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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.
From The Public Domain Review
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.
Something different
Pocketmod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer
Take-a-piece-of-letter-paper-and-fold-it-into-an-eight-page-zine.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Inklewriter
The “baby” Ink, runs in browser and great for CYOA, same UI as Sorcery!
Something different
The Adliberum Engine
(Free but on Steam, early access) Make text adventures, muds and text-powered roleplaying games.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Five Year Mission
Amit patel of red blob games looks back on 5 years of creating interactive explanations.
Something different
Jared White
Expressively publishing on the open web since 1996. Entranced by Portland, Oregon since 2017.
From personalsit.es
Josh Beckman
Hello, friends. I'm Josh Beckman. I make things - mostly software, mostly for others. This is where I keep years of writing, notes, and reading highlights, as a [knowledge garden](/about-this-site) built in the open. [I write](/blog) about s...
Something different
Understanding Comics
"The pedagogical potential of the comic form is vast and mostly untapped" —Bret Victor
From Awesome Explorables
Elia Scotto
Software engineer living in Australia. Writing about programming languages, software development, side projects, books reviews and various other topics.
From personalsit.es
Explorable Explanations
the 2011 essay that coined the phrase 'Explorable Explanation'
Something different
Twine
An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Has a big community and multiple versions and themes.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Choicescript
Like Twine, but for more traditional CYOA gamebooks-with-stats. Tight community on the forums.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Inform
A design system for interactive fiction which has been around for a while!
From Tiny Tools Directory
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