Here’s a little extra game called “The Board of Regents” which may amuse you.
I made it for EnigMarch (here’s all my EnigMarch 2025 puzzles).
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Then, for EnigMarch 2026, I made a sequel to that game that you will find just as amusing.
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Hi, would you be ok with these games being included in the IFDB series “The Little Match Girl” (with no accompanying series number) and with “Stooping to Diplomacy” mentioning specifically, in the “About the Story” section, that it is a sequel to BoRegents? It does mention that in “game details” by the bottom, but that really doesn’t have the necessary visibility. When I say “necessary” I have in mind that a person who cares about playing through games and sequels in order will probably need to see, straight away, that they should not start with this one, because it’s a sequel.
As for making it a part of the “Little Match Girl” series, I understand you may feel it might not be appropriate if it’s not a “canon entry”, but if these games are part of that universe, players (like me) would probably like to know. If your entire work shares a universe (like Stephen King routinely references other books in his own work, or how CLAMP is just one big universe thanks mostly to Tsubasa Chronicles), so that doesn’t make sense to label neatly, I can sort of put all your games under the “Veeder-verse” and expect that there will be some referencing among them. I didn’t get the impression that this was so; but if it is, and you could just confirm it, that’d be ok. If, on the other hand, you don’t so much have a “Veeder-verse” as more of a “Baldesrtone-verse” and “Match-girl-verse” and whatnot, I think it may be appropriate to have them sorted.
(btw, I just played “A Rope of Chalk” yesterday, and it was the first game of yours I’d played, and I was blown away. Since I have the opportunity to address you directly, just thought I’d mention it. Absolutely blown away. Seriously loved it. With a passion; it’s the type of thing I lovelovelove. Am really looking forward to exploring the rest of your ongoing oeuvre)
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Hi! Thanks!
If it’s up to me, I’d prefer to leave the chronology stuff out of the story descriptions, which I guess I am somewhat precious about for various dumb reasons.
You could curate an IFDB list to categorize the games according to your own standards, and present whatever front matter you find helpful, and put things in whatever order you think is best.
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Ok. It’s not so much about “what my standards are”, to clarify, more like “as a user, what information do I want to know about a game, readily available” - and even more so, potentially, “what information should the database catalog and display proeminently”. For instance, I recently booted up “A Short Damn Fantasy Adventure”, played through a bit, the game was throwing things at me as though I were familiar with them, and then I realised it was the third installment of a series, totally unmentioned as such in either the game or IFDB (which I since corrected).
So it’s more like, as a player, I would prefer to know, clearly, whether I am about to play the first instalmment of a series, or a later installment; even if not the series, I want to know whether I’m about to encounter references to characters and situations that have been presented in previous works. And I would prefer to know that up front.
Not so much “making IFDB look like the way I think it should abstractly be”. More like “listing and categorizing things in a way which is not only useful and accurate but is also what I wanted to see, as a user, when I went through it a couple of weeks ago to download a tremendous bunch of stuff for leisurely offline playing”. Not so much “OCD”, as “I wished it were like this when I needed to use it”. After all, IFDB is a database…
Anyway, this is just me clarifying my point of view. I’ll respect yours and not touch those entries. Small note: I am very glad that someone did review one of those games and said it was set in the Little Match Girl universe, otherwise I would not have known. (edit, actually, I might have because the first one has an url which includes “littlematchgirl”. I would not expect, however, that a player take notice of stuff like that to determine stuff like this)
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I’m no stranger to wanting to be sure that a list I’ve found is as complete as possible, so after giving your post some thought, I’ve made my own such list. I didn’t include Tobias’s translation of the original game, since it’s linked from the original Little Match Girl page already, but I could go either way on that point if it would be helpful.
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I love that list!
Although at the beginning I thought it was something else. I actually prefer the order in which things were written. Like “Memento”, “Beyond: Two Souls”, the Monogatari anime series and the Suzumiya Haruhi series, if something is written and presented in a way that is purposefully scattered chronologically, I want to preserve that.
I went with the years listing on IFDB for my organisation, which I hope is correct and follows order of writing, to get,
1 - The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen
2 - Annus Evertens
3 - The Escalus Manifold
4 - Crown of Pearls
5 - How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin
6 - How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires
7 - The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow
8 - The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls
9 - The Little Match Girl 5 - The Hunter’s Vow
10 - The Little Match Girl at the Battle of the Gray Peaks
11 - The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX
12 - The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb
13 - The Little Match Girl Approaches the Golden Firmament
14 - The Board of Regents
15 - The Little Match Girl 6 - Fulcrum of the Telkon Vortex
16 - How the Little Match Girl Came to Learn the Code of Poseidon
17 - Stooping to Diplomacy
This is merely how I have the games organised in my folder, and by no means is how I think anyone should have it. This is how I sorted it according to my preference and the information available.
The relevance to this thread is, it’s good to HAVE the information transparently and readily available so that people have the chance to organise however they want. 
(by the way, I think you’re missing The Little Match Girl 6 - Fulcrum of the Telkon Vortex)
EDIT - Similarly, I consider “prequels” to be numerically later than what they are supposed to preceed. Like, “Hannibal Rising” is a prequel to Silence of the Lambs, but written much later. When we come to Hannibal Rising, we already know the events of SotLambs, inescapably; and when the character was written for SotLambs, HRising didn’t exist, and this has relevance. Meeting Lecter in SotLambs first is the experience moviegoers had, and the director intended for that first meeting to be like that, assuming the audience didn’t know him (readers of the books, and viewers who’d watched Manhunter, aside). And so, I consider “To Hell in a Hamper” to be the first episode of “The Curse of Captain Booby”, and “To Sea in a Sieve” to be the second one even if the latter is a prequel and takes place first.
But, to clarify, this is not a view I would push on people, just as I wouldn’t push on people my view that in an alphabetical list titles which start with the articles “A” or “The” would belong under “A” and “T” respectively. This is merely another example of how, if the entry has proper transparent information, the user can then sort it according to whatever preference they have, privately, without bothering anyone. Like, do I want to watch the movie adaptations of SotLambs and HRising in chronological order or the order they were written/made in? (for one thing, if I go chronologically, I had a different actor playing Lecter) Regardless of my choice, as long as I don’t push it on anyone, I should be free to make it; and I make it by having this information clearly stated. What do I need to know? “Episode number” (narrative chronology); year it was made (writing chronology); and their relationship (set in the same world).
EDIT - There is one final consideration, actually. If possible, the author’s desire. If the author says “this is the order which I intended for you to experience this in”, then that’s what I’m going with. I don’t consider a prequel to automatically mean “the author wants me to start here”. But if I have any indication that the author intends for me to start my experience of their work with a title that was released later, that’s where I’ll start.
Also good information to have. But this one is a tad more rare. Usually, not always but usually, the intended author’s order is the order of writing/publication (I understand Agatha Christie’s “Curtain” was written many years in advance, so it’s because of stuff like that I’m saying writing/publication, but of course in publication and release the order can get muddled too. It’s not always linear. Hence - say with it me, folks - having the information clearly available.)
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That game hasn’t been properly released yet, just a demo that was made for IntroComp. The full version is, as far as I know, still in development.
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Aaaaaaaaah. Ok, that was me bundling everything together then. Cheers for clarification. (can’t blame this one on “lack of transparency” or anything, because it says very clearly so on the IFDB page. 
I am merely in the habit of keeping IntroComp entries, so I didn’t realise)