Tag: Story054

Escape with all your bits in-tact.

The warp opens up, dropping you in front of a giant, free-floating dialogue box: “Thanks for playing Barney Carnage II: Mortal Kombarney! Your 15 day free trial is up. I love you, you love me, when you pay the shareware fee. Seriously, I’m in tons of student debt and could really use the $5.” This […]

The warp opens up, dropping you into a comfortable bed in a pair of soft, matching pajamas. There’s a bar above you that reads “Restfulness.” Must be some kind of “sim” sleepytime. A nap would be great actually. You lie down on the pillow and your restfulness meter starts climbing. This is nice… Then you’re […]

The warp opens up, dropping you onto an enchanted forest. You walk around for a moment, enjoying the calm, until all of a sudden the whole world feels like it’s rapidly digitizing! Then everything goes back to normal, except there’s a “leafbad” in front of you. A leafbad is basically a pile of leaves with […]

The warp opens up, dropping you into a bright red top down convertible! You drive super fast along a twisting beach road. As you attempt a sharp turn at full speed – breaks are for chumps – a truck with the word ARCADECO on it pushes you off-road, where your car flips several times. It’s […]

The warp opens up, dropping you onto a pirate ship. Around the ship are goofy-looking pirates, in bright blue rags, waving their non-threatening wooden swords in the air. You touch a treasure chest on-board, but one of the British pirates says, “You need something to open that thar treasure. But what?” You touch it again. […]

The warp opens up, dropping you into a world that looks strangely like your own, only with lower resolution. You’re on a suburban street, a relatively easy location to film in. Suddenly, a smirking dude in a black and white striped prison costume pops up from behind the bushes, holding a bag with a dollar […]

The warp opens up, dropping you into the middle of an ancient combat arena. Across from you is an army sergeant in tan camo with gray skin and six arms, who floats in mid-air. Just looking at him, you bet he has a surprisingly complex backstory! A disembodied voice shouts “FIGHT” and the sergeant shoots […]

The warp opens up, spitting you out into a hellish world of demonic laughter, lava rivers, and the same three gray stone background textures over and over again. You walk around the corner and find a shotgun lying in a pool of blood. Sweet, a free gun!  A mutant… claw… thing (?) spots you. It […]

The warp opens up, dropping you into a friendly, adorable green world. The clouds all smile at you. The spike pits glisten in the sun. The alien bugs who kill you with one touch march to a catchy synth beat in the air. You stomp on top of a three foot tall bug, crushing his […]