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hi everyone

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your “loyal and virtuous” knight is doubting the cause he pledged his very soul to 🫵😂

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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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insurance woes AGAIN

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Anyone else drawing human-sonas for their houseplants🌱

Exactly one year ago my gf and I got matching bloodleafs (Ivy and Irene) and they both immediately began to waste away (crunchy, shriveled, horizontal). Ivy sadly succumbed to her consumption, but Irene made a miraculous (supernatural) recovery

Happy birthday to Lady Irene, who definitely didn’t drain Ivy’s essence and rise again as an unholy creature! May she never die ♥️

[Art ref: 1896-Noel-1897 by Alphonse Mucha]

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Recent FF6 drawings. Mostly... the clown...

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Copied from bluesky May 20, 2025.

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why am I scrolling . What am I hoping to find

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I plan on watching a movie at some point in the future

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Dog

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small talk enjoyers when the weather is in any way notable:

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04.05.25

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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buying microsoft products funds genocide