GAMES FOR PEOPLE WHO’D NOTICE IF YOU GOT IT WRONG.

Turn the Camera Home

Take Voyager 1’s final look back, from the argument in the room to Earth inside a ray of scattered sunlight.

Good Standing

One season as a regional chapter advisor: four chapters, an expansion group, eight fictional organizations, and decisions nobody can settle with a handbook.

Jewish Community Simulator

Lead a fictional congregation through a Jewish year as one of four staff members. Four movements, four places. One boiler.

The Fall Season

Run an Austin outdoor-cinema company through forty-two fall nights, where every sold-out show still answers to the radar.

Houston Custom Wood Shop

You bought out the old partners for a dollar each. Now every custom job asks what the shop is worth and how much of your life it gets to keep.

Inspired by the work of HTX Made.

Walk-Ins Welcome

Price the cuts and staff the chairs at a Central Texas salon until one shop turns into a chain.

San Antonio City Council Campaign

Twelve weeks in San Antonio’s District 5. Each week gives a first-time candidate three moves and six voting blocs to disappoint.

Cucumber Patch

Sixteen plots at Henderson Family Farms, where the interval between ripe and ruined is shorter than you remember.

The Back Room

The boss is upstate on a federal case. Keep a North Jersey crew paid and calm for twenty weeks; the chair could be yours.

Wellsville

Five small games wait down one suburban block on the last afternoon of summer. The television is strange, sincere, and unmistakably ’90s.

Tough Crowd

Six cities, five bits a night. The room decides which jokes make it to New York.

Kotel Quest

Jerusalem’s Old City gives you shuk stalls, strangers, wrong turns, street cats, and somewhere quiet at the end.

Sam’s iPod 2006

West Campus, 2006: 847 songs behind one click wheel. What loads next?

The Great Gatsby

You are Nick Carraway in West Egg, summer of 1922. The green light is visible from here.

The Sun Also Rises

Paris to Pamplona with Jake Barnes, where the fiesta keeps moving and the damage travels with it.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Salinger’s short story becomes a tiny arcade game. How many bananafish can you see?