This game takes inspiration from the classic “pass the story” with a nerdy pop-culture twist. Frantic Fanfic is a fandom-frenzied supercharged mess of exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution and everything in-between!

Here's some testimonials if that didn't already convince you!! These are from our game testers and are totally not made up:

Frantic Fanfic is the child of @zeekayart and @michaelangsten. We made this game because we were looking for a project to do together that would test our skills. Zee loved fanfiction as a teenager and Michael wanted a coding project to work on that could help him learn about some of the things that were "magic" to him before. After working through everything he became a magic master sorcerer man. Now we have a cool website that we can show our friends and be like "Look at this silly thing we made, isn't it silly?!" and they'll be like "Yeah that sure is silly".

The real origin story is the pandemic lockdown happened around March 13th 2020. And Zee got really sad because she couldn't see her friends in person anymore. So she took the fun party idea "5 minute presentations" and tweaked it a bit. Instead of everyone coming to the party with a presentation already made, they all had one hour to make their presentation. Also, they had to submit random topics and those would be distributed to other people, from which they had to choose one to make a presentation on. And that party ran and it was fun.

But the next time it ran, someone wanted to take the randomness even further, so the person that wrote the presentation wouldn't even be presenting it!! It would be someone else entirely!! Woah!! Very random. Anyway that was fun too. And then it ran for a third time. Also fun.

But Zee wanted to change it up a bit. So she came up with an idea to use writing and characters instead of presentations on random things... Frantic Fanfic. And it was very bare-bones, using google docs and a spreadsheet to shuffle the characters and the stories, using a phone as a timer between parts. But it worked! And people loved it! So Zee was content doing that. And she was ready to run another one with the same setup. But then in the back of her head, late december 2020, she was like... Holy crapoli. This could be a website. This could be a thing for... Everyone!!

Zee furiously outlined each page of the website/app on her large sheets of newsprint that she used for life drawing. Michael took a look at the sheets. He said it could work. They could definitely do this. And so, they did.

Frantic Fanfic arose from a desire to have friends laughing and being creative together. There are so many games out there that rely on the game itself being funny. Now with frantic Fanfic, only your imagination is the limit! Oh, and the time limits too... Sometimes the best thing for writers block is some arbitrary tick tok of a clock. Sometimes.

Please, enjoy this game with the people that are precious to you. We certainly have.

- Zee and Michael