Visual novels are many things to many people. But are visual novels literature?
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Is ‘Amnesia: The Dark Descent’ Still Scary 10 Years Later?
Even a decade later, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is still insanely scary.
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The Dragon’s Last Flight: A Dragon and Human Love Story (Maybe)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that dragons and dragonslayers are mortal enemies—except when they’re not.
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Dullahan in Video Games: Hangin’ With the Headless Horseman
Dullahan in video games appear in many forms. Some headless horsemen are friends, some are foes, and some remain somewhere in between...
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Top 13 Scary Female Monsters Who Haunt My Dreams
This Halloween, I’d like to share a few of my personal favorite scary female monsters from fiction—and by “favorite,” I mean the ones that most deeply scarred my psyche.
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Irish Inspiration: The Celtic Creatures of The Harbinger’s Head
The idea for The Harbinger’s Head sprang from two main sources: Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and the Celtic creatures found in traditional Irish folktales.
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How to Make a Visual Novel in a Month: Lessons Learned from NaNoRenO
NaNoRenO 2019 taught me a lot about how to write a visual novel in a very short amount of time--without having any prior Ren'Py experience.
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NaNoRenO Game Jam 2019: We Made a Visual Novel (Demo)!
Odd Lazdo and I have officially launched a free demo of our visual novel project, The Dragon’s Last Flight!
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Learning How to Write Interactive Fiction: Diving in Headfirst With “The Harbinger’s Head”
Learning how to write interactive fiction begins with finding a story that fits the format—and then figuring out how best to tell it.
