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
Fiction
Figure Eight
:: nanogenmo 2024
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)
Chore Wars
:: experience points for housework
(2007-2025)
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
Board Games to Create and Play
:: a game design doodle book
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
Ludocity
:: pervasive games archive
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
(2005-2025)
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
Data Shadow:
Amazon wishlist
-
BoardGameGeek
-
Bluesky
-
Facebook
-
Flickr
-
Huffduffer
-
Last FM
-
LinkedIn
-
Pinboard
-
Twitter