bulgarian btw

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.

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

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

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.

that's kind of what that last drawing already was, but since I was secretly hoping somebody would ask me about it I will now elaborate on the burrito in detail even though that's not what you asked.

ENHANCE

This is one of my real-life all-time-favorite foods, which, for reasons that should become clear immediately, I have dubbed "The Burrito That Makes You Have To Go To Bed".

The Burrito That Makes You Have To Go To Bed is for special occasions only; I think that if I ate one more than like 4 times a year I would never wake. I think they have a special marinade for the chicken but I don't know what it is. I'm also pretty sure they use mostly dark meat so it's not all dry and tough. I'm genuinely not sure how they make this thing so proficiently and consistently; there's a lot of points of failure here but they've never really messed it up. it's an impressive feat of culinary engineering.

The other night I had a fever and I was delirious and while I was trying to fall asleep I had some sort of math related epiphany and everything made sense but now that I am not having a fever dream anymore I can’t get back on that train of thought. Disappointing.

Anyways do you think that the difference between 0 and 1 is greater, less, or equal to the difference between 1 and ♾️? I can see it all three ways and I’m curious what other people think. I’ve asked a few people so far, and the answers are varied.

My dad says less, my mom says greater, the engineering professor from UBC (University of British Columbia) I contacted said a lot of things I didn’t understand and I’m still trying to figure out what his conclusion was but I think it was something along the lines of “it depends”. My 7 year old cousin didn’t know what infinity was but once I explained she said less. My cat’s response was too abstract for me to understand but I think he’s leaning towards greater. My 19 year old cousin says they’re the same, if you can consider 0 and infinity to be opposites. During my fever dream, I was leaning very strongly towards greater but I don’t entirely remember why.

It’s an interesting question because there’s so many different types of 0s and ♾️s and so many different ways of thinking about numbers and what 0 actually means and stuff.

Also!!! Please put your reasoning in the notes!!!! I want to see your thought processes!!!

but first admiral Havelock asks me to investigate the sewers for weepers. i do not want to do this. everything ive heard about them sounds gross and awful.

they and the rats are a wildly effective method for encouraging nonlethal takedowns. i Do Not Want Them

someone also atole my book with Daud Observations in the night. it was on my table when i went to bed and now it is not. are people snooping in my room while i sleep????

overhear Piero offer to make Callista a sex machine (i think), just like he has for the Golden Cat. she is not flattered.

god our sword is so pretty. I spend a lot of time in the sewers just admiring the marble like surface and delaying going toward the coughing sounds

i panic shoot the first one I see and get the rogue achievement lmao

Corvo finding a note about guys meeting and stashing stuff in the sewers:

Possession skill acquired!!

AND MARTIN IS HERE!!!!!!

AND EMILY IS AT THE GOLDEN CAT i am coming for you girl!!!!!

Samuel takes me back into town. i felt a LOT safer here when it was dark and rainy

Slackjaw and Bottle Street Gang thugs keep complaining about someone who poisoned the potion still. i wonder what kind of sadist would do that

some of Daud's buddies fucking ambush me??? thank god the BSG are here to help

i forgot to stock up on bolts before i left but they have some so its ok

Slackjaw offers me an interesting way of getting rid of the twins non-lethally. i do not understand what it means to make them disappear without killing them and I don't think it's *better* if they survive but! it does sound more interesting. so i am off to the Golden Cat to find the art dealer so I can get his code so I can open his safe

The STURGEON!

It would be based on this drawing, with some tweaks to make it work in plush form. It would be the same size as the coelacanth as well, around 2 feet / 60 cm long!

Would you be interested in it? Please let me know!

Absolutely enamoured with this snail mug I got yesterday....