Visual novels, narrative heavy games, and other interactive fiction. From Pixels and Pins originals to collaborations.
See here for non-game writing.
Fruit Salad Theory
It’s the night of the big ball, and things are going…well…they’re going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you’re sure to have an interesting time. But what if something malicious is happening under the surface?
Enter a series of fully-voiced acted vignettes, making choices for the characters along the way. As the night ends, all the ramifications of these choices will unfold.
The Terrible Persistence of Memory
You wake with retrograde amnesia in the middle of goblin country.
Retrace your steps. Piece together who you are from the strange and incredible things you can do. Form your own feelings on your absent memories, and see what path it takes you down.
If It Had to Perish Twice
The Earth is dead but alien intervention created artificial habitation for the Humans to regain their footing in. The deal that built these glistening domed cities, however, comes with a strange price: the aliens get to live here with us.
The Center of the Universe
When a freak magic storm forces Garrah to take cover, the world they re-emerge into is one quite unlike their own: ours.
Limited by rudimentary communication, they’re taken in by two sisters, Xochitl and Precious. And for a short time, they’re just two worlds touching at a distance.
Naxos
An island in the sea and two souls inhabiting it, alone in their misery. Until fate or some such tawdry thing compels them from the darkness to seek each other out.
An atmospheric mini visual novel about the monsters within and without us.
Meninx
As the sea stretches out, another island, and two lovers that take refuge there. But there is danger lurking at the bottom of a cup. What strange things inhabit the hearts and minds of those who seek to find?
An atmospheric kinetic experience in 9 vignettes.
Dishelfled
A bookstore employee, you and your coworkers are being plagued by your worst nightmare: books that don’t seem to want to stay in their place on the shelves. What could possibly be happening?
An all ages game with a behind the scenes mode.
Hart Connection
The Hart Mercenary Company has a job. Escort an elven prince across country. Easy enough for the well-trained members of the mercenary guild.
You’d think…
A short interactive story told from three perspectives.
Hart of the Matter
Some members of the Hart Mercenary Company have been sent on a seemingly simple job: go to the Bi-Annual Inter-World Professional Mage Convention (the Squall) and recruit a new artificer. When petty fights start breaking out between the people in power, what’s stronger: friendships or guildmates? Can they impress their target with their magical (and otherwise) prowess?
A short interactive story told from three perspectives.
Amaranth
Go out and find yourself,” they told her. That’s what all good, young elves do. Who would have thought that would be so hard? Living in world that she isn’t sure wants her to be there, Cora feels like she’s floating through life, trying to find a place to plant her roots. When her usual walk through the park brings her path across a sylvan named Amy, it seems like this might be just the right kind of upheaval to get her sorted.
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