Story Scraps
I've always wanted to include a story in HAUNTIBLES. But I also wanted to weave this narrative into the gameplay and do it in a novel way. The solution I chose turned out not to be a new way at all - but a very old one. Scrapbooking. For centuries, people have told their stories through scrapbooks. Even the famous author Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain as he was commonly known, was an active scrapbooker. He loved to fill volume after volume with newspaper articles, ticket stubs, and other miscellany from his travels. To simplify the process, he even patented a self-adhesive scrapbook that he sold under his name. Mark Twain's scrapbook patent earned him a small fortune, as much as $100,000 according to some estimates. Scrapbooks are goldmines for researchers as they're curated collections of history that tell personal stories. This storytelling power is one of the reasons there's a scrapbook at the heart of HAUNTIBLES. It also works extremely wel...