What is SmartMonsters?

SmartMonsters is a new kind of game company, delivering challenging, high-quality games for grownups free via the Web. Our flagship offering, TriadCity, is a large-scale multi-user role playing game with a literary orientation, currently in beta.

Games For Smart Grownups

SmartMonsters' games are not for everyone. We write for adults with fairly rich educational and cultural backgrounds. We assume our players like to read, and know how to type. We don't write for kids. If this sounds like you, welcome! Click here to find out more about TriadCity, our flagship!

"Decades before the invention of the motion picture camera, the prose fiction of the nineteenth century began to experiment with filmic techniques. We can catch glimpses of the coming cinema in Emily Bronte's complex use of flashback, in Dickens' crosscuts between intersecting stories, and in Tolstoy's battlefield panoramas that dissolve into close-up vignettes of a single soldier. Though still bound to the printed page, storytellers were already striving toward juxtapositions that were easier to manage with images than with words."
-- Janet H. Murray,
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (info)

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