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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
sootspritesprinkles
technofeudalism

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.

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.

technofeudalism

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

Tools

  • Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
  • Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
  • Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
  • Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
  • PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

  • Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
  • Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
  • 17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
  • Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
  • The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
  • Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
  • Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
  • If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
  • r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
  • r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

monchursouls

Reblogging the update too

because-im-freaking-greed
storyweavingspider

“White is a US thing” and yet antiblackness is global and white supremacy is one of the biggest exports

bunnyboyzyon

The reason I'm scared of moving out of the country is because at least I know what to expect from antiblack racism in America, I have no idea what I'd be facing anywhere else

Also reminder everyone the transatlantic slave trade was not only between america and african it went to europe too 💖

Reminder that japan is very well know for depicting black people in anime in the exact same way we were depicted in offensive drawings and plays in America, just in a different art style 💖💖

Reminder that negro the spanish word for black is well known as a slur against black people and was very commonly used before nigger became the more well known and widely used slur, and that coon is also a slur that did originate with the animal but was then stolen to be used as a slur!! The damage has already been done and it is not white people's place to simply go back to using it to describe animals because it is not your slur to reclaim and redefine 💖💖💖

storyweavingspider

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Peer review etc.

read dawning of the apocalypse by Gerald Horne very interesting book abt the beginning stages of whiteness as a racial category and social political and economic unit and or identity