TimeKnot

TimeKnot Games & Media

Games by, for, and with the people.

The TimeKnot Games mark: a black many-armed creature holding dice, controllers and a camera, ringed in green light.

A community-rooted game studio. We build immersive, story-rich games that spark imagination, foster collective intelligence, and model the worlds we want to live in.

  • Emerald City Seattle
  • Hawaiian Islands Pae ʻĀina
  • The Big Easy New Orleans
Play our games on itch.io Enter the Quillverse

Four strands,
pulled tight.

TimeKnot has always been a knot — strands of games, story, science, and sovereignty pulled tight enough to hold weight. Every project we ship carries all four.

  • GamesPlay as the way in. Rules people can hold, bend, and rewrite together.
  • StoryMyth that belongs to the room it is told in, not to a licensor.
  • ScienceEvidence, method, and the discipline of telling truth from deception.
  • SovereigntyIndigenous futures, land, and who governs the knowledge in the braid.

Play

Everything below runs in a browser. Nothing to install, nothing to buy.

  • Interactive fiction · MMORPG

    Quilltangle: Pixie Parable

    An intergalactic citizen-DJ MMORPG where scribing becomes spellcasting. Type to cast, hatch elemental Garu, and summon a world in which many worlds fit.

  • Racing

    Chicken Jockey Scribe Racer

    Free to play right now at QuillVerse.org. Race by typing.

  • Interactive fiction

    Feed The People

    A story about the oldest form of mutual aid there is.

  • Role playing

    Glitchtangle

    We are the cracks in the wall.

  • Browser

    Glitchease

    All my friends are glitches.

See the full catalog on itch.io

The Quillverse

A literacy-driven world where player-scholars use the scientific method to tell deception from truth — and where every word you scribe shapes a living pluriverse.

Race through sacred texts, hatch elemental Garu from sixty-four egg-questions, and co-compose the Rainbow Roads. Guilds sit above the factions and carry a single identity across every game we ship.

Quilltangle is now growing into a platform for civic imagination and participatory democracy through the Citizens Assemble! Game Jam.

quillverse.org

Summon a world in which many worlds fit.

Origin

We opened our doors on Juneteenth 2023 at the Rainier Arts Center in Seattle, with keynotes from Big Chief Shaka Zulu and Nisi Shawl.

TimeKnot Games Juneteenth Grand Opening 2023 — Rainier Arts Center, Seattle.

Reading

TimeKnot Magazine · № 01 · Winter 2026

The Woven Curriculum

Ideas at the knot of games, Indigenous futures, and learning. Issue one hands Study 01 of the TEK8 Library to five hard readers — a sustainability sponsor, a DEI executive, outside counsel, a foundation officer, and a community steward — and asks them to find the cracks. The grades ran from Coal to Emerald.

Featuring Dr. Kalaniakea Wilson. Print edition in preparation.

Kin

7ABCs The learning community we grew out of — summer skool, family programming, and the crews who playtest everything first. 7abcs.com →