This is the home for interactive stories created by Andrew Johnston. Feel free to wander around and sample the madness.
Paul Liston shouldn't be in this much trouble. He's seventeen years old with a great family and a 4.0 GPA, and best of all it's trivia season. For the two weeks surrounding his school's Trivia Master competition, the rules change. The geeks inherit the earth. Knowledge itself becomes power.
But it's not such a friendly little game. With the balance of power shifted, the knives come out among the nerd set. Sabotage, deception, betrayal - nothing is off the table in the scramble to the top. And Paul, king of the whiz kids and everyone's target, knows this more than most. His best friend wants to use him. His vengeance-obsessed rival is gunning for him. And even his "one true love" is ready to toss him off the mountain.
Paul never wanted to fight a war, but with his enemies multiplying daily, his only hope might be to sink into the gutter with them.
Nerd World: Trivia Kills is a serialized interactive adaptation of the novel of the same name.
You've just been yanked out of your nerdy, comfortable early 2000s teen lifestyle and pitched into a whole new world. Thanks to a dear friend's lies, you landed a guest role with a up-and-coming darkwave band. No one saw you on that stage - they saw "Lord Valravyn," the pseudonymous golden-eyed goth god from parts unknown.
Unfortunately, Lord Valravyn has become weirdly popular - popular enough to get his own band and a year's worth of upcoming shows. Like it or not, you're in charge now.
Grow your band's profile while keeping your identity a secret - or let it slip to a few people and see what happens. Take a walk on the dark side with your subculture friends, or retreat into the safety of geekdom. Steward the local gothic community to new heights, or let them twist while you pursue your own ends. Get the girl, or make her despise you for giggles. It's all up to you.
Valravyn: The Amazing Goth Band Simulator is an interactive story with life sim elements, based on the novel Valravyn. Licensed under Created Commons, CC BY-NC-SA.
APK (experimental)
My first experiment in interactive fiction, created in 2022. Based on the novel The Remnant Pieces.