Cliffhanger: Chat Stories

Cliffhanger: Chat Stories was a product originally released by Pocket Gems in 2017. These text-based stories offered players quick choice-based stories often in the suspense and horror genre. In addition to writing full games for them, I also consulted on several others, including the two that I have attached here.

Genre

I’m not normally a thriller or horror-focused writer, but ended up working on a half-dozen of these. A lot of research went into every script to see where else I could push the story that still fit within genre conventions.

Choices

Choices: My role was to bring in choices (sometimes monetized) into games that already had linear narratives. This required me to use previously created characters and concepts to generate new opportunities for the player.