You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes...

Ecdysis is a text based game by Peter Nepstad that drives you forward on the power of your own primal urges, only half understood and increasingly non-human. Can you fight the changes that are overwhelming you? Do you even want to?

There are two downloads for Ecdysis, depending on what system you own. If you are going to play on a Windows PC, download the executable file here. If you are using a Mac, download the .gam file here, then play using Spatterlight for the Mac. Note the two files are different: the Windows executable is designed as "hypertext fiction", where you need only click on hotspot links to advance the game. The .gam file does not have that feature when played using Spatterlight.

Peter Nepstad is...hey, that's me! Browse the rest of the site to get an idea of what else I've been up to, including the commercial game 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, and a collection of games based on the writings of Lord Dunsany called Tales of Wonder.