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Hello. I'm Kevan Davis - a freelance web developer and game designer working in
London. Here are links to some of the things I've made on and offline over the
past twenty two years.


PHYSICAL OBJECTS





FLAGSHIP PROJECTS

 * Urban Dead :: a massively multi-player zombie apocalypse
 * Chore Wars :: experience points for housework
 * Ludocity :: pervasive games archive
 * Dvorak :: a nomic blank-card game
 * Freeze-Dried Games Pack :: tabletop games in 100 words
 * Fourble :: convert mp3s into podcasts
 * Wikipedia: The Text Adventure :: interactive non-fiction
 * Board Games to Create and Play :: game design doodle book


PERSONAL

 * As Above :: almost a weblog
 * Contact / CV :: currently freelance


FICTION

 * The Daily Fremony :: nanogenmo 2023
 * A Tale of Two Sentiment-Analysed Cities :: nanogenmo 2022
 * Some Dim, Random Way :: nanogenmo 2021
 * Any Day In 2020 :: nanogenmo 2020
 * Hyloe's Book of Games :: nanogenmo 2019
 * Out of Nowhere :: nanogenmo 2018
 * Tillman, Victor Lima, KOD :: nanogenmo 2017
 * Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles :: nanogenmo 2015
 * Vaughn :: rival brand
 * The Campaign for Real Advertising :: captive audience
 * Litter :: paperclip antennae
 * Do Not Stand Forward Of This Notice :: concertina doors
 * Ask the Audience :: eviction channel
 * Work to Win :: random bonus
 * Walking Distance :: pedestrian licence
 * Collector's Item :: dust-edged window


INTERACTIVE FICTION


GAMES

 * The Stone Cage :: caught in the deer pit
 * Text Arcade :: real-world overlap
 * Escape from the SS Borgarís :: icelandic cruise disaster
 * The Man From DEFRA :: your herd needs you


MISCELLANY

 * Bad Machine Walkthrough :: transmit 011 to energizer
 * Hours of Inform :: an occasional speed-writing contest


TWITTER BOTS

 * Bird Insults :: ye lappet-faced vulture!
 * Firebot Mountain :: if you wish to cheat, turn to 91
 * Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases :: i take this instance at random
 * Exhaustive Being :: bored of being bored?
 * Two Ex-Googlers :: a pipe that scans your face
 * Ludemetic Generator :: ker-shambo
 * Chuck Wood :: how many selves could will self will?
 * sfx_fx :: (electronic beeping)
 * adbreaking :: call now
 * How It's Made Up :: rotated in a drum
 * Emoji Chess Problems :: croissant takes basketball
 * Newest Moons :: nearer the horizon
 * Astra Nauseam :: imaginary constellations
 * Science Advisor :: aztecs offer to trade glam metal
 * Unbuilt London :: the biscuit press
 * Prior-Art-O-Matic :: infinitely pending
 * The Daily Sensible :: the most important breakfast of the day
 * Sci-Fi News Network :: phogon warbots
 * Seneca Quotes :: it is better, of course, to know useless things than to know
   nothing


EXPERIMENTS

 * extisp.icio.us :: del.icio.us scattering
 * Zombie Infection Simulation :: emergent undead
 * Kaleidoscope :: a weblog metagame
 * A Kenning Game Engine :: norse analogy chaining
 * The Hieroglypher :: (currently offline)
 * Lonesome No More! :: vonnegut families
 * The Blog Twinning Project :: please drive carefully


THE PUBLIC GOOD

 * Random Letter Server :: a virtual bag of tiles
 * Random Noun Server :: a virtual deck of words
 * Fourble :: convert mp3s into podcasts
 * BBC Radio 4b :: (currently offline)
 * Pomodoro MP3 Timer :: tick tick tick
 * Counterbalance :: board game selector
 * BookMooch Facebook application :: (now retired)
 * The Encyclopaedia Morningtonia :: in wiki format
 * The Diary of a Nobody :: as a daily weblog
 * Generic Nomic Data Tracker :: making nomics easier


GAMES


CARD AND BOARD GAMES

 * Jigwar :: competitive jigsaw solving
 * Feral Chess :: emergency abstract boardgame
 * Little Ghost :: bluffing in the attic
 * Wizard Work :: the right spellcasters for the job
 * Young V&A Game Jam Table :: pop-o-matic game design
 * Shrdlu :: fitting letters into boxes
 * Keyword :: a thing in terms of another thing
 * The Skeleton Deck :: a lockpick for card games
 * Alleyback :: streetmap traversal
 * Chancery Lane :: a Mornington Crescent variant
 * Emergency Games Kit :: 101 games in one pocket
 * Freeze-Dried Games Pack :: tabletop games in 100 words
 * Present Drop :: back of a selection box
 * The Boardgame Remix Kit :: hacking boardgames
 * Scannergram :: crossword mutation
 * Capetown :: secret superhero identities
 * Dadaist Pursuit :: random trivia
 * Top Trump Squads :: top trumps with rules
 * The Things :: shapechanging subterfuge
 * Technopoly :: robotic trading and invention
 * Mini Mao :: a cabalistic card game
 * Confab :: a conversational card game
 * Dvorak :: a nomic blank-card game


PERVASIVE GAMES

 * Kaiju Invasion Drill :: fight the skyline
 * Escape From Somerset House :: a dream
 * Counter-Surveillance Drill :: is this seat taken?
 * Martian Attack Drill :: crane lasers
 * Urban Zombie Drill :: they're us, that's all
 * Visible Cities :: reality engineers
 * Gostak International Airport :: conlang escape room
 * Schniper :: walkie-talkie warning shots
 * Rubble :: post-apocalyptic bartering
 * Day of the Thing :: shapeshifting scavengers
 * Hand to Hand :: urban card game
 * Lose the Tail :: how not to be seen
 * The Man Who Was Thursday :: council of anarchists
 * Paparazzi :: photographic marksmanship
 * Poets versus Policemen :: illegal poetry
 * Standoff :: post-heist finger-gun arguments
 * Surpass the Parcel :: hill-climbing wrapping paper
 * Thoughtcrime :: radio eavesdropping


WEB GAMES

 * Wikipedia: The Text Adventure :: interactive non-fiction
 * Liar's Dice Roller :: five browser dice
 * Fantasy Shipping Forecast :: becoming cyclonic
 * Catfishing :: identifying things by wikipedia categories
 * Rubicon :: machine-building puzzles
 * LiveJournal Dungeon Adventure :: autogenerated dungeoneering
 * Urban Dead :: zombie mmorpg
 * Snakoban :: block-pushing boredom
 * The Maobot :: a robotic mao opponent
 * BlogNomic :: a nomic within a weblog
 * Shortfall :: a search engine game


ABSTRACT GAMES

 * Hackronym :: unlocking a word with itself
 * HipBone Board :: online notepaper
 * Metaboo :: cardless meta-level taboo
 * Rumble :: superheroic brawling (rules by Ben)


ART

 * Show Me The Way (To Go Home) :: spoken direction collection
 * Duelling Tilers :: emergent checkerboarding
 * Photophone :: mutating photography
 * Beach Image :: the pebbles speak
 * Beachcomber :: java-applet pebble rearrangement
 * West Pier on Fire :: a slideshow
 * The Smaller Picture :: the eye of the hive-mind
 * Exquisite Corpses :: blindly collaborative photoshopping


RANDOM WORDS

 * I Charge Thee, Speak! :: twitter shakespeare monkeys
 * Name-Letter Effect Careers Advice :: implicit egotism
 * The New Year's Resolutions of LiveJournal :: eat more random words
 * The Twelve Days of LiveJournal :: five gi-i-i-iant squid
 * Movie Quote Generator :: show me the noun
 * Fantasy World News Generator :: the war on chaotic-evil
 * Sci-Fi News Generator :: phogon warbots
 * Bad Joke Generator :: architeuthis duxembourg
 * Bilateral Thinking Puzzles :: the man is a siamese twin
 * eBay Feedback Generator :: packaging was transcendent
 * The Surrealist Dalek :: re-gurg-i-tate
 * What's Your Spammer Name? :: something q. something
 * Dr. Unheimlich's Disease Registry :: chapped lips, extremely blue irises,
   sore throat
 * The Ludemetic Game Generator :: commodity speculation, singing
 * The Dossier Sexupifier :: within 45 minutes
 * Word Categorisation :: conceptual filtering
 * The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary :: n. an exclamation of surprise.
 * The Sound Effect Generator :: chirr fwing-chonk hiccup
 * The Advertising Slogan Generator :: i can't believe it's not
 * The Prior-Art-O-Matic :: infinitely pending
 * 24 Dreaming :: bauer asleep
 * The Acronym Liar :: asynchronous digital subscriber liar
 * The Surrealist Link :: you are the frilliest bulldozer


QUIZZES

 * Interactive Johari Window :: hidden personality traits
 * The Ultimate Personality Test :: you sometimes experience déjà vu
 * Which NetHack Monster Are You? :: you shudder for a moment
 * The Froy Marriage Test :: how to avoid matrimony


MISCELLANEA

 * Wii Fake Error Message :: immersed in liquid
 * Spam As Folk Art :: responding to spam
 * Battle Robots :: start your engines
 * Giant Battle Monsters :: zilla killer
 * Food-Eating Battle Monkeys :: no surrender
 * Graaaagh! :: a zombie brain-eating viral
 * Other Listings Magazine :: tvgohome @ home
 * Mornington Crescent Table :: an ancient Sims object


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