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Michael Smith

@scriptfinch.itch.io

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Game writer and narrative designer. Resident node peddler. Play my games: scriptfinch.itch.io

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 20/12/2025

Yeah this is all making sense to me @rombuffer.itch.io #VeloxTurbo3

A text snippet that reads, "1. corporate answer / 2. the actual answer (rom) / 3. the pathetic compromise (michael)

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 14/08/2025

Honorable mentions include: 1. Banjo Kazooie 2. Secret Little Haven 3. Ladykiller in a Bind 4. Mount Your Friends 5. Super Amazing Wagon Adventure SBCG4AP probably doesn't belong here but I reckon I am the only person who will ever go to bat for it. It is the burden I bear.

A ranking of my favorite games.
1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Pokémon Emerald Version
3. Disco Elysium
4. Victoria 3
5. The Walking Dead
6. A Short Hike
7. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
8. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
9. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
10. Long Live the Queen
11. Risk of Rain 2
12. Nintendo - Super Mario Sunshine
13. Dark Souls
14. Zoo Tycoon
15. Bastion
16. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
17. Ultimate Chicken Horse
18. Battle Brothers
19. RimWorld
20. XCOM 2
21. The Sailor's Dream
22. Nidhogg
23. Undertale
24. Downwell
25. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 16/05/2025

I love writing games because I played Year Walk, Device 6, and the Sailor’s Dream in rapid succession my freshman year of college and they each shaped the way I approach narrative and inspired me to manifest those kinds of narrative. I still have my Sailor’s Dream notes on my lil memory corkboard

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 15/12/2024

Is it too late to make our game a dating sim cuz we've got some real eligible bachelors in this particular puppy. 🥵 Sketch by @teletuu.bsky.social ! Pontifications of a geriatric accessory to war crimes by me. 😌 #VeloxTurbo2

Dialogue from our upcoming game that reads:
It's a sorry state, I've got to say.
When we knew our enemies, we were strong.
We tracked them. Understood them.
Surveillance was the key. Scrutiny.
Hell, the prosecution wouldn't have what they had without the damn Ring camera.
But our enemies successfully deceived us into resting on our laurels once the wall fell.
Too many people pretended the outward battle was over.
They reckoned it was time to turn inward.
The worst part? Our politicians agreed.
Perhaps the worst executive betrayal since the Bay of Pigs.

One of our demon jurors, whose description reads:
The war hawk is not a boots-on-the-ground veteran but instead an ex-bureaucrat who simply valued America's prestige too much to scrutinize what kinds of war-crime-adjacent operations his department was overseeing. To this day, America is still the bulwark against communism and its constituent propaganda arms — even if the Soviet Union is long in the rear-view mirror. He also thinks LSD is a Soviet brainwashing drug, cuz we think that's fun. He claims to have “worked at the Pentagon” but it was the Starbucks inside.

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 14/12/2024

Our lil jam team is chugging along, I thought I'd share one of the five jurors you'll meet in our game — he's utterly charming, ostensibly neutral, and a loyal servant to facts and logic. 😌 Shoutout to @jakeshepherd.bsky.social for the blurb and @teletuu.bsky.social for the sketch! #VeloxTurbo2

A silhouette of a demon. His description reads: The radical centrist academic is a mainstay of liberal and conservative columns and TV punditry alike. Despite their claims of neutrality, they somehow always end up agreeing with the conservatives. Don’t be fooled by this Harvard-educated WASP — they actually grew up in a little-known place in western Virginia (the western part of the state of Virginia, to be clear). Everyone in their hometown loves them, just don’t ask anyone about their book, “The Problem With Appalachia Is The People.” This demon loves a good debate, and one of the main problems with this country is that nobody will debate them. Backing up every sentence with an out-of-context quote or just straight up lying about what a study says, this demon doesn’t understand what everyone’s so upset about — they’re ”just asking questions.”

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 13/12/2024

First 17 hours of Velox went exactly as smoothly as the first day of a four-day game jam should go. Fear not, these are not even spoilers 😌 #VeloxTurbo2

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 13/12/2024

@lunamakaio.bsky.social has already started our GUI!

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 01/12/2024

I almost did this one

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 01/12/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie : )

A snippet of a 1998 interview in which Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami says to CNN, “Alexis de Tocqueville… which is am sure most Americans have read.”

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 22/11/2024

Hi! I'm Michael Smith, and I like to write interactive fiction. Choices and nodes and stuff! 😌 I recently revamped a jam game that I'm very proud of: It's called "Carcinogen". Play it in your browser here: scriptfinch.itch.io/carcinogen

A scary crab telling you, "The sooner you acclimate to these particular market conditions, the better." From my game, Carcinogen.

A scary crab asking you, "Is that what's meant for all of us?" From my game, Carcinogen.

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 20/11/2024

THE NODES 🥵 love me a good spreadsheet 😌 if you didn’t know

A planning spreadsheet for my game Talleyrand Simulator, which plots out when each of the game’s goals can be accomplished.

A planning spreadsheet for my upcoming coal mining game, which tracks plot and character development across multiple in-game days.

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