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A Modern Text Adventure Game: Mansion Escape v2, in Your Browser!

February 8, 2021

Yes, I’ve got some really important news! As a name, Mansion Escape might be familiar to you, if you’ve played its first iteration on Android. But I decided to take this to a whole new level. Mansion Escape is dead, long live Mansion Escape! A modern text adventure game, in the style of the early computer-game era, but updated for modern audiences, with attractive visuals, immersing sounds, and enhanced playability.

More importantly, this is no longer just an Android app. This is a game you can play in any modern browser, be it on mobile, desktop, PC, Mac, or Linux. You can save on your mobile and continue from your PC. Is that cool or what?

But what does a modern text adventure videogame include? What is it about? And where can you try it?

Read on to find out!

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What should a modern text adventure look like? Well, like Mansion Escape of course!
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Announcing the Home for Fiction Patreon Page

October 26, 2020

Note: The Home for Fiction Patreon page, though still online, nowadays is simply a way for you to show support (if you’re looking for alternative ways of doing that, see this page). The rest of the text below is irrelevant, so if you discovered it accidentally, consider it purely a snapshot of history.

Quite some time ago, I posted a survey with some questions related to premium content for Home for Fiction. It took me a while to ponder on it and decide on the details, but here it is: the Home for Fiction Patreon page!

Take everything you know about the Home for Fiction blog and supercharge it. The Home for Fiction Patreon page offers premium content such as:

  • early access to blog post drafts.
  • writing resources and media (tools, checklists, tutorials, presentations, programs, etc).
  • workshop courses, where you can try my writing tips with exercises.
  • personal feedback on your own novel or short story.
  • …and more!

But there’s also an important thing to keep in mind…

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” — George Orwell
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