In honor of the Hardy Boys starting to enter the Public Domain, I created an escape game that adapts, more or less, the first book, The Tower Treasure.

Escape from 1927

G123

Goblin Slayer: Endless Hunting is a web browser RPG based on the dark fantasy light novel series Goblin Slayer. Team up to defeat a variety of monsters in this easy-to-play auto-battler.

Goblin Slayer: Endless Hunting

Promotional Video

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle Decoded

Arianna Ravioli

Experience a great journey with famous poet Dante and his super "reliable" narrator Virgil.

A Hell of a Journey

Small sweet surprises for the neighborhood children.

A game inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird, made for the Novels That Shaped Our World jam.

Gifts from Arthur

Katherine Morayati

An adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story, "An Evening's Entertainment", for the Gaming Like It's 1925 jam.

An Evening's Entertainment

Wander through a surreal digital landscape, meet exciting internet personalities and help them to reconcile how their digital lives intersect with their personal lives. How you respond to their posts influences the choices that these characters will make.

IRL: The Game

ModernModron

This is Just to Say

Sometimes You

Provodnik Games

Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. It tells about mother and son, free will and the search for happiness among foggy mountains and grey pipes.

You will be making one and the same choice again and again deciding who the son should become — a lamplighter or a tallyman. At first it may seem that the situation leaves you no choice at all. But don’t jump to conclusions, take a moment to think it over and then, perhaps, you’ll see your story in full color.

Dull Grey

Trailer

Ciudad del Mar is a small game inspired by a short poem written by Federico García Lorca.

Ciudad del Mar

Rosa Carbó-Mascarell

Take a walk at night and read romantic poetry.

A Night Walk

Chelsea Stearns

A playable adaptation of the poem maggie and milly and molly and may by e.e. cummings.

Maggie Milly Molly May

Choice of Games

May the best story win! Enter the medieval world of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history.

The Road to Canterbury

A 3D simulation of the Library of Babel, as described in the short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

Library of Babel 3D

Devolver Digital

Jake Hollands

SPACEPLAN is an experimental piece of interaction based partly on a total misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. Use manual clicks and the passage of time to create and launch potato-based devices and probes from your nondescript satellite orbiting a mysterious planet. Unlock the mysteries of the galaxy or just kill some time in what the astrophysics community is calling the ‘best narrative sci-fi clicker game of all times’.

Spaceplan

Launch Trailer

A tie-in game to Adult Swim's "This House Has People in It".

Boomy the Cat

The Great Gatsby is a platform game inspired by the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Loosely borrowing characters and locations from the original story, players guide Nick Carraway through four main levels. The game is jokingly said to be a localized, unreleased port of the Japanese NES game Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari and the developers even made up fake advertisements, credits and a cartridge photo. It is however an entirely original browser game created to resemble a NES platformer from the 8-bit era.

The Great Gatsby

Graham Nelson

An interactive fiction adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest in which the player guides the spirit Ariel. The text and descriptions are lifted from the original work, i.e. in Early Modern English.

The Tempest

Tor Andersson

An adaptation of the classic sword & sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in 1933.

The Tower of the Elephant

Tomasz Pudlo

An interactive fiction interpretation of the Hamlet story, blended with Jewish culture and mysticism.

Gamlet

Infocom

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a classic Interactive Fiction game. Though divergent from the source material, the main characters, locations, and concepts are here. Unlike the book, death can come quickly if Arthur fails to observe his surroundings, collect inventory, talk to people, and consult the Guide. Don't panic!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Gameplay Video

Robin Douglas Johnson

You're the prince of Denmark, and boy, are you in a sucky mood! You've been grounded again, your friends don't understand you, and your evil uncle has murdered your father to usurp the throne.

Experience Shakespeare's greatest tragedy as the Elizabethans themselves did, on their primitive 286-based PCs.

Hamlet: The Text Adventure

PBS Kids

About Face

Arthur: About Face

A short game based on one of the most famous haiku by Matsuo Basho.

Basho's Frogger

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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