Tyler Hillis

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    • – TNT Baby Kart
    • – D.W. Dagger
    • – PLanet Rex
    • – Cop N’ Cat
    • – Witching Hours
    • – Patty Hawk’s Pro Burger
    • – Galactic Golf
  • writings
    • – Candy
    • – The Trial
    • – An Ode to the Cornerstore
    • – Dragon’s Nightmare IX
    • – Drifting Among The Stars
    • – The Bravest Soul (Screenplay)
    • – Do you feel like you’re festering, Adelaide? (Screenplay)
    • – The Woman Stoker of Dublin
    • – MOMNT
  • I wrote a novella and you can buy it

    Hello! It’s with great excitement that I can share my first self-published story is available to purchase. Frenetika The Mage is a prequel novella to it’s companion video game, FRENETIKA. You can purchase an e-book version (which is also free with kindle unlimited) or purchase a fancy shmancy paperback version! As I wrote in a…

    Book Updates, go buy, Misc
    T
    Dec 12, 2025
    book, fantasy, novel, novella, publishing, self publishing, story, writing
  • I made a game and you can buy it

    Hello! For the past two-ish years I’ve been fiddling away at a game. Sometimes feverishly, other times absentmindedly. Over the last eight-ish months, I really started to put my foot down on finishing the project. As any creative can attest, getting trapped in the project graveyard is both common and maddening. So with this project,…

    Game Lessons, go buy, Misc
    T
    Nov 24, 2025
    books, fantasy, fiction, game design, indie game, indie game dev, indiegame, reading, solo dev, steam game, unreal engine, writing
  • Book Update #14 – The Final Update

    Yep, it is time. There is a common fallacy known as the sunk-cost fallacy wherein an individual (in this case a writer) is reluctant to give up or change their strategy because they’ve invested so much time and effort toward it, and to do so, would essentially be throwing all that time and effort away.…

    Uncategorized
    T
    Oct 12, 2025
    author, books, creative-writing, fiction, writing
  • MOMNT

    (To read this story in non-blog format, follow this link) Garrett Falk swayed with the train car as it bounced along on its way through the city. The other passengers swayed too.  A semi-translucent window hovered in front of him in the middle of the train car. He flicked his pointer finger and the window…

    Stories
    T
    Dec 9, 2024
    dystopia, fantasy, fiction, near-future, philip k. dick, sci-fi, short story, short-stories, story, subscriptions, writing
  • How to stop time

    I’m stuck in a place that has run out of time. What once seemed like an abundance – filled with unlimited opportunity – has fallen through the cracks like sand. Where did the time go? Well, it went willingly to the newborn baby and all his needs and wants. This bit of time was not…

    Misc
    T
    Nov 20, 2024
    baby, house, relationships, time, writing
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