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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

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my entire body hurts i'm sobbing so bad over this holy shit

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Do you think Jesus came on the cross just a little bit

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This person wrote a manifesto I ain’t reading all that but this is literally the type of behavior im talking about the idea hobbies all cost money is so removed from reality if you have the time to pick up your phone and write 7 paragraphs on how im victimizing you with my offhanded post you have the time to watch a movie on YouTube with your very same phone instead come on now. How is you freaking out on the internet helping any of these issues

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Me, watching my kitten hold still for a suspiciously long time: Ollie, are you peeing on my floor?

Ollie: Not

Me: Are you sure?

Ollie, grunting through time and space to push out a chocolate mcmuffin wider than he is tall: Not

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Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

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Here’s a small collection of Dandadan doodles I’ve been slowly scribbling out for the last week or so, I have a few big pieces planned, but I haven’t really had any energy to work on them SO stupid stuff it remains

Don’t have a lot of context for these outside of the fact that I love these characters and their weird found family dynamic ❤️‍🩹

Also — RIP Jin Enjoji, got his shit rocked by a toddler-sized mantis shrimp 🫡

FOLLOW UP I know there’s an Okarun deficiency but I promise I’m on the way to rectifying that

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"What are you gonna bring to our company" being on tumblr on company time

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gamer

(source: squidpastry on iNaturalist)

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I am entirely obsessed with this person's hand designed/knitted Rothko inspired sweater. I'm going to be thinking about this for days

The artist's instagram is here!

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maika._.cosplay

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hi! i'm not sure if you made it, but there's an edited page a lot like what you make that i saw a while ago that's like...a super crappy picture of a whale or a shark and i think one of the columns said 'wtf is that/large guy'. i've been trying so hard to find it but i can't 😭 do you know if that's one you made?