Matthew R.F. Balousek

Hi, I'm Matthew R.F. Balousek. I'm an MFA candidate studying Playable Media at UCSC. I make games, interactive fiction, and bad jokes. he/him.

I also make twitterbots, take photographs, and bake bread.

A game about telling ridiculous stories together.

A collection of 140,196,990,311,361 poems.

Thirty-five small games.

An approach to queer game design.

A game about stylish heroism, inspired by Power Rangers and Sailor Moon.

Two games about death on the frontier.

A game about magic and community.

An alternative history of the first videogame console.

A game about bureaucracy.

Two people talking to each other through computational poems.

Smutty poems that a computer made out of Moby-Dick.

Sad poems that a computer made out of diary entries.

A hypertext game about change.

A hypertext interactive fiction game about forests and/or gems.

A hypertext interactive fiction game about memory and/or gems.