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24 alternatives to Journal29

Interactive Book Game

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Journal29 launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Journal 29: Interactive Book Game▲66
An interactive book game of riddles and puzzles.
2017 · journal29.com · its alternatives →
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Journal 29: Interactive Book Game▲67
Solve the riddles, collect the keys, complete the adventure.
2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Journal 29: Interactive Book Game▲2
An interactive book of riddles and puzzles
2017 · its alternatives →
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Game Writing▲73
Narrative Skills for Videogames
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Theory of Fun for Game Design▲67
Thoughts on the most important element of any game's design
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Getting Gamers▲58
The psychology of video games
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
21st Century Game Design▲83
Who are we designing games for and how do we do it best?
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Games People Play▲65
The basic handbook of transactional analysis
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 37: Board Games, Business, and Protospiel Ann Arbor▲51
Interviews and play testing with designers and publishers
2016 · happymittengames.com · its alternatives →
10
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat▲67
Explores the complicated issue of gender in computer games
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses▲72
Ryan Hoover's fave book on The Twenty Minute VC
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Gristle and Grape▲60
Interactive text adventure with multiple perspectives.
2015 · its alternatives →
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IGDB▲61
An open video game database
2015 · igdb.com · its alternatives →
14
The Oxford History of Board Games▲73
Investigates the myriad board games around the world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
StudyQuest▲69
Turn your notes into games
21d ago · studyquest.app · its alternatives →
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Play Well - 7: Creating Your Own Narrative with Nina Freeman▲58
Discussions around Cibele, romance in games, and pricing
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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The Quest▲56
An old-school, hand-drawn RPG
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design ▲70
A look at how games make us feel
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse▲58
An interactive field guide to expand the popular video game
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Color▲80
A color matching game
2015 · color.method.ac · its alternatives →
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for / with / in▲54
Experiments and conversations about design in the browser
2015 · htmloutput.risd.gd · its alternatives →
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Gridland ▲87
An adictive roleplaying stacking puzzle
2015 · gridland.doublespeakgames.com · its alternatives →
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BrowerQuest▲65
A HTML5/JavaScript multiplayer game experiment
2015 · its alternatives →
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Reality is Broken▲60
Why games make us better and how they can change the world
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

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