Caelyn Sandel is creating
Fiction and Video Games
I'm a multimedia storyteller with a focus on personal and social themes in gaming and fiction.
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reachedBuy and program a Choosatron!
Buy and build a Choosatron IF machine, so that I can make printable Choose Your Own Adventure stories! As a bonus, I will film myself building the thing and make a highlight reel of my mistakes!
Total crowdsourced game!
At $300, I'll be able to pay my rent with Patreon, holy cow! My other job can go purely toward other bills and discretionary spending, and I'll be much closer to my goal of supporting myself through my work alone. Also, I'll make a game comprised ENTIRELY of settings, characters, and puzzles chosen by my pledges!
Totally Patreon supported!
At this level, I can actually live on my Patreon wages alone! Expect higher-quality projects from me as I'm able to turn more attention to my dev work, creating art and music assets and learning more and better programming languages.
About
Caelyn Sandel is a writer, game designer, lush, and sometimes-do-well.
Location
Malden, MA, USA
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I am a multimedia storyteller with a penchant for character-focused stories and examining social issues through text. I write games, novels, and stories, mostly within the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
I love subverting genre tropes and surprising my readers and players. I've been writing and producing games off and on for almost 20 years and telling stories for longer than I can even remember, so the opportunity to create a community that follows my work is a dream come true.
This Patreon campaign will provide the freedom I need to build momentum as a professional storyteller while still allowing me to release creative work to the public at no charge. As I produce more, expect more continuity and expansion on my existing works. My fiction universe, the Age of Corporations, is already the subject of a published novel and also a second book that is currently in editing. Supporting me ensures the development of existing fictional universes and the creation of new ones.
If you'd like to see more of what I've done, please visit my website, inurashii.xyz, to check out the games, stories, and talks that I've written!
Or, if you'd like something a bit more curated, take a look at a small sample of works that I have created or collaborated on, all of which are free to read or play for free online:
Questions? Misgivings? Ancient prophecies? Hit me up on twitter: @inurashii
I love subverting genre tropes and surprising my readers and players. I've been writing and producing games off and on for almost 20 years and telling stories for longer than I can even remember, so the opportunity to create a community that follows my work is a dream come true.
This Patreon campaign will provide the freedom I need to build momentum as a professional storyteller while still allowing me to release creative work to the public at no charge. As I produce more, expect more continuity and expansion on my existing works. My fiction universe, the Age of Corporations, is already the subject of a published novel and also a second book that is currently in editing. Supporting me ensures the development of existing fictional universes and the creation of new ones.
If you'd like to see more of what I've done, please visit my website, inurashii.xyz, to check out the games, stories, and talks that I've written!
Or, if you'd like something a bit more curated, take a look at a small sample of works that I have created or collaborated on, all of which are free to read or play for free online:
- My novel, Tales from the Securemarket, a workplace romantic comedy set in the Age of Corporations universe
- An award-winning collaboration with Carolyn VanEseltine, One Eye Open (best played using the Gargoyle Interpreter program)
- My surreal office horror game, Quit Your Job Simulator 2014
- The graphical adventure game I wrote for Ruin Jam, a game jam that I created and ran: Vivant Ludi
- Occasionally I write popular op-ed essays about social justice, such as "Homosexuality and the Metric System" and "How to Not Ruin Polyamory for Everyone in 6 Easy Steps".
Questions? Misgivings? Ancient prophecies? Hit me up on twitter: @inurashii
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