Hello. I'm Kevan Davis - a freelance web developer and game designer working in London. Here are links to some of the things I've made on and offline over the past twenty-five years.
Physical objects
Fiction
The Edit History of Theseus
:: nanogenmo 2025
Figure Eight
:: nanogenmo 2024
The Daily Fremony
:: nanogenmo 2023
A Tale of Two Sentiment-Analysed Cities
:: nanogenmo 2022
Some Dim, Random Way
:: nanogenmo 2021
Any Day In 2020
:: nanogenmo 2020
Hyloe's Book of Games
:: nanogenmo 2019
Out of Nowhere
:: nanogenmo 2018
Tillman, Victor Lima, KOD
:: nanogenmo 2017
Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles
:: nanogenmo 2015
Vaughn
:: rival brand
The Campaign for Real Advertising
:: captive audience
Litter
:: paperclip antennae
Do Not Stand Forward Of This Notice
:: concertina doors
Ask the Audience
:: eviction channel
Work to Win
:: random bonus
Walking Distance
:: pedestrian licence
Collector's Item
:: dust-edged window
Interactive Fiction
Games
The Stone Cage
:: caught in the deer pit
Text Arcade
:: real-world overlap
Escape from the SS Borgarís
:: icelandic cruise disaster
The Man From DEFRA
:: your herd needs you
Miscellany
Bad Machine Walkthrough
:: transmit 011 to energizer
Hours of Inform
:: an occasional speed-writing contest
Twitter Bots (archived)
Bird Insults
:: ye lappet-faced vulture!
Firebot Mountain
:: if you wish to cheat, turn to 91
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
:: i take this instance at random
Exhaustive Being
:: bored of being bored?
Two Ex-Googlers
:: a pipe that scans your face
Ludemetic Generator
:: ker-shambo
Chuck Wood
:: how many selves could will self will?
sfx_fx
:: (electronic beeping)
adbreaking
:: call now
How It's Made Up
:: rotated in a drum
Emoji Chess Problems
:: croissant takes basketball
Newest Moons
:: nearer the horizon
Astra Nauseam
:: imaginary constellations
Science Advisor
:: aztecs offer to trade glam metal
Unbuilt London
:: the biscuit press
Prior-Art-O-Matic
:: infinitely pending
The Daily Sensible
:: the most important breakfast of the day
Sci-Fi News Network
:: phogon warbots
Seneca Quotes
:: it is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing
Experiments
extisp.icio.us
:: del.icio.us scattering
Zombie Infection Simulation
:: emergent undead
Kaleidoscope
:: a weblog metagame
A Kenning Game Engine
:: norse analogy chaining
The Hieroglypher
::
(currently offline)
Lonesome No More!
:: vonnegut families
The Blog Twinning Project
:: please drive carefully
The Public Good
Random Letter Server
:: a virtual bag of tiles
Random Noun Server
:: a virtual deck of words
Fourble
:: convert mp3s into podcasts
BBC Radio 4b
::
(currently offline)
Pomodoro MP3 Timer
:: tick tick tick
Counterbalance
:: board game selector
BookMooch Facebook application
::
(now retired)
Chore Wars
:: experience points for housework
(2007-2025)
The Encyclopaedia Morningtonia
:: in wiki format
The Diary of a Nobody
:: as a daily weblog
Generic Nomic Data Tracker
:: making nomics easier
Games
Card and Board Games
Jigwar
:: competitive jigsaw solving
Feral Chess
:: emergency abstract boardgame
Little Ghost
:: bluffing in the attic
Wizard Work
:: the right spellcasters for the job
Young V&A Game Jam Table
:: pop-o-matic game design
Shrdlu
:: fitting letters into boxes
Keyword
:: a thing in terms of another thing
Board Games to Create and Play
:: a game design doodle book
The Skeleton Deck
:: a lockpick for card games
Alleyback
:: streetmap traversal
Chancery Lane
:: a Mornington Crescent variant
Emergency Games Kit
:: 101 games in one pocket
Freeze-Dried Games Pack
:: tabletop games in 100 words
Present Drop
:: back of a selection box
The Boardgame Remix Kit
:: hacking boardgames
Scannergram
:: crossword mutation
Capetown
:: secret superhero identities
Dadaist Pursuit
:: random trivia
Top Trump Squads
:: top trumps with rules
The Things
:: shapechanging subterfuge
Technopoly
:: robotic trading and invention
Mini Mao
:: a cabalistic card game
Confab
:: a conversational card game
Dvorak
:: a nomic blank-card game
Pervasive Games
Kaiju Invasion Drill
:: fight the skyline
Escape From Somerset House
:: a dream
Counter-Surveillance Drill
:: is this seat taken?
Martian Attack Drill
:: crane lasers
Urban Zombie Drill
:: they're us, that's all
Visible Cities
:: reality engineers
Gostak International Airport
:: conlang escape room
Schniper
:: walkie-talkie warning shots
Rubble
:: post-apocalyptic bartering
Day of the Thing
:: shapeshifting scavengers
Hand to Hand
:: urban card game
Lose the Tail
:: how not to be seen
The Man Who Was Thursday
:: council of anarchists
Paparazzi
:: photographic marksmanship
Poets versus Policemen
:: illegal poetry
Standoff
:: post-heist finger-gun arguments
Surpass the Parcel
:: hill-climbing wrapping paper
Thoughtcrime
:: radio eavesdropping
Ludocity
:: pervasive games archive
Web Games
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
:: interactive non-fiction
Liar's Dice Roller
:: five browser dice
Fantasy Shipping Forecast
:: becoming cyclonic
Catfishing
:: identifying things by wikipedia categories
Rubicon
:: machine-building puzzles
LiveJournal Dungeon Adventure
:: autogenerated dungeoneering
Urban Dead
:: zombie mmorpg
(2005-2025)
Snakoban
:: block-pushing boredom
The Maobot
:: a robotic mao opponent
BlogNomic
:: a nomic within a weblog
Shortfall
:: a search engine game
Abstract Games
Hackronym
:: unlocking a word with itself
HipBone Board
:: online notepaper
Metaboo
:: cardless meta-level taboo
Rumble
:: superheroic brawling (rules by
Ben
)
Art
Show Me The Way (To Go Home)
:: spoken direction collection
Duelling Tilers
:: emergent checkerboarding
Photophone
:: mutating photography
Beach Image
:: the pebbles speak
Beachcomber
:: java-applet pebble rearrangement
West Pier on Fire
:: a slideshow
The Smaller Picture
:: the eye of the hive-mind
Exquisite Corpses
:: blindly collaborative photoshopping
Random Words
I Charge Thee, Speak!
:: twitter shakespeare monkeys
Name-Letter Effect Careers Advice
:: implicit egotism
The New Year's Resolutions of LiveJournal
:: eat more random words
The Twelve Days of LiveJournal
:: five gi-i-i-iant squid
Movie Quote Generator
:: show me the noun
Fantasy World News Generator
:: the war on chaotic-evil
Sci-Fi News Generator
:: phogon warbots
Bad Joke Generator
:: architeuthis duxembourg
Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
:: the man is a siamese twin
eBay Feedback Generator
:: packaging was transcendent
The Surrealist Dalek
:: re-gurg-i-tate
What's Your Spammer Name?
:: something q. something
Dr. Unheimlich's Disease Registry
:: chapped lips, extremely blue irises, sore throat
The Ludemetic Game Generator
:: commodity speculation, singing
The Dossier Sexupifier
:: within 45 minutes
Word Categorisation
:: conceptual filtering
The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary
::
n.
an exclamation of surprise.
The Sound Effect Generator
:: chirr fwing-chonk hiccup
The Advertising Slogan Generator
:: i can't believe it's not
The Prior-Art-O-Matic
:: infinitely pending
24 Dreaming
:: bauer asleep
The Acronym Liar
:: asynchronous digital subscriber liar
The Surrealist Link
:: you are the frilliest bulldozer
Quizzes
Bartle Test for Nomic Players
:: adapted for Nomic
Interactive Johari Window
:: hidden personality traits
The Ultimate Personality Test
:: you sometimes experience déjà vu
Which NetHack Monster Are You?
:: you shudder for a moment
The Froy Marriage Test
:: how to avoid matrimony
Miscellanea
Wii Fake Error Message
:: immersed in liquid
Spam As Folk Art
:: responding to spam
Battle Robots
:: start your engines
Giant Battle Monsters
:: zilla killer
Food-Eating Battle Monkeys
:: no surrender
Graaaagh!
:: a zombie brain-eating viral
Other Listings Magazine
:: tvgohome @ home
Mornington Crescent Table
:: an ancient Sims object