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Behind the fluorescent veil of modern big-business video games, a quiet revolution is happening, and it’s centered on a tool called Twine. Taken up by nontraditional game authors to describe distinctly nontraditional subjects—from struggles with depression, explorations of queer identity, and analyses of the world of modern sex and dating to visions of breeding crustacean horses in a dystopian future—the Twine movement to date has created space for those who have previously been voiceless within games culture to tell their own stories, as well as to invent new visions outside of traditional channels of commerce.

Videogames for Humans, curated and introduced by Twine author and games theorist merritt k, puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another’s work, reacting to, elaborating on, and being affected by the same. The result is an unprecedented kind of book about video games, one that will jump-start the discussions that will define the games culture of tomorrow.

FEATURING GAMES BY:

Winter Lake, Benji Bright, Maddox Pratt, Eva Problems, Tom McHenry, Elizabeth Sampat, Michael Brough, Aevee Bee, Bryan Reid, Mira Simon, Mary Hamilton, Jeremy Penner, Olivia Vitolo, Soha Kareem, Nina Freeman, Cara Ellison, Anna Anthropy, Sloane, Jeremy Lonien & Dominik Johann, Zoe Quinn, Christine Love, Kayla Unknown, Gaming Pixie, Mike Joffe, Leon Arnott, Rokashi Edwards, Lydia Neon

AS WELL AS PLAYTHROUGHS BY:

Eva Problems, Riley MacLeod, Emily Short, Imogen Binnie,
Naomi Clark, Patricia Hernandez, Anna Anthropy, Lydia Neon, Avery Mcdaldno, Bryan Reid, Auriea Harvey, Austin Walker, Katherine Cross, Mattie Brice, Lana Polansky, Soha Kareem, Cat Fitzpatrick, Aevee Bee, Squinky, Toni Pizza, Leigh Alexander, Cara Ellison, Alex Roberts, Pippin Barr, Matthew S. Burns, John Brindle, Elizabeth Sampat