I care a lot about games. I've been playing them my whole life; I studied game design under Jesse Schell in graduate school, I've designed a few games.

Games I would recommend out of this collection - in particular, I think these give more than they take in terms of time and energy.

Games my wife enjoys.

• Dance Party (2018; p5, JavaScript)
• Plants vs Zombies 2 (2013; in-house engine, C++, Obj-C, Java)
• Plants vs Zombies Adventures (2013; Flash, ECMAScript)
• Star Wars Building a Galaxy With Code (2015; JavaScript)

• Business Battle (2011; Unity)
• Cookie Raid (2012; a dice game)
• Frog Secret Agent (2011; Unity)
• Galactic Supervillain Society (2012; a board game)
• Pepper Knave (2012; a D&D one-shot)
• Pyramids (2012; a dice game)
• Soul of Movement (2011; Unity, Kinect)
• There and Back Again (2012; a playground game)
• Tightrope Thrills (2011; Unity, VR)

• Asteroids 3D (1999; Wildtangent, JavaScript)
• Enchanted Forest (TI-83) (2003; TI Basic)
• Esther's (2022; Twee/Snowman)
• Flames of Gold (2002; Visual Basic)
• Hitotoki (2016; Inform 7)
• Memory (2016; p5, JavaScript)
• Netherworld (2012; Unity)
• Pac-Man (2003; JavaScript)
• Photonkart (2019; JavaScript, Circuit Playground)
• Planes (2017; p5, JavaScript)
• Pong Gauges (2007; Flash)
• Royal Council (2010; a card game)
• Snake (2017; p5, JavaScript)
• Splat! (2016; p5, JavaScript)
• Super Circle Run (2015; JavaScript)
• Tennis Jump (2016; p5, JavaScript)
• Tetris (2002; C#)
• Werewolf (2011; play-by-email)
• Wildflower Child (2017; JavaScript)

To document:

• Jedi Knight II maps, maybe?
• Extensions to Tim Alvey's DOTA-like Warcraft 3 game in 2007.
• Building the sailing ship / archipelago DOTA-like with Tim Alvey in 2007.

My attempt to curate a list of all of the games I've ever played. Here are some notable categories:

• Eyezmaze games: Chronon, Grow, Hatch, Pelpet, Tontie, Vanilla
• Jason Rohrer games: Between, The Castle Doctrine, Cordial Minuet, Gravitation, Inside a Star-Filled Sky, Primrose, Passage, Sleep is Death
• Terry Cavanagh games: Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, VVVVVV
• Humongous Entertainment

• It looks like I haven't spent significant time with any games that start with the letter 'X'. You'd think I would have played a bunch of some X-Wing or X-Men game by now, or even X-Files.
• Games with one-letter names: N, R

This project started in this spreadsheet but I'm gradually moving it to this wiki (250+ to go). A sampling of games I still need to document here: Oxenfree, The Fox in the Forest, Quixx, Iota, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Metroid Prime, Too Many Ninjas, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Orion Trail, Rinkworks games

Virtual friendly: Coup, Spyfall, Drawphone, One-Night Ultimate Werewolf, Jackbox, Contact, Enigma / Decrypto (netgames.io)

Games I still intend to play, especially those that have been recommended to me.

• Beacon Pines (~5 hours)
• Strange Horticulture (~5 hours)
• Norco (because) (~5 hours)
• The Case of the Golden Idol (Steam) compared to Obra Dinn (~5 hours)
• Kentucky Route Zero (~10 hours)
• SOMA (Jeff recommended) (~10 hours)
• Metroid Dread (~10 hours)
• Heaven's Vault (uniquely for me) (~15 hours)
• Pentiment (compared to Disco Elysium) (~15 hours)
• Nobody Saves The World (~15 hours)

Games marked “owned” but not “played:”