Games
860 sites
Subcategories:
- Video Games (315)
- Tabletop & RPGs (160)
- MUDs & Text Games (147)
https://nikoblankworks.com/
Niko's personal blog, written under the handle Inumo, focuses heavily on tabletop RPG design and GMing craft, with detailed essays on games like Fabula Ultima, Lancer, and Girl by Moonlight. The site doubles as a home base for several original TTRPG projects and offers thoughtful long-form writing on game theory, reviews, and design philosophy.
https://graverobbersguide.blogspot.com/2023/06/combo-encounters.html
The Graverobber's Guide is D.G. Chapman's tabletop RPG blog packed with creative game mastering advice, random tables, and dungeon design ideas. This particular post explores 'combo encounters,' a technique for pre-combining random encounter results to spark richer, more dynamic in-game moments without extra GM prep work.
https://historyofhyrule.com/
History of Hyrule is a long-running fan resource celebrating the Legend of Zelda series since 2002, with an extensive collection of official art, manga, doujinshi, and rare series materials. Dedicated to old-school Zelda fandom, it serves as a deep archive for collectors and fans seeking hard-to-find visual and printed media from the franchise.
http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight
Spatterlight is a native macOS Cocoa application that plays a wide range of interactive fiction formats including Z-code, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, and Magnetic Scrolls games. The site provides downloads, source code, and links to bibliographic iFiction files for classic commercial IF titles from companies like Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
https://strangetowngirl.neocities.org/
Katie's colorful personal corner of the web, themed around The Sims 2 PSP and video games, featuring webshrines, a dream journal, and a pets section for her cat Oreo. The Wii pointer cursor, iMood widget tracking her Sims 2 PSP mood, and pastel aesthetic give it a distinctly nostalgic early-2000s web feel.
https://mud-dev.zer7.com/
An archived collection of the MUD-Dev mailing list spanning from 1996 to 2010, preserving developer discussions about MUD design, game mechanics, roleplaying systems, and programming. A valuable historical record for anyone interested in the early evolution of online multiplayer game development and the technical debates that shaped the genre.
http://doortomore.net/
AndrastasWorld is Andrasta's personal site dedicated to custom content (CC) for The Sims 1, featuring downloadable objects organized into themed sections like Dusk, Medieval, Habitat, and Storybook. The objects are crafted for actual gameplay, including hacked and modded items that let Sims earn food, build skills, and even let children learn without attending school.
https://virtualnet.at/txa/index.htm
Viktor Krammer's TxA Text Adventure System is a development environment for creating text adventures on MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux, complete with a two-level parser supporting synonyms and optional words. The site includes documentation, a quick-start guide, downloadable games, and a sample excerpt from an original text adventure called 'The Blue Stone'.
https://tradgames.org.uk/
Created by James Masters, this comprehensive reference site documents the history and rules of traditional games from around the world, spanning board games, pub games, table games, and lawn games across centuries and cultures. From Chess and Go to obscure ancient games like Tafl and Fanorona, it is a richly detailed encyclopedia that the author notes has been widely copied and plagiarised across the internet.
http://kallindor.org/
Kallindor MUD is a text-based multiplayer online game built on the foundations of classic MUDs Myrradel and Alhazi Invasion, offering over 100 original areas, 18 races, and 5 base classes with 15 additional subclasses. Players can dive into hack-and-slash combat, clan warfare, PK systems, and a meta progression system with hundreds of unique skills and spells.