Spire, Surge, and Sea
In a far-future seascape cursed by the ancients, will you make mankind’s last home a haven or a fortress?
Back rebels or royals, or pursue your own rise to power. Speak for the spirits or fight for your own kind, or try to reconcile both by uncovering ancient injustices. Heal the creatures afflicted by a magical rot or defeat them in the name of defending the ones you love. Shape humanity’s destiny with magic, alchemy, or high-tech masonry.
Spire, Surge, and Sea is a 380,000-word science fantasy epic where the gods, the spirits, and your king are watching your every move.
Published by Choice of Games in July, 2025.
The Bread Must Rise!
The Great Godstone Bake-off has arrived! As a hapless baker deeply in debt, you finally have the opportunity to rise to fame and fortune! Under the tutelage of such famous chefs as Gordon Ramslayer, Tira Misu, and The Baladin, you will learn the arts of baking, breadcrafting, and dare you whisper it…necromancy?
A text-only cosmic horror / fantasy / baking / comedy extravaganza, co-written with James Beamon!
Published by Choice of Games, September 28, 2023.
Shorter Interactive Fiction and Games
I sometimes write shorter pieces of interactive fiction (IF) and other small games, which you can find below.
Crescent Sea Story
You wake on a boat in the midst of a vast, ruined ocean. You have no memories. You have no belongings. Your only companions are five fragments of your missing self.
A powerful urge draws you southward towards what you know is your destiny, but before you can grasp it you must reclaim your identity. Follow your fragments through your own past and discover what happened to the world—and to you alongside it.
Memories are mutable. The future is unwritten. But can you ever truly change who you are?
Written for IFComp in September, 2025
Ginkō at the End of Time
Everything is coming apart.
Take one more walk and marvel at the strangeness of the world.
A one-page RPG about impermanence, strangeness, beauty, and writing haiku.
Rooftop Tolls
Can you help the plants and denizens in the garden beds get what they need to flourish, so you can go back inside?
Created for Neo-Twiny Jam 2025, weighing in at approximately 405 words (not counting code, etc.)
Fovermore: A Game of Writing Horror
You are Allen Edgar Poet. Can you balance broodiness and distraction until you finish your greatest work?
Written in under 4 hours for ECTOCOMP 2024.
A Death in Hyperspace
Winner of the 2024 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing!
When your captain dies suspiciously halfway through a hyperspace transit, you know you’re in trouble. Not because you need a captain — as an embodied AI spaceship, you can pilot yourself just fine — but because, as an aficionado of mysteries and detective stories, you know there’s only one explanation: murder most foul.
Written with Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor for IFComp 2024. (September, 2024)
Haunted House for Social Phobics
When you signed up for the haunted house tour, you were expecting chills and thrills and jump scares. What you got was something far, far more terrifying.
Can you survive being continually thrust into awkward social situations?
Written for Ectocomp 2023 in about six hours. (October, 2023)
One Does Not Simply Fry
A fantasy parody game built in Choicescript, chock full of Lord of the Rings jokes and absolutely zero nutrients. Four playable characters and endless zany hijinx. Can you craft the On(e)ion Ring and defeat Sour Ron?
Written with James Beamon for IFComp 2023 (October, 2023).
Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick
It’s your first year trick or treating alone. Will it be your last?
A parser game about time loops written for Ectocomp 2022 in just under four hours.
Return to Castle Veederstone
…for the first time
…for the last time
A parody of Ryan Veeder’s excellent “Castle Balderstone” games, written for Ectocomp 2021 in roughly four hours.
Untitled Nopperabou Game
It’s a beautiful night in the village. You’re a faceless ghost.
A spooky homage to Untitled Goose Game, written for EctoComp 2019.
The Magistrate’s Chambers
An interactive crime drama with supernatural elements set in Tang Dynasty China.
Written for EctoComp 2018.
Images Across a Shattered Sea
An interactive version of one of my short stories, published in sub-Q in 2016.
Illustration by Paul Otteni.
Visual Novels
StoryLoom was a visual novel platform run by Pixelberry (the same folks who do Choices). I wrote for the platform in 2022 and 2023. Unfortunately, the StoryLoom platform closed down in early 2024, so these games are no longer available to play.
Derby Witch
Three months ago, Cordelia’s girlfriend ghosted her. Cordelia likes her coven, and her magic is helping people, but she just can’t get over that lost relationship. Then her coven leader enters the group in a Witch Derby tournament. Soon, Cordelia is tangled up with famous skaters — and with the ex who ditched her.
Will Cordelia be able to take back her life on the derby track, or will everything spin out of control?
A sapphic fantasy romcom, complete in 19 chapters as of September 25, 2023.
5 + 1 = you
After waking, you find yourself in a strange house. Who are you. How did you get here? Your only clue is a crumpled piece of paper with the number five printed on it and a handwritten warning—”watch yourself, you’re not alone.”
Can you find out who you are? More importantly, can you escape?
A puzzle-based adventure game in the style of Myst and Riven, complete in 6 chapters as of May, 2023.
Library of Worlds
A demon lord in the library?! When Shan starts to have weird dreams just after starting their new job in a small public library, they realize they’re the reincarnation of the demon lord from their favorite fantasy series.
A cozy reverse isekai fantasy visual novel written in Storyloom. 13 chapters long, completed in February, 2023.
Weeding the Library of Worlds
Shan is starting to get used to their new job as a library assistant when the head librarian disappears into a book—literally! With the worlds in the fiction section combining, can Shan rescue their boss?
A short standalone companion story to “The Library of Worlds.” Written in Storyloom. Three chapters long. (February, 2023)
