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Take Part In The Resistance! The Far Body Punks need your support!

Hey friends, if you’ve been curious about our #punk #horror franchise #FARBODIES, you can now support the process with donations on #kofi Please consider supporting our vision! #indie #storytelling #transmedia #narrativedesign

Worldbuilding as "Transmedia Play" How testing your story can IMPROVE your story

#Transmedia as playtesting explores how using different mediums during your development process to pressure-test your fictional worlds, can reveal new insights, and create more emotionally impactful experiences for your audiences.

Throwdown At The Discord A sneak peek for the holidays!

While I work dilligently to bring you the final two parts of our FarBodies Christmas special, I wanted to give a sneak peek of one of the novellas we are working on. This excerpt is my attempt to put down in words the experience of attending a local hardcore show. Merry Christmas all!

Introducing the city of Ghostward Quarter, the setting of #FarBodies. A sprawling urban decay, Ghostward is a grimy labyrinth of crumbling tenements, flickering neon signs, & endless rain, where the hopeless grind to survive and the reckless burn bright and fast…

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A Very Merry FarBodies Christmas Special! PART TWO - The Terror at TwinkleToys

Part Two of the FarBodies Christmas special is now live! Join Jessie DeLuca and her mentor Sam Lockart as they investigate a gruesome murder in the popular Ghostward Department Store of TwinkleToys! Read, like, comment, share! #farbodies

Super stoked to have a mentor like Christian, giving us such great advice on our ambitious little project!

A Very Merry FarBodies Christmas Special! PART ONE - Hark! The Yuletide Spirits Scream

In honor of the silly season, we're putting out a FarBodies serial to introduce you all to some of the characters in our world! Read, like, comment, share! #farbodies #horror #shortstory #christmas #punk #hardcore #transmedia #storytelling #narrativedesign #festive #holidays #metal #metalcore

While Rifling Through an old Record Store... You find this EP...

Want to get involved with the worldbuilding of Project: FarBodies? We're looking for user submitted song titles to THIS album. Top six will be canonized into the IP. The album itself will also be available to listen to in the near future...

Founders of the Far Body Punks Meet two key characters from Project: FarBodies

Meet two key characters from our upcoming Project: FarBodies!

7. Chapter Four The Esoteric Origins of Interactive Storytelling

Getting into the weeds a bit with this chapter. Ever wondered where the concept of interactive storytelling may come from? Historically? This chapter is for you.

Soundtrack of Revolution Calling all Far Body Punks!

Looking for favourite hardcore and metalcore songs from the 90s for our Project: FarBodies playlist! Hit us up!

Introducing... Project: FarBodies Hey my lovely subscribers!

Check it out!

6. Chapter Three Legends, Myths and Folktales: The Key Components of a Body of Folklore

Chapter three is now live!

Hey, Hardcore kids! I'm looking to talk to as many of you as possible! I've been working on a creative project that’s my love letter to the scene and I really want to hear from people about why hardcore matters and what you’d wanna see represented in stories. DM me if you're interested in chatting!

Struggle, Endure, Contend Pro-Active Misery for the Trumpian Age

Not what I usually write about, but after yesterday, I wanted to speak out and encourage my friends now at risk in “the land of the free.”

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism — also known as “antifa.”

For those who need it, this book is available for free as a pdf.

I feel so bad for my American friends who have to face this head on. At the same time, fuck all y’all who voted that fascist criminal back in.

Aaaaand the nightmare is set to repeat…

5. Chapter Two Understanding The Folkloresque

Time for your weekly dose of The Player and the Pentacle!

WE SHOULD NOT BE HERE Part 2 - Where Shadows Gather 'Neath Crumbled Stone

The folllow up to my first essay on the history of horror is out! This time we are covering graveyard poets, gothic horror, gaslight horror and penny dreadfuls!

WE SHOULD NOT BE HERE PART 1 - The Blood That Feeds These Wicked Roots

For all my new subscribers- i released part 1 of my 4 part series on the horror genre last week for the spooky season! Part two will be out soon, so make sure you’re up to date!

Haha yes, you’d need a lot more than 300 characters I’d imagine!

Tentacular Games | The Punk Writer | Substack Tentacular Games is a transmedia studio founded by three friends and dedicated storytelling professionals. Here you can find essays on Narrative Design, Deep Dives, Short stories, Developer updates an...

Really trying to push that subscriber count so we can build an audience for our upcoming comic series and TTRPG! Please consider subscribing!

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I’ve a question for the community! Does anyone know of any resources available regarding how Telltale Games build their narratives from start to finish? Clearly they are branching narratives, but I’d love to read about the developer’s actual process!

4. Chapter One What Is Narrative Design?

It’s that time of the week again. The next chapter from my book is now available for free on my substack!

Putting the "Gay" into Games In her seminal essay, Putting the Gay in Games, Adrienne Shaw presents several alarming statistics about the video game industry.

We’ve made progress, but there’s still work to do!

The Player and The Pentacle: Folkloric Motifs for Narrative Design Can't Wait? Purchase the Book now, and support the Cult!

Recently, I made the decision to serialise my book on Narrative Design for free. A new chapter every week. What I didn’t expect, was that some of you would enjoy the prologue so much that you bought the book anyway! So it’s official - can’t wait and wanna support me? You can buy it here!

Thanks! I hope you enjoy!

WE SHOULD NOT BE HERE PART 1 - The Blood That Feeds These Wicked Roots

Part 1 of my new series for Halloween has just dropped. Wanna know the history of the horror genre? Well this is a good place to start! open.substack.com/pub/tentacul...