I’ve been thinking about what’s appropriate for this blog. Should it be solely about games and game design? The subtitle says “Explorations into game design and creativity”…and I think that’s the answer. Creativity is important to me, and game design is one of the most important expressions of creativity for me…but it’s far from the [...]

“Audience-prompted storytelling” is my name for a relatively new form of storytelling.

A link to My Super First Day #2: Passenger.

Transmedia stories offer new challenges for authors (/screenwriters/programmers/designers).

A minor feature of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier can fool the player into thinking of the characters as real people.

Banpresto has made a lot of money selling games that trade upon the reputation of famous giant robot animated series.

Creativity requires chaos.

So, someone I know has created this cool new superhero universe-collaborative writing project-thing called “My Super First Day”.  And I’ve contributed to it. Whisper Pretty fun.  This whole writing project thing may even continue.

So, recently I completed writing a long…well, I guess you’d call it a short story, or maybe even a chapter of a novella. And now that that’s out of the way, I can get on with doing other cool stuff. (It had sort of been weighing on my mind for a while.) I’m doing more [...]

Yesterday I wrote a rather long and, I hope, interesting little…thing. Not really a short story…more like an entry in a fictional encyclopedia. Given that the authors on this particular website are traditionally anonymous, I probably can’t show it to you. But it’s good to stretch one’s creative muscles every now and then.