neitherworld Archives - Neitherworld Stories

November 3, 2006

NoNaNoWriMo

I was seriously considering trying my hand at NaNoWriMo this year, but it looks like work is entering into a ridiculously-busy phase. I will, however, include herein an excerpt from last year’s abortive attempt at novel-writing: * “My door is covered in scissors.” Tom spoke these words several times as he stood outside at the base of the stairs leading...

April 28, 2006

Neitherworld Frustrations

The more I work on the multiple-player/one-character model for Neitherworld, the more I become convinced that it isn’t feasible to meet all of my gameplay goals for that model. At this point, I am fairly convinced that I cannot write a game in which all of the players portray the same character unless either (1) the players take competitive roles...

March 3, 2006

Neitherworld: Path Mechanics Take I

I am going to engage in a bit of stream of consciousness here. I have some ideas rumbling around in my head about how to use the journeys of an Unborn down the DreamPaths as a locus of the game’s mechanics, and I need to have them written down somewhere. Working assumptions: All players are playing a single Unborn. Each...

February 16, 2006

Neitherworld: More (Focused) Thoughts on Joint Character Ownership

I’m still not completelty sold on going down the multiple players per character route with Neitherworld. If I do, I will probably include a more conventional option as well and dual-stat everything. In any case, I’m going to explore this option a bit, because the potential fascinates me. I’ll be riffing off of my earlier post on Fixing the Lone...

January 24, 2006

The Neitherworld (a wuxia urban fantasy?)

In case you wanted more details concerning the premise of Neitherworld: Ages ago, magic was torn from the Earth. Those responsible shaped their own world, a world whose very bedrock was created from the stuff of dreams, a paradise in which they could live out their every fantasy for eternity. All that it cost them was Earth’s dreams, hopes, and...