Category: Writing
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Preview of Samson: A Tyndalston Story
Check out this 10-minute preview video from IGN! (Which for some reason won’t embed here.) Only about a month until Samson’s story begins… I spent most of 2023 and ’24 building this world, and I’m amazed to see what the team did with that initial work. Love seeing the city and story come to life.…
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Samson: A Tyndalston Story
One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had working in games was the time I spent building the world and background story for Samson: A Tyndalston Story in 2023 and ’24. And finally it’s announced! Check out the trailer: Looks pretty rad, right? I helped build that city brick by brick, and it’s amazing…
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Avengers Alliance Redux
Marvel: Avengers Alliance has been shut down for 9 years now, but it will always be one of my favorite experiences writing a game. Amazing to see that after all this time, a group of fans has created Avengers Alliance Redux, a playable recreation of the original game. I’ve only dipped into it a little,…
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Anthropic Thievery
A searchable database of one of the pirate websites Anthropic used to train its product lists 67 works under my name. 67. Books, short stories, some nonfiction…there’s a fair bit of duplication, but that’s a lot of my words and sentences stolen to train these things. (Apart from the sort of helpless anger one feels…
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Two New Stories at Reactor and Bourbon Penn
“Shorted,” at Reactor. This one started as a thought experiment: “What if people got royalties for corporate use of their data, and that became a Universal Basic Income?” Great idea, right? Unless it results in the further commodification of human beings, which, well, read the story. (And how about that art by Erin Jia?) “Employee…
Crooked House Fictions 