Your Team Will Do Well This Year by Andrew Schultz
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What if you could control the outcome…
Your team lost key players and were beaten down to shame, regardless of the kids talents. But it does not matter, because you, the fan, get to control the outcome this time around! You get to choose how the team will do during the season. But one caveat: you can’t go unbeaten.
In some strange twist of Fuck Marry Kill gameplay, you have to choose the level of the team’s performance during three part of the season, giving you six possible endings. I wish things could be that easy…
5 Likes
The Ancient Rhime of Spartacus by eckardlise
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Sparticus, shmarticus…
Inspired by Ancient Greek Epics, this interactive poems brings you the tale of Sparticus, a lover, an artist, a fighter, a hero… or is he all these things? The entry takes on a quite humourous approach to storytelling and myths recounting, where the hero can fail embarrassingly or depressingly.
As a small negative, I thought the images detracted from the text. Were they maybe more homogenised in style/colours, it might not have been an issue, but I don’t think they did much to help.
3 Likes
(and number 2 because Tumblr queued the other one at 2 in the morning…)
letters to a friend by lazyguppy
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Stranger, not always danger…
From a simple addressing mistake, a stranger sends you letters about mundane things happening to them, their worries, and hopes. Like some sort of bizarre one-way penpal, the stranger tries to reach out to you, a shut-in, or maybe just finds comfort in the knowledge that maybe someone sees them.
3 Likes
EVISCERATETHISGIRL . COM by KADW/Cerfeuil
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What we do when we are bored…
Unable to sleep, you visit this strange website, one you’ve been visiting quite often lately. For what the purpose of this website does, the URL is the giveaway (don’t worry the girl is not real).
It is gruesome, it is strange, it is trippy. Also reminded me of Flash games (RIP Flash…)
Kuddos on the very killer UI and visuals!
4 Likes
aberrance by litrouke
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Contest or Agree… you will be found guilty.
Brought to face council for the murder/drowning of a boy, you are asked to answer those accusations. You have but little words in replies, always leading (it seemed) to your demise.
I think the interactivity aspect of the entry (hover-disappear + fake parser) overshined the story.
5 Likes
Reflecting my face in the mirror by Aster Fialla
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The face you don’t recognise…
A personal piece about not finding yourself (or anyone else) watching your face in the mirror. From the features you wish you had, to the wish to connect to the stranger who gave you the features you have, this entry yearns for connection (from one specific person) and finding identity.
5 Likes
Intersigne by manonamora
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It was in the s–
Sorry, couldn’t help myself again 
I play my game though… 
And tried INK for the first time with this entry!
8 Likes
Life Is Short by axmn
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…And you can lose your loved ones at any time.
This entry shows three snapshots of a birthday, from a birth, to a fun 9th birthday’s party, to a lonely one at 40. The end is very much an emotional whiplash…
I liked the change of colours in the background depending on the passage you were.
5 Likes
Whoops forgot about this yesterday… I was at the dentist and had some anaesthetic…
Anyway… here’s are the ones posted on Tumblr but forgot to put here
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Try to Wake Up by bertilak
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Nightmare fuelled adventure
Inescapable nightmare, leaving you in sweat drenched sheets in the morning - this is what this entry embodies. From the seemingly unescapable groundhog-day like cycle, to the body horror or plain trippy horror descriptions, you must try your best to find the exit…
… and wake up.
I managed to solve the puzzle at the end… but it took me a while
6 Likes
This one should be posted on Tumblr in like 10min, but I’m here already…
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Thursday, in Space by Bitterly Indifferent
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Space Delivery Contractor
A Thursday, in space, and you have a delivery to make. Along the way, your ship is forced to stop a handful of time, during which a choice must be made. You may stay lawfully good or more of a chaotic mess. The result maaaaay affect future employment, though…
I really liked the added images to the page!
8 Likes
That Forest Inside by onepanda
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Two faces of the same coin
A personal piece about depression, told from the perspective of the beast and the victim. Each POV have a choice between two actions, each affecting the other, before another day begin and the struggle starts anew.
6 Likes
Now We’re Clickin’, Team by Andrew Schultz
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Luck, Superstitions, and Bad Choices
Like Andrew’s previous entry, this one is again about you being a fan of a game, and wanting your team to do well in the tournament. You get to pick your rituals before the season starts and pray to the Basketball gods the RNG is on your side.
Then starts a lot of clicking, to go through each result of games your team plays in the knock-off stages. Even if the title of the entry warns you, it is still a bit tedious… I think a one passage per season, where each game result appears one below the other, with a timer, would have been a bit nicer?
I did like the name of the college team you are following (which is randomly assigned at the start of the game) and the strange rituals and superstitions from your eating habits to your cleaning schedule. Quite humourous!
But down with the RNG God tho… may it lives in pain for the rest of time.
6 Likes
Mother, Daughter, Sister by alyshkalia
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All done in three’s…
This is the story of three people - a mother, a daughter, and that daughter’s sister - each feeling happy, sad, and angry following an undescribed event that changed the dynamics between those three individuals. In so little words, the author manages to paint quite the picture…
This might be the shortest entry into this jam so far.
8 Likes
Emily by MuffiTuffiWuffi
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The first of its kind…
In 5 small acts, the narrator describe its life from its creation, the first of its kind; its education, with questions about morals; its labour, surpassed by its children until discarded when useless; its retirement, passing in a blink of an eye; to its death, remembered or maybe forgotten.
It is an odd entry about the human condition…
4 Likes
Buck Rockford Heads West by J. J. Guest
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Job Hopper in the Wild West
…or the humourous(?) adventures of Buck Rockford.
Bored out of his mind, Buck heads West in hopes to find fulfilment and meaning for his life. Though he has quite a few options on what to become, Buck never seems to find luck with any of those new position. Instead he job hops, hoping the next one will strike gold…
The entry is very anchored in the western tropes, and even through some of the underlying sadness, there is quite a bit of delighting humour. The twists made me giggle quite a bit.
5 Likes
Hahaha. Yeah, it sure feels unfair, even though the results are based on teams’ seeds. When I ran a bunch of simulations, a 1-seed was more likely to lose in the 3rd round than to win a championship! And that’s with 1-seeds probably being overpowered.
Thanks for the other suggestions–I was wondering about using timers, but I wanted to make it so the player could either click in the same place as fast or slow as they wanted, or you could hit tab and return a lot, so it wasn’t too much effort. Maybe I’ll revisit that.
Also, I wanted to allow cheating, where you could press the back button and try again, especially if you got upset as a higher seed, when undos were likely to benefit you more. I’d be interested how much people took advantage of that!
4 Likes
the happiness jar by cairirie
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Memory lane inside a jar
A Happiness jar is a fun concept, and can help give you a different outlook on life or remember the good times (like a time capsule). But the entry recalls some less fun things about the happiness jar, like delving into it too early, or recording ghosts versions of themselves, or plainly stopping adding to it.
The entry does an interesting job with the interactivity, adding more to the story, left in between the lines…
6 Likes
Refugium (Fugere) by Allie Vera
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Finding refuge in the most unlikely places…
You flee a party, where you know few attendants and are not around the ones you do, unnoticed. In the elevator to escape, something strange happens. The stops between the floor of the party and the building’s door are… not what’d you expect.
Still, in a stranger even turn of even, you don’t seem to care… you even rejoice in these unusual refuges (haha title). If you chose to stay on the elevator, things get even weirder, as you seem to be talking to someone (who? the narrator? yourself? someone else? I think they had a physical presence?). It is even unclear whether we even left the elevator at all.
I got to wondering: did something happen to us at the party that made us experience these peculiar events (are we high?)? Are those rooms metaphors/twisted imageries for real life (a walk in the park, going to bed next to someone, being alone…)? Are we maybe dead and living through our personal hell?
With the timed fade-in of the text and the many non-choice screens, it would have been nice if we could to back to the last choice in the Restart, rather than having to go through all of this again…
5 Likes