Ormulum
Created: 2025-05-26 (18:30:00) — Modified: 2026-03-08 (20:22:00)Status: ongoing
I’m Tamsyn–welcome to my site!
I write essays about, among other subjects, books, cybertexts and videogames
I also make small games with tools like bitsy, twine and zzt
Think of this site as a sprawling and untidy garden, some quarters well-tended, others gone to seed and none of it ever fully resolved. Some recent things:
- The February 2026 newsletter, with recommendations for some excellent games
- An essay about a hypertext fiction set in an eerie archipelago, Reagan Library
- My game about exploring the margins of the city, Secret Squirrel
- My game about intaglio printmaking, called, well, Printmaking
About
Bitsy
Books
- On Empire of Normality
- On Health Communism
- On Notes from an Island
- On Palo Alto
- On The Ballerina and the Bull
- On The Great Psychic Outdoors
- On Xenofeminism
- Other Reads, 2024
Cybertexts
Real spaces
Reflections
Twine
- Eidolon
- Field Notes on Trees and Hollows
- Forest Crossings
- Heatsick
- Home Range
- Night Garden
- Treasure Shrines
- Unfinished Twine Games Archive
Vignettes
Virtual spaces
- Collages and Maps
- Gameboy Puzzleworlds
- Imaginary Videogames
- On Animal Crossing
- On Celeste
- On Pokémon Crystal
Web web web
Writing
ZZT
Endmatter
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