Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
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5/5/2011
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10/26/2025 10:45 PM
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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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A modernized guide to the forums. The path to internet popularity and happiness, and a few CYS specific do's and don'ts.
Recent Posts
anyone willing to talk shit in the late hours? on 10/26/2025 8:54:04 PMNow now, it's very likely you were born gay, we had a whole debate on this a couple weeks ago! End just kept you from being a faggot.
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 11:44:14 AM
Right now the policy is that we'll change a title of a long dead author to free it up on request, since so far pretty much every time this happened it was just a game with a couple of pages under a thick layer of dust on an account that had really done nothing else.
But I'm not sure we really need a whole thread either, this is for when someone is actively working on a game that really wants a specific title and just no other will do, it doesn't come up that often.
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 11:35:56 AM
Well now I'm even more confused.
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 11:35:09 AM
Prewriting something quick is always a solid strategy, I plan to do that every contest I join so that I'm not panicking at the last minute. (And then I never actually do it but that's beside the point.)
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 1:27:14 AM
Which part is American?
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 1:26:32 AM
What are you mad he didn't let you upcycle them?
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 1:25:07 AM
She's come such a long way.
Edutainment Contest Progress Thread on 10/25/2025 1:23:40 AM
There's no need to delete anything with actual content, if somebody wants one of those titles I usually just add a punctuation mark to the existing one.
General questions on 10/25/2025 12:33:29 AM
Or haikus are always fun: just 3 lines with 5-7-5 syllables, and it should have some kind of observation to do with nature.
Relevant to the site:
(Okay, I lied, that's not 5-7-5, but those numbers are just the English rules--haikus are Japanese and they don't translate across in a 1 for 1 way like that because of hope different the languages are.)
Relevant to the site:
“A Poppy Blooms” by Katsushika Hokusai
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
(Okay, I lied, that's not 5-7-5, but those numbers are just the English rules--haikus are Japanese and they don't translate across in a 1 for 1 way like that because of hope different the languages are.)
General questions on 10/25/2025 12:22:04 AM
What Surana said basically, there are so many different kinds of poems there is no one answer there.
Depending on the type they'd be formatted using different rhyme scheme layouts, different numbers of lines, different numbers of syllables per line... and then there's the whole concept of meter and flow, which some people have a natural ear for and some are just going to struggle with. It's what makes them sound awesome when spoken out loud though.
To begin with though, it's hard to go wrong with four lines of alternating rhyme, and aim for going back and forth between eight and six syllables--look at some of the classic Christmas songs for a simple demonstration. (O Little Town of Bethlehem if you need something specific to search for, assuming your filter even lets you look at Google results.)
Depending on the type they'd be formatted using different rhyme scheme layouts, different numbers of lines, different numbers of syllables per line... and then there's the whole concept of meter and flow, which some people have a natural ear for and some are just going to struggle with. It's what makes them sound awesome when spoken out loud though.
To begin with though, it's hard to go wrong with four lines of alternating rhyme, and aim for going back and forth between eight and six syllables--look at some of the classic Christmas songs for a simple demonstration. (O Little Town of Bethlehem if you need something specific to search for, assuming your filter even lets you look at Google results.)
