spec.cafe

You've just walked in off the street. Good. The place is a bit of a sprawl — essays that go long, experiments that half-work, fragments left on the counter like napkin notes. Nobody's in a hurry here, and neither are you.

experiment

The Slug Letters

Five envelopes arrive with increasingly alarming news about mutant slugs. Open each letter to uncover the scam — and learn about perimeter.

story

Versequake

A human who's been spliced navigates the Outerverse — and tries not to breathe while asking a slug cyborg for directions.

story

The Wishkeeper

A stand-in Cleric runs cobblestone streets with magic he didn't earn. On a dark night, a careless wish is spoken. The wishkeeper was already listening.

experiment

The People of Gaia — FF9 NPC Backstories

A Tetra Master collection of Final Fantasy IX's forgotten background characters, written for Twitch viewers on stream. Flip each card to read the tale. Fifteen cards found, five lost to the Mist.

fragment

Creativity Bucket List

A living creativity bucket list — all the things worth making, started in 2019.

experiment

Creative Skill Tree

A JRPG sphere grid for the creativity bucket list — eight job classes, one path.

essay

What I love about Tiny Glade

My first impressions as a fantasy and chaos enthusiast — leaning into the procedural blending between building blocks and terraforming to create oddities and imperfections, scenes that tell a story, l

experiment

Final Fantasy IX Trivia Quiz

Five rounds of Final Fantasy IX trivia built for live Twitch streams — including a special Ragtime Mouse True/False encounter. Four choices, 60 seconds per question.

essay

Final Fantasy 20 Min Gaming Club

Busy adults. 20 minutes. Three times a week. An unexpectedly effective way to keep making progress through Final Fantasy — and any game with a side quest problem.

experiment

Blue Prince

We almost didn't play it. One run later, we couldn't stop. A field dispatch from the estate — discovered one room at a time.

fragment

A room, not a hallway

A website should be allowed to be a room you wander into, not a hallway you're marched down.