Hey, everyone. Over the past few months, I've been working very hard on a particular project and have finally reached a critical milestone. Today I'm proud to announce I'm releasing the first in a series of stories titled "A Study in Human Traditions" on January 8th.
"A Study in Human Traditions" is a series of interactive short stories following Simon, a scientist who needs your help to understand the stranger parts of human culture. Help him decipher such ancient rituals as "Dinner Party", "First Date", and "Democracy", and perhaps learn something about yourself in the process.
I'm releasing Entry 1: "Hollowed Weed" on January 8th, with more entries to come in the following months. Mark your calendars or other alternative time-tracking devices!
I wrote another interactive story, this time as a final project for my Food Writing course. It deals with my experiences in Montreal this semester.
This one was a little easier to write, since I wrote about my own experiences rather than some fictional world. The expandable details are a bit lengthier than those from my previous stories and cover a broader range of topics. A few are a bit heavy in terms of the amount of text presented, so I'm going to focus on writing tighter in my next stories.
As always, any kind of feedback is appreciated.
I wanted to do another short Twine jam today, so I asked a friend for a theme to help me write the story. I took her suggestion of "Climbing Everest" and wrote The Frozen Mountain in about four hours.
This one was a little harder to write than Space Cruiser Panic. That story had a futuristic setting with a lot of room to fill in details, while the landscape in this story is sparse, unforgiving, and realistic. Much more of my writing had to be dedicated to imagery rather than the absurd. Still, I think this story is worth reading.
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Today, I challenged myself to create a game in two hours. It ended up taking more along the lines of four hours, counting some polish at the end, but the effort, I believe, was worth it. I'm really starting to like Twine. It combines my love for games with my love for stories in a quick, accessible format.
The story is a narration of an absurd day aboard an interstellar star cruiser. The ending's really why the story took so long. I wanted something beautiful, something that ends on a hopeful note rather than what the ending initially appears to be. Hopefully my efforts have paid off. I may attempt another 2-4 hour game jam next Saturday.
As always, I appreciate any feedback I can get on my works. Feel free to criticize, praise, etc.
I said I was going to finish a story for today, so I did. I successfully completed a very short story in Twine.
I present to you all: Well, it's Halloween, a short interactive story about a man with some free time on Halloween. I haven't found a good spot to host it yet, considering I finished it within the past hour, so you'll have to download and open the html file. As soon as I can find a good spot to host it, though, I'll update this post with the new link.
I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. I managed to balance an introspective narrative with a decently lighthearted tone, which is a drastic change from my first attempt back in January. I'll give it it's own page within a few days.
You can check out Twine here. It really is a great tool for this sort of thing.
Edit: I updated the story a bit after messing around with Twine a bit more. The visual presentation's improved, so there should be less confusion.
Back in 2011, I finished up my Eagle Scout project on Duncan Brook, a local swimming hole. It hasn't seen much use outside of camping excursions and meetings from the Boy Scout Troop I was involved in. It used to be a very popular place, but due to several factors, it saw its popularity decrease significantly. I was surprised to find no real official source of information on Duncan Brook, so I made it my goal to compile as much information about Duncan Brook from both historical records and personal accounts into an official source on the area. The resulting publication is available for download below.
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