Brendan Allen
brendanallen.bsky.social
Brendan Allen
@brendanallen.bsky.social
poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
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"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Just now starting to sketch out a new weird project: digitizing old toy theatre catalogues and rebuilding them in Decker with interactive elements
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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text generator bugs have such a particular feel. i'm currently debugging "with abroad, broad band of glass"
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Next week! If you're in the Toronto area, I'll be talking about a recent critical edition of the Aperture Science promotional Portal tie-in website (co-edited by Alan Galey, @ellenforget.bsky.social, and myself) as well some of the implications for future born-digital interactive literature.
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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i've been slowly playing through Game Poems 1 and this is the first one that i Unreservedly Recommend
"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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my lil game poem "lessons in anatomy" is featured in the first issue of GAME POEMS, which is an incredible honor to me. it's a short meditation on pleasure, pain, sex, and the vulva (because my whole thing is games about vulvas). www.gamepoems.com/issue01
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!!!
It's a being walked simulator about aging made of clay, tangerine peel, sigarette ends and children's obscene drawings

Go check it out in the first issue of Game Poems magazine along with other beautiful games👇

Thank you for playing and sharing!
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Game Poems #1 came out earlier this month, with a small piece of mine and truly engrossing work from my co-contributors! @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social and the Game Poems team are thoughtful editors and curators, and I'm very impressed with the care they've taken in assembling the issue.
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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Check out the marvellous Game Poems magazine! Yes, I have a little something in there, and, yes, it lives up to the dream of publications that manage to include (and be about) interactive/games stuff!

www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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I've been excited for (and getting little peeks of) Game Poems for a little while now and now it's out for everyone to see!

"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
January 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
i've been making a lot of wizards lately
January 18, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I'm not really much for posting here at the moment. Still, if you've stumbled onto this page somehow you're very welcome to play some of my games at bibliomancer.itch.io.
bibliomancer
bibliomancer.itch.io
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I'm particularly proud of this pioneering digital edition of ApertureScience​.com, part of the #Portal game universe: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/ap...
Edited by Alan Galey, @ellenforget.bsky.social, and @brendanallen.bsky.social. Powered by #TEI and Twine

#thecakeisalie #glados #gaminghistory
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM