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“When Animals are People” (Project Echelon: Entry 1)
Inspired by the indie game “Carnivore!”, Census is a world made up of animal-like people in a dark, meat-based society.
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Concept to Creation: The Blight Campaign
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…
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The Blight Campaign: A Fantasy Narrative Proof of Concept
“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…
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Dragon’s Roast Coffee (Proof of Concept Series)
“Proof of Concept” is a blog series where I take a lore or narrative idea and elaborate on how it could be implemented, sometimes in the real world but typically in a fantastical setting. These posts are designed to spark creativity in readers and writers. Any proper nouns I personally create in these series are…
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Christelan Chronicles: Ritual (Prologue)
The prologue excerpt from my upcoming fantasy thriller. A moonless night blanked cool shadows over a flat desert for miles. At its center was a lush, imposing biome of a rainforest. Lining its outskirts were small fruit trees–only twice a man’s height at most–with wide-stretched branches. Their bark was veined in reds and vibrant purples,…
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“Checking Out the Crime Scene and More Mechanics” (Project “After-War” Video Game Concept: Entry 05)
Main Plot (Act 1) Getting to the Crime Scene Depending on which path you took to get out of Kiba Reefings (Kyslr’s inventory gate or Shureni’s secret tunnel), you’ll eventually end up at the trolley attack site sooner or later. Kyslr’s path is more hostile but faster while Shureni’s is safer but you’ll have more…
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“Some Notable Characters and First Draft Map of Kiba Reefings” (Project “After-War” Video Game Concept: Entry 03)
Main Plot (Act 1) Kiba Reefings Map When we last saw our Protagonist, he was wrongfully arrested after mysterious monsters attacked a trolley he was either inside of or found. The Kiba Reefings Overseer–Bu’leyg–releases the Protagonist due to not evidence being found against him, and encourages the Protagonist to go get some Habernettes, hinting that…
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“Introduction Completed and Some Alterations” (Project “After-War” Video Game Concept: Entry 02)
Main Plot Changes: Entry 01, Segment “Crisis” As soon as I posted the first entry, I realized that there was too much being shown too early. Entry 01 starts with the Protagonist arriving on the game’s main setting, a moon called Kro’Enx which acts as both a prison and multicultural cemetery. The Protagonist is identified…
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“The Shriveled Stranger” (Project “After-War” Video Game Concept: Entry 01)
The Inspiration A couple weeks ago, I rediscovered an old Nitrome game called Ice Breaker. It was a flash game released around 2009. The premise was you played as Winter Vikings who have to free frozen Vikings as a physics-based puzzle. I fondly remember quite a number of flash games I used to play back…