Scents & Semiosis
Play on itch.io. (Source code available within play window.) IFDB entry.
A perfume designer goes through her personal collection of scents, and remembers.
A procedurally-generated story about perfume, memory, and what meanings you choose to associate with them. Brief and dense, like a snifter of something golden-dark and pungent.
With contributions from Yoon Ha Lee, Cat Manning and Caleb Wilson; production by Cat Manning.
“*deeply* beautiful, the most incredible intersection of divination & therapy”
— Amal el-Mohtar
Inform 7 and Vorple. Released 2020; a gift for Emily Short.
Invisible Parties
Download version 3. Play online. IFDB entry. Source code.
A walker of the multiverse tries to find her lover in a collapsing tangle of worlds.
“…thematically, Parties is about the incompatibility of cultural outlooks and philosophical systems. It’s about the fact that our physical environment is only a tiny fraction of our mental environment, and the latter is very powerful. So as we travel from one culture to another, we shouldn’t expect the same rules to carry over.”
— Emily Short
Inform 7. Released in 2014 as part of Shufflecomp. Nominated for Best Setting in the 2014 XYZZY Awards.
Olivia’s Orphanorium
Download version 3. IFDB entry.
Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
An odd, not-entirely-successful and mostly unserious hybrid between parser IF and time-management sim.
Inform 7. Released in 2012 as part of the Cover Stories minicomp. Nominated for Best Individual PC (Olivia) in the 2012 XYZZY Awards.
Apocalypse Fuel
An MC tool for the storygame Apocalypse World, this procedurally generates quick, evocative concepts and names for a variety of NPC gangs, including hardholds, Maestro D’ establishments, and Hocus cults.
Inform 7.
House of Reeds
A tabletop story-telling and map-drawing game about family histories, through the lens of homes and how they change. Based on Aaron Reed’s 18 Cadence, with mechanical inspiration from Avery Mcdaldno’s The Quiet Year.
Translations exist for Italian (Antonio Amato) and German (Julian Kluge).
Selected Shorter Works
Mostly made for speed-IF events, these are likely to be brief and underimplemented.
Ugly Chapter. TADS 2, 2003. An interactive suicide note; a dystopian future. Do you like viciously bitter narrators? Ugly Chapter has that covered.
Yellow Dog Running. TADS 2, 2002. A sinister (or, if you prefer, angsty) mythic hunt.
Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, with Jacqueline A. Lott. Inform 6, 2005. A brief stage melodrama: one actor, three roles.
IFDB entry. Download. Play online.
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation. Inform 7, 2007. A steampunk romp with a transformation mechanic.
IFDB entry. Download. Play online.
For completeness: the full list.
These Heterogenous Tasks 