Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
Last Activity
12/6/2025 3:33 PM
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24700
Storygame Count
11
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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.
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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
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.
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 5:34:51 AM
Whoa, I can't believe Mystic won another contest, how unexpected!
Congrats to Will too, TotS is a great addition to what used to be his personal genre section, and even if this was one of our smaller contests almost everyone else did really well too in filling out one of the more neglected areas on the site. (Those of you who managed to turn something in anyway.)
Big thanks to the judges too, although funnily the way these shooj out the placements were so obvious grim day one we barely needed judges. The only ones I wasn't sure about were Orange vs Cat, and yep, that was very nearly a tie
@Wildblue
Educational fact: Tying a dead chicken around a dog's neck is supposed to prevent them from future bad behavior, so while you did escape SHAME, you can't unpublish that for at least a week. And I think I'm going to enforce that for all similar half assed memey last minute games in the future. (Now that I no longer do such things myself.)
I really hope to see the games Petros and RK were working on soon as well, since they were both really close to being done and I was pretty interested in what I knew of both of their WIPs
Congrats to Will too, TotS is a great addition to what used to be his personal genre section, and even if this was one of our smaller contests almost everyone else did really well too in filling out one of the more neglected areas on the site. (Those of you who managed to turn something in anyway.)
Big thanks to the judges too, although funnily the way these shooj out the placements were so obvious grim day one we barely needed judges. The only ones I wasn't sure about were Orange vs Cat, and yep, that was very nearly a tie
@Wildblue
Educational fact: Tying a dead chicken around a dog's neck is supposed to prevent them from future bad behavior, so while you did escape SHAME, you can't unpublish that for at least a week. And I think I'm going to enforce that for all similar half assed memey last minute games in the future. (Now that I no longer do such things myself.)
I really hope to see the games Petros and RK were working on soon as well, since they were both really close to being done and I was pretty interested in what I knew of both of their WIPs
Defend your taste in music on 12/4/2025 10:19:09 PM
I've seen a lot of discussion on the music ages, seems like it goes quite a bit over the age that everyone actually is. I think they miscalculated thinking people mainly developed their musical tastes based on what was popular when they were teenagers though, and it's actually what the parents listened to that's the most influential.
