Company Info

SmartMonsters incorporated in 1999, with the mission of developing demanding, sophisticated online games for adults. Our principal offering, TriadCity, is currently in beta.

TriadCity is a sophisticated, critically-acclaimed textual virtual world, cited by The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism and others as a new form of literature. It's blind-friendly, has more women players than men, privileges co-operative game play over competition, and does not privilege violence.

Our Executive Staff:

Gary Smith: CEO
Mark Phillips: CTO

"The space of a fictional world is a construct, just as the characters and objects that occupy it are, or the actions that unfold within it. Typically, in realist and modernist writing, this spatial construct is organized around a perceiving subject, either a character or the viewing position adopted by a disembodied narrator. The hetertopian zone of postmodernist writing cannot be organized in this way, however. Space here is less constructed than deconstructed by the text, or rather constructed and deconstructed at the same time. Postmodernist fiction draws upon a number of strategies for constructing/deconstructing space, among them juxtaposition, interpolation, superimposition, and misattribution."
-- Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (info)