Porpentine's 2012 Twine game Howling Dogs incorporates themes of escapism, violence and religious experience, though she has stated that it should be open to interpretation.[11] She created Howling Dogs shortly after she started hormone-replacement therapy in 2012, in only seven days, while staying in a friend's remodeled barn.[12]
It won the 2012
XYZZY awards in the "Best story" and "Best writing" categories.[13]
The Boston Phoenix listed it as one of their "Top 5 indie games of 2012".[14]
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.[15][16]
In 2015 she 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;[17] and Ultra Business Tycoon III, a sprawling textual world disguised as edutainment software.[18]
In 2016,
Rhizome commissioned Porpentine along with Neotenomie and Sloane through the series First Look: New Art Online resulting in Psycho Nymph Exile.[2] This work includes an online hypertext work, a booklet, and stickers. The project depicts the experience of PTSD as a visceral physical substance, not an invisible, abstract force.[19]
In 2022, Porpentine published her first full-length book Serious Weakness, a 625-page novel exploring themes of trauma, neurodivergency 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.
"Golden Banana of Discord" for Howling Dogs at the 2012
Interactive Fiction Competition, a prize awarded for the highest standard deviation "both the most loved and the most hated."
2013
XYZZY Best Writing for their angelical understanding[20]
Indiecade Special Recognition for Porpentine's Twine Compilation[26]