Digital Literature Reading List
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 Bitsy game, we travel through empty spaces with a friend making our way toward a campfire and star gazing. The work is about friendship and grief and poetry with a western vibe. It's sparse and powerfully moving for 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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Hands by Yumehiko
In this game, we travel through abstract arworks and landscapes as a hand who is trying to shake another hand. If you die, more hands spawn to try and aid in the process of reaching the other hand. This alters our perception of the game. It utilizes sound and artwork to create a whimsical atmosphere that is rare in other games. There are no instructions, which makes this more interactive.
Info: made in 2020; fictional game; authoring tool: Unity, Rider, Photoshop, itch.io
tags: spatiality, whimsical, dreamy,
[entry posted by Darielle Saintilus]