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GrimValor is a Dark-Souls-inspired Metroidvania released on ios and later other platforms. It’s a diamond in the rough of a game, and here, I go over what could be improved for a potential remake.
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Mobile gaming has a bit of a stigma around it: drowned in gachas and shovelware of all kinds. But a particular diamond in the rough I remain fond of to this day is a metroidvania called GrimValor.
Inspired by the indie game “Carnivore!”, Census is a world made up of animal-like people in a dark, meat-based society.
I recently posted a proof-of-concept fantasy narrative called “The Blight Campaign” after the conclusion of The Small Speculative Fiction Writing Jam (2026). I thought I’d share a bit about how The Blight Campaign came to be. EmberLight On New Year’s Day of 2026, I joined a discord server called EmberLight. I was trying to get
“The Blight Campaign” is the creative property of Tris Strudel (Joshua Park) and The Pending Game Creative Collective. Originally submitted to the Small Speculative Fiction Write Jam (2026) on March 30th, 2026. Read about how this project came to be here. Segment One: The Expendable Victim I am Syrol run’Pror, or Syrol the VII, of
A short story about a simple and mundane life lesson.
2001’s Kate & Leopold is a romantic comedy with drama and supernatural elements surrounding time travel. This post introduces the premise and discusses one of the two main leads as the first part of a series.
Preface: This is a work of fiction in the first person. It is not a transcription of actual events. 8:45PM. A crisp, passive breeze had overtaken the dry heat of the daylight now that the sun slumbered. And I took firm advantage of this. The suburbs were a maze of turns, dips, and climbs. Were