AIQS Workbook Spring 2026

Digital Literature Annotated Reading List

Here's some sites to find digital lit:

Electronic Literature Collection
New Media Writing Prize (open "archive" to see all works)
Itch.io (home page)
Itch.io (Twine Games)
Itch.io (The Bitsy Essay Jam)
National Film Board of Canada Interactive
The New River Journal (open "archive" to see past works)
The interactive fiction competition

Your task is help build our list of works, including hyperlinks, brief summaries, stars, and tags. As our list grows, we can begin to organize the material differently.

Here's an example:

A Vast and Lonely Desert by Gavin G. See
In this minimalist Bitsy game, we travel through vast, empty spaces of the desert with a friend making our way through the desert toward a campfire and star gazing. The work is about friendship, grief, and poetry with a western vibe. It's sparse and powerfully moving precisely because of its sparseness.
Info:  made in 2020; serious game; authoring tool: Bitsy; on the Electronic Literature Collection, vol 4 and itch.io
tags: spatiality, navigation, orientation, friendship, loss, LGBTQ
[entry posted by k.kelly]

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You Are Jeff Bezos (https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos) by Kris Lorischild
This game is puts the player in the place of Jeff Bezos and gives us choices about what to spend our wealth on. It is satirical and made through twine (choice based). The game shows the craziness and scale of how wealthy the upper class is, and changes players' view on power, capitalism, and responsibility. It has a playful tone, it is pretty laid back, and raises questions about wealth inequality. 

Info: Made in 2018, interactive fiction, made in twine, available online. 
Tags: Satire, wealth, power, choice, humor, bias
[Raj Chitre]

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Who Stole My Bone (https://kryptickitty.itch.io/who-stole-my-bone) by Kryptic Kitty

In Who Stole My Bone, we take the role of a dog whose bone has gone missing. We are tasked with looking around the house and investigating the environment and different characters that we meet to find out who is responsible. The game is played through branching choices, it has playful dialogue and is pretty light hearted and laid back. The themes are about exploration, mystery, and perspective.
Info: interactive fiction, authoring tool is most likely twine, short narrative game, available online
Tags: Branching narrative, choice, mystery, humor, personification / animal perspective, lighthearted / relaxed

[Raj Chitre]
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