WILLIAM HINZ.
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BRANCHING DIALOGUE

The opening chapter to an interactive fiction about one half of a queer couple escaping Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union. Character and relationship focussed, featuring a gruff granny with a gun. CW: Coarse Language

written using Ink, Inkle's narrative scripting language
PARTITA - FLOWCHART
Partita Sample Flowchart
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Character Art - ODA DAO
Background Photo - SARAH TOYCEN
PARTITA - CODE EXAMPLES

NOT-SO-LINEAR DIALOGUE

The Color Bible
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An exercise in taking a pre-established character voice and riffing on it, specifically The Narrator from "The Stanley Parable."

Part monologue, part
 "graphic design is my passion", and entirely cheap fun. 
The color bible
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LINEAR DIALOGUE

Decline - Screenplay
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Sparse dialogue, highly image driven. Mixing high energy and somber stillness.  Post apocalyptic fun for the post-nuclear family.
Decline
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Guerilla Sabbath - Stageplay
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Mixing fast-paced verse and snappy prose. The opening scene to a high concept contemporary fantasy. Exposition, but fun. CW: Coarse Language, Blasphemy
Guerilla Sabbath
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Residue - Stageplay
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Slow burn dialogue with intimate silence. Interrogating the tensions beneath young queer love, violence, and family. Cute in a terrifying kind of way. CW: Coarse Language
Residue
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BARKS (WITH SOME BANTER)

The Twins
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Barks from a contemporary urban fantasy featuring a coven of time travelling witches. Arson and Flicker are twins, the youngest memers of the coven.

​ A double whammy of anxious greenthumb and resident arsonist. 
THE TWINS - BARKSHEET
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LYRICAL

Stay - Musical Theatre
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At his brother's wartime funeral, Jono is gifted a series of white feathers by his fellow parishoners, a symbol of cowardice for non-enlisted men during WWII. An interrogation of the weaponisation of masculinity.
Stay
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The Bomb, Love
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Queers on the verge of divine ascension. Two lyrical pieces diving into the murk that is queerness and religion, queerness in mythos, and queers as perpretrators of violence.
The Bomb, Love
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LOCATION DESIGN

The Obsidian Sea, The Glass Titan, and the Menagerie
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Three interconnected locales with lore and accompanying narration to introduce players to them. Built with the spelunking pirate (and others) in mind.
The Obsidian Sea, the glass titan, and the menagerie
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TECHNICAL AND FLAVOR TEXT

Thunderborn, Tideborn, and Cloudborn origins for DND 5th edition
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Thunderborn, Tideborn, and Cloudbourn. Three elemental themed subclasses for Dungeons and Dragons 5e. Concise mechnical design and flavour text. Zip zap zop.
thunderborn, Tideborn, and cloudborn
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