CavusRex, The Wordsmith
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4/1/2023
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12/31/2025 9:15 PM
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2
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“This is the ending all stories must eventually reach: silence around an empty stage.”
—Unknown
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They want to keep you bound in the dark, but you won't let them. You will get out, fight and flee, fail and die, then try again and again...
Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.
After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?
Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.
After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?
Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.
Recent Posts
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 12/31/2025 8:23:08 PMMost of those were either extremely vague, generic or derivative. Like if I were to pick prompt 1 I'd just do a Running Man game but more in the spirit of the old movie or using 14 as a base I'd make a story with a protagonist who was the last one in a battle for godhood and now has to put the world together after bringing it to ruin. And those are just 2 I didn't feel like doing.
I find ideas to be a dime a dozen and it's all about where you take whichever one you chose to go with in that moment.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 12/31/2025 7:21:15 PM
Funny enough I usually do the opposite where I go through all the prompts and think of a quick and vague outline to a story for each of them and then pick whichever I like best, but this time I took your approach since I had a few game ideas that would otherwise sit on shelf forever. We'll see how it works for me.
Also it's not like you didn't stretch the prompt to its limits last year and still ended up with a winner.
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 12/31/2025 11:11:43 AM
Technically I already have a lot of planning done and even 3730 words written since I'm going with an idea I had a while ago. Hopefully I will get to use at least some of those in the final game.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 12/31/2025 2:27:10 AM
I'll take 47, and also add a 0 to my SHAME fee turning it into a bet that I'll turn in something of actual quality instead of a game to troll people.
New Year Flash Stream! on 12/30/2025 1:11:12 PM
Count me in, but by that time I'll probably already be quite drunk given the time difference.
Some thoughts on the Thunderdome on 12/29/2025 11:09:35 AM
Personally I'm all for expanding on Thunderdome entries. Plenty of them already feel like good openers to a storygame or something that could be made so much better given another week of redrafting.
Merry Christmas Eve! on 12/24/2025 4:27:54 PM
Merry Christmas everyone. Just came back from a family gathering feeling like I've just negated 2 months of diet in a few hours and it's currently -6C, but there's no sign of snow anywhere in my area.
Most Needy Storygames Reading Contest on 12/20/2025 6:10:41 PM
I'm not actively aiming to do them all, but I expect to inevitably do a few and then see since I will be continuing my reviews in 2026 anyway, but under a different schedule.
Most Needy Storygames Reading Contest on 12/20/2025 5:00:07 PM
I finally did a count and turns out I only reviewed 10% of the games listed before this, which is somewhat surprising and means I still got 90 to go if I want to get them all done. At almost 8 a month it doesn't feel like much given they're mostly on the shorter side, but I have other plans for next year that might eat into what time I will have.
Question on using AI for translations on 12/16/2025 3:59:36 PM
There are various translation tools that don't use AI so I'd recommend using those if you really want to translate something, but if you can't double check the translation yourself it might be a better idea to work in your native language.
