Chris Klimas

New World of Horror Update is dropping on Halloween 2026 per Steam page!

*EIGHT years ago, I released YOU ARE JEFF BEZOS It's still getting people bent out of shape to this day! direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...

happy SIX(??!!!) year anniversary to CUT THEM OFF, my twine game about wholesome queer cutting of age jannouna.itch.io/cut-them-off

Twine 2.12.1 is out. It's a maintenance release, but one bug it fixes is a potentially unpleasant security hole. If you have installed Twine (as opposed to using it on the web), please upgrade as soon as is practical. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

4 October 2026 devlog: almost ready with a new Twine release, but first I will need to bang my head against a frustrating localization bug. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

What direction is London from New York? Spent time thinking about a question I had never pondered deeply before as I continued adding geolocation to Chapbook. (I bet this is a very basic question in the world of geography.) www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

Honored that my collaboration with Stuart Moulthrop, Twining: Critical & Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives, is the literary/media studies winner for the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes 🎉 www.acls.org/2026-acls-op...

I'll be looking for work soon and am in the process of crafting a portfolio website for the first time in a few years, but in the meantime if you know of anyone in need of a narrative designer (or illustrator, even) please keep me in mind 🥲

🎉 The 32st Annual #IFComp is live! 71 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Dive in at ifcomp.org/ballot!

Can't get enough interactive fiction, even with the 32nd annual IFComp opening today? It's the final week of voting for IntroComp! Don't forget to play a few games and vote! Voting is open through this coming Monday. introcomp.org

Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.

Big news: Tyrants Must Fall launches in Early Access this October! Grow your glory, build your rebellion, and topple the Tyrant King in fast-paced, turn-based tactical battles! #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased #roguelike Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/4464400/...

23 August 2026 devlog: created a first draft of geolocation features in Twine, and also shared more details here on the collaborative version of Twine that @jazztap.bsky.social has been working on. See my earlier repost if collab Twine is news to you! www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

Multiplayer Twine is in live alpha! Sign up now to get a link. It's like Docs for IF, but fully open-source and self-hostable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... h/t @chrisklimas.com for this awesome collaboration!

Just in time for some weekend tank shenanigans, a fresh update to Tanks, I Guess! 💥Updated UI 💥New weapons and secondaries 💥Victory rundown 💥Advanced *colored* lighting 💥2-4 players You can play right now because it is, in fact, tanks for nothing! porchweathergames.itch.io/tanks-i-guess

bitsy is turning 10! to celebrate i've created an archive of every released version of bitsy, and i'm hosting an extra-special, extra-long 100th #bitsyjam :D blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-0...

Have you ever wanted... * a game that's a bit Ogre Battle, a bit Slay the Spire, and a whole lot of #turnbased tactical fun? * to topple a tyrannical king? * all of the above *right now*? Then what you want is the demo of Tyrants Must Fall! store.steampowered.com/app/4464400

hard to believe I've been on Patreon for 7 years — use code 77777 to get my archive of 20+ Twine tutorials, monthly game & template devlogs, and over 50,000 words of prose for less than $5 patreon.com/gcbaccaris

💿 EARLY ACCESS the new Twine template is a little tool to make your own iterative goal-tracking tool, whether you're working toward a specific deadline, wordcount, number of pages, or something else 🔑 find the link & password here: www.patreon.com/posts/158128...

26 July 2026 devlog: notes on the Chapbook geolocation implementation work, but more importantly, how pushing harder on an idea that isn't quite working almost never works for me. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

Final Narrascope workshop post on my Patreon! This time, talking about free-text entry for dialogue choices. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

Station Zeta is on sale! Love old Apogee games? Like puzzles and platforming? Enjoy lasers and robots and the combination of the two? Then this is the game for you! Get it now for less than a cup of coffee! store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Crab Crawl is 50% off over at Itch! patientrock.itch.io/crab-crawl 🦀

Love seeing libraries like nanotags (nanotags.psdcoder.dev) and @arielsalminen.com's Elena (elenajs.com) appear because they look like ideas I've had myself for how to work with web components... but better executed. Looking forward to axing my own microlibrary from my projects soon!

just realized it was the steam sale! in honor of sales, generally, ive discounted the visual novel i released a couple years ago 80%! (it's also free on itch) store.steampowered.com/app/2300570/...

Continuing my Patreon posts about implementing parser game-like functionality in Twine: this time, inventory. A topic people ask how to do in Twine all the time! Here's a very simple way to do it in Chapbook. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

Doing something different on my Patreon! Instead of a devlog, writing up my part of the workshop I recently gave at Narrascope. If you missed it, here's your chance! This also includes a downloadable example file to try out. www.patreon.com/klembot/post...

The Tyrants Must Fall demo is live for #NextFest! ⚔️Turn-based tactical battles ⚔️Grow your army, gather followers, and upgrade your units ⚔️Guide Jairm from humble aubergine farmer to Hero of Destiny! ⚔️Make friends along the way? store.steampowered.com/app/4464400

#NextFest is on, the demo for Tyrants Must Fall is *live*! Guide Jairm, humble aubergine farmer, towards his destiny as a hero as you topple the forces of evil in this #turnbased tactical #roguelike. Try it out today! #indiedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/4464400

In one hour! See the Narrascope Discord for how to join.

Are you attending Narrascope this year? Tomorrow at 6 PM US EDT, @judithpintar.bsky.social and I are presenting a workshop on making Twine imitate Inform and vice versa. Open to all attendees through the Discord, whether you're going in person or online, and at no additional cost!

Thrilled to officially announce Tyrants Must Fall! Guide Jairm as he builds his rebel army to topple the Tyrant King! Gather followers, shape your army, and triumph (or don't!) in turn-based tactical battles #indiegame #turnbased #indiedev Wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/4464400/...

31 May 2026 devlog: beginning the implementation of geolocation in Chapbook. Learning a lot of nitty-gritty details about how it works in browsers! www.patreon.com/posts/159773...

Patreon backers at the $5/release level and above are getting early comment access on functionality I'm exploring adding to Chapbook that will allow authors to build location-based games. If this sounds exciting to you, consider becoming a member! www.patreon.com/posts/17-may...

3 May 2026 devlog: thanks to a dedicated community member, Chapbook docs now have a Simplified Chinese translation! If you'd like to contribute a translation in another language, drop me a line and I can explain how the process can work. www.patreon.com/posts/3-may-...

NEW TWINE TEMPLATE‼️ 💬 DIALECTIC A fully customizable, visual novel inspired template for the SugarCube format Demo & Download: gcbaccaris.itch.io/template4

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

19 April 2026 devlog: considering where to work on next after the Twine 2.12.0 release. (Which happened last week, ICYMI!) www.patreon.com/posts/156043...?

So yesterday was the 2-year anniversary of when I walked away from my 20+ year career and set off to become a full-time #indiedev #solodev. This was, by most normal evaluations, an insane thing to do! But at this 2-year mark, I thought I'd look back at how it's gone so far. 🧵

Twine 2.12.0 is now out! Major highlights include a new way to see tags in the story map and a better tag autocomplete. www.patreon.com/posts/155317...

Twine devlog: wrapping up a new, but not dramatically different, ways tags will show up in the story map. www.patreon.com/posts/154878...

My post-GDC report. Twine! Visible Zorker! The Botanical Garden! The Letterform Archive! (That last one was totally new to me.) blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/twin...

wow this fan-made Marathon Timeline website is incredible timeline.bumgie.org

I belong to a different generation--my own experience was more Apple II than Mac--but I felt this essay in my bones.

This year's Game Developer's Conference, GDC Festival of Gaming, will be held March 9-13, 206 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. For the first time ever, the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation will be represented! IFTF will have a booth on the show floor Wed-Fri so please stop by.

This was the first time I’ve done a game jam with other people and shout-out to @jhaddock.bsky.social and @chrisklimas.com for leading the way! I think we landed on something super fun.

This woman was murdered. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

🦊 “Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.” I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...