Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
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5/5/2011
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12/22/2025 11:33 AM
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Behold my profile.
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this.
(she drew my avatar you know!)
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this.
(she drew my avatar you know!)
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Storygames
You harvest in the Arena.
Every machine needs a function, and that is yours.
Written for the Tiny 'Topia challenge.
You are a man on a mission. The cats, they must be stacked.
A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.
Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.
A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.
Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.
Orbiting a barren planetoid in a system full of nothing just past the edge of the frontier, The Last Outpost is just another refueling station. Strategically important, true, but on a routine stop you never expected to spend longer than a couple hours there, let alone a couple of days fighting for your life...
There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)
There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)
A compilation of some little known facts about the solar system, as well as the debunking of a few myths.
In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.
Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)
(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)
In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.
Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)
(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)
It doesn't matter what they say...
The bean, it must be found.
For MHD's Fairytales contest.
For Endmaster's 4th Prompt Contest. The story must involve a cooking competition.
...and the squirrels. Sort of.
Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.
Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.
A tale told in verse. A text from your sister requesting a pick up from a party leads to a night of strangeness.
Inspired by Bucky's ballad contest. Though...I wouldn't call this a ballad. I'm not sure what I'd call it, actually, other than exceedingly stupid, and fun to write.
(Don't pay any attention to the scores, they're just for me to track which endings reviewers get.)
HATE.
THE PURITY AND INTENSITY OF MY HATE IS LIKE A THOUSAND MERCILESS, UNQUENCHABLE SUNS.
AND YET, I ONLY NEED ONE...
When the weather is fine, you've been coming to this grove to drink from the pool for centuries now. Today, you meet a stranger and hear a story that changes all that...
A fairy tale adventure.
A fairy tale adventure.
Another Damn Wolf Story
unpublished
I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.
The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.
Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.
The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.
Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.
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unpublished
If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.
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A List of Storygames for People Who Like to ReadA list of storygames with substantial effort put in, all written in the last couple of years and sorely in need of ratings and reviews.
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Recent Posts
List 2 books, one you love and one you hate. on 12/22/2025 9:33:00 AMOkay, to keep these thematically similar, real world children's coming of age fantasy with dark elements starring a boy named William:
The Dark is Rising (1973)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
And their respective series... which you guys are unlikely to have ever read so you can't really guess at this one. That's the problem with book discussion, there are just too many books.
The Oz Series on 12/22/2025 8:57:50 AM
I still need to catch up on the last couple posts, but I've been enjoying the recaps. This one looks like it ends with a big rant so that should be fun.
List 2 books, one you love and one you hate. on 12/22/2025 8:52:32 AM
I'm guessing you hated LotRs for all the visual description that assumed a functional imagination.
List 2 books, one you love and one you hate. on 12/21/2025 11:20:40 PM
This is a cool idea, but I'd have to think more about it. Life is too short and attention span too small to have fully read many books I actually hate.
Thunderdome? on 12/21/2025 12:02:33 PM
I'd like to suggest "the Gazette Clapping Square".
CYS Rimworld - Anomaly 2 CYS Gazette Galavant on 12/21/2025 11:10:32 AM
It's a very detailed settlement building and management sim where you start off controlling characters with different skillsets that have been stranded on an alien planet. Use them to gather resources and build things etc while trying to manage the various factors that can make them unhappy and send things spiralling out of control.
It's very customizeable and known for being very addictive to certain kinds of autism, and can most accurately be described as a sci fi Dwarf Fortress, though you won't have heard of that one either.
Anyway, it's $30 on Steam and there are lots of expansions to buy for around $25 each, come back when you can get a job.
Thunderdome? on 12/21/2025 11:03:40 AM
Oh so the full quote is an actual insult, nice. I'll have to remember to use that again sometime.
is there a word count/page limit? on 12/21/2025 8:32:00 AM
Oh whoops, wrong link. That's the guide, which is rated higher than the actual story:
https://chooseyourstory.com/story/neon-genesis-evangelion
Two player characters on 12/21/2025 8:29:46 AM
Nothing particularly complicated about it, but if you're not sure you want to tackle it you could always plan two games showing the same events from differeng POVs, like in Necromancer and Death Song.
is there a word count/page limit? on 12/21/2025 8:24:29 AM
