Creative Writing / Fiction Samples
Benedict Villariaza
Writer / Indie Game Developer
Philippines
Indie game developer. This is my story.
Philippines
Indie game developer. This is my story.
Creative Writing / Fiction Samples
Currently, there are two novels completed since 2022. The Daig'digaia Saga: Fifty Adventurers Come Together! Benoit Valmonte, a young Seattleite hoping to make it big in the game industry, purchases a game he has never seen nor heard of before. And once he plays “The Legend of Daig'digaia”, the game in question, he is sucked into another world – specifically, the world of the game itself. Synchronicity: We and Her It all started with an accident that fortunately didn’t take a...
Currently, there are five novels completed since 2019. Purely-Kissed Sabers: The Adventurous Vagrant Gaiden | Witness the journey of three young soldiers of the Kingdom of Lebenswasserheim, from the day they all made a promise to one another, to being cadets in the military school, to being full-fledged knights. Keenan Floribunda, the fiery, passionate man who later must also be aware of his own insecurities. Laika Santiaguel, the elegant and principled maiden in and out of the...
When we foresee the flame that lives within us dying out, what do we do? A follow-up extra story dedicated to a fallen friend.
A rewritten draft for the upcoming visual novel, Syntactic Sugar.
A practice draft for a possible scene in the upcoming visual novel, Syntactic Sugar.
Essays
In this climate of anime and video games, where some select titles are not getting dubbed in English or any other language that is not Japanese, I am getting aghast at the situation of dub fans like me getting denigrated for "not praising the original and superior language". But listen buds,...
As someone who first dived into the world of visual novels during high school (via anime) and then started making them after college, I can feel the magic and heightened emotions that go into every picture and every morsel of dialogue in a visual novel, or even its anime adaptation.