Hi everyone! I noticed a lot of people have followed recently, so for anyone new or who’d like a little index of everything going on, this post is for you! Thanks for the follow, and I hope you like what I’ve got going on!

I currently have 3 projects to my name, with two of those in development and the third fully released. Links are down below, along with a brief summary for each.

Elsinore: After Hamlet

An interactive re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a plague text and reckoning of Asian American identity under the influence of the ongoing pandemic during its first year. 

Elsinore: After Hamlet is available to play in full on itch.io.

The Harrowed and the Hushed

A historical low fantasy adventure set in mid-Victorian London. Play as a private investigator tasked with solving the most high-profile murder of the century to prove your client’s innocence, keep your own sordid past buried where it belongs, and preserve (or tear down) the mystical Veil that keeps the supernatural world of Fantastics from being exposed to Mundane humans. If you’re so inclined, woo or woe the eccentric sorts you come across in your quest for the truth—or perhaps find romance a bit closer. Either way, the clock is ticking for you and your client, and there simply isn’t room for any more blood on your hands.

H&H is currently in development, with no demo currently available. There is BTS and bonus content available to peruse on this blog, and you can send in asks at your leisure. This post has all the details on H&H.

Rougi

Rougi is an interactive mystery novella created for @interact-if’s 2022 unranked game jam, using the theme “red herring”. (BTW, the ranked jam just released its winners and all the submissions are glorious. Give ‘em a looksie look over on itch too.)

The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a series of inexplicable incidents in the opera house stir up a maelstrom of terror and intrigue. With whispers of illicit affairs, sinister motives, and hauntings around every corner, tensions—and the stakes—have never been higher. Here, everyone has a part to play…and everyone is playing a part.

Delve through rumour and reason into the glittering Belle Époque world of the Paris Opéra Ballet and unravel what’s really going on in the wings. After all, the show must go on…

Rougi is currently in development, with an alpha build available to play on itch.io. For bonus content, please visit the Rougi development blog! 

Dreamed that there was a mundane-setting TTRPG I’m going to call “Greg and Maureen” where the players are visiting a non-player character couple their characters are friends with. But the couple is going through a rough spot! The objective was to investigate their relationship and either to help their marriage or hasten their divorce. It’s always small town and you’re always staying at their house. Players could add a little flavor of how they knew Greg and Maureen and even choose some minor traits for them before the game.

I’d played the game with another group before, but I didn’t know there were multiple paths. There’s a note Greg writes confessing to something, but depending on the dice roll it’s a different note. The content of a major plot point depended on a 2d6 dice roll.

In the dream, I’d previously played a version where he confessed to cheating on Maureen with another woman, so I thought Maureen should see the note, but in the game we were playing, my friend Celia found the note, which actually said that Greg was dishonorably discharged from the army for a gay relationship (he’s bisexual) before he met Maureen, and that he had lied about having had an honorable discharge. So for a while I came off as an asshole because I kept saying that Maureen needed to know the contents of the note so that she could confront him about what he did to her, and my friend seemed to me to be unusually blasé about what I thought was an affair.

There were other possible notes. In other timelines he had never had an affair, never been in the army, never even loved her, etc. There was another possible note where you learned he’d lied to her that he was good at track in high school (imagine an impressive mile time, which my dream mind supplied as 6:40, though that won’t even get you into varsity level) when he was actually bad at track in high school (14 minute mile). This was a lie he’d told, like, once, and he and Maureen almost never talked about running or high school sports.

In every possible timeline, Greg was Utterly Wracked with guilt about his secret. Yes, even the high school track universe.

Also, if players had decided that Greg was white before the game, you could unlock a timeline where his secret was that his distant ancestors had been in league with THE Devil from Christianity between like 1830s and 1910s. (The devil was just their accountant. He was ashamed of them for non-devil reasons.) In this timeline, you could actually meet the devil.

You didn’t find a note in every timeline, so sometimes you had to work off other evidence. I had only ever played mainly investigating Greg, but you could also focus on investigating Maureen. I think the other players and I just suspected him of hiding something every time, due to our biases. Sorry Greg! Guess we weren’t real gregheads.

This disclaimer pops up whenever I start talking

dungeons and drag queens taking place post-acofaf. they’ve reconnected the realms, but done too good a job. now there are just portals everywhere for american music producers to just drive right into.

in my documence. straight up “writing it”. and by “it”, haha, let’s justr say. Words certainly

Why are people who have perfume as their hobby always so bizarre… anyway… obsessed with this review tbh

my first word was dada. yes like the art movement i was a precocious child

i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw

τυρὸς δ’ οὐ λείπει μ’ οὔτ’ ἐν θέρει οὔτ’ ἐν ὀπώρᾳ,
οὐ χειμῶνος ἄκρω·

"But cheese does not abandon me, neither in summer nor in autumn,
nor at the end of winter:"

--Theocritus Idyll XI.36-7

Friendly reminder not to be like me. Do not dally around cool jam entry ideas until ten days before the deadline and then come up with two brand-new ones that would be SO COOL.

If anyone needs me, I'll be hunched over my keyboard sucking down green tea through a silly straw.