The members of the Hidden Gems Of Poetry Group are close. Even the move from internet forum to web server can't break their bond. But heartbreaking news could mean the end of things as they know it.

A short game made for SeedComp 2023. The writing is by Naomi Norbez, and the game was programmed by Josh Grams.

Please note that Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets contains discussion of sexual harassment/coercion, and people in positions of power taking advantage of their place.

Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets

Line 88 is a short kinetic novel with walking elements. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and has elements of horror.

Line 88

A little story about an interesting experience with a certain app

I Was a Soft-boy on Tiktok...

A Strange New World
We set out to build the Otherside with one thing in mind: the metaverse should be anything but boring.

The world should be dynamic, steeped in narrative, and your actions should hold consequence.

Step into the Otherside, where the normal rules do not apply.

Where you end up is up to chance. Where you go is up to you.

Otherside is a gamified, interoperable metaverse currently under development. The game blends mechanics from massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and web3-enabled virtual worlds.

Otherside

Trailer

Game Intro

I Made This Game on a Shitty Chromebook

A totally real, totally non-canon dating sim hosted by Cupid Hanzo!

Overwatch 2: Loverwatch - Love Never Dies

The fall semester at UofX, 2003. Two graduate students gather to speak with an angel girl. Meanwhile, the ties that bind three women tighten and twist. Only files remain. Trace your fingers around the circle carefully.

A Circle of Charity

Flat Affect

After a global revolution dealt a final death blow to the world's crumbling industries, researchers and activists were left to pick up the pieces of their planet's ruined ecosystems. Their solution was simple: they turned themselves into pollution-eating mutants.

Now, over half a century later, the rivers are blue again and the birds have learned new songs. A beautiful world is stepping out of the husk of the old.

And the last waste-eater is waiting to die.

Waste Eater

You and several others have passed away.

Rather than being sent to Heaven or Hell, the powers that may be are unable to decide where you should go. You wake up in the Garden of Eden who's new home has been made in Limbo. You have three options: either take the trials to earn your place in Heaven, live it up in Hell, or remain lost in Limbo for eternity.

It's a lot to take in fresh off your death bed... but maybe you find each other's peace along the way.

Repurpose

Cherry Tale

A short retro-style gay romance game / visual novel about walking, sheepherding, and kissing.

That Lonesome Valley

Dogs Can Speak English

My Dinner with André is a Simpsons fan game inspired by the Arcade game featured in the episode 'Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood' from Season 5.

Join actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn at the dinner table as they discuss the important matters of life. Choose from three separate retorts as you progress through an approximately 10 minute long discussion created in the spirit of Louis Malle's 1981 comedy film of the same name.

My Dinner with André

Greaser is a visual novel about riding a Cronenbergian biomechanical motorbike along an endless unreal desert highway

Greaser

Dyar Beach

Gameplay Video

Erostasis is an erotic, horror, visual novel with biopunk / cyberpunk themes as well as plenty of monsters and sci-fi elements!

Erostasis

Victim Doll

The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-travelling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but to take the displaced kid detective along on her latest case.
Follow the trail of a missing heterosexual on the strange streets of Toronto! Investigate a quirky cast of drag kings, chicken wing enthusiasts, and women in elaborate cat make-up! Thrill in the pervasive ennui of your early twenties! Struggle to remember where your preteen self was at with the whole being gay thing!
Will Adult Bell make peace with the figurative and literal ghosts of her past? Can Kid Bell navigate the uncanny world of the 2020s and find her way back home? How's the chicken in that creepy basement food court? These questions and more will be answered in THE GROWN-UP DETECTIVE AGENCY.

The Grown-Up Detective Agency

A short retro tech horror visual novel, with a bit of comedy that taps into the general time period of the Apple II, and other examples of old computer tech.

Melissa

A visual novel about talking to cute girls during the nuclear holocaust.

The Bombs Have Been Dropped, I am Listening to Steely Dan and Wearing Cheap Sunglasses.

An entry for Cozy Autumn Game Jam 2022.

A bite-sized text-based game about what happens when you meet online friends for the first time.

Post-Disclosure, Devil's Night

A Bitsy game about sleep and wanting to not wake up.

3:28am

Freckles is left at home sick as their partner, Beads, goes out to buy them medication.

Left at Home

A fan made Genshin Impact dating simulator.

Days Before the Festival

As you watch TV, an odd commercial comes on, and it really speaks to you. Like, directly. This game was made for O2A2VNJam 2022!

Cultivating Happiness

You wake up in a carriage with an annoying stranger...

Trapped with Jester

You meet someone in a chilly alleyway at night.

Blood of the Covenant

A chance meeting with the divine, human in shape but not in thoughts.

Florealia

Corru.Observer is a hard sci-fi visual novel, point-and-click adventure about a contractor hired by an intelligence agency to hack into an alien biological computing device dredged up from the bottom of the ocean.

Corru.Observer

An angel meets a woman on earth. There is trouble in heaven.

A visual novel with platformer elements.

The Most Desperate Angel

Not Involved is a dark fantasy/horror visual novel about Doctor who balances between helping others and taking care of himself.

If you want to save someone, you will have to make sacrifices. How far are you willing to go: being beaten, ostracized, having your limbs chopped off?..

You will find that this world doesn't always reward selflessness and kind heart...

Not Involved

A game about sex work and trauma.

It's a visual novel playable in browser or with a gameboy/gameboy pocket emulator.

He Fucked the Girl Out of Me

"Miko Monogatari!" is a medium-length novel game. You develop your character in the game. It was created in 2022 by "R Man 44".

Miko Monogatari!

A short and contemplative promenade inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

The Stick and the Basket

A selfish genius and a polite hero complain about their neighbor's taste in music in a car.

Boyfiends

Stairdown

A choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz. A short story that's sort of like if a prose poem and a buzzfeed quiz had a baby and they all fucking hated you.

Answer These 10 Questions And I'll Tell You What Kind of Lover You Are

Thanks for applying to the Authenticity Assessment Department.

We wish you luck on your upcoming examination!

You will need it.

Assessment Examination

Exploring a possible alternate reality for Hareraiser (1984), a controversial and nonsensical game with a treasure hunt behind it.

Hareraiser II

The Ratchelor is back with a whole new season! Play as The Ratchelor, and marry the rat of your dreams. Choose from 21 eligible contestants and slowly narrow it down until you find true love.

The Ratchelor Season 2

A game about being on a drive with your dad and having a conversation.

Talking to My Dad

You go to a mountain chalet after a recent breakup. There, strange things are going to happen...

Gayandere

Year 3999 Aboard The Adamant Gambit.

the planet was supposed to be empty...

After a Long Journey

One-Hit Wonder is a short visual novel written in Catalan language, the first of its kind. Our protagonist joins a young man called Ismael in his nocturnal journey through a cyberpunk Barcelona... and down memory lane.

One-Hit Wonder

Year 3801 aboard The Adamant Gambit.

eventually, seeds find a way to grow

A True History of the Adamant Gambit

Princess Lumi has been held captive in the demon lord’s castle situated in a land of everlasting winter. She hates it. It’s cold, it’s lonely, the food is bad, and there’s literally nothing to do! The only good thing about this place is the tea and snacks.

The Princess of the Tower wants a Hero

Year 2999 inside a little cafe, half a mile below The Adamant Gambit's orbital construction site.

Two coffees - one black, one ice caramel.

Two Envelopes

Who've we got on shift today?

Year 3484 aboard The Adamant Gambit.

Initializing Maintenance Run: We're Good to Go.

> the heating again?

Year 3174 aboard The Adamant Gambit.

Welcome to the Adamant Maintenance Monitoring Terminal

A story of uncovering family secrets, filtered through the world of Tony Domenico's Petscop.

Your_New_Life_Letter.rtf.exe

An insatiable desire to dance inexplicably takes reign over a peasant farmland which Peter Talisman finds himself determined to find the source of. Harvest a seemingly endless amount of corn to clear the field to discover new characters, hidden artifacts, and steps to unravel the mystery of the dancing bug.

Peter Talisman: Lord of the Harvest

"Crime of dissociation, the dark sad fog of the future."

Against the Will of a Chainsaw

A science fiction horror game about a space mission and its fallout, told in an epistolary hypertext format.

SSSM: In the Shadow of Jupiter

Monkeys!! is an erotic visual novel about the protagonist Saruyoshi, a delinquent attending an all-boys school, who will attend a ladies' all-girls school as Julia to save his alma mater from being closed down.

Monkeys!!

some thoughts about an old video game and game maker and playing games as a young child

Crime Life Crime Wave

A point & click visual novel about appreciating the little things in life.

Off Day

Kara no Shoujo - The Last Episode is the third and final game in the Kara no Shoujo series.

Kara no Shoujo: The Last Episode

Cinematic Trailer

Viaja Baraja is a Spanish-language visual novel where you play cards that represent your attitude and emotional state to have conversations with your friends and peers. Just out of high-school, Daira and her friends embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Viaja Baraja

Mother of Monsters

Lunar-meteorologist-cum-conman Cyan wakes up tied to a chair with a strange woman monologuing at him. What went wrong?

A linear ditherpunk visual novel.

Paradigmfetish

This was Once a Place of Honour

Ramiel is a short game about wings, hope, and living in a body that is very clearly not your own.

It's a game for the angels in our lives who just can't bear living without their wings any longer.

One day, we will all find our wings.

Ramiel

Union Drive is a short visual novel about workplace unionization. You'll step into the shoes of a young supermarket worker trying to strengthen the union at their place of work and fight against unjust working conditions. Throughout the game you’ll get to know your coworkers and their stories, and you’ll learn organization skills used by real-world union organizers.

Union Drive

A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.

Purrgatory

Gameplay Trailer

The Demon Lord is Mine!

Draw No More

An otome game very loosely based on the Filipino epic poem, "Ibong Adarna".

The Three Princes and Adarna

genderfelt is a short interactive zine, in which you read the blog of young person called Anon, going through the process of discovering himself. It focuses on the issue of transmedicalism, and how one can help to pull their peers away from a harmful ideology.

Genderfelt

In a world where Vietnamese culture is honored, will you be able to find the owner of this shoe?

Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel that follows the adventure of two children: Tam and Alberto. Their dream is to become celebrities together, but fate has decided otherwise.

Where are you, Cinderella?

The iCarly RPG is an interactive fiction game based on the Nickelodeon show iCarly! Kind of.

Help Carly Shay survive the ups and downs of high school, from math tests to encounters with ancient deities, in time for Spencer’s spaghetti tacos.

The iCarly RPG

Guardian of the Code is a visual novel designed to teach about internet safety and general cyber security concepts. The target audience is for 12-18 year olds but anyone can benefit from staying safe online!

Guardian of the Code

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal is a visual novel that tells the story of creating a website for your friend.

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal

A parody of The Amazing World Of Gumball, featuring Nicole Watterson starting an online erotic stream. Play as her and manage the stream to secure the money $$$

Nicole's Risky Job

Kemo Kare! Oretachi no BL Byoutou

HYPER LOW RES SUPER RETRO visual novel made in ZZT with teen angst, saxophones, and UFOs.

When There Is No More Snow

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

In the rubble of the Syxtercian cathedral you find 3 shell vials containing experimental hormones harvested from slugs. They used to belong to Saint Fiona Bianco Xena - Mother of the Motherless, patron saint of the voiceless.

You hear distant whispers, entangled with the melted beats of early Molluscwave. They tell the story of many wounds and many adventures : flesh consumed by a rare blue speckled gutter slug, bioplastic mixed with piss under the light of a half moon, crystal eyes winking provocatively at the face of God, children saved and revolutions lost.

The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena

Fia grew up on her mother's hog farm, always dreaming about running away to the bustling city that dotted the horizon.

Just when she thinks this is all her life will ever be, a letter comes in the mail from an old eccentric man she used to call "Grandfather".

He asks her to come to the city so that he may give her something. When she gets there, it turns out that his gift is the ownership of his crime family!

But not everyone is excited to see Fia and internal tensions threaten to tear the family apart.

Can you survive the 6 days it takes to inherit the family?

Become the new Donna, or die trying.

A New Don

I'll respond to that later

Don Disguises, Infiltrate a Party, Kill a Prince?!

Kill the Prince?!

The other magical girls left. A magical girl leaves her purple rival behind.

Rainbow Heart Farewell

A Shower Story

An interactive murder mystery set in 1941 Singapore.

A Red Sky at Dawn

Master Thief Lupin the Third is always two steps ahead of his eternal nemesis, the ICPO's Inspector Zenigata. But occasionally, Zenigata is lucky enough to slap a pair of cuffs onto Lupin, and today is one of those days. On the train ride over to the hoosegow, Lupin's time is dwindling, and it's time to cash in on Zenigata's biggest weakness: his longstanding crush on his eternal rival. This short visual novel has four endings, and all the visuals are traditionally crafted with watercolor and fountain pen! Please enjoy and flirt your way to freedom!

Is Lupin Still Flirting?

Follow this story about the healing of a rogue mercenary, who is on the run from his past life. On his way, he crosses paths with unlikely allies. On his way through a town, he learns of the local forest that has been marked as dangerous due to a vengeful entity. Not only does he have to get past whoever that is, but he also has to watch out for anything trying to drag him back to his former life as a mercenary.

Greenwood: Amaranthus

Trash the Planet is a resource-management game that subverts clicker mechanics to serve its narrative rather than manipulate the player.

Trash the Planet

Release Date Trailer

In this game you get to become the ultimate tax master.

Extreme Tax Masters

What I left behind

Someone has ordered a package, but no one knows who. Find the real culprit so you can finally enjoy your days off.

Cosmic Courier: Trapped in Limbo

A Walk, the Morning After the Storm

You are Mo, the cat! Be cute, listen to and advise your friends, and knock some plants over if you feel like it.

Violeta

Atoll: The Last Ghost

A self-proclaimed god enters a high school as a transfer student, trying to navigate the intricacies of human dating life in time for Valentine's day.

No Meteors

A new dating sim about finding and marrying the rat of your dreams. Choose from 21 eligible contestants and slowly narrow it down until you find true love.

The Ratchelor: A Rat Dating Sim

When It's Safe Again

Burn Pulse Detach is a project written over a couple of years, in bits and pieces, and finally stitched together to form the project above, reflections on disjointed chaotic jumbles of potentially disordered/non-neurotypical thoughts, usually stemming from moments of emotional extremity.

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