Special creative project
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...
View ArticleRecent Project Work
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....
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My Super First Day – Whisper
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...
View ArticleDo Something They Don’t Expect
One of the reasons I have the word “chaos” in the title of this website is that I’m fascinated by the interplay between order and chaos. Both are necessary for creativity. Without chaos, you can’t...
View ArticleContinuity Bootstrapping with Super Robot Wars OG
What is Super Robot Wars? Put simply, it’s a series of video games featuring characters from many different Japanese animated series about giant robots. Someone probably thought “Wouldn’t it be cool...
View ArticleAleatory Apophenia: Endless Frontier Towns
Recently I’ve been playing Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier on the DS. (Yes, it’s one of the Super Robot Wars games I talked about in a previous post.) It’s a pretty fun game. There’s...
View ArticleTransmedia Grounding
Brooke Thompson recently wrote about defining the term “transmedia”. To summarize (go read the article, really), “transmedia” refers to a fictional continuity consisting of products released in...
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My Super First Day #2: Passenger
My Super First Day #2: Passenger A more-or-less-collaborative writing project instigated by Andrea Philips: My Super First Day. This year’s effort is not as elaborate as my first one, but I didn’t...
View ArticleAudience-prompted storytelling
There’s a new form of storytelling that has started to become popular in the last few years. It seems to have been popularized with MS Paint Adventures; I don’t know if Andrew Hussie was the first...
View ArticleCreativity: Creating Worlds
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...
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