Hi, I'm Chris Klimas.

I'm a Baltimore-based web developer, game designer, and writer that finds the intersection of words and interactivity irresistible. I use he/him pronouns and my name is pronounced kris KLI‑muhs.

I created Twine and now work on it with a group of brilliant people all over the world.

I'm also a principal at Unmapped Path, a studio I cofounded that creates digital interactive narratives.

2021

Dec 19Off Twitter

2019

Aug 1Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Jul 6Chapbook 1.0.0 beta 2
Jun 21Twine: Past, Present, Future
May 17A Factory That Processes Your Dandelion Wishes
Feb 11Twine 2.3.0 beta 2

2018

Dec 15Twine 2.3.0 beta 1
Dec 15Snowman ownership handoff
Oct 20Chapbook 0.0.2
Oct 14Many updates, including a new story format
Mar 26Link roundups
Mar 20A question still unanswered
Mar 10White (or gray) space is meaningful
Feb 27Catching up on RSS after a stomach bug
Feb 8Were social networks ever run by human beings?
Jan 31Easing gradients in CSS
Jan 16A conversation between Amy Hennig and Sean Vanaman

2017

Dec 20Twine 2.2.1
Dec 14Twine 2.2.0
Dec 12UI design as thought experiment
Dec 10npm 5 does not seem 100% fully baked yet
Dec 8About that Patreon fee change...
Dec 6Observations on Mosaic
Nov 12I'll be at WordPlay 2017
Nov 9Two beatiful WebGL visual effects I've run into recently
Oct 31Twine 2.2.0 beta 1
Oct 10Twinery.org has changed servers
Jun 6Collaborative Twine
May 2Twine 2.1.3
Apr 30Twine 2.1.2
Mar 17'You aren't from a dark planet, are you?'
Mar 2Twine 2.1.1 released
Feb 6Defaults, standards, and Harlowe
Feb 1Twine 2.1.0 is released
Feb 1This is what Birdland looks like in Twine 2.1.0
Feb 1Life comes at you pretty fast in the frontend world

2016

Dec 31Near miss
Dec 19Twine 2.1.0 beta 5
Dec 11Murder at Colfax Manor
Dec 10Comments on
Dec 4Joe Dever (1956-2016)
Nov 22Twine 2.1.0 beta 4
Nov 22Hello darkness my old friend
Nov 16Twine 2.1.0 beta 3
Nov 14There ought to be a word for...
Nov 10A Mind Forever Voyaging
Oct 20Twine 2.1.0 beta 2 is out
Sep 6Twine 2.1.0 beta 1
Jun 22grunt-entwine-quickstart
May 27Symphony infographics
May 16Writing Interactive Fiction With Twine is available in print!
May 4I've cofounded Unmapped Path
May 3A second book about Twine!
Mar 30Superluminal Vagrant Twin
Mar 24Longevity
Mar 16Miss Manhattan, or the anonymity of ubiquity
Feb 282.0.11 released
Feb 24Some links on the history of gamebooks
Feb 18Twine 2.0.11pre1

2015

2014

Sep 23Beta
Apr 22War, Pestilence, Famine, Death, and Twine
Mar 3The economy of Twine

2011

Nov 27Parsers and prejudice
Jan 27Secrets and intentionality

2009

Nov 3Why I'm doing this
Apr 12My process

2006

May 1The calculus of true love
Apr 12It’s just a game, man

2005

Apr 3This old game: Dragonstomper

2004

Nov 15The otherworld of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas