Browser game · literary · hosted on the web
West Egg, summer of 1922.
A playable retelling of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You are Nick Carraway—West Egg, summer of 1922.
What this is
The novel, from inside Nick’s summer.
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel retold as a browser game. You play Nick Carraway, newly arrived in West Egg for the summer of 1922, next door to a mansion whose parties everyone attends and whose host almost nobody has met.
The story is the story. The difference is the seat: you’re inside the narrator’s decisions rather than behind his account of them.
The playable game lives at thegreatestgatsby.netlify.app. This page is its home in the Brand New Colors portfolio.
Behind the game
A narrator is a player role.
The Great Gatsby was the first of three literary games in the Brand New Colors portfolio, and it set the pattern: a novel with a first-person narrator already contains a player character, a fixed cast, and a sequence of scenes where the narrator chooses what to attend, whom to believe, and what to say.
A body of shared lore counts as a community too. Millions of people carry this book around; the game is built for them.
Who it welcomes
Made for the people who’d get it.
- Readers who know the novel and want to stand inside it.
- Students meeting Gatsby for the first time—the game follows the book.
A Brand New Colors game. Source text: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), in the public domain.
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