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 bureaucracy.

A game about telling ridiculous stories together.

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 approach to queer game design.

An alternative history of the first videogame console.

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.