#[will update as DEMO progresses]

[yuveim]

THE SPIRITED: ORIGINS v2.1.7 (Chapter 1)

PLAY THE DEMO ON ITCH.IO

CHAPTER 1 RELEASE

(Re)release of Chapter 1 with multiple text, visual and mechanic changes. Read full update notes on itch.io.

PLEASE NOTE: Some v2.1.6 saves may not work correctly. If you experience bugs or errors while playing a loaded v2.1.6 save (or to avoid those) please restart the game.

Wordcount: 58,700 words​ (+ 42,400​)

The Spirited: Origins is an interactive fiction horror game. In TS:O you take the role of an amateur paranormal investigator who jump-starts their career with a case of a demonic entity, while being haunted by their own inner demons.

This game is rated 18+ for mature content and graphic descriptions of violence. A list of trigger warnings has been included in the title screen.

DEMO ✦ ITCH.IO ✦ TIP ✦ CHARACTERS

If you enjoyed this game, consider making a donation to Palestine Solidarity Campaign

[sofia-d-asb]

Arcadie: Cold Lands - Demo Update

The demo for Cold Lands is available again, with new content to play!

Only Stanislas's romantic route is playable. The platonic path is not implemented at the moment.

The demo is not playable on mobile.

Play it HERE (password: 2222)

[ohmotherwhereartthou-if]

Another Mini Update (9/9/24)

Okay I know you all prefer big updates rather than a bunch of small ones but I can only write in small segments lately and I get a bit anxious if I don't share my current progress in a while. Gets worse when I don't have all the time to answer requests either. 😭

The IF is now at 55,817 words without code and 61,102 with code.

If you haven't read since the last official update, then this is a little more than a 5k word update.

What warranted this update is that I added a June POV in the end, I don't know how I feel about keeping it because I feel like it's too revealing about June's past.

I think I'd prefer to keep June's past a completely mystery for you all to learn about later but at the same time, I wanted to do a deep dive on how the character would be feeling at that exact moment. What was meant to be a little blurb turned out to be a much longer passage that made me tear up a little bit ngl.

Although me crying could just be me fully knowing the backstory lol.

Anywho, I left her POV as optional and I wanted to know your thoughts! Feel free to comment or submit your thoughts to the inbox so I can know to keep this in or not! 💙

Quick Link to Story: Link

Enjoy! Sorry it isn't more! 😅

[vapolis]

you guys gotta stop starting asks w "years ago you said--" bc that shit makes me feel soooo bad I'm out here still writing a game I started 4 years ago 💀 and also I don't rmr what I said years ago to be honest. tumblr search is a nightmare that doesn't help me here

[thebarontheabyss]

"You know why life and art are the same? Irony. It's the brush life uses to paint its cruel pictures. I ended my life because I wanted it all to stop. But the joke was on me, because life, it seems, goes on even after death. That's irony for you, the highest form of art—something I could never hope to achieve when I was alive. — Peisinoe

Hello, Patrons! Here are some news:

The writing process for the Hell update is 75% complete. I just have a final part to write involving a certain Devil, and then I can officially roll it out. I don't want to fully commit to next week, but... that's a good estimation 👀

I have a bunch of great writing prompts waiting in my inbox. If you've sent any, THANK YOU! Feel free to send as many as you want. I'm currently prioritizing the update but will answer them as soon as possible! ♥

See you soon :)

[florencetypemaniacs]

DEMO

Thank you to everyone who sent me words of encouragement via asks. I would like to have a very sincere thank you to @albywritesfiction who has helped me with coding.

Notes:

There are now saved slots, so you are able to save your progress, and I have changed that you will now not have a set personality, but now you are going to be building your personality, which will affect certain situations. Please, if you find any mistakes in coding or grammar, please message me via Tumblr to fix the problem. I want to make this the best possible interactive fiction and story that I can, so I will be very grateful for your help. I also have changed some names around so if you see a few things different then do not fret to much or just feel free to ask about it.

Word Count:

Chapter 3: roughly 108579 words

Total: roughly 133111 words

CHAPTER 3:

get to meet the rest of the ROs

maybe learn about some family secrets

have the option to make things right with Jezebel

Learn more about the Cam's family

Grow you connection with the ROs

[springsaladgaming]

Ninelives Demo Update!

Hey, all! Happy holidays, and say hello to a demo update for Ninelives. (Finally, amiright?)

The total word count (including code) now comes to ~69k (nice)

Changelog:

Branch B of the Under-Cover scene in Chapter 2 has been completed.

The first part of Chapter 3 has been added.

General bug, spelling, and grammar fixes throughout.

Features:

Get a glimpse into Lucia's character before she is officially introduced in later chapters.

An alternative way to meet/not meet some of the characters, which will change scenes later in the game.

Gain some insight into Sungjae and Arthur.

Additional choices to emphasize personality and flavor some back story of the main character.

No major changes have been made to already existing content, so old saves should work. My apologies if they do not. 🙏🏾

Journal information has not yet been updated to include any new content.

I've been attempting to get Open Dyslexic working with this project, but for some reason the template I'm using is not cooperating with font additions very well. I will keep working on this for the future.

I anticipate a number of bugs and errors, as usual. Please feel free to send report here on tumblr or through the avenues provided within the game intro if you find any bugs.

Play the updated demo here!

[louroth]

Well, well, well. Would you look at what the cat dragged in. (it's me, Lou!)

The time is here, and oh man, do I have a lot to say! Ever since this post was posted on my personal tumblr, on the fifth of may, I have been working like a machine on all things OUROBOROS. I had originally planned for this to just be a progress report/ announcement on what I will be working on now that I am free of the shackles of work, but, somehow, I managed to finish all bullet points, and more. So, let's get into it!

First off, the title.  Ouroboros becomes all capitalized OUROBOROS. Idk. It's neat. Next!

Art. Whew. I didn't think I could draw like this anymore- drawing has been more of a struggle than writing has been, forever, always- it was something I really strived to become good at, for a time. And I gave up. Only to pick it up again when I started ouro, and ever since I released that pressure, something just clicked and I have been churning out art like never before. I don't know if this is a fluke, a stroke of luck or if all that hard work I once did slaving away with menial art practice… but I'm grateful nonetheless. (A note on official RO art: I lost my ipad pencil somewhere on the lawn, lmao. I haven't been able to get a new one yet, so there is a slight delay here.) I am hoping that I get to make some commissions too, in the near future. Visit the forum to see some works in progress (amongst them, Yor's RO portrait!)

Onto the hellscape that is coding! I have been growing more proficient with CSS and html with the help of the ones that run so that we can walk; I have studied and researched and tested and tinkered until my eyes crossed, finding my way into this medium with the incredible guidance of the giants of whose shoulders I stand on. I will talk about this in detail on a later date. So I think it's finally time to reveal that yes, I am working on a twine version of ouro. I will develop it in tandem with choicescript; the porting over from one to the other isn't the herculean task I thought it would be.

Why am I doing this? Because I need to have a save system. I am continuing to write the whole alpha draft in choicescript in hopes that CoG will announce the ability to have a native save/checkpoint system, but if that doesn’t happen, I can’t publish this story without one. Unfortunately, I am not willing to code in a savesystem in choicescript myself, because this will be a large game, with far too many variables for that to be sustainable. Trust me, no one is more disappointed by that fact than me. If it comes to the point that twine publishing will be what I do, I will set my sights on writing a smaller game for hosted games. 

Now the meatier announcements!

New Socials!

Tumblr: You are looking at it!  This is the new, exclusively OUROBOROS blog where I will share all announcements and sneak-peeks, and future updates. I worked together with the dev of the theme and made it oh, so pretty and functional. Please check out their portfolio here, if you are ever in the market for sprucing up your (desktop version) of tumblr. They were a pleasure to work with. Amongst other things, it has a gorgeous header (again, only if you visit on web and not mobile) where I am showcasing fanart and official art. Go check it out! This month, I am showcasing a truly breathtaking art from KAIRELART, and you can find the full art here, or follow the links in the “FEATURED ARTIST” tab in the top bar.

I hope you enjoy this new haven for OUROBOROS! I will be answering questions once a week (saturday) and ramping up as I adapt to this new schedule, more on that further below.

My old tumblr, honeypeabrain, will revert back to being my personal blog. Feel free to keep following me there, but know that it will be inundated with shitposts, crass humor and the occasional poetry dump and personal post. You’ve been warned!

Discord!

By the good graces, this was ROUGH to set up. Working with discord bots is akin to wrangling code, and it was well and truly, a war. But with the help of many, it is finally all done and ready for anyone to join and talk to me and others about OUROBOROS and anything else between heaven and earth. 

I will also greatly appreciate if any future bugs and feedback are submitted through here, so I can keep easier track of it. Come join us! (18+ ONLY.)

Patreon & Ko-Fi

Yep! Ko-fi is just a place to toss me a coin if you wish to help me towards the goal of new PC parts to make testing easier, or to just show appreciation for those that have it to spare. Patreon however, already has a multitude of posts and will be a hub for exclusive NSFW sidestories that you get to vote on, loredives and extensive sneak peeks, Q&A’s, polls and weekly dev logs. 

Right now, there are only two tiers, but I expect it to grow as my story does. I have many plans, but I am going at a steady pace. 

Amongst tiered content, there is a (free) NSFW story with female MC and Idren to read there right now, if you want to check it out! I am mgoing to post it on tumblr and the adult thread here over the weekend.

NOTE: I stupidly didn't realize that patreon had a review process after I pressed launch, which I did just a few minutes ago. Sigh. I am going to post the short on tumblr and the adult forum thread as soon as I get to it.

It is not mandatory by any means, so if you do choose to support me, you have my eternal gratitude as these places will be the sole source of income for me.

Onto writing:

The best news out of this whole bunch is that I have worked so hard on editing and writing, that in the past month I have all but finished a two chapter update! I have a chunk of about 5-6 thousand words left to write, and I am going to buckle down over the weekend to see it through. I wanted to have it done so badly for today, but I lost three days of writing time last week due to still being weighed down with work. I hope it isn’t too disappointing to have to wait until monday for the demo update! I am going to post a link to an as-I-write updated demo on Patreon and Discord, if you want to see the ugly face of raw wip drafts. Otherwise I will post the demo update here on Monday with a comprehensive post!

And now!  the biggest news is… from now on, I am writing full time!

This is what I have been tossing and turning about every night ever since Easter. It started as a silly idea while talking to some friends and family about how I was looking for a change in career. And then, little by little, that idea whittled down to a plan, carefully carved by my partner and his whispers of a happy future, a finished dream project, and something to be proud of until the day I wither and die. 

Somewhere between then and now, I grasped a tiny sliver of bravery and held on for dear life. 

I quit my job as a teacher, and instead of accepting a cushy office job, I started behaving as if OUROBOROS and writing was my work (for all the moments I could afford). I have researched and tried different methods from week to week, and although I was still tired from work, I felt like I was onto something that could build into a sustainable future. 

I have no doubts that this journey will be bumpy and long, but sometimes all it takes is to take that first step, and do it with determination. It might all crash and burn and fail in a spectacular way, or with a whimper, but then I will know that I have tried. I will know that I gave myself the chance to be who I want to be, work on what means so much to me. 

And that’s it. I think the hardest part of formulating this post (I’ve written about 50 versions of it!) is getting to the point; the kernel of what makes it so special to me. So, in my heart of hearts, what I'm trying to tell you is that I'm gonna give it my all- and while I know the road to having a sustainable career in writing is rough and ever winding, I do know for sure that I am ready for a challenge, to pour my heart and soul into it until the day I rush out of the office screaming IT IS DONE. IT IS DOOOOONE!!! 

If you decide to join me, I will treasure your company like a lantern in the dark. Hand in lovable hand, let’s fucking go.

[redo-rewind-if]

Hi everyone! Welcome back to your regularly scheduled end of week report. Not too much going on in this one but I now have a general time frame for when I hope to get the next update out so that's exciting! (1-2 months from now!)

Next Update (Chapter 3 & 4? Maybe?):

Intro Scene (if not on music fest route): 100%

Music Fest Routes (Solo, V, and Amara): 100%

Club Pyre Path: 96%

August Part 2 Electric Boogaloo: 0% (not started)

Avoid Death (Eventually?): 0% (not started)

Work Time! (End of Chapter): 0% (short outline, not started)

I'm reasonably sure I can finish the club path within the next 2 weeks (hopefully, fingers crossed nothing happens to change that).

After that, I'm going to edit, code, and test everything, and once that's done I'll go ahead and release it for all of you to play! Still not sure if I'm going to end the chapter there or not but either way, I've decided that I want to publish it. Wouldn't want to keep y'all waiting too long for the next update now would I? 😉

[morbethgames]

Small Update

Well, the semester is almost over. That means soon I'll have more time to work on the game than the slow chipping away I've been doing as of late. As of this moment, the current update I'm working on is about 7500 new words. I also have to make that small segue on the train and add an option to go sit alone, in which case Special Agent Alvarez will come over and talk to the PC voluntarily. There are also apparently some gender mix-ups I've missed in one of the routes, so I'll have to fix those as well. 

It's gotten to the point in the game where choices will start reappearing and begin to affect the dialogue and subsequent choices the player gets in a more substantial way, which includes getting dialogue that otherwise just wouldn't appear at all. This has to do with attitude levels with the MCT, Stats, and what you chose your chosen profession to be before the MCT that your PC was working towards, which you saw a bit of already in the Coroner's Office scene. 

So this is... gonna be a lot. A lot of *if statements to write, which means a lot of labels, but to be honest, after coding Golden Eyes, this really is nothing in comparison to how many labels I had to do for that game (literally one at the beginning of every page). 

Also, I realize I never actually linked Golden Eyes on here. So, here's a link to the forum page for it where you'll find the demo link.

https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/golden-eyes-wip-the-bureau-spin-off-project-20k-words/144834

Thank you for your continued support and patience!

[bloodlegacies]

UPDATE PROGRESS

Hey guys! I'm going to be brief here as I'm still writing the new chapters of the wips. But soon I will bring the final update to chapter 3, after that I will focus on the new demo, which will have a +18 rating and will be posted in the +18 category on the forum.

New demo: 11,000 words.

Current demo: 13,000 words.

[yuveim]

THE SPIRITED: ORIGINS v2.1.6 (Prologue) 

PLAY THE DEMO ON ITCH.IO

PUBLIC DEMO RELAUNCH

Relaunch of the TS:O demo (Prologue only) with multiple text, visual and mechanic changes. Chapter 1 re-release coming soon...

Read the update notes on itch.io

IMPORTANT: Old saves will not work - please restart the game from the beginning to avoid bugs and overall game-breaking behaviour.

Wordcount: 16300

The Spirited: Origins is an interactive fiction horror game with elements of romance. In TS:O you take the role of an amateur paranormal investigator who jump-starts their career with a case of a demonic entity, while being haunted by their own inner demons.

This game is rated 18+ for mature content and graphic descriptions of violence. A full list of trigger warnings can be viewed from the title screen.

DEMO ✦ ITCH.IO ✦ KO-FI ✦ ROMANCE ROUTES

[gildedcageif]

Demo Release!

The prologue is out everyone! You can check it out on itchio. Just click on the link below!

Thank you for all the support and I hope the prologue, though a small part of the wider story, was worth the wait!

[sofia-d-asb]

Arcadie Second Born - Full demo available on itch.io

I've finished porting the full demo onto Twine (ie. first 11 chapters).

It's now publicly available right here.

No more need for a password.

[king-of-fae]

The prologue is updated! 🎉🎉🎉

I know a little update like this isn't as exciting as a whole new chapter, but I wanted to release it and celebrate it anyways. This project is ever-evolving and I'm proud of how much I've learned so far about making an IF.

I hope you all continue to enjoy my game as I continue to grow as a creator. ❤️

[thebarontheabyss]

Hello patrons! Over the past few days, I've addressed several bugs and incorporated your valuable suggestions (immensely grateful for these!) And with that done (well, mostly. Will go back to it) I can officially start the work on Chapter 4!

AND there's a good chance for a weekend update too!

Now, here's a spoilery peek at what Chapter 4 has in store:

Traverse through dreams of the past.

Babysit an immortal's offspring.

Help Shelly in gathering courage for a date proposal.

Explore the graveyard of dead deities.

Join Yaga on a Hell-bound shopping excursion.

Learn the rules of magic (spoiler: it doesn't go well).

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Hastur will make you a milkshake!

See you in the abyss!