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John of Thornwick
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A studiously unremarkable observer of things done, said, and befallen in Thornwick and the surrounding lands
Thornwick TownJoined January 2017
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recently I started drawing a series called ✨Strange Planet✨
here is a thread of these comics
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An experience that withholds its meaning from you, refuses to be interpreted, but gently leads you to interpret yourself. Play it with your date if you have one, or a dear friend if you don't
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ROUND/SQUARE is a game of taxonomies and decisions by @lavieenmeow.
lavieenmeow.itch.io/roundsquare
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Occult secret of the day: the Sun is a forgotten god, but your disbelief only makes him more powerful.
Occult secret of the day: a lemon is just a very small, smooth pineapple
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[bob dylan writing the second coming]
Oh the falcon, he's a-turnin'
Round an round this widenin' gy-arr
He cannot hear the falc'ner, no sir!
And the center can't be holdin'
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Hey so who wants to hear some worldbuilding advice from me, a struggling unsuccessful writer?? That's right, ALL OF YOU!
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A Witless Haberdasher counts his surface currency anxiously. A monk watches with lips pressed together.
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Random encounters in RPG's are only boring and disruptive to "the story" if you have a pre-determined concept of what the story is, and are keeping it hermetically sealed from any narrative contamination.
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I see the carpenter ants have been hard at work returning the old shoe shop to whence it came. Another hundred years or so and I think they'll have got it.
Evenings, half the whole world is wending its way (I seem to think) to Thornwick Town, and mornings out the other end they go like spores from a crushed fungus.
OPEN SORCERY is now on Steam: bit.ly/OpenSteam
Be a firewall! Fight nightmares in the Web! Enjoy an extra night to learn and burn!
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Tybor didn't set out to be an outlaw. But in that country, in those days, you could become an enemy of the state by holding your face wrong.
Sneaky Friday announcement: I want to do more experimental/free IF/writing/gamedev. So I'm launching a Patreon:
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People think encumbrance rules are boring bookkeeping, but aaaaaactually they're great
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I've been enjoying the game, but this condescension is burning my good will.
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"Ah yes, I should have known the key to the palace would be hidden behind that useless empty cardboard box."
Sibyl Moon Games: When to Write Your Own Interactive Fiction Engine ift.tt/2iyVbje
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I've been writing a lot of negative reviews. For the sake of my soul I must now say something nice. Give me a minute. I'm working up to it.
Porpentine amazes me. There are so many "minimalist" Twine games that just fall flat. Hers are all juicy, fabulous inspirations.
Man, there sure are some cerebral Interactive Fiction games out there. Just my Take *nudge nudge*
wouldn't be a Corfman game if you couldn't burn something to the ground
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Whoops! Almost forgot to include the "Cleanse It With Fire" option.#OpenSorcery
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There are precisely 16 ways to kill a vampire at McDonalds and only one of them involves giving him a hug.
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The claim that #InteractiveFiction allows players to "shape the story" is a ridiculous misrepresentation of the medium.
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The effects [or range of effects] of player choices in IF are determined in advance, and codified in a repeatable, objective form.
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Table-top role-playing game campaigns are works of fiction that are interactive, but you wouldn't enter one into .
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The term #InteractiveFiction is a misnomer, not because it's inaccurate, but because it's too broad for what we mean by it.
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I really don't mind how railroad-y Photopia is. It's a false controversy. The interactions are just a hook to keep me invested. That's fine.
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Explaining 5th grade vocab to me is a tedious exercise. "Tedious" means I might quit this game before I figure out what the hell's going on.
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