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✶ INTERACTIVE FICTION RECS 3.0 ✶

✶ Mind Blind - @mindblindbard (wip)

✶ God-cursed - @wings-of-ink (wip)

✶ Aquarii - @aquarii-if (wip)

✶ Slaughter squad - @harlequinoccult (wip)

✶ Summer of Love - @summeroflove-if (wip)

✶ The Second Sight: Death Reckoning - @spoiledblogif (wip)

✶ Speaker - @speakergame (wip)

✶ Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian - @defiledheartsblog (wip)

✶ Shepherds of Haven - @shepherds-of-haven (wip)

✶ Apartment 502 - @apt502-if (wip)

✶ Grey Swan I - Birds of a Rose - @reinekes-fox (wip)

✶ In the Cards - @inthecards (wip)

✶ Bad Witch + au demo - @badwitch-if (wip)

✶ Saturnine - @satur9-if (wip)

✶ Prismatic - @prismaticif (wip)

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VN'S

✶ LyteLove (wip)

✶ Touchstarved (wip)

✶ Cupid Chatroom (wip)

✶ Adopt a Boyfriend

✶ seekL

✶ My Friend is a Ghost (super short but super cute)

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if recs 1.0 & if recs 2.0 & new projects recs

[moonmingi]

Eyyo🥺🥺 I’m still active!! And I have really thought about the way I want my if’s to go, so it will be rewritten for a bit🔥🔥 so imma take down the first one I publish. Maybe a whole different plot because I have another idea in my mind and I think I’m more confident continuing that one first!! Stay tuned!🥺💕💕 may change to different platforms ( Twine to Dashindon or maybe not, plot changes, more characters, etc.)

[moonmingi]

Eyyo🥺🥺 I’m still active!! And I have really thought about the way I want my if’s to go, so it will be rewritten for a bit🔥🔥 so imma take down the first one I publish. Maybe a whole different plot because I have another idea in my mind and I think I’m more confident continuing that one first!! Stay tuned!🥺💕💕 may change to different platforms ( Twine to Dashindon or maybe not, plot changes, more characters, etc.)

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It’s been quite a long time I’ve ever posted something, So here is a little update for Daniel original form🥺🔥 hope u guys like it hehehehe * disappear again for a month *

As for the demo I actually learned a lot of coding LMAO and I really enjoy it so the demo, hopefully, will be out in a couple months 🥺🔥

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Hi!! I love your IF idea so far, and I look forward to seeing how it turns out no matter how long it takes!

This is completely unrelated, but while browsing for more, I saw you were also a skz fan! Are there any songs that you could say (more or less) relate to the ROS.

TYSM 🥹💕💕💕 I’m honored that you want to wait for the full project ahahah😭

And yesss there are song that relate to the ROS by skz (aka my beloved hehe) and I’m giving you a whole playlist to listen to lol

( may contain huge character spoilers so proceed with your own risk 💕also, my grammar kinda suck srry 😭)

Estelle : 좋아해서 미안 (Sorry, I Love You) , Star lost , Ex , Phobia , B Me , Novel

She is really lonely inside and long for someone, anyone that can understand her whether it be platonic or romantic. She is a Star Witch which most of them are underestimate and abandoned. Other powerful beings views them as if they are just a background characters only made to entertain them with a little ‘ star ‘ show and Estelle wanted, needed, to be more than that. Wanting to prove herself that she is worthy, but that come with consequences, while she is busy practicing and learning about magic, she loses connections with everyone around her and other star witches deemed her as a arrogant and full of herself. She want to fix the relationship but to scared to really do something about it. That’s when you come in to help her

( or make it worse. Your choice👀)

(More Star Witches lore drop on my demo heheh currently TBA )

Chanwoo : 강박 (Red Lights) , Charmer , WOW , Muddy Water , Give Me Your TMI , Taste , 충돌 (Collision) , Social Path (ft.LiSA) , Lost Me , Scars , DLMLU

Chanwoo is all about having fun and enjoying life ( also being flirty and stuffs) because this guy been through a lot and decided to just settle down and chill. Chanwoo viewed himself as something that cannot be turned back or changed. He already made it clear and whatever happened in the past is all his fault and now will not went back the way he is, never leaving his now persona ‘ Chanwoo ‘ , but of course there are still underlying problem ’s’ that he don’t want to ever touch again, or will he?

Daniel : Silent cry , Lonely St. , Maze of Memories (잠깐의 고요) , Chronosaurus , Voices , Grow Up , Spread My Wing , Awkward Silence

Daniel never know what he wanted to be. The first thing he ever heard is to do a better job than the old ‘ death ‘ . He was made to be cold and detached with life forms but something stirred inside him when he went out of the dark, plain realms and out into the world full of life. It makes him confused and distracted, which is the main two things that his creator are best at, sarcastically told by another powerful beings. He don’t want to be that, or do he? Maybe enjoying life is something that can be done, but while taking them too? Is that really okay? All kind of thoughts swirled in his head but cannot be let out or he will be destroyed and deemed as ‘ another failed puppet ‘

Wow that was long Ahhahah hope u guys give them a listen 🥹💕💕

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At the Mercy of Hatred (WIP; 18+)

At the Mercy of Hatred is a standalone work-in-progress interactive superhero novel by Dark Thorn. First work in The Cost of This Justice series.

You will play as a vigilante who returned to the town in order to find the one who was involved in the death of their family and friends, and the reason why they were killed, as well as to avenge the death of their family and friends.

DEMO (tbd) | Boosty

itch.io tags: Adult, Character Customization, LGBTQIA, Multiple Endings, Superhero, Superpowers, Text based, Twine

Trigger Warning / Content Warning: police brutality; slavery; prejudice; death of a parents; self-harm; child abandonnement; violence; gore; torture; murder; sexually explicit scenes (optional); kidnapping; physical abuse

Tumblr tags: #At the Mercy of Hatred if #AtMoH: writing log; #AtMoH: dev log; #AtMoH: lore; #AtMoH: answered ask; #AtMoH: short stories; #AtMoH: boosty content; #AtMoH: updated; #AtMoH: fan content

Story

I have nothing more left. There’s no my old life, no family, no friends. Agents from the Superpowers Regulatory Agency killed my family and my friends right before my eyes and I couldn’t do a thing. I couldn’t save them. All I have left is a burning feeling of hatred and a desire for revenge and to know the truth of why and for why they were killed.

Features

Play as male, female, or nonbinary, as cis or trans;

Choose your sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, or asexual) and / or romantic orientation (heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic, or aromantic);

Full character customization;

Choose your power/powers;

Be either chaotic good or chaotic evil;

Find out the truth about why your parents, relatives, and friends were killed;

In total there are 50 endings plus their variations (15 good endings, 15 bad endings, 15 neutral endings, and 5 secret endings).*subject to changed

ROs/LIs

Exo — hacker (cis man / womam)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Exo

Skyler Sparks (cis man / woman; enby; transmasc/transfemme) — novice superhero

main post | #AtMoH: Skyler

Nicky Ashworth — gang leader (cis man / woman)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Nicky

Sasha —  member of the resistance (cis man / woman; enby)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Sasha

Agent Villin — leader of Unit α (cis man or trans man)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Agent Villin

Phoenix (secret RO)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Phoenix

Dragon (secret RO)

main post | tag: #AtMoH: Dragon

[moonmingi]

Some art WIP for the IF😳💕👀 my learning progress for coding is going quite well and good news is I actually can find my friend who can help with my coding skills HAHAHA

[moonmingi]

Chanwoo’s ‘ deity’ form ( just want to share the concept art 💕 the other 2, Estelle and Daniel, will follow just you wait!)

Fun fact : all the deities actually have no genders. They are just powers that take on a human form so you can easily comprehend their existence.

Spoilers :

Chanwoo are the oldest one among the 3 but Death was the first to be born. Daniel is not the original OG

’ death ‘ and is just a replacement of them in the moment.

[moonmingi]

Hiiii welcome to IF tumblr!! I absolutely love the concept for your IF. Might I ask if you did the art yourself because Lordt!!! It's gorgeous!! I'll look forward to seeing how it progresses good luck ♥️

Ps. Daniel is most definitely face claimed by Hyunjin from stray kids 👀

OMG HI my first ever ask and you know hyunjin too I’m so happy ahaha and yesss I did all the art myself! 😭💕 I’m very glad you like it! I’ll be updating it soon ( the prologue) and spoil a bit of the story like ‘ meeting them ‘ scene.

Also respectfully, not actually for the second part LMAO he is my OC and always look like this in my mind since I was 8-9 but now that you mention it, he really does look like hyunjin with the hair and everything hahahah TYSM for asking🥺💕

[moonmingi]

Patreon has laid off their security team

I know this isn't an update on my interactive fiction game but I just wanted interactive fiction creators and other people who have Patreons to be aware about this issue.

Whitney Merrill on Twitter: "Whoa @Patreon laid off their ENTIRE security team. Wouldn’t trust my data there. Also there’s some amazing talent to scoop up." / Twitter

For creators with a Patreon, I would recommend using a password manager to generate a randomly generated password so that when Patreon has (another) security breach, your password will be unique.

For creators that are uncomfortable with using Patreon and do not want to lose their Patreon content, you can import your Patreon content to a WordPress website with a WordPress plugin that can be used with a WordPress membership plugin like Paid Memberships Pro that lets patrons subscribe to your content like on Patreon. However, please keep in mind that WordPress plugins are also very vulnerable to attack so it is very important that you update the plugins frequently if you choose to go this route.

Ko-fi is also a good alternative that I know a lot of interactive fiction creators use for their work. SubscribeStar is a good option for NSFW artists.

Hopefully there won't be any serious security breaches with Patreon but who knows what will happen...

UPDATE (10th September 2022 - 11:30AM BST):

Patreon has confirmed to reporters that they are hiring an external security team to handle Patreon's security.

Kevin Collier on Twitter: "Wild. Patreon confirms the layoffs in emailed statement to me, says it's ok, they're using third-party security. https://t.co/zV9zw9yOlh" / Twitter

What this means is that Patreon has decided to go for the cheaper option by outsourcing their security to a team abroad instead of spending more money and resources on an in-house security team. This is what is known to infosec/cyber security experts as MSSP/MSP.

However, a lot of cyber security professionals have criticised this decision by Patreon because historically, organisations that have outsourced their security to a team abroad have usually had a lot of security issues/security breaches later on down the line because they do not check/scan the security of the company as frequently as an in-house security team would.

This also conflicts with what a laid-off security employee has said about the situation where they disputed Patreon's claims of this decision not impacting their security by alleging that Patreon has cut down of its use of external security vendors in the past four months.

So what does this mean for Patreon's future and how am I affected?

What this means is that there are things going on behind the scenes at Patreon that we do not know about yet, all we know is that the leadership over there is making incredibly unwise business decisions by firing their entire internal security team and what this usually means is there will either be a huge security breach down the line or an announcement of a merger or acquisition.

Another potential risk is supporter deanonymisation, where attackers with malicious intent could blackmail subscribers that pledge to NSFW artists and kink content creators and threaten to reveal their Patreon pledges to an employer.

Your payment information (credit/debit card information) should be safe because Patreon do not process payment information themselves, they outsource it to Stripe and PayPal.

This blogpost by a cyber security professional is worth reading to know more on what to do about this situation.

Should I delete my Patreon account?

If you have no other option, then I would not delete my Patreon account especially if it is your only active source of income. What I would do is what I have listed above: by turning on two factor authentication through an app like Google Authenticator or Authy and changing your password to a randomly generated password so that you are not too much at risk when a security breach inevitably happens.

If you do have other options and are not as financially dependent on Patreon alone, then I would think about switching to other crowdfunding services like Ko-fi, SubscribeStar (I hear SubscribeStar is a good option for NSFW artists) and Comradery

I was originally going to create a Patreon for my interactive fiction/narrative game studio after I release the demo/first chapter of the interactive fiction game I'm currently working on (Mutants of Mayprice) but Patreon's lack of communication about this situation and their unwise decision of firing their entire internal security team (which wasn't many people to begin with, five people) does not leave me with a lot of confidence about the future of the platform.

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As development goes on, our programmer Shawna has continued to expand the MC's identity customization. The most recent addition in the works is allowing people to directly select the terms they're comfortable with and enter in their own ✨.

You'll be still be able to use the faster method of accepting or rejecting masculine, feminine, and/or gender neutral terms in general, though!

Our Life: Now & Forever is a nostalgic Visual Novel where you create your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with your two closest neighbors. It’s currently in development by GB Patch Games.

Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

Steam Page

Itch.io Page

Discord -  Twitter - Website - Patreon

[moonmingi]

Please please share some coding/designing wisdom. Your game is so damn pretty 😭😭😭 Could you tell us what template you used and how hard it was to make it look like it is today? I imagine so much work must have gone into it

😭😭 I am no expert, but these are just my rationale/methods behind the visual choices I made!

For the template I used—I used Vahnya's Template! However, this post by @/manonamora-if has a whole section for templates that I wish I saw or checked out before making my IF! In another lifetime, I might've just used nyehilism's template to achieve the bottom sidebar instead of torturing myself learning how to do it... ;;

Below, I go into detail the timeline of designing Uroboros, as well as advice through the process I went!

October 2022 - Early iterations of the design. Looked for stock images and began implementing it to add a background to the sidebar and the actual passages. Swatched some color palettes and began implementing them into the IF. Later decided to make the sidebar on the bottom instead of on the side. Also, added a title screen.

Design Timeline

I started designing the UI late October 2022, and kept fixing, changing, editing it well into February and maybe a little bit of March 2023.

November - Testing different backgrounds for the IF's sidebar. Added a textbox to the passages, also worked on the black fade transitions.

December - Finished working on the sidebar background for both light and dark theme, began work on the background of the IF instead.

January 2023 - Finished working on the dark and light theme backgrounds! Started work on drawing the skill icons for light and dark theme, and finished!

February - Changed the title screen to look better on mobile, created a circle logo, added a border to the textbox. Also, made further edits for light theme.

March - Just remade the "Uroboros" logo.

If you're wondering why it took approximately 5 months to get to the final version—don't worry! I wasn't working only on the design for 5 months. My partner helped make the edits for the design, while I worked on coding them in and writing.

The "Secrets"

I spent a lot of time trying to get a grasp on Javascript, SugarCube, and HTML all throughout this time as well, to know how to fluidly add these things. Meaning, while I was working on these visual elements, I was also figuring out how to do the "looking" mechanic, black and white transitions, figuring out how Tweego worked, radio buttons, and so on.

Do note I've been busy the entire time throughout, so perhaps you can do this much quicker than I can!

1. Please—look at IFs you love! What are some visual aspects of other IFs that you love and want to include in your story? I started by analyzing parts of other IFs that I love. I liked Wayfarer's textbox; I liked how the choices looked in When Twilight Strikes. I liked the textboxes in the beginning of Zorlok. Find the things that amaze you about other IFs, and implement it your own way!

This seems like super basic advice—but trust me, once you think, "How can I put this in my game?" you will not only be able to have it, but most likely, you'll also learn a LOT.

While seeing how I could make the radio buttons, for example, I started researching. I googled "How to live change text?" and then I found out about jQuery, how to use the replace macro, etc. etc. JUST from researching how to do exactly one (1) feature.

2. What is missing in other IFs? Think about your own reading experience. I didn't like the clunkiness of some, how the sidebar is on the side when space on a mobile-screen is severely limited length-wise. So, I put the sidebar on the bottom.

I didn't like how other choices look in IFs, so I wanted a way to do mine that's nice and elegant(though it's still a little hard to read, admittedly).

Again, researching how to do the things you want opens many doors for you. I learned how to style <li> and change how bullets look, learned how to style links in Twine in general, etc. etc. again with just this ONE thing I wanted to change/add.

3. Don't do the work all by yourself. I struggled so hard because I hate asking for help. I was happy to Google other people's problems, but I never thought to open up my own thread or ask anybody in the community for help. Please, not only ask, but also—your work doesn't have to be completely original.

Use templates. Look at manon's amazing masterlist of things you can implement. I also have a few macro's that you can use, like multipronouns for MC, that does the work for you, for free.

Rip people's codes—respectfully. I'm not saying from other IFs, but online in other places. If they appear on help forums or are publicly available through places like CodePen, chances are that they're open-source or licensed in such a way that anyone can use it (e.g. MIT license).

Again, here is Manon's masterlist, which includes custom macros you can use in your game (Chapel, HiEv and Cycy are my high recommendations)! Additionally, here's my code for multipronouns here and my code for setting RO genders here.

4. MAKE IT READABLE!! Even if you want your game to look pretty... please, I'm begging you, make it easy to read. This is the most important thing ever.

I have a short attention span, and so does my partner. We reviewed the game to make sure we are NOT compromising the reading experience with our design. As much as we want fantastical backgrounds, we wanted to make sure it was at least not distracting. As much as we want gaudy styles, we want the actual passage to be suited for the long haul.

The most, most important part is to enhance the reading experience--not by adding things on, but by making it simple and intuitive. As someone in the computer science field, the user experience is CRITICAL. Put yourself in their shoes, think about them first and foremost.

Twine is amazingly customizable, and its powers can be wielded for good and evil. Plenty of amazing writers but inexperienced UI designers, especially from CoG, get into Twine. CoG almost completely takes away the design element, so Twine is a whole new ballpark.

Uroboros has a lot of pomp, but the actual textbox is uncharacteristically simple in comparison. The simplicity against an otherwise fantastical, but non-distracting background helps give it elegance. The sidebar, in contrast, is very eye-catching—but, it's also out of view most of the time, and isn't built for long reading.

To add on, make sure it's readable on mobile. I guarantee 80% of your readers are going to be reading your IF on their phone, and probably at 3 AM, so you will want the mobile to look as good as PC, or even better.

Closing Thoughts

Anyway, as basic as this advice is, this is really what guided my entire thought process behind my visual choices! -- Picking and choosing what you like from IFs, figuring out how to do them through research, and making sure your IF is built to be read for a while.

Thanks so much for asking, thinking that I have wisdom to impart!! 😭🫶💕

[moonmingi]

Hyunchan WIP cr.edit photo from @candycandyhwng on twitter

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Hello! It’s been about six months since the last time, so I’m once again searching for artists who are available to do guest pieces.

If you haven’t heard of this before, the basic idea is that every month I make a post about the progress planned at GB Patch Games for the coming weeks. I like to include an image of one of our characters as a part of the update post.

The artist is credited and we don’t use the work for anything other than that single monthly progress plan post. The artists set their own rates, they use their own styles, and the complexity of the image is flexible. Each guest piece is commissioned early in the month and needs to be completed before the end of the month.

Occasionally, we have guest pieces for other situations, such as celebrating the launch of a new demo or DLC. The overall process for how the commission goes is the same whether it’s for an update post or a special occasion post.

If you’d like to be considered, please just send me a message with some example images and your estimate rates!

And if you already asked to be on the list in the past, please let me know if you’re still available or if you’d like to be removed from consideration, and also if your rates have changed or stayed the same since you originally got in touch.

Thank you for checking this out 💕

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Starting with some sungjin 😔💕💪 I really love these two!!