Random Walks

Here they are. I do not guarantee they're interesting, uninteresting, descriptive, prescriptive, or spelled right.

• Games, Puzzles, and Toys

  • The Zarfian Cruelty (or Forgiveness) Scale
  • Mind Mind Game Game
  • You Are in a Maze of Twisting Little Passages, All Corn
    • Plus corn maze notes from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
  • IF 'Spective, Retro and Per
  • A Game Lexicon
  • Likely To Be Eaten By A Bottomless Pit
  • Characterizing Interactive Fiction
  • Ongoing Comments on Uru Live
  • Game Genre and Game Interaction
  • Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction
  • A Writer's Guide to Interactive Fiction
  • Seltani: a new-style MUD for Myst Online (video version)
  • The Alchemy of iPhones and Social Capital -- the development of Hadean Lands (audio)
  • Glk! A universal user interface! for interactive fiction! (video version)
  • The Zarfian Cruelty Scale, Revisited

• Game Ideas

  • (These are random notions for games that I came up with but never started, or never completed, for whatever reason. Maybe you can do something with them.)
  • I Had A Dream
  • The Sarcasm Game
  • The Secrets Game

• Art, I Think

  • Small Rant About Modern Art
  • "Who Is This Model Reader, Anyway?"
  • Rant About Small Modern Art

• Science, I'm Sure

  • The Twin not-really Paradox
  • The Arches of the Little Prince

• History and Literature

  • Letter of Comment: Pyrotechnics #38: August 1986
  • Redwreath and Goldstar Have Traveled to Deathsgate (a generated novel)
  • Language, Languages, and Dialect in Aspects

• Religion and Meta

  • A Koan of My Own

• Fiction

  • A Terror in Flesh
  • Ghost Story
  • Various bits of fan fiction:
    • Five Farscape/Stargate snippets
    • This Belongs in Pegasus B (Stargate Atlantis alternate history)
    • Naqqadah (Stargate re-imagining)
    • Restored Memoir (Lara Collection 003.001) (Myst and Edward Whittemore)
    • Villanelle Fanfic
    • Angle of Incidents (Stargate extremely alternate history)
    • Tropesis (Young Wizards pre-history)
    • Watch This (Oxenfree story postlude)
    • Waterfowl of Unusual Size

• Look, I Already Broke the Categories

  • Pan as Mighty as the Three-Handed Sword

• Thoughts of Days

  • This is a set of random one-part inventions; it has a page of its own.

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