2024-02-19 05:14
It’s hard to believe that Jurassic Park was released over thirty years ago! And yet, the movie stands high above its predecessors in both story and visual effects. It’s quite a l… Read More
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jezner.com is an old time radio blog containing hundreds of free shows in mp3 format for free download with new shows being added daily.
2024-02-17 04:26
It’s hard to believe, but I have been running this website for the past twenty years. At one time it was a dedicated site for downloading old time radio shows.
Then, the it morphed… Read More
2024-01-03 00:06
There’s the old saying that nobody hates a fandom more than its own fans. You can see this in Star Trek and especially in Star Wars. In Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall’s book… Read More
2024-01-01 23:20
One of the key aspects of creating games is managing state. State persists throughout an entire game. It requires the computer to remember lots of different pieces of information… Read More
2023-12-28 15:45
Starting with game development is definitely challenging. You need to learn how to use a bunch of unrelated tools that are packaged together in what’s known as a game engin… Read More
2023-12-27 20:15
In 2019, The Outer Worlds was released by Obsidian Entertainment. It was billed as Fallout in space. People went nuts for it. For many Fallout fans, New Vegas (also produced by Obsidian) was… Read More
2023-12-22 04:49
Baldur’s Gate 3 combat can be challenging. Especially if you never played Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). This article series looks to teach you combat from the ground up. In the last… Read More
2023-12-15 20:52
A grandmother and her grandson are crossing the street when a bakery truck speeds around the corner, seemingly out of control. There is nothing the grandmother can do, but hold the boy close… Read More
2023-12-12 02:27
2023 opened with a bang for table top enthusiasts. Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) announced a Open Game License (OGL) that “put the squeeze” on third party content. Evidently, the b… Read More
2023-12-08 17:57
At recent session of a friend’s Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) game, I found myself growing restless. It was the climatic battle of a year long campaign. Major secrets were revealed an… Read More
2023-12-06 23:48
Scrivner is an amazing tool for writing fiction. Heck, I’ll even say, it’s the best tool. It far exceeds any writing program I’ve ever used and that includes the much loved… Read More
2023-12-05 12:00
Unity, Texas is not a town you visit. It’s a town you leave. And, if you actually do make your way to Unity, you’re either curling up to die or running from death. Either way, it… Read More
2023-12-04 15:52
For those who don’t know me – and that’s 99.9999999% of the entire world – I’ve been running jezner.com as my own personal web space for years. Last Spring, I d… Read More
2023-10-30 21:14
The year was 1960. Television was growing in both dominance and influence. The glow of radio’s golden age was starting to dim. Apocalypse was in the air. The once vibrant world of Old… Read More
2023-10-30 17:54
Hard to believe, the core part of this Twine experience is almost done. Granted, it looks like cat vomit, but you’ll address the look and feel down the road. For now, you still have wo… Read More
2023-10-30 00:57
When I was eighteen, I went to Bridgton Academy, a post-graduate school in Maine. It was a school designed to help struggling athletes improve their grades before going to college. I failed… Read More
2023-10-28 01:58
In the movie Batman Begins, a young Bruce Wayne finds himself in a prison camp. He gets into a fight with another prisoner. The prisoner declares, “I am the devil”. Wayne correct… Read More
2023-10-26 12:16
Having played hundreds, maybe even thousands of video games, I can unequivocally state that Baldur’s Gate 3 is my favorite video game of all time. The game is an exciting epic sprawl t… Read More
2023-10-21 19:08
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an amazing game. It’s a tale of high adventure with lots of crazy romance options added for good measure. In such a way, the game takes you to all the places… Read More
2023-10-16 20:06
A long time ago, I wrote a bunch of articles on how to write interactive fiction stories using Twine. People really liked them and I liked putting them together. Over time though, I found th… Read More
2023-10-16 18:56
At this point, you have installed Unity. You have installed Visual Studio. Your project is setup and you are now familiar with the editor. You have everything ready to start learning C#. It… Read More
2023-09-26 21:04
In this article series, you will be learning the fundamentals of the C# programming language. In the last article, you printed a simple message to the Console. For all subsequent articles, y… Read More
2023-07-23 21:25
A good Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is necessary to write good code. At least, in the beginning, it is. Visual Studio is one such development environment. It’s the gold sta… Read More
2023-02-18 04:07
An old man going a lone highway,Came, at the evening cold and gray,To a chasm vast and deep and wide.Through which was flowing a sullen tideThe old man crossed in the twilight dim,The sullen… Read More
2023-02-07 12:54
I started the new year with the idea of generating some passive income. The goal was to publish to lots of different content spaces and receive ad revenue. I’ve encountered Medium… Read More
2023-02-06 17:00
In 2019, my friend Ron and Adam got to talking. They both loved D&D and tabletop. They proposed an idea. “Let’s get our own game going,” they said. “Let&rsquo… Read More
2023-02-05 18:21
Note: This is a reprint of a post that I published on Medium on February 2, 2023
The new year started with a bombshell for players of the popular tabletop game, Dungeons & Dragons. In… Read More
2023-02-04 02:38
Note: This is a reprint of a post that I published on Medium on January 20, 2023
Night of the Living Dead was an impressive testament to independent filmmaking. Made on a shoestring b… Read More
2023-01-31 16:42
The story is coming along nicely. In the last tutorial, you created objects and then dynamically linked them to print out their description. This is awesome and greatly simplifies your story… Read More
2022-12-21 13:21
Baudolino is a unique book for me. It’s not just a fantastic story about the quest for the holy grail wrapped around a murder mystery, it’s a book narrated by a liar. In weaving… Read More
2022-12-18 18:40
At this point, you should have a good idea about what Mastodon is and how it differs from something like Twitter. If not, read my previous article. In this article, you’ll learn how to… Read More
2022-12-11 03:34
The cover art for this edition is just amazing
It wasn’t a normal day on the floating oil rig, the Leaguer. With the help of some skilled specialists, the offshore rig made the discov… Read More
2022-11-28 14:12
In the Alien universe, there is a clear break that runs across all movies, books, and games. It’s a distinct break like a crack in a pane of glass. One side is called pre-Prometheus an… Read More
2022-11-19 02:08
Twitter used to be my favorite social media site. It allowed me to follow a variety of folks outside my social circle, connect with people in my field and just have a good time posting bad j… Read More
2022-11-08 04:00
Elon Musk, aka Space Karen, seems to be in the news every single day from his purchase of Twitter. He’s taken a perfectly good hell site and squeezing the remaining last goodness from… Read More
2022-05-16 23:04
In Mexico, there’s an unassuming water body that also just happens to contain an unassuming crocodile. Yet under the hungry croc is an extensive underwater cave system that expands for… Read More
2022-05-14 22:06
At this point in this tutorial series, you have half of an inventory system in place. Inventory items appear on select passages. It would be nice to make each item linkable. When the user cl… Read More
2022-05-11 03:11
One of the questions I get over and over again is when the next tutorial is coming out. This sounds like a complaint, but it’s not. I’m quite flattered that people want to read m… Read More
2022-05-03 01:15
Last week on Twitter, in between Elon Musk’s cries for attention, I saw a simple tweet by Emily Short announcing that Inform 7 was now open source. All I can say is … wow! Wonde… Read More
2022-04-23 03:36
I’ve been a gamer my entire life from my early days of playing on the Atari to the latest gems on the PS5. I have to say, of the thousands games that I have played, Infocom games are m… Read More
2022-04-20 14:47
Since focusing on Twine in the last year, Jezner has acquired a lot of visitors looking to create Twine inventory systems. In fact, my tutorial on creating a basic inventory is one of my mos… Read More
2022-04-18 02:56
In the past few years, I’ve written many tutorials about creating interactive fiction games and one of the most common questions I get is, “where is your work?”
The answ… Read More
2022-04-15 03:38
Your story is starting to grow complex. What started as a simple choose your own adventure story now has a difficulty setting and a homegrown inventory system.
Alas, the difficulty setti… Read More
2021-10-20 15:53
I won’t lie – I’m a sucker for trailers. I know a lot of people hate them because of spoilers and such, but I’ve rarely had a movie-going experience ruined by one… Read More
2021-07-15 15:21
Growing up in the eighties, horror was everywhere. There were tons of magazines, anthology television shows, and my oh my, horror films galore. Unfortunately, the vast majority of this conte… Read More
2021-07-14 17:41
Not too long ago, had you asked me to pick my favorite movie from the Aliens franchise, I would have said – hands down – Aliens. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen… Read More
2021-07-13 14:44
Years ago, I ran a blog that reported zombie news. It was actually pretty fun and during the peak of the blog, I was updating the site five times a day. Needless to say, I burned out on zomb… Read More
2021-07-12 14:27
Computers love repetition. It’s what they are good at. Give a repeatable task to a computer and you will make a happy pile of silicon.
When writing programs, you end up writing lot… Read More
2021-07-12 02:53
When I was a kid – and I’m about to age myself here – Friday the 13th was huge. With each year, we got a new sequel that featured sex-starved teens murdered by a very soft… Read More
2021-06-04 17:00
This is an old audiobook review that I wrote for Cell. I originally published it on this site in 2014. And hey, what is old is new again so enjoy!
A long time ago in a college far away, I… Read More
2021-05-15 01:17
When the movie Alien was made in 1979, it sent shockwaves throughout the public. Whereas Star Wars featured a universe teeming with adventure for every daydreaming farmboy, Alien was a cold… Read More
2021-04-09 13:26
In this tutorial series, you defined some passages, created some variables and you even developed a simple inventory system. Unfortunately, your story doesn’t react to player choice… Read More
2021-03-21 00:45
Being a dungeon master is difficult. I want my players to have fun. I want them to feel like pulp genre heroes. Yet, I also want to be fair from a ruling perspective.
The other day, I ra… Read More
2021-03-17 12:56
When I was five years old, I bought two packs of movie trading cards. I loved movies as a kid and movie trading cards were my substitute for baseball cards. One package was the recently rele… Read More
2021-03-16 23:52
A common question for many new Twine authors is creating an inventory system. There are many different ways to create inventory, but for this story, you’re going to start easy and late… Read More
2021-03-09 02:03
I’ve been playing around with Twine for a number of years and the number one question I get from new story authors is, “how do I get the player’s name?”
In older v… Read More
2021-03-06 18:43
After a difficult loss, a close friend of mine recommended that I read a high fantasy book called Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson.
My friend understands loss and sufferin… Read More
2021-03-04 16:37
Here it comes. The part of this tutorial series that some of you have been dreading: coding.
This is the part where we type obscure symbols that only a few select people can ever underst… Read More
2021-03-03 04:22
This is an awesome story from one of the better old time radio shows. The show was called Quiet Please and all of the episodes were written and directed by Wyllis Cooper. While there are a f… Read More
2021-02-25 18:55
A freak storm overtakes the small town of Bridgton. It knocks down trees, powerlines, crippling the small town. David takes his son and neighbor into town to pick up some supplies. They stop… Read More
2021-02-24 04:50
In my sophomore year of college, I took an intermediate writing class. I thought it was going to be like my introductory course. That is, write a story utilizing expanded concepts.
I was… Read More
2021-02-22 05:23
Passages are the bread and butter of creating interactive stories in Twine. You don’t have a story without them. Passages can represent anything in a story. For instance, you can use t… Read More
2021-02-21 02:56
The first time I played the Escape old time radio show, I was hooked. While this series certainly has its share of cheese, for the most part, the tales of “high adventure” are re… Read More
2021-02-20 02:12
In 2003, a person (whose name is long forgotten) reached out to me on this blog. He was creating a zine based on 1930s depression era horror and asked if I’d like to contribute a story… Read More
2020-06-13 02:32
Adam made a mistake.
Having been a dungeon master for hundreds of sessions – Adam was quite confident in his own abilities. He streamed multiple games a week to crowds of hundreds o… Read More
2020-06-09 04:31
I admit it. I’m a sucker for Aliens. Not the kind of aliens that travel to and from countries, but rather Aliens with a capital A that like to use people as living nurseries.
I fir… Read More
2020-06-02 13:43
March 2019. I visit my sister in New York for the week. We plan a week of events. The kids mention they want to play Dungeons and Dragons at the local game store, so we book a session and he… Read More
2019-11-29 23:10
Twine is a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) development environment. This is a tool that allows anyone with a little passion to write a branching story that you can share, sell or read on yo… Read More
2019-11-14 14:32
You step into the pantry thinking about spice combinations when the door slams shut behind you. A lock snaps into place with a loud click. The pantry light goes out. You turn on your heels t… Read More
2019-11-11 15:04
I don’t remember the first time I played a text adventure, but I do remember the first time loving branching fiction. I was six years old, sitting on my father’s lap. He read to… Read More
2019-06-13 04:31
1992 was a special year for me. First, I was finally graduating from my dumpster fire of a high school. Second, my writing started to mature into something people wanted to read. And f… Read More
2019-06-10 15:51
When my wife and I moved into our house in 2007, we decided that the little alcove off the main bedroom would be my writing room. This wasn’t a change of purpose. Debbie, the former ow… Read More
2017-05-08 01:17
This past week, I decided to pick up the game, Prey. It’s a game that features aliens, dead people on a space ship, and mysteries within mysteries. I thought it would be a good fit for… Read More
2017-05-05 02:34
One of the first questions I’m always asked when people find I out that I run a YouTube channel is, “how many subscribers do you have?” This is the most visible metric, and… Read More
2017-05-04 00:51
I love to read books with my favorite genre being sci-fi. I’d say my next runner-up is horror, but badly written horror can turn my stomach faster than two-month-old milk. Regardl… Read More
2017-05-02 02:52
Last July, my family and I drove to Portland, Maine to visit my sister. We spent the weekend on the beach, picking strawberries, and cooking some good food. Once the kiddos went to bed, my s… Read More
2017-04-29 15:56
Years ago, when I was in prep school and just getting my “sea legs” under me, I remember my history teacher entering the classroom in a fluster. He had just sent out an email, an… Read More
2017-04-29 02:41
Years ago, when I was in fifth grade, I had to take part in a spelling bee. It was a classroom only affair. Everyone stood then, one by one, the teacher asked each of us to spell a single wo… Read More
2017-04-28 02:58
Almost twenty years ago or maybe even longer … I remember attending a writing group with my then girlfriend. At the time, I was pursuing filmmaking (and screenwriting). Still, every o… Read More
2017-04-26 22:17
Long long ago in a galaxy far far away, I discovered a word processor (well, my parents bought one) and I felt my imaginative world open in front of me. I was no longer limited by the typewr… Read More
2017-04-24 22:39
I can write books about YouTube SEO … it’s both incredibly fascinating, yet subtlety obtuse. This blog will cover a variety of topics regarding to YouTube SEO, so hopefully… Read More
2017-04-23 15:37
So you got an awesome idea … you want to work on a screenplay, or you’ve been bitten by the YouTube bug and want to start producing videos. Maybe you have an idea about a novel… Read More
2017-04-22 23:23
There’s nothing like a good rant to celebrate Earth Day. I don’t know why that is so … maybe because I think of rants as a type of verbal compost of sorts.
But here… Read More
2017-04-22 01:51
Just recently, I saw this tweet by Mike Davis.
The older I get, the less I have to say.
— Mike Davis (@misanthropemike) April 21, 2017
Typically, tweets fall into three categories for… Read More
2017-04-20 15:24
Here’s the recipe for creative financial success:
Take 2 dreams. One from youth and one from when you should have known better
Burn dreams into ashes
Wait from x years to never for the… Read More
2017-04-19 18:16
Not too long ago, YouTube announced a new rule of sorts that sent the tube-sphere in a bit of a tizzy. The rule basically states that monetizing videos is no longer an option for channels wi… Read More
2017-04-18 02:48
Hello Everyone,
Welcome back to my home base, Jezner.com. I have been running Jezner since 2000 and since that time, the site has ranged from a blog, to an old time radio site, to a review s… Read More
2014-10-28 01:38
My oh my. How certain paths can lead to unexpected destinations. As many readers of this blog know, I don’t really have that high of an opinion about Light’s Out and Arch Oboler… Read More
2014-10-23 00:06
Another day, and another Arch Oboler episode. With Halloween coming around the corner, my little Oboler experiment is coming to a close. That is, will my low opinion of Arch Oboler be swayed… Read More
2014-10-18 03:11
Taking a brief break from Arch Oboler this month, I thought I’d return to one of my favorite Old Time Radio series: Escape. While this series certainly has its share of cheese, for the… Read More
2014-10-16 03:09
A long time ago in a college far away, I sat down with a group of other wannabe writers and started my first creative writing class. After the instructor went through all the necessary busin… Read More
2014-10-14 00:50
And so we continue towards our long step by step march towards Halloween with another creepy tale by our friend Arch Oboler. This entire month is Arch Oboler month as I reevaluate his past w… Read More
2014-10-11 01:25
Unity, Texas is not a town you visit. It’s a town you leave. And, if you actually do make your way to Unity, you’re either curling up to die or running from death. Either way, it… Read More
2014-10-09 02:10
If you’ve followed this site back in the day, you may have remembered that I featured a segment called, “Hall of Turkeys”. While I love Old Time Radio, there have been many… Read More
2014-10-06 23:44
It all starts with an innocuous blip on a radar screen. At first, scientists think it to be an asteroid, passing through our solar system at an incredible rate of speed.
But, upon closer ins… Read More
2014-10-01 20:43
Hey Jezner readers,
I just want you to know that I’ve been sick for the past five days. It’s been kind of bad and I’m not really able to string coherent thoughts together w… Read More
2014-09-27 00:03
Imagine, if you will, working on a remote lighthouse in the nineteenth century. Your own company is two other light-keepers. One is a strongman who doesn’t like to talk. The other is a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What’s the best way to kill someone and not be caught? The answer … a flood. In this wonderfully creepy episode, Pennycot see such an opportunity happen when his hometown is flo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A school worth two hundred thousand dollars burns to ground, killing a janitor in the process. The trouble is … the janitor had previously called the insurance company complaining of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Space Patrol fans rejoice. Well, sort of. I’ve uploaded my monstrous collection of nine episodes to the server. Reading the Wikipedia page, it looks like there are at least a hundred o… Read More
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