Character Fodder No. 1: Facing the end
Use the above song and video as inspiration for a brief story about your character faced with a perilous situation and how that character copes with it.
Use the above song and video as inspiration for a brief story about your character faced with a perilous situation and how that character copes with it.
Zork was my gateway drug. Using a relatively basic command parser, this text-only computer adventure game by Infocom allowed a single player to explore a grid of rooms, solving puzzles and gathering treasure, all the while trying to avoid being devoured by a grue in dark chambers. I had no idea when I first played Zork, back…
Razorback steps out of a hover-vehicle and onto the pavement near the hub of the Demarian government. He looks around, rubbing his tongue against the roof of his mouth in disgust. He steps aside to allow the others to exit the vehicle, his ears cautiously sweeping the city noises for signs of danger. Moments later,…
In transit, on the knife edge of time and space, breaking the light barrier with the Tilsworth-Cooke Drive, the Vanguard carrier Versailles leads a combined fleet of warships searching for the renegade Yaralu known as Kemetti. General Charles Avocet, the fleet commander, peruses images of wreckage from the destroyed cruise liner Avondale. Thousands of people…
The result of my second #bookstorewindow fiction writing exercise, inspired by the late Harlan Ellison, based on a writing prompt supplied by Lamia. Wrote it live on our Slack site in about an hour: The bathysphere Anapos had descended to a depth of six miles into the Nyaban Abyss before the barbed tentacles looped around…
It seems like just yesterday Colin and I walked into the London Tobacco Dock for the first time to share Knee Deep with prospective players at EGX Rezzed. How has it already been a year since the launch of Act 1 on Steam? Time flies by like tourists in nondescript rental cars blithely zooming past…