TIGSource has just, well 5 days ago, announced the top games from its Commonplace Book Competition. All games in the competition must somehow relate to the notes in Lovecraft's commonplace book, and TIGSource received an impressive 35 entries.
The games, or at least all the ones I tried, are fairly straightforward typical arcade/platform games, which is odd in itself -- most Lovecraft-inspired games are heavy on narrative and tend to be adventure games of some sort. But they're all fun, and they collectively demonstrate the myriad ways that Lovecraft's works -- even if they're ideas scribbled into a book -- can leak out into the world.
Here's a short list of the top ten (full results here):
1. Verge, by Kyle Pulver
2. From Primordial Egg, by Fifth
3. Eversion, by Zaratustra
4. This Cursed Rock, by deadeye
5. Lost in Eldritch, by Bob le Moche
6. My Entry, by cactus
7. Herbert West in ‘Carrion Re-animating!’, by captainbinky
8. The Clatter of the Keys, by Pishtaco
9. The Lake, by agj
10. Doorror, by Pencerkoff
For mine, I'd say Carrion Re-animating is the best of the bunch, but the mob has spoken.
Grab the official torrent of all games here, or you can pick and choose here.
And if you want more games relating to HPL's commonplace book, the Illuminated Lantern has been running a similar project for a while.
