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Hey, I have a blog where I play solo games and I decided to do a playthrough of The Flicker and the Fade because I really love the concept. If you'd like to read it, it's on cohost and tumblr.

It does :)

Also, I finished playing and just wanted to say thank you <3 This was a great and moving experience.

Such a beautiful idea <3 thank you. I don't know if I'm brave enough to do this for myself, but I have a certain character for whom it will be great.

Two, two and ten of spades :D And also, it took more time than I thought, but the entry is there :)

Thanks :D the fourth entry is on the way and I'm quite excited for it :D (it's four and ten of spades, and the prompt for 10 of spades is SO beautiful! <3 )

All the social media turmoil made me do a thing I was contemplating for some time - I made an account for playing journaling games. I decided to start with You Are a Beacon since I love the premise, the prompts and pretty much all about it. I thought that maybe you'd want to know someone's playing your game in public. If you want to check it out, here's a link :)

https://cohost.org/lost-journals

I've played a lot in play by post games, and it was w very performative experience, especially since when I started I was an eighteen year old just after her first publication, so writing was more important for me than ever before. Pbp's were both my writing polygon and the way of seeking validation, so yes, I always had the audience in mind, and my posts were probably more flashy than they would otherwise.

I also played one-on-one sessions on google docs, and they were different, but not as much as I thought they would be - I still had a high need for beautiful language for example, and could polish the posts forever, but also I made narrative choices that I wouldn't do if I knew that anybody on the forum can read this.

On the other hand, when I got other source of validation, I started to come to pbp games with more loose attitude - I focus less on making the posts attractive and interesting to my co-players, more on getting what I want from the game (usually the feels ;) ).

Oh my, my inner anthropologist trembles with excitement :D

In Medias Res

A group of people finds themselves in the most important moment of their lives.

https://czakita.itch.io/in-medias-res

I wrote it for Short and Easy Jam, because the theme made me think about the most effective, low-prep ways that would let you get all the fun a traditional RPG session gives. In the beginning, the players create a cliffhanger, then they pick roles of people participating in this event and create the narrative backwards, to see how the cliffhanger came to be.

Thank you, I found the theme really neat. I usually look at themed jams with inerest, but they don't make me do anything, but here the idea came almost immediately :)