Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
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12/5/2025 6:53 AM
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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.
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unpublished
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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
Edutainment Contest Results on 12/5/2025 6:33:34 AMI 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.
Hiiii!!! on 12/4/2025 10:14:59 PM
I see.
Is there any book you can recall reading ever?
...do you know your left from your right?
Hello! on 12/4/2025 9:17:40 PM
Oh and of course, as far as horror on this site goes, Secret of Daphne is a classic.
Hello! on 12/4/2025 8:45:36 PM
Is it wrong that the first thing I started wondering was how the opposing racial stereotypes were going to play out? But I see you said you were a slow writer, so we don't yet have the hero we need to crank out 100,000 words a month and stop fucking Mystic from overachieving her way into every contest win.
:(
Anyway, if you like horror IF and don't mind a bit of a learning curve, you should look up Anchorhead on Steam. It's like a remastered version of a classic indie Lovecraftian parser IF from 1999. (the fully text kind where you move around the maps with compass directions and type commands and solve puzzles, like Zork)
The original is still floating around somewhere for free, but the puzzles there are brutally, sometimes unfairly hard (as was the fashion at the time) and the new version smoothed those out and added some extra writing and art.
Anyway, if you like horror IF and don't mind a bit of a learning curve, you should look up Anchorhead on Steam. It's like a remastered version of a classic indie Lovecraftian parser IF from 1999. (the fully text kind where you move around the maps with compass directions and type commands and solve puzzles, like Zork)
The original is still floating around somewhere for free, but the puzzles there are brutally, sometimes unfairly hard (as was the fashion at the time) and the new version smoothed those out and added some extra writing and art.
Hiiii!!! on 12/4/2025 6:26:38 PM
If she had read Necromancer like Flux kept suggesting, she might have noticed it was published in 2007.
Hiiii!!! on 12/4/2025 6:18:59 PM
You're too white to be Wong.
Hi! I’m new to the site on 12/4/2025 6:06:59 PM
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