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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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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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world war 3 was on the line, jason

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“small thread on drawing plus sized characters!”

Source: Ullaiin on Twitter

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Ghostfire gaming Sebastian-Crows-Guide-to-Drakkenheim

By william hallett

@wearepaladin

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You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

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all due respect to britney spears but the monster high fright song is better than gimme more

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i bet it feels so good if you're a little cat to put your head upside down like that

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[Ravnica Battlemap]Precinct Four - Commercial District 32x56

In the bustling heart of Precinct Four, the Commercial District unfolds like a living mosaic—a reflection of Ravnica’s endless complexity. Towering stone arches, etched with the faded glyphs of forgotten empires, now bear the weight of vibrant banners, merchant sigils, and magical illuminations. The streets overflow with life: vendors hawking everything from Selesnyan herbal tinctures to Orzhov binding contracts, while traveling tinkers, illusionists, and street bards weave their own kind of commerce into the tapestry. Shafts of light fall between the high towers, but they do little to pierce the shadows where secrets are bartered and power quietly shifts hands. This is not just a marketplace—it is a crucible of ambition, and its connection to Tin Street, the city’s longest and most vital artery, makes it a crossroads of unimaginable influence.

More variations of this map:

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@adelinejclose

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Mad about politics again

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i can't explain it, but the older you get, the more you realize that the hornier, filthier the music is, the better it is for cleaning. it is not good for sex. it's good for cleaning. if it's breathtakingly misogynistic? even better. i'm sorry, Hollywood Undead, i'm sure you think Everywhere I Go was written to fuck to while blown out on a couple lines of coke, but you're wrong. it's for Fabuloso and industrial grade cleaning vinegar and degreaser. the only daddy here is Scrub Daddy. sorry.

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You know what's great. Uninstalling stuff. I love to Uninstall

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

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