A Book
I've made a board game doodle book with Viviane Schwarz.
Add rules, doodles and household objects to a pad of blank boards, to make games
about anything. Out 3 October 2019 in the UK and US, available for preorder now.
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 done
online over the past seventeen 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
- 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
Fiction
- Out of Nowhere :: nanogenmo 2018
- Tillman, Victor Lima, KOD :: nanogenmo 2017
- Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles :: nanogenmo 2015
- 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
- Vaughn :: rival brand
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
- 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 :: avocado takes unicorn
- 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
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
- 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)- 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
- 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 object for "the sims"