Every day I get emails is a web browser interactive fiction story written with Twine and is © 2025 by Emery Joyce. It was an entry in Ectocomp 2025's La Petite Mort (English) division, placement to be determined.
In this horror-comedy satire, you play as an unnamed editor who spends a lot of time at the office just redirecting emails outside your responsibility to the appropriate coworkers. But what do you do when those redirected emails start bouncing? What's happening to your coworkers?
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on competition release of the story.
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This story uses no formal location names or compass directions. It hardly needs a map, but it gets one regardless.
(title screen)
> About > Return
> Start
Office
Use this first day to learn who your co-workers are. Enrique deals with acccessibility. Jeff deals with printing. Sushila deals with tech stuff. Caroline deals with sales.
> Braille vendor question > pass it on to Enrique. > Continue
> Fwd: Re: Print order? > pass it on to Jeff. > Continue
> Inconsistent font sizes - mountain lions > pass it on to Sushila. > Continue
> Company credit card changes STARTING 11/5 > pass it on to her. > Continue
> Allergy inquiry (soy) > Send to Jeff > Continue
> Edit request: My Wiggly Day > Return
> Go home.
Home (first night / second day begins)
> return to the office.
Office (raining)
> Sales team lunch Friday! > Send to Caroline > Continue
> ASL video upload problem in Constituitional Amendments > Send to Sushila > Continue
> Large print PDF proofs > Send to Enrique > Continue
> Change to print order? > Send to Jeff (fails) > Ask your boss about this. > You go back to your desk.
> Edit request: Marvelous Mitochondria > Return
> Incorrect scoring in end-of-unit quiz > Send to Sushila > Continue
> go home.
Home (second night / third day begins)
> back to the office.
Office (still raining)
> Screenreader compatibility issues > Send to Enrique (fails) > Continue
> WPSD account > Send to Caroline > Continue
> Paper size inquiry > Continue
> Unable to advance through Tundra Biome? > Send to Sushila > Continue
> Tracking number? > Continue
> platform guide for teachers > Continue
> Go home.
Home (third night / fourth day begins)
> Back to work.
Office (light above you has gone out entirely)
> Broken links in G5 math > Send to Sushila (fails) > Continue
> New sales packages for 2026 > Send to Caroline > Continue
> Printing error > Continue
> Sea Turtles for ASL vendor > Continue
> New client - first meeting > Send to Caroline > Continue
> Edit request: G6 Ladfkl;sslfssssssssssssss > Continue
> Go home.
Home (fourth night / fifth day begins)
> back to work.
Office (practically empty)
> Client meeting followup > Send to Caroline (fails)
> Talk to your boss.
> "My coworkers keep disappearing and everyone acts like they never existed and their work has always been my responsibility, and I don't have any of the information I need to do this stuff and people get kind of hostile when I ask, and I feel like I'm going crazy."
> You get up and go back to your desk.
> Go home.
Home (fifth night / sixth day)
> Will it hurt? > Time for work.
Office (no description)
> New print order > Do it yourself.
Re sales:
> Do it yourself.
Re tech:
> Do it yourself.
Another email:
> Do it yourself.
No context:
> Do it yourself. > Do it yourself. > Return to start
Dishonorable mention:
This is the response to About from the game's title screen:
This horror-comedy/ham-handed satire was made by Emery Joyce in 4 hours for the Petite Mort division of Ectocomp 2025. Thanks to Mike Russo and N. Cormier for playtesting. The cover art uses a royalty-free stock image by Kieselli.
This a work of fiction; any resemblance to real persons, living, dead, or otherwise, is purely coincidental.
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