With “End Screen of Your Life”, I wanted to write a story about video games as an extension of reality, the world of memory and dreams, a set of strange mirrors or windows to certain aspects of the real. While none of the works that follow served as direct inspirations on my story (and some of them were only discovered after I’d written it), they take similar approaches to game-space as something stranger than “escape”.

• Memory Card by Background
• Penance by Eliza Clarke
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
• Harvester DigiFX Interactive
• Nanashi no Game Epics
• Idoru by William Gibson
• “Suicide Coast” by M. John Harrison
• “Pale Luna” by Mikhail Honoridez
• Level Five and Ouvroir the Movie Chris Marker
• “A Mansion of Sapphire” by Damian Murphy
• Gamer Brian Neveldine & Mark Taylor
• Untold Stories: “The House Abandon” dev. No Code
• Serial Experiments Lain Episode 4: “Religion” dir. Akihiko Nishiyama
• LSD: Dream Emulator OutSide Directors Company
• Soul Cemetery snow
• John’s Wort dir. Ten Shimoyama
• Hypnospace Outlaw Tendershoot
• MicroVista by Webinar™
• Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager