My first game EVER was Miracle Avenue, an improvised nonsense game for HyperCard with a sort of Manhole-On-Rails feel. There were no forking paths, just a sort of continuous tunnel of weirdness. There were mutant fish who did a Mouseketeer count off for you, a church for alligators in the sewers (whose minister only gave a loud belch I recorded myself), and a visit to a filthy apartment whose resident was talking vomit. (I was thirteen.) It was never intended for release, just the joy of making stuff up and bringing it to life.
The first game I released was a two-pack: Mr. Mac and Jack Splat, which were like short laserdisc games a la Dragon’s Lair, and if your computer was fast enough to run them, they were pretty fun! They both had total non sequitur endings: Mr. Mac, the bouncing classic Macintosh, abruptly transforms into a muscular human, while Jack Splat the amorphous blob vanishes down a black hole and we’re informed he’s failed to deliver a pizza. This one was uploaded to AOL, back when it was a walled garden internet service.
My first game for Twine was The Hole Man, which I’ve already picked apart here! It feels like coming full circle to do another wandering-weird-worlds game.