John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games)
@spacegoblingames.com
Indie text game developer, creator of Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate. Now working on a pulp sci-fi adventure narrated by the villain!
Website: https://www.spacegoblingames.com/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
Header and avatar by Tom Morley
Website: https://www.spacegoblingames.com/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
Header and avatar by Tom Morley
In the end Dale pushes Queen Valkir into the terrocrab pit, and she lets Flash go after he saves her from them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
In the end Dale pushes Queen Valkir into the terrocrab pit, and she lets Flash go after he saves her from them.
12: Terrocrabs! (their claws have a paralyzing poison)
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
12: Terrocrabs! (their claws have a paralyzing poison)
5-11: Not seen because at this point Valkir gets bored of the whole thing and skips ahead to the final death.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
5-11: Not seen because at this point Valkir gets bored of the whole thing and skips ahead to the final death.
4: Octoshark
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
4: Octoshark
3: Savages throwing fireballs
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
3: Savages throwing fireballs
2: Electro-gladiators
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
2: Electro-gladiators
1: Ape-man with throwing knives
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
1: Ape-man with throwing knives
Space hero research notes:
In a 1946 Flash Gordon storyline, Flash spurns the Storm-Queen, Valkir, and she sentences him to the "Dozen Deaths." But what are these deaths?
In a 1946 Flash Gordon storyline, Flash spurns the Storm-Queen, Valkir, and she sentences him to the "Dozen Deaths." But what are these deaths?
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Space hero research notes:
In a 1946 Flash Gordon storyline, Flash spurns the Storm-Queen, Valkir, and she sentences him to the "Dozen Deaths." But what are these deaths?
In a 1946 Flash Gordon storyline, Flash spurns the Storm-Queen, Valkir, and she sentences him to the "Dozen Deaths." But what are these deaths?
My new game is narrated entirely by the villain - but he's not always talking to *you*. Sometimes he's berating his minions for failing to stop you! #screenshotsaturday
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
My new game is narrated entirely by the villain - but he's not always talking to *you*. Sometimes he's berating his minions for failing to stop you! #screenshotsaturday
Should I add a crab-like alien enemy to my space hero game specifically so I can have an achievement called "Bust a Crab"?
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Should I add a crab-like alien enemy to my space hero game specifically so I can have an achievement called "Bust a Crab"?
Not beating the allegations that I'm reverting to my childhood.
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not beating the allegations that I'm reverting to my childhood.
I spent ages trying to find/draw good enough placeholder images for my villain's different facial expressions, and somehow it only occurred to me today that I could just use emojis
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I spent ages trying to find/draw good enough placeholder images for my villain's different facial expressions, and somehow it only occurred to me today that I could just use emojis
Peabody is of South Asian descent, which is a great way to make the strip more diverse--the original cast is all white but there's no reason they have to be.
On the cover she's also holding a *massive machine gun*, which seems out of character for her? But I assume it'll make sense in context.
On the cover she's also holding a *massive machine gun*, which seems out of character for her? But I assume it'll make sense in context.
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Peabody is of South Asian descent, which is a great way to make the strip more diverse--the original cast is all white but there's no reason they have to be.
On the cover she's also holding a *massive machine gun*, which seems out of character for her? But I assume it'll make sense in context.
On the cover she's also holding a *massive machine gun*, which seems out of character for her? But I assume it'll make sense in context.
For me, interactive fiction is all about letting the player express themselves through their choices.
For example, do you want to engage a giant alien cyborg on the moon in a gun fight, a sword fight, or a fist fight?
#screenshotsaturday #interactivefiction
For example, do you want to engage a giant alien cyborg on the moon in a gun fight, a sword fight, or a fist fight?
#screenshotsaturday #interactivefiction
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
For me, interactive fiction is all about letting the player express themselves through their choices.
For example, do you want to engage a giant alien cyborg on the moon in a gun fight, a sword fight, or a fist fight?
#screenshotsaturday #interactivefiction
For example, do you want to engage a giant alien cyborg on the moon in a gun fight, a sword fight, or a fist fight?
#screenshotsaturday #interactivefiction
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
My writing career summed up in one image:
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My writing career summed up in one image:
Dale is 100% checking out Flash's ass in this panel, right?
September 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dale is 100% checking out Flash's ass in this panel, right?
Dale Arden: badass.
I feel like a modern comic would have had the gun projecting out of the panel over the gutter rather than cutting it off, but I guess they didn't do that kind of thing in the 1940s.
I feel like a modern comic would have had the gun projecting out of the panel over the gutter rather than cutting it off, but I guess they didn't do that kind of thing in the 1940s.
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Dale Arden: badass.
I feel like a modern comic would have had the gun projecting out of the panel over the gutter rather than cutting it off, but I guess they didn't do that kind of thing in the 1940s.
I feel like a modern comic would have had the gun projecting out of the panel over the gutter rather than cutting it off, but I guess they didn't do that kind of thing in the 1940s.
Share your favourite black and white movie.
September 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Share your favourite black and white movie.
What movie do you consider "perfect"?
September 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What movie do you consider "perfect"?
At last we're back on Mongo, planet of beautiful women in floor-length skirts and uncomfortable looking metal bras.
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
At last we're back on Mongo, planet of beautiful women in floor-length skirts and uncomfortable looking metal bras.
I don't know, Zarkov, maybe it's the rocket ship design on the wall behind you.
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I don't know, Zarkov, maybe it's the rocket ship design on the wall behind you.
There follows a story arc in which Flash and Zarkov use advanced Mongonian technology to build a rocket ship and use it to defeat an enemy invasion fleet.
It's a piece of desperate wartime wish fulfillment. What if we had a super rocket ship that could win us the war?
It's a piece of desperate wartime wish fulfillment. What if we had a super rocket ship that could win us the war?
September 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
There follows a story arc in which Flash and Zarkov use advanced Mongonian technology to build a rocket ship and use it to defeat an enemy invasion fleet.
It's a piece of desperate wartime wish fulfillment. What if we had a super rocket ship that could win us the war?
It's a piece of desperate wartime wish fulfillment. What if we had a super rocket ship that could win us the war?
The Mongonian rulers want to make Flash their new president, but Flash receives distressing news and rockets back to Earth to fight in a lightly fictionalized version of World War 2.
It's June 1941.
It's June 1941.
September 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The Mongonian rulers want to make Flash their new president, but Flash receives distressing news and rockets back to Earth to fight in a lightly fictionalized version of World War 2.
It's June 1941.
It's June 1941.