DM Advice: Story Trumps Dice
Being a dungeon master is difficult. I want my players to have fun. I want them to feel like pulp genre heroes. Yet, I also...
Rest in Peace, Yaphet Kotto
When I was five years old, I bought two packs of movie trading cards. I loved movies as a kid and movie trading cards were...
Twine 2 Tutorial: Creating a Basic Inventory
A common question for many new Twine authors is creating an inventory system. There are many different ways to create inventory, but for this story,...
Twine 2 Tutorial: Getting the Player’s Name
I’ve been playing around with Twine for a number of years and the number one question I get from new story authors is, “how do...
Review: Lord Foul’s Bane
After a difficult loss, a close friend of mine recommended that I read a high fantasy book called Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson....
Twine 2 Tutorial: Coding with Twine Variables
Here it comes. The part of this tutorial series that some of you have been dreading: coding. This is the part where we type obscure...
Quiet Please: The Thing on the Fourble Board
This is an awesome story from one of the better old time radio shows. The show was called Quiet Please and all of the episodes...
Reflections on The Mist
A freak storm overtakes the small town of Bridgton. It knocks down trees, powerlines, crippling the small town. David takes his son and neighbor into...
Writing Every single Day
In my sophomore year of college, I took an intermediate writing class. I thought it was going to be like my introductory course. That is,...
Twine 2 Tutorial: Adding More Locations
Passages are the bread and butter of creating interactive stories in Twine. You don’t have a story without them. Passages can represent anything in a...
