Tabitha / alyshkalia
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Member since April 9, 2023
Last visited July 26, 2024
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Writer and player of IF! Games at alyshkalia.itch.io.
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Interactive Fiction by Tabitha / alyshkalia
Structural Integrity, by Tabitha O'Connell (2023) (10 ratings)You are Yaan, a well-off government official romantically involved with former messenger boy Kel. Uncover the cracks in your relationship, and decide what you're going to do about them... Author's... |
| Cycle, by alyshkalia (2023) (6 ratings) Tiel's partner Heron is the one thing in his life that makes him happy. So when Heron says ey's done with him, how can Tiel not go to desperate lengths to get em to stay? A story game with three... |
| You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell (2023) (7 ratings) A silly, light-hearted puzzle game in which you play an agent trying to get through a guarded door using your ability to reset time. |
| POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia (2023) (6 ratings) A little piece of my religious trauma. |
| Dark Communion, by alyshkalia (2023) (4 ratings) Two teenage girls. One abandoned church. ??? survivors. |
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Favorite surreal games - 5 items June 19, 2024
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Using my own personal definition of "surreal", which is less a definition and more a vibe that I know when I see.
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Polls by Tabitha / alyshkalia
Games seeking reviews (authors only) - 47 votes for 46 games; created March 10, 2024
Microparsers - 58 votes for 57 games; created December 13, 2023
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EDIT: The inaugural IF Review-a-thon is now underway! Full information here. Are you an IF author who would like more reviews of your...
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The discussion in this thread, from which I've borrowed the term "microparser" (thanks Pinkunz!), led me to want to collect small parser...
Rat games - 25 votes for 20 games; created November 28, 2023
Collecting games that either: have "rat" in the title; have rats/a rat playing a significant role; or have a rat as the PC.
Two-player games - 7 votes for 6 games; created August 27, 2023
IF games for two players
Reviews by Tabitha / alyshkalia
DOL-OS, by manonamora July 26, 2024
"DOL-OS is less a choice-based game and more a hypertext exploration game—or more specifically, a “found document” game, with the..." - See the full review
It can't be true it mustn't be true, by Charm Cochran July 23, 2024
"While I didn’t call this out in my review of the prior entry, it’s true of all three games: the cast list provided at the beginning is a..." - See the full review
Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine, by Charm Cochran July 20, 2024
"This is the second of three games (so far) in Charm’s RGB Cycle, all of which were made for this year’s Neo-Twiny Jam, which had a length..." - See the full review
Not Just Once, by TaciturnFriend July 12, 2024
"I played Not Just Once back when it was first released and enjoyed it then, but encountered a few bugs. Having just played the updated..." - See the full review
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser July 11, 2024
"The problem with hype is that it raises your expectations, and when the hyped thing fails to meet those expectations, it inhibits your..." - See the full review
"DOL-OS is less a choice-based game and more a hypertext exploration game—or more specifically, a “found document” game, with the..." - See the full reviewIt can't be true it mustn't be true, by Charm Cochran July 23, 2024
"While I didn’t call this out in my review of the prior entry, it’s true of all three games: the cast list provided at the beginning is a..." - See the full reviewSuspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine, by Charm Cochran July 20, 2024
"This is the second of three games (so far) in Charm’s RGB Cycle, all of which were made for this year’s Neo-Twiny Jam, which had a length..." - See the full reviewNot Just Once, by TaciturnFriend July 12, 2024
"I played Not Just Once back when it was first released and enjoyed it then, but encountered a few bugs. Having just played the updated..." - See the full reviewColoratura, by Lynnea Glasser July 11, 2024
"The problem with hype is that it raises your expectations, and when the hyped thing fails to meet those expectations, it inhibits your..." - See the full reviewSee all 59 reviews by Tabitha / alyshkalia
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Tabitha / alyshkalia's Play Lists
Played Games
DOL-OS, by manonamoraMöbius, by J.D. Clemens
The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
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Wish List
The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils FagerburgSuspended, by Michael Berlyn
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
9 Secret Steps, by mathbrush
Duck Diary, by Mathbrush