Recent Arrivals
Fresh ink still drying on these pages. The newest additions to the collection, waiting to be discovered by their first readers.
Pirate Adventure
Only by exploring this strange island will you be able to uncover the clues necessary to lead you to your elusive goal -- recovering the lost treasures of Long John Silver.
<i>Converted from original code by Paul David Doherty.</i>
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
PlayA Crimson Spring
"Red Cloud meant more to me than anyone else on the planet. Sometime between one and three in the morning, on March 26th, 2015, she was brutally slain. Nobody knows why. I am going to find out if it means ripping this filthy city apart, brick by brick. I am a masked vigilante who attempts to fight this senseless violence every single night. I am the Holy Avenger." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
PlayMasquerade
"You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by.
"Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody say. Poor Amelia, indeed. You hurry on, not caring to hear any more.
Reaching the Lucky Strike, you force yourself to climb the steps and push open the doors, stopping just inside to let your eyes adjust to dim light." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
PlayEggstraordinary Adventure
Once a year, the Easter bilby brings handpainted eggs to all the good children.
This is a two-player game.
PlayThe Djinni Chronicles
PlayEaster Egg Hunt 2020
In this light-hearted scavenger hunt, it's your task to find twelve colorful Easter eggs hidden inside other works of interactive fiction! But who are the eggs for, and what do they really want?
Note: The game should be always winnable and the player-character can never die.
Content warning: This game includes a ghost, a very horrible grave, some dangerous-looking animals, and a text version of a jump-scare, but nothing ever ever harms the player-character. The worst thing that happens is someone may steal your pants.
PlayInto the Open Sky
Repair an ancient starship named Nightingale. Discover the ship's past by exploring and unlocking 11 hidden entries in the computer. Most important: escape from the gray skies of your world and soar "Into the Open Sky".
PlayA Party to Murder
In financial difficulties, you go to meet with a neighbor during a party. However, he seems to be missing. Where could he be? And who are these mysterious party guests? Watch out for the police, they seem to be suspicious of you!
This was my entry in the 2002 8th Annual IF-Comp. While it had a few complimentary reviews, the vast majority of judges in the comp didn’t like it much. Oh, and the house in the game is a very close version of the house I lived in at the time, which isn’t the same house as the one in the Melbourne Beach game.
PlayCrocodracula: The Beginning
The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.
PlayJimin, Ari, and Shush
Three childhood friends -- Jimin, Ari, and Shush -- must adventure to find an item to help Shush's mother's emergent bakery. Conflicts arise when Shush's adorable little brother, Plush, joins in, which the all-too-stoic Shush isn't happy about.
PlayThe Chasing
PlayYak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!
You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic.
But a nagging question gnaws at your soul, undermines your joy at your success and interferes with the very business of living. For this is not an answer you can find in the pages of any book. What you yearn to know is — <i>the meaning of life itself!</i>
But then you learned about a man, a guru of great wisdom, endowed with the miraculous 'supreme realization', who could teach you the secrets of the universe! A six-hundred-year-old hermit, living at the top of a mountain in a kingdom most right-thinking people assume to be a myth. A man known as — <i>the Dada Lama!</i>
And this is why we find you now, after many months of journeying, of fruitless searching, beaten and battered by the uncaring elements, in this mysterious valley hidden deep within the mountains...
...the mystical valley of <i>Shangri-La!</i>
Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles! is a humorous quest for spiritual enlightenment involving a yak, a disposable razor, a jar of pickled eggs and the abominable snowman.
PlayThe Untold Story
After spending months alone in your Cabin after the sudden loss of your brother, you find yourself on an unusual journey through the home you once thought you knew in a desperate search to retrieve what you have lost. As you explore the old forest helping its inhabitants and hunting for your possessions, you may find something you never realized you lost...
PlayCountdown to Doom
PlaySpring 2020
All you can do is eat or wait. There are two endings. There are no good endings.
Based on a random idea in a Twitter conversation.
https://twitter.com/howtophil/status/1250219872019197954
I joked I was making it... then I made it.
PlayCaptain Cumshot's Second Adventure: The Rim Job
In the second installment of the Captain Cumshot series, the eponymous major (after a promotion) travels to the furthest reaches of the galaxy to repair a malfunctioning unmanned mining station.
Except for the provocative title, this game is devoid of explicit or offensive content.
PlayFlight of the Hummingbird
Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions!
PlayDeath at Appledore Towers
PlayHippo on Elm Street
Baby, it's cold outside. All you want to do is snuggle up in a warm sock and take a nap. But something seems to be going on in the house, and you're determined to find out what it is.
This game is based in the world of the House Hippo, a PSA by the Concerned Children's Advertisers.
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