Introducing The Incursion
In 2018 I will launch The Incursion, a new fiction podcast in ten chapters. Learn more here. I’ve been working on this project for most of 2017. I’m eager to tell this story in a new medium, one based...
View ArticleIncursion R&D: The Daisy Chain
For my current fiction project, The Incursion, I have done a lot of research into particle accelerators, topological quantum computing, microscopic black holes, and other topics. It’s fun stuff, with...
View ArticleWhy Smartphones Are Bad for Writing
I began living a novel today. At a bookstore I stumbled across an old paperback horror novel about Satanic skullduggery called The Druid Stone by Simon Majors. And I thought, “Hmm. Simon Majors sounds...
View ArticleAll Clowns Look Like This To Me
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View ArticleNarrative Sandboxes in Delta Green: The Labyrinth, CoC, and Gumshoe
Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu was the first investigative roleplaying game and arguably the first to really expect and deliver a recognizable plot for every adventure. By the time I launched The...
View ArticleAdventure’s Procedural Game Design: The Bat on the Atari 2600
Warren Robinett‘s early videogame Adventure for the 2600 is mostly remembered for including the first known easter egg, and indeed was the example that caused the term to be coined in the first place....
View ArticleDelta Green: The Labyrinth is now available as an ebook
My first all-new tabletop RPG project in two decades is now available as an ebook. Delta Green: The Labyrinth is a sourcebook of allies and adversaries for the Delta Green RPG from Arc Dream...
View ArticleThe Game at the End of this PDF
I created a new game inspired by the fascinating storytelling experiments available at Itch.io such as The Mermaid Spell by Jamila R. Nedjadi and by the pioneering metatext The Monster at the End of...
View ArticleInterview with Ray Liotta
Actor Ray Liotta passed away much too soon this week at the age of sixty-seven. I interviewed him in early 2003 when he came to Seattle to promote his new film Narc, which was his debut project as a...
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