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Ready to time travel to 2021 Hermitblr/Trafficblr?

Bogwaters Demo out now on itch.io!

A hand to hold until the end. A hand to hold because we're friends.

June 2021. The experimental Minecraft series Triple Life SMP has just aired its finale and you're obsessed with the dynamic between the Minecraft YouTubers Benbog and Mars OfTheBigWaters.

Problem? The fandom still hates shipping. Solution? Start an underground Discord server to quarantine your shipping activities. To avoid being cancelled, you'd have to scour your social media to find potential members who are secretly open to shipping.

ABOUT

Bogwaters is a free, text-based, interactive fiction browser game. The game is a parody of the Third Life SMP fandom in mid 2021 that is focused on Treebark (the romantic ship between Rendog/Martyn InTheLittleWood) and its fandom relevance.

This is a demo version (prototype) meant to test the limits and feasibility of this game.

You play as the owner of a Discord server named Bogwaters. Your goal is to invite 4 people within 7 days, from June 1 to June 7.

Full "how to play" guide can be found within the game.

This is the author's first interactive fiction game so it may be wonky. Constructive feedback is appreciated!

Word count: ~10k

Estimated play time: 30 to 45 minutes

FEATURES

3 endings

5 NPCs you can attempt to invite

Friendship levels for NPCs

Fandom enjoyment meter that can increase or decrease based on your actions

New Tumblr dashboard for each of the seven days

Tumblr, Discord, Ao3, DMs

Special events on certain days

Light/dark mode

CONTENT WARNINGS

MCYTshipping (hermit and traffic)

2019-2021 type ship discourse

2019 Hermitblr

2021 Hermittwt/Traffictwt

Canon-typical innuendos

Swearing

Written in Ink by Inkle Studios.

Original inspiration post here (May 13, 2025) (Yes I wrote this in less than two weeks)

I had a lot of fun making this and I hope you enjoy it too if you play it! Please talk to me if you have any thoughts and opinions, I'd love to ramble :D

<3

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the year is 2034. grian in the middle of recording Impossible Minecraft 3: Listener's Revenge. he hasn't logged onto hermitcraft in nine and a half years. he is still the most popular hermit. across the globe, living in the philippines, world famous director oli brotherhood is shooting his passion project, a film about a love affair between two friends on a road trip

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Tarot Life: Major Arcana

My set of Life SMP-themed tarot cards is finally done! It's been really fun to work on these for the past year. Thanks to everyone for enjoying these so much!

And heck, let's open this as a DTIYS! No rules, no deadlines, do one or as many as you'd like. Please tag as #tarotlifeDTIYS so I can find you!

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i don't even have good screenshots for this 😭😭😭

my favorite blocks people. . .

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hermitcraft “fun facts” are so hilarious because they’re always like

etho created the hopper clock! ⏰

xizuma created bedwars! 🛏️

cubfan is a published astrophysicist.

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little joys in life

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[🌸🪄⛰️]

This time with everyone :D

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me dodging secret life spoilers since I'm too busy to watch anything

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me, mumbling to myself: i recognize the desire to call decked out a roguelike or a roguelite but it's not really either of those things; the dungeon is a fixed map, which on its own kind of disqualifies it from being either, since a key element of the roguelike is randomized dungeons. additionally, though, it can't be a roguelike, because you can keep progress between runs and don't lose it all whenever you lose; calling it 'roguelite' because you lose everything when you lose but get to keep some permanent progress (the cards) would be more accurate, except, of course, for the fact the dungeon has a completely fixed layout that you can learn (and also that you keep your deck; even in a roguelite normally the progression you keep is more ephemeral). really, it's more of an old-school dungeon crawler that uses modern deck-building game sensibilities as its progression system as opposed to an rpg system. this isn't a knock against it--i LOVE grindy dungeon-crawlers ask me at some point how many hours i've put into etrian odyssey--but it's also fundamentally like, not a roguelike. comparisons to slay the spire (actually a rougelike) are fine, it has a similar deckbuilding concept and that's the deckbuilding game a lot of gamers are familiar with, but why do people keep calling it a roguelike, guys please you'll give people the wrong idea it's not a roguelike,

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whatever *untwinkifies your tango*

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goncharov is like penis smp for normal people

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Hermits: okay, we're all taking a quick bathroom break before getting back to the event

Grian: rejoice, 40-minute episode be upon the audience

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oh shit it's Grumbot with a gun

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SCATTER

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they didn't even DIE SIDE BY SIDE. THEY DIED ALONE. THEY DIED WITHOUT EACH OTHER JUST AS THEY HAD FOR THEIR FIRST DEATH.

SO MANY BLOCKS BETWEEN THEM, NO IDEA WHERE THE OTHER IS. FUUUCK OFF. they were doomed from the start CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

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cheater cheater, lemon eater

[image description: a digital drawing of bigb from double life. he's a dog man with pointed ears and a beard. he's dead, laying in a pool of blood. his expression is shocked, and there's tears streaming from his eyes. in front of him are two feathers. the background is pale red. end id]