Games that mess with medium

Here thing, i love stuff that mess with its own medium, i love meta stuff or everything like that, so i wonder what IF you can recommend that really mess with medium of IF, like, don’t look like just IF but different stuff entirely, just, share what you know

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Well, when it comes to “things that don’t look like IF but like something else entirely,” Excalibur comes to mind. I think there are a few other pseudo-wiki games out there too.

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ConfigurationUploader isn’t quite a wiki (it’s a Read the Docs site), but it fits under that umbrella too, I think.

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It’s been many years since I’ve played it, but I always liked Dunnet for this kind of thing as shortly into the game you learn you are inside a computer and gain the ability to modify the game world as you are playing it.

yet another planning doc by Naarel takes place in Google Docs and Gmail.

Please Answer Carefully by litrouke was made in a survey app (EDIT: nope, Twine but still unique).

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In fact many of the games from the anti-productivity jam probably qualify for this.

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please answer carefully was made in twine, just looks like a survey!

Slouching Towards Bedlam (parser, Inform).