As If Productions provides Consulting, Design, Development and Production services for interactive games, events, gameshows, performances and contests featuring online participants.

Since its inception in 1991, As If Productions has created and produced interactive toys, roleplaying games, virtual worlds, CD-ROM games, contests and online gameshows for Comedy Central, Sony/Epic Records, 20th Century Fox Films, Times-Mirror Magazines, Revelations Entertainment, Walt Disney Records, Electric Communities, The WELL, and The Electronic Cafe Int’l. Our specialities include roleplaying game designs, automated character action systems and narrative control systems for virtual worlds and adventure games.

Roleplaying Games

• DayTrippers Core Rules
  A Surreal Science Fiction Reality-Hopping Roleplaying Game
  http://DayTrippersRPG.com
• DayTrippers GameMasters Guide
  Rules and Techniques for running DayTrippers and other SF Roleplaying Games
• Less Little
  Light-hearted Surreal Adventure for the “DayTrippers” Role-Playing Game System
• Vidome 123
  Spooky SF Mystery Adventure for the “DayTrippers” Role-Playing Game System
• Golden Age Adventures
  16 Adventures based on Classic SF for the “DayTrippers” Role-Playing Game System
• Black Hole Run
  Dangerous SF Adventure for the “DayTrippers” Role-Playing Game System
• Other Borders
  Alternate setting for “Malandros” – a DramaSystem game
• CyberSpace
  Roleplaying Game system for the “Cyberpunk” genre
• Kingdom of the Desert Jewel
  Campaign World and Adventures for the “Shadow World” Role-Playing Game System
• Space Master, 2nd Edition
  Expanded Edition of the popular “Space Master” Role-Playing Game System
• War on a Distant Moon
  Science Fiction Adventure for the “Space Master” Role-Playing Game System
• Tales from Deep Space
  Science Fiction Adventures for the “Space Master” Role-Playing Game System
• The Space Master Companion
  Advanced Rules Supplement for the “Space Master” Role-Playing Game System
• Beyond the Core
  Science Fiction Adventures for the “Space Master” Role-Playing Game System

Online Games

• My Dealbreakers
  Online quote/player matchmaking game for the website of the same name
• Photo Showdown
  Online celebrity photo voting game at ImNotObsessed.com (uses the ranked-pairs Condorcet method)
• South Park Trivia
  Live online gameshow sponsored by Comedy Central, ran weekly for 3 seasons
• The Mating Game
  Live online gameshow sponsored by Comedy Central, ran weekly for 2 seasons
• The South Park Halloween Costume Contest
  Avatar contest sponsored by Comedy Central, ran annually for 4 years
• WordProps
  Graphic online word game for TalkCity
• ClickaSketch
  Graphic collaborative drawing game for TalkCity
• Censor Script
  Dirty Words Chat Censor for TalkCity
• MonsterTown Halloween
  Halloween Game, w ImaginEngine
• MonsterTown Winterfest
  Giftgiving Game, w ImaginEngine
• Charebus
  Consultants on design of this game by Zenda Studios
• Alaska, Louisiana
  Online Hybrid Mystery/Game for MWG Productions http://www.alaskadq.com
• Conspicuous Consumption
  Online Hybrid Soap-Opera/Game for TPI/Montana Group
• Neurostatica
  Multiplayer Adventure/Mystery
• SpaceMaker
  Palace Design ActiveX Object, for The Palace Inc & Polaroid Inc
• BigMouth
  Palace Wizard Macro Utility
• gURL Palace “ChatterBots”
  Chatbots for gURL.com Palace site http://www.gURL.com
• GeoPalace Room Builder
  HTML-based Room Design Utility for The Palace Inc / GeoCities
• ELIPTZA
  Iptscrae Eliza – a reconfigurable Palace Chatbot

Online Environments

• Under Suspicion
  Exploratory clue-seeking environment built in Flash and The Palace software
• The Worlds of Comedy Central
  Combination environment based on CC’s shows “Strip Mall” and “The Upright Citizen’s Brigade”
• The World of South Park
  GII-award-winning online world based on South Park, featuring art from South Park Studios
• I Mother Earth Palace
  Abstract online chat environment for Canadian rock band I Mother Earth
• Macy Gray’s We Hours Club
  Online chat hangout for Epic recording artist Macy Gray
• KoRn KoRner
  Online hangout for Sony recording artists KoRn
• Romeo + Juliet Masquerade Ball
  Online environment featuring scenes from the 1996 film “Romeo + Juliet”

CD-ROM Games

• Ocean Voyager
  Game Mechanics, Puzzle Design and Mechanical Script for this award-winning CD-ROM edutainment/adventure game published by Times-Mirror Magazines
• Area 51
  Game Mechanics, Puzzle Design and Mechanical Script for Judson Rosebush Company
• Swashbuckler
  Game Mechanics, Puzzle Design and Mechanical Script for Judson Rosebush Company
• Doomsday
  Game Mechanics, Puzzle Design and Mechanical Script for Amazing Media
• A Rogue in Exile
  Game Mechanics, Puzzle Design and Mechanical Script for Luminous Media

Narrative/Story Games

• CORE – The Creative Options Roleplaying Engine
  A genre-agnostic emergent storygame for two or more
• Shinobi Village
  A collaborative storygame of secret ninja drama
• Watch the World Die
  A collaborative apocalypse-generating game for you and your nihilistic friends
• Pocket Things
  A silly little storytelling game for people with pockets
• Tell Me That’s a Lie
  A poetic storygame using the flip of a coin

Live Theater Games

• Ghosts in the Machine
  Live Cyberpunk Theater Game presented at CyberArts International 1992
• Mediatrix
  Live Science Fiction Theater Game presented for the International Interactive Communications Society, with a second presentation at the UCLA Extension/IBM Multimedia Lab in Westwood, CA
• World of Ideas
  Live Big Business Theater Game presented for PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)