Fandom Round-Up: Write Your Own Text-Based Game

A-ha! Here is a kind of digital "game" (of sorts) I could imagine creating myself: text- & hyperlink based, interactive fiction.
(You can make them more complex graphically too.)
 
The player reads bits of text and clicks on options [kiss the "boy" or "girl"] that move the story forward and affect its outcome.
It's "game as conversation."

"…a lot of this stuff is coming from people who grew up with games and are saying, “I want to make things now.” 
--Meritt Kopas [links to interview with Kopas, editor of Videogames For Humans, about Twine games]

 
You can make them for free, easily––insofar as there's no computer programming involved, you still have to conceive of, design and write them in a way anyone would want to interact with––
on open-source software, Twine.

Twines can be like youTube videos about other people's pets––or a writer can make them pretty intriguing, like Conversations with My Mother [links to the short, free game] by Merritt Kopas: 

you play the mom writing an e-mail to their trans kid:

Kopas, a trans woman, talks about this and other text-based games here: "Trans Women and the New Hypertext".