While trying to figure out what to do next, I tried talking with the three game AIs that might be waking up as part of my search for answers. I studied them. I talked to them. I asked them things.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2023
My dad had the patience of a saint. He never once yelled at me over that grand plan to pull several characters out of a zombie apocalypse at once. He did say that he really wished I’d run the idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My grand plan worked like a charm. Until it didn’t. Did you know that mortal peril can cause psychological trauma in those who survive it? I had lived the kinda life where that kind of thing didn’t happen much, so…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I enacted my grand plan to save several characters from a game at once. I followed the script. I killed a LOT of zombies. Chain guns. Rocket launchers. Pistols. Knives. You name it. I was a whirling dervish of destruction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The particular franchise I wanted to pull the characters out of is based around a fictional outbreak of a zombie virus in a fictional Midwestern American city. Most of the characters in the games and other material lived in or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Common sense should tell you that a zombie horror franchise may not be the best source material if you want stable, well-adjusted, calm, fully-functional people. I was a teenage young man who did not always have the best relationship with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a plan to pull a bunch of characters out of one game series at once. Not the movies or the series based on them. The original games from the early 2000s. Yes, I was seriously old school in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am a bit of a purist when it comes to… a lot. I’m not a fan of most zombie horror stuff, but my uncle introduced me to one of the best series when I was young, and he started[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I should have been more careful after Tai came over to visit. I thought I WAS being careful. I KNEW I was. And I had this plan I’d been working on for weeks. Maybe months. I had pulled a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My mom was proud of me the day Tai came to evaluate my game AIs. So was my dad. But if I’d done something wrong, it would have been my fault. I knew that. I said that. Dad nodded. He[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…