Porpentine's 2012 Twine game
Howling Dogs incorporates themes of escapism, violence and religious experience, though they have stated that it should be open to interpretation. They created
Howling Dogs shortly after they started hormone-replacement therapy in 2012, in only seven days, while staying in a friend's remodeled barn. It won the 2012
XYZZY awards in the "Best story" and "Best writing" categories. The
Boston Phoenix listed it as one of their "Top 5 indie games of 2012". During the 2013
Game Developers Conference, game designer
Richard Hofmeier used the booth he had been given to showcase his own award-winning game
Cart Life to showcase Porpentine's
Howling Dogs instead. Hofmeier spray-painted the words "Howling Dogs" across the banner of his own booth, and showed Porpentine's game instead of his own. Hofmeier stated he wished to give greater exposure to Porpentine's game. In 2015 they released
Eczema Angel Orifice, a compilation of over 20 hypertext works from 2012 to 2015. The compilation includes critically acclaimed games such as
With Those We Love Alive, a queer fable about isolation, abuse, and the relationship between art and power; and
Ultra Business Tycoon III, a sprawling textual world disguised as edutainment software. In 2016,
Rhizome commissioned Porpentine along with Neotenomie and Sloane through the series First Look: New Art Online resulting in
Psycho Nymph Exile. In 2022, Porpentine published their first full-length book
Serious Weakness, a 625-page novel exploring themes of trauma, neurodivergence, and manipulation. The title is a translation of an autoimmune disease called
myasthenia gravis, which causes weakness and fatigue within the skeletal and central nervous systems. == Selected works ==