One does not need to imagine Sisyphus happy if they can see him smiling.

Sisyphus is Happy

OLSZOJ

You're nearing the end of your first year at art school...will you bugger around or help your friend pass??

Tough Baby

npckc

a chronic illness simulation game.

you think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. all you know is you are always in some state of pain. you've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

how long will it take for you to get a diagnosis?

You're Just Imagining It

Trailer

yumehiko

Hands

Gameplay Video

A concrete poem in the browser, a love story, and a dream sequence traversed through closing and opening windows.

We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other

Cookiecrayon

Murmurs

Hyper//Echo is a web-based “zone” where players are invited to explore the virtual space, and leave something behind — namely buildings and messages for other players to discover. Over the course of the 3-month exhibition, these artefacts gradually decay (buildings become ruins, messages appear as “broken links”) and become overgrown. Players are encouraged to return to “maintain” their and others’ buildings, as they eventually become irreparable if left abandoned for too long.

Hyper//Echo

A browser-based art game made in response to Marwa Helal’s poem ")[[:”.’.,:]]( Remixed".

Aleph: A Life

Avoid the gigant random stuff using your spaceship!

Sequoia

a person leaves behind trinkets, buttons, dust.
a people leave their homes, the markings of their movements, the handmade mountains and erosions of millenia.

Gossamer

Alex Tomkow

Discomfort Zone is a 2D pixel-art narrative game about depression, anxiety disorder, despair, and recovery. The game takes a realistic, un-filtered, and at times uncomfortably personal look at depression and anxiety disorder through the eyes of someone dealing with these conditions, promoting understanding and sharing the experience with a wider audience. The game deals with many themes related to depression and anxiety: worry, loneliness, and self-deprecating thoughts, but also hope and finding the strength, when all seems lost, to keep going.

Discomfort Zone

playfulbacon

rocks and ravens is a short puzzle game inspired by haiku and Japanese logic puzzles like Sudoku.

Rocks and Ravens

Dong

Boidtrancer

Dan Hett

c ya later is a hypertext game based on the author's experience after their brother's death in the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack.

C ya laterrrr

Tim Garbos

An interactive short made by Tim Garbos and Veronyka Jelinek.

It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings

Angela Washko

An interactive narrative made with Twine 2.0.

All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place) is an interactive hypertext point-and-click narrative adventure game. Since 2011, Angela Washko has collected over 200 postcards from around the world with one thing in common: they depict women as a stand-in for the geographic location they seek to represent. All The Places You'll Go puts players into the position of experiencing different locations (from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Tijuana, Mexico to Helsinki, Finland) through their postcard representations of women, experiencing the perspective of the assumed male traveler and his Western gaze.

All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)

Josh Millard

Lexaloffle Games

Spend some time with a depressed, laconic Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders through a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom, ruminating on ontology, ethics, family, identity, and the mistakes he and his brother have made.

Ennuigi

Merritt Kopas

Obéissance is a platformer about waiting by merritt kopas.

Obéissance

Jordan Magnuson

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness.

Loneliness

increpare

Queue

An experimental game by Jesper Juul inspired by John Cage's famed musical composition 4:33.

What is the 4:33 of games? Is there a game all around us that we never see? Is there a fundamental characteristic of games?

4:32

Daniel Benmergui

An short, experimental art game by Daniel Benmergui, in which the player manipulates text, characters and objects to change the environment and escape.

Today I Die

Newsgaming

September 12th is a serious game with a political statement about the USA's War on Terror which started after September 11th 2001.

In the game, the player is presented with a Middle Eastern market place in a top-down isometric view. Walking around the market and the surrounding buildings are innocent civilians - men, women, children, and dogs. There also several terrorist walking among them.

All the player can do is scroll the camera and fire missiles. Missiles will impact on the exact location of the targeting reticule, but with a small delay. Killing a terrorist will remove the terrorist from play. If another civilian encounters his or her body, the civilian will burst into an emotional display and become determined to go on a jihad and thus also become a terrorist. The more civilians you kill the more terrorists come into play.

Buildings also get destroyed when hit by the rather large blast radius of the player's missiles. Civilians surrounding collapsing buildings also die. After a long period of waiting buildings will also slowly be reconstructed again. Terrorists will after a while cool down and become normal civilians again, but a small number of terrorists will always remain terrorists.

September 12th: A Toy World

Van Sowerwine

You're running late for work. You've got too much on. You're stressed and tense and you desperately dodge your way through friends, bosses and parties in a frantic attempt to hold your life together.
See your stress and depression rise to levels never seen before! Watch yourself collapse then explode! Explore the part of your life you'd rather forget about!
It's all part of the fun of the Nerve Game...

The Nerve Game

Natalie Bookchin

The Intruder is an interactive narrative based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges. The viewer must compete in some rudimentary games to hear, read and see the story. Thoroughly well-observed, and compelling, The Intruder takes about 15 minutes to navigate. The games are not difficult but act as an aid to the narrative and introduce levels of addiction to the telling of the story.

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