Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
12/7/2025 8:07 AM
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24702
Storygame Count
11
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3
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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.
Character Creator
unpublished
If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.
Articles Written
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
The Tales of Erenel on 12/7/2025 12:15:27 AMLol, "yeah guys decided to just stop cluttering up the site with more commended and featured games than anyone else is writing, maybe somebody can catch up now, heh"
This is a pretty neat idea though, I've thought before that something like this would be cool, like a bunch of adventure modules plugged in to one setting. Just never expected anybody to pull it off.
You might consider moving this to the Parlor Room, you'd basically have that whole board to yourself.
The New Pit of Eternal SHAME on 12/6/2025 11:39:51 PM
Nice, love what you've done with the place.
New Warden in town on 12/5/2025 11:25:31 PM
@stories_unwritten Land of the Setting Sun is set in the (irradiated ruins) of Japan if that's your thing at all
PMing on 12/5/2025 10:35:22 PM
There's just something about being an autistic retard caught up in a fit of poo throwing rage that makes spam the weapon of choice, there's been dozens of messages sent around in a night before and we don't want to make that kind of thing easy to land in many inboxes at once.
But in any case, code monkeys are a little scarce these days and there's a lot of other things on the priority list before messing with the PM system would be something feasible.
PMing on 12/5/2025 9:55:18 PM
Just create a storygame and co author yourselves to it or something, or use a thread. This has come up before but it's too easy to abuse.
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 4:47:24 PM
That is definitely some bullshit that's high on the priority to adjust next time we have somebody plugged into the Matrix though.
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 1:35:09 PM
No bitch you don't get to gracefully step aside, we're going to slug this out and pull each other's hair and stuff all next year.
(And I believe 30k-60k is how the real minmaxers roll.)
Bloodmoney on 12/5/2025 1:12:08 PM
Cool. Glad we had this talk.
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 6:33:34 AM
I mean you gave Orange's game a 1/8 so it seemed like you felt it was the worst of the lot by a large amount.
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 5:45:46 AM
Congrats on pulling ahead of me on commendations there too Mystic, however know that I fully intend to surpass you again in 2026. (Mostly by cheesing the system.)
The game really is fantastic though, I haven't finished it yet but so far it's my favorite of all of yours.
