This is absolutely not at all Unfiction-related, but I'm working on a things and want to brag about it, and I've got nowhere else to really do that so you get to tolerate it today :) My husband is a Minecraft modder, and I've been doing all the sprite art for a really big mod he's making.

A thorough approach to #ARG research and documentation: Revitalizing Rural Heritage Through an Intergenerational Alternate Reality Game: A Mixed-Methods Study in Taiwan doi.org/10.3390/su18... The prototype game promotes rural #heritage tourism. Ganoderma is fungi, btw 🍄

📣 NarraScope 2026 submissions are open! This year NarraScope will feature three different areas for submission: our classic talks, the second year of our game Showcase, and the debut of The Experience. 🧵(1/4)

An underdiscussed aspect of unfiction is how many unfiction projects are, like, tech demos in disguised. Like, a non-neglible ammount of them is just people figuring out how to do something weird in source engine or minecraft and building a narrative out of it.

The art of storytelling is a sacred act. As the recipient of a story, you have a special responsibility to protect it from harmful influences. If a story is created solely for profit, it cannot be considered sacred, because intention is crucial.

ANYWAYS, I'm looking for people who make #Unfiction / #ARGs / Interactive Fiction / #LARPs / #Immersive Media, and people who write about, youtube about, or archive those things. I've been putting together a Discord server, and have assembled a pretty great Avengers team of Unfiction folks.

Ya boi has pinched a nerve AGAIN and it's made doing much of anything for the past week a living hell. But I'm finally getting over it (after hours of mildly electrocuting my muscles and laying on my heat pad, lots of lidocaine patches, and many painful stretches) and back to work on things.

just made the STUPIDEST meme, but it made me giggle so here you go:

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Howdy, folks. Zeke here. I got injured this past January and spent most of this year entirely unable to function as a human being. Nothing got done with WARG, nothing got done on my TTRPGs, I didn't even talk to my friends. It SUCKED. I finally feel like a person again. Work is finally happening.

With the news of David Lynch's passing, here's a passage from the interview book Lynch on Lynch where Lynch credits the remarkable Blue Velvet scene where Dean Stockwell lip-synchs Roy Orbison into a work light to a weeping Dennis Hopper entirely to trusting the actors and random chance.

Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.

a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way

Watching the Gumby movie and. Things keep happening. In this movie.

tfw you calculate 1000 years of global population flux (based roughly on real-world data) after your fictional apocalypse to have internal consistency in your worldbuilding :) also tfw you painstakingly translate a real city map into what it might be like 750 years after an apocalypse

Aversion to feedback is so fascinating to me. You mean to tell me you don't want to improve? You don't want to know what could've done better? You don't want to know where and how a "win" can be a bigger win? You just...want to remain stagnant? Beloved: why? (This is rhetorical)

Hello it is book publication day so if you see this baby out in stores please tell me so I can cry like a little baby

After being sick all week, I'm trying to get at least a little work done today. I just found an awesome new bg noise to work to— mynoise.net/NoiseMachine... I use the noise generators on here TONS. My partner stays up late gaming w/ hys friends and Night Blue + Train sounds really helps me sleep

Reminder that my second middle grade horror chapter-book SCAREWAVES: BEYOND THE GRAVE comes out this August, and i think it's pretty cool. Keep an eye out for it if you're into monsters, slime, things of that sort.

I don’t think all art is subjective because art belongs to a lineage. All art is a conversation and what people often think of as subjectivity is actually picking what side of that conversation you are on.

art is like philosophy in the sense that it's an ongoing conversation with ideas that build from its predecessors. "art is subjective" is as dismissive as it is ignorant

Hi, we’re the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nothing gets us revved up for a hot slice of ‘za more than living next to all the turds and piss of the city. Cowabunga!

Every year, millions of Americans are born without the Knowing When You’re Standing Right in the Fucking Middle of the Grocery Store Aisle gene. Incurable, unfortunately

Hey. Hey. The present is full of grief and the future is full of terror but there is still joy in the world. Take a minute to let something make you happy.

We released Delta Green: Countdown in 1999 for $39.99. It was considered one of the best RPG books we ever released. It was 429 pages. It took four years to make. I STILL get emails complaining about the price.

game design tips (source: Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Bertholt Brecht, translation from Brecht on Theatre - 2015 edition edited by Marc Silberman, Tom Kuhn and Steve Giles)

BATTLE AWAITS. HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

Another, possibly MORE random question— Does anyone have experience with bullet journaling, and would be willing to walk me through setting one up for some in-character materials? My ADHDtism makes bullet journaling alien technology to me, no matter how many aesthetic youtube videos I watch.

Make a Scene! 2025 scenarios look Under The Surface, beyond first impressions and shallow artifice to the truths beneath, whatever the cost. Let’s delve deeper together! To premiere your live action scenario, submit a short synopsis by March 10.

Just learned my Taylor Swift puzzle "Deep Conspiracy" got selected as a finalist for the 2024 Bravo Awards! puzzles.mit.edu/2024/mythsto...

Anyone have any experience in designing newspapers (specifically)? I'd like to create some for the ARG I'm working on, and would ideally like them to be formatted for print, in case I ever want to make actual physical, tangible copies. Paper size, margins, programs, formatting tips all welcomed!

My story "In the Blue Room," about a Pepper's ghost illusion that goes horribly wrong during a college production of HAMLET, is now available to read for free in the latest issue of The Dark: www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-the-blue-...

If anyone is interested in sending a promo for their project. May it be website, art, music whatever. To be in the second coming of ARG digest. Check out argdigest.com for how to submit

Here's a pretty good Bot Block List (64k accts so far) bsky.app/profile/did:...

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?

Hey, small-er social sites? Why do you need to have a different header size than every other social site out there? Can we please just standardize this? Can someone set a precedent of some kind? Having to remake our header in 25379841 different sizes for every new site we join is infuriating.

Amazon being allowed to artificially depress ebook prices with their monopsony for decades is a huge reason why plenty of folk who know nothing about publishing bleat, "Ebooks cost nothing to produce!"

Proud of my Letterboxed today :) Came in one under par

*after losing half the friend group to the demon's curse* okay I'm calling it for today. See y'all tomorrow.

Happy New Year! My resolutions for this year— • Do some kind of self-enrichment every weekday • Get the ARG I've been working on out into the world • Finish at least one TTRPG for WARG • Finish at least one personal project TTRPG • Watch one movie I've never seen each month • Read six new books

This is @adrianbauer.bsky.social 's fault. He mentioned wanting to see this Biffo as a Wizardry enemy, so I took a stab at both the original visuals on MS-DOS and the Sega Saturn's more cleaned up, digitized painting look. Also just the full size, pre-shrunk illustration. #pixelart

NEW PREVIEW FOR PART 2!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! www.youtube.com/shorts/I9w_u...

I recently posted a blank copy of the internal design doc I've made for our various games and projects on Patreon (here: www.patreon.com/posts/semi-o...) and since I can't seem to turn on the creative part of my brain today, I've decided I'm going to work on the design doc for this project, instead.

Just saw someone walk out of the liquor store wearing a full vampire costume. God I wish that were me

Wrote a cool original unfiction project that people really loved! I also was part of an interview with some really, really cool internet horror creators like Tim Sutton of Marble Hornets and Valeria Santiago of redredhat, which was super rad! archiveofourown.org/works/562664...

College Bowl games are so unhinged, I love it. Fun fact - did you know that one year there was a small ARG (or at least ARG adjacent “something”) during College Bowl week? It was like a fever dream that didn’t go anywhere, but it was like someone pitched an ARG, set up everything then just bailed.

Really annoyed with my body this week. I had a day and a half of REALLY good progress, and then I guess I needed to be Extra Disabled™ for the rest of the week because I've barely been able to stay awake let alone perform the necessary tasks of living, LET ALONE work on things. I hate this.