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February 2, 2020
Hero Historia: Jericho Rising 9
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 For the first time in months, Trip was smiling while plowing the soil outside the south gate. It did not go unnoticed. “You are in fine spirits,” Bignose said, stopping to watch his fellow farmer work. “The sun shines bright on my back,”...
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January 27, 2020
Zeitgeist 1980 Public Release 1.0
Today marks the public release of Zeitgeist 1980’s version 1.0. This marks the end of development, aside from any bugs discovered after the fact – hopefully after weeks of beta-testing we’ve caught them all, but you never know. Postmortem The biggest lesson this project taught me was about scope creep. I had initially planned the...
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January 14, 2020
Zeitgeist 1980 Patreon Release
Following up on the feedback I’ve gotten from the beta test, I’ve released Zeitgeist 1980 v 1.0 to my supporters on Patreon. I’ll update the publicly available version to 1.0 in February. What’s left to be done? Honestly, it depends on response. The core of the game is complete, but there’s always room for more...
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Hero Historia: Jericho Rising 8
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 As Clay and Mad Words neared Jericho’s East gate, they saw a figure waiting for them, standing among a flock of sheep. Dawn Spring. She was standing. Watching. Waiting between them and the city, only a few hundred yards from the walls. Clay’s...
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January 9, 2020
Finally Playing Crash Bandicoot
I was 18 when Crash Bandicoot came out in 1996, and I was a bit of a snob when it came to games. I liked RPGs, I liked fighting games – and that was about it. Mind you, I didn’t even have a Playstation when the game was released, but what little I played in...
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January 3, 2020
Zeitgeist 1980 Beta
The Twine interactive fiction game Zeitgeist 1980 is now in open beta, and I could use your help.
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December 28, 2019
Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.11
This seems like a good spot to stop, award some character points, and improve our characters. Since episode 2.6, everyone has made Scrounging rolls. Nick rolled Diplomacy and Knife, Vera rolled Driving, Fast Talk, and Mechanic (Automobile), Marco rolled Knife, Ashly rolled First-Aid. We give out 5 CP. I’m worried I might have missed some...
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Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.10
“Bob and Eddie from Everest. Lawrence and Dina from Alpha Team.” Jim listed the fallen, gravity increasing with every name. “Oscar,” Nick said. “And Oscar.” Jim was addressing a council made up of representatives from each of his teams, along with Vera and her friends, seated around a conference table in the law office of...
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Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.9
The group returned to the theater with disinfectants for Doctor Warren, who’d been hard to work on Amanda, seeing to the scrapes and contusions the wheelchair-bound woman had suffered in the car crash. GURPS: Doctor Warren made his First Aid roll to treat Amanda, aided by Ashly. Amanda heals 2hp, and is up to 3/10…...
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Survival Mode: Flight into Terror 2.8
The Arcadia Mall was old, even by 1990s standards, largely unadorned, its parking lot dotted with a few cars but otherwise dark with no lights from the structure or the light-posts. “There’s a Sears,” Josh said, pointing at the sign on one of the mall’s anchor stores. “Do they sell guns?” “This is Texas,” Vera...
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