Games Y'all - August Meetup

I AM NOT A ROBOT

I AM NOT A ROBOT is an interactive fiction about an online bot grasping for a deeper understanding of humanity through its favorite communication formats - captchas and personality quizzes. The user is prompted through a conversation about love, bodies, and identity, culminating in a poetic interpretation of the provided responses. Inspired by research into AI assistants and companion bot users, Taylor Paydos’s hand coded project asks us to playfully introspect on our relationships to AI. Do we see them as gendered, intimate, soulless? What does it mean to tell a computer that you’re human?

Taylor Paydos

Taylor Paydos is a creative technologist, web designer, and community organizer. They navigate emotions towards surveillance tech, virtual community, and intimacy online through narrative websites, 3D games, and video work. They blend their critique of technology with humor and play, drawing inspiration from early net artwork, glitch as art, and 2000s aesthetics. The most important part of their creative practice is community, they currently run an art collective with Margot Whipps in Philadelphia. For work they are with the Phillips Auction House as a digital producer and Coco Marketing as a contract designer. They graduated from the New School in 2022 with a BA in Culture and Media and a BFA in Design and Tech. You can find them surfing the web.

How To Make It Home

"How To Make It Home is a text game in which the player navigates an urban landscape at night. It’s about alienation, cities, wildlife, and helplessness. The world is dark and you are a misanthropic type, not fully human, beast, or spirit but some amalgam of them all, seeking to carve out a home in a place that feels unfamiliar. Your decisions illuminate your path, as you traverse the grease and heat of the city’s intestines, writhe in the grass, hiss at glaring streetlights, and wonder at mysterious creatures. Take a journey or two and see what you become. The night is calling, time to go.

Perfect for fans of poetry, interactive fiction, nighttime walks, idly picking at scabs, or coding with Javascript frameworks. This project was made using Undum."

Florence Walker (aka bodypoetic)

Florence Walker - also known as bodypoetic - is a writer, new media artist, and occasional academic. Her poetry has been featured in the Mays Anthology, Pidgeonholes, Acumen, Evocations, and other journals; her new media work lives at https://bodypoetic.itch.io/. She has two degrees, a New Media Writing Prize, and an enduring fascination with the flesh.

Bad Jazz

Bad Jazz is a short walking simulator. THERE ARE NO JUMPSCARES. There is a painting in each room. When you've found them all, you win!

Morgan Taylor

Hello, Morgan here! Tin and I made this as part of an advanced VR game development course over the course of ten weeks. I was the level designer and artist and Tin made all the sounds for the game. I've always been very interested in walking simulators ever since I played my three favorites a couple years back, those being Cement Mixer Simulator 2003, Hendecad, and Red Desert Render, which you can find on itch! Visit my itch page for other silly and strange games!

Hextype Mechapop

Type, target, destroy! Defend your town from an astral onslaught. Pilot a mech where your targeting system is controlled by your keyboard. Type to target threats, type your weapon to fire. Keep up with what comes down against you against the soundtrack. The more you type, the more you unlock your overheat weapon. Currently in development - we're looking for feedback.

Lucky Son

Lucky Son is a small, indie team focused on narrative games combining mechanics with meaning. Our past work includes IGF winner Vessels.

memories of a postage stamp

a website game about restoring a family stamp collection. in this game, help put together pieces of a stamp collection, fill in the blanks, and inspect details in order to build a memory archive.

this game was inspired by the process of digitizing my mom and uncle's childhood stamp collection and trying to better understand each one: https://stamps.vidyagiri.com/ read more about this project here: https://cursormag.net/stamparchive

also this was created for the browser is a game engine class taught by everest pipkin at the school for poetic computation. check out more of the games from the class here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18XBhhWdmURZal7KKys_nZps5celJbn88esXACpU0Efk/edit?gid=938032873#gid=938032873

inspirations for this game are collected here: https://www.figma.com/board/KaqVm0oJdhMuAdfZ84Bt5n/stamp-game?node-id=0-1&p=f&t=CXIZmTDjhkfPqNxX-0

vidya giri

Vidya Giri is an artist, designer, and engineer from Houston, TX, living in San Francisco, CA.

https://vidyagiri.com/

Dead Heat HeartBeat

A TTRPG of racing and romance between lesbian horse girls

Hunter J Allen

Making games and zines for freaks and fiends

Cute Patoots

Cute 2D platform shooter, inspired by Mega Man and Kirby.

OKiPOKiGAMES

OKiPOKiGAMES is a cute games project focused on exploring wholesome themes and silly content.

Tahitian Driftin'

A tropical anti-gravity racing game from the depths of a long-lost arcade cabinet that will have you cruising through lush, remote Polynesian islands with a draft-based boost system that fosters tight-knit competition between players

Pixel Pushers Union 512

Pixel Pushers Union 512 is a worker-owned cooperative. We produced the successful title, "Tonight We Riot" and operate on the principles of Shop Democracy, wherein every team member has a say and profits are split evenly across the board.