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| The House Abandon, by jonNoCode 1 vote "A parser built in Unity (with visual effects)" [+]"A parser built in Unity (with visual effects)" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| TextCraft: Alpha Island, by Fabrizio Polo 1 vote "Real-time parser game" [+]"Real-time parser game" ( ) --Edo... Vote for this game | |
| Loss, Undersea, by D. Fox Harrell 1 vote "An experimental, poetic gamebook" [+]"An experimental, poetic gamebook" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| (do not) forget, by lectronice 1 vote "A gamebook w. heavy graphics" [+]"A gamebook w. heavy graphics" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Façade, by Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern 1 vote "IF told with an AI chatbot" [+]"IF told with an AI chatbot: Not a parser exactly." ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Charlie The Robot, by Fernando Contreras 1 vote "An offbeat,..." [+]"An offbeat, unusually styled gamebook" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Harmonia, by Liza Daly 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --CMG... Vote for this game | |
| Wumpus 2000, by Muffy St. Bernard 1 vote "This thing got style!" [+]"This thing got style!: Huge procedurally created detailed cave, roaming enemies and more simulation aspects, plus treasure hunt. Utterly impressive and loveable." ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| Doki Doki Literature Club, by Team Salvato 1 vote "A satire of visual novels" [+]"A satire of visual novels" --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleşoianu 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Felix Pleșoianu... Vote for this game | |
| Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers 1 vote "roguelike-ish" [+]"roguelike-ish" ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| Hyper Rift, by CKS Studios 1 vote "A Unity Mobile App Gamebook" [+]"A Unity Mobile App Gamebook" ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| The Bubble Bath, by Susane Berkenheger 1 vote "A storytelling virus" [+]"A storytelling virus: Requires outdated hardware and software to play" ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Venience World, by Daniel Spitz 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Secluded, by Niklas Gløsen 1 vote "A Twine/Unity mashup" [+]"A Twine/Unity mashup" ( ) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Rox, by L. Ross Raszewski 1 vote "Asteroids IF style" [+]"Asteroids IF style" ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| Fingertips: Who's Knockin' On The Wall?, by Melvin Rangasamy 1 vote "Riddle me this batman!" [+]"Riddle me this batman!" ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| My Very Own Train Station, by Niklas Gløsen 1 vote "Another Twine/Unity combo" [+]"Another Twine/Unity combo" ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling 1 vote "Lovely randomized mysterious, hard spy game." [+]"Lovely randomized mysterious, hard spy game.: Adrift, rather light on the normal parser game fiction/puzzle style. More leaning to a giant puzzlebox as a whole (not traditional IF puzzle heavy). CYOA style combat." ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| I Think The Waves Are Watching Me, by Bob McCabe 1 vote "Sort of a whacky whodunnit. Randomized, CYOA style" [+]"Sort of a whacky whodunnit. Randomized, CYOA style: .Net application. Gather McGuffins, a good weapon, traits of others, make friends/allies and try to survive. Feels something like a BattleRoyale in the form of a text game reminiscient of a boardgame. Totally slick!" ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| AI Dungeon, by Nick Walton 1 vote "Basically just..." [+]"Basically just some frontend for running inference with a GPT-2 or 3 language model." ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| Which Describes How You're Feeling, by Adam Parrish 1 vote "rhyme in time pun fun" [+]"rhyme in time pun fun" --DAB... Vote for this game | |
| Habeas Corpus, by G.C. Baccaris 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Felix Pleșoianu... Vote for this game | |
| Love, Prestige & Spookiness, by Elizabeth Smyth, Pedro Alves, D'Ack Games, Maria Vittoria Patti, Ed Roberts, Alan Wills, Anita G. Zadeh, Aria Zadeh 1 vote "An experiment with Unity" [+]"An experiment with Unity" ( - Full review) --thecanvasrose... Vote for this game | |
| Secret of the Starry Depths, by Felix Pleşoianu 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --Felix Pleșoianu... Vote for this game | |
| Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "Too good to be true" [+]"Too good to be true" ( ) --DAB... Vote for this game | |