CavusRex, The Wordsmith
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4/1/2023
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1/7/2026 6:22 PM
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498
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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
Happy (Belated) New Year! Resolutions? on 1/7/2026 12:53:53 PMI have a vague goal of publishing some kind of video game this year as a hobby project, but haven't yet decided on its scope or even genre. As a more defined thing I want to get a storygame out that's not tied to any contests and is also of decent quality. First the prompt contest though.
Secret Santa 2025 on 1/7/2026 7:39:32 AM
Fair, but I'm stuck at work for the next two days so best I would do is putting in people at random aside from a few exceptions. I can redo it to the best of my ability after today's shift though.
Secret Santa 2025 on 1/7/2026 7:16:52 AM
I left all those as blank and the form went through no problem.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 1/6/2026 12:38:07 PM
We were the true winners at the end of it all for getting to experience that whole episode.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 1/5/2026 2:35:06 PM
Locked (or apparently not because SHAME)
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 1/4/2026 3:44:02 PM
A trick I use for making extra branches if I get stuck and already have a core outline is to work them out backwards. Using just the premise come up with some unique ending and then see how and from which point of what you already have you could lead the story to it. Bonus points if it circles back to something from a diffent branch as either a call out to or a completely new perspective on it.
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 1/3/2026 1:27:57 PM
2 pages wrapped in pretty styling a top 5 game don't make is all. I can still fall flat in terms of actual story or mess something else up.
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 1/3/2026 1:24:09 PM
There's plenty of good writers around, but also I don't have that good of a track record with my first contest game being ranked in the middle, the second being rushed and unfinished, and the third being 2nd last because I went experimental with it. This time around I want to write something more proper so who knows. I did bet 500 points I'll submit something decent (rated 5 or above and/or ranked in the top 50%) so I sure hope people will like the final product.
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 1/3/2026 1:20:16 PM
I have a few more pages written out for a total of like 3000 words (the animated opening page is counted as 1000 on its own but I don't add it to the word count proper because the styling causes a miscounting). Most of it was written before the contest when I first came up with the idea and then got derailed from it by things like the review contest etc. Think I mentioned it to you in DMs before.
Prompt Contest 5 Progress discussion on 1/3/2026 1:09:34 PM
That does mean you have more than 95% of contestants and almost half as much as a 3rd of final submissions will have in total so good job.
