kevan.org

Hello. I'm Kevan Davis - a freelance web developer, game designer and zombie apocalypse consultant, working in London. Here are some links to some of the things I've done online over the past ten years.

Flagship Projects

Urban Dead :: a massively multi-player zombie apocalypse
Chore Wars :: experience points for housework
Ludocity :: pervasive games community
Dvorak :: a nomic blank-card game

Short Fiction

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

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

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

The Public Good

BBC Radio 4b :: without the middle-class divorce dramas
Pomodoro MP3 Timer :: tick tick tick
Board Game Selector :: pick a board game for a group to play
CJ Quotes on Twitter :: i didn't get where i am today
Seneca Quotes on Twitter :: it is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing
BookMooch Facebook application :: because there wasn't one
RPG Wiki :: non-local roleplaying group
A Single Random Scrabble Tile :: just in case
The Encyclopaedia Morningtonia :: in wiki format
The Diary of a Nobody :: as a daily weblog
Generic Nomic Data Tracker :: making nomics easier

Miscellanea

Nintendo Wii Fake Error Message Prank :: immersed in liquid
Support Hunting With Zombies :: don't be prejudiced
Spam As Folk Art :: responding to spam subject lines
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 object for "the sims"

Personal

As Above :: almost a weblog
Curriculum Vitae :: currently freelance

Games

Web Games

Liar's Dice Roller :: five dice in a browser window
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

Pervasive Games

Urban Zombie Drill :: they're us, that's all
Visible Cities :: reality engineers
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

Card and Board Games

Freeze-Dried Games Pack :: tabletop games in 100 words
Present Drop :: back of a selection box
The Boardgame Remix Kit :: hacking boardgames with Hide&Seek
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

Abstract Games

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
Photographic Chinese Whispers :: mutating visions
Beach Image :: the pebbles speak
Beachcomber :: java-applet pebble rearrangement
West Pier on Fire :: a slideshow
Sheep Poetry :: pseudo-quantum verse generation
The Smaller Picture :: the eye of the hive-mind
Exquisite Corpses :: blindly collaborative photoshopping

Random Words

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
The Daily Sensible :: zenzible newz
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