#game update

[saeyoungchoismaid]

I WAS TODAY YEARS OLD WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT SEBASTIAN IS CANONICALLY A SMOKER AND USED TO HAVE A BONG IN HIS ROOM BEFORE THEY UPDATED THE GAME

They eventually turned it into a vase and now it's just not there at all

[ramonag-if]

Happy New Year's everyone 🥳️

To celebrate the start of a new year, why don't you play the updated demo for Crown of Exile?

Play the game here.

Please RESTART the game before playing. Old saves will cause errors and carry old bugs.

New to the update (Version 1.8) are the following:

The entirety of Chapter Eight;

Bidding farewell to those in Ishari;

Setting sail to the Southern Islands;

Chatting to your companions about Salyra, the voyage ahead and some romance;

Arriving in the Southern Islands;

Reuniting with Dena and a bitter foe from your past - Emos;

Alliance talks with Dena;

Choose to accompany Dena and Elora to secure an alliance; OR

Remain behind because politics aren't your thing and spend it with a companion of your choice;

Learn more about Dena's reasons for joining an alliance;

Deal with the weight of Dena's secrets;

Celebrate or worry about the success of the alliance;

Dance with one of four companions;

Smooch, hug or chat with one of your four companions;

Choose to stay the night with Prince Irus or Queen Elora; and

Optional explicit NSFW, fade-to-black or fluff scenes with Prince Irus or Queen Elora.

There are a lot of scenes that I didn't include in the chapter due to time constraints. Please note that while there are 'missing scenes', all choices are complete and won't lead you to a blank page. The major scenes of Chapter Eight are currently included in the demo. Chapter Eight Word Count: approximately 139 663 words. Total Word Count: approximately 585 173 words.

Chapter Eight is the last chapter of the public demo. Future chapters, including the epilogue, will be shared only with my Patrons until the game is released. The game will be a paid game, however, a price has yet to be set and I will announce that closer to the game's completion. While this is the final chapter of the public demo, I will still be very active on Tumblr so feel free to ask any questions and look out for previews and updates.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past year! I would never have come this far without any of you. Here's to a wonderful 2024 together ❤️️

[chaoxxss]

Love and Deepspace new ZAYNE memory! ☆

n: ARE YOU SERIOUS OMGGGGGGGGG HIS BACK HIS BACK HIS BACK HIS BACK. INSTANT PULL WTF

[ri-writes-if]

Chapter 2 is released

LINK

It's here! Around 60K for the whole update, with an average of ~12K words for one playthrough.

I recommend replaying from the start because I edited a couple of variables in the first chapter and something could break if you use a save.

In this chapter

You call tell (or not) the demon of your choice about your curious vision from the first chapter.

Learn what the characters do for fun and have a small discussion about it.

Find new useful information about making most of your abilities and start training with some side help.

Visit the Abyss! Such a great experience.

First romantic choice. It's a light one, but it's a start 💛

Get princess carried if you want.

This chapter introduces the first “pushing away” choices. They will be counted and will affect how the characters react to some things you do or will add some flavor text now and then. These choices won’t lock you from the friendly/romantic routes. However, they do have some other side effects… At least in this chapter.

Small changes

Added ages to the characters’ profiles, including the MC.

Added the option to customize the characters’ gender.

Balanced the characters’ gender in the “both genders” option.

Updated the Codex with a bit more lore information.

I hope you enjoy this update! If you do, I would love to hear your thoughts on it 💛

A bit of commentary on the "pushing away" choices and next plans under the line.

For the “pushing away” choice in this particular chapter, you will have a choice to apologize or change your mind about it in the next couple of chapters (tentatively) and speak about it with the affected character. I’m still on the fence whether it’ll decrease the overall “pushing” counter or not; I’ll probably decide that when I write these scenes.

This is an experimental feature (that I could delete or change at some point), but I hope I make it work in the story because I think it's a nice idea that negative choices won’t just decrease “relationship points” but also will be remembered by the characters and affect how they view some things you do or say or how they act around you the more you push them away. Especially if you want to smooch them at some point when you were cold to them just recently or for a while, lol.

It’s not perfect, but I’m satisfied with the chapter for now. It feels like I’ve been working on it a bit too long, and after rereading 10+ times to edit it, I’ve grown blind to weak places in it (and also kind of tired of it). I need to let it rest for a bit before returning to hone it, but I’ll probably do it only in the future when I have more chapters written or even after I finish the story since I want to keep moving forward and not stall in one place.

I'll continue planning details for the next chapter and then start drafting it. I've already thought of interesting things to include that could be very fun to write (and to read, hopefully, considering the main topic for the chapter is full of potential 🤭). I'm very excited to work on it, especially since I'm almost done with building the foundations in the story and soon will be able to get to the juicy parts of the plot. And there are also personal side stories of the cast, which will be starting in the next ~two chapters. Can’t wait to get to those too.

[soulmatesinc-if]

Demo Release

Here at Soulmates Inc we specialize in chance meetings!

As a soul-link, your job is to guide two people entrusted in your care to one another in a fateful meeting, for they are each other's soulmates. Aided by the soul-link powers, you will craft a story that will be told over and over to others, changed and misremembered or kept as faithful as humanly possible. Without your help, they would not find one another.

P.S.: a regular reminder to refrain from referring to yourself or your coworkers as Cupid.

|| LINK to demo || [+18k]

Featuring:

an office-ace-turned-office-disaster coworker

establishing your soul-link style

a twist in your newest assignment

Soulmates Inc. bureaucracy

an annoying flyer

learning about streaming

Reblogs are much appreciated! ♥

[leoneliterary]

Honor Amongst Thieves (WIP) — UPDATED 4/13/2024

The demo has been updated! Play it HERE!

This demo is short and I'll probably update it in a few weeks. (Although it didn't feel short to write. It was honestly confusing to write, but anyway, that has to do with branching stuff.)

Hope y'all are doing alright so far this week!

Let me know if it breaks and I hope y'all enjoy!

FORUM ~ KOFI ~ PATREON

[thegrayascendancy-if]

Game update

The Gray Ascendancy is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game where the flow is controlled by player's choice, set in the world of magic that is as capricious as its very first wielders. It tells a story of revenge, court intrigue, age-old ache, self-determination and agency, with the player straight at the core of it all. [learn more]

play on itch.io

In this release:

set out on a journey again, this time with no clear end in sight

act your way into traveling with the Daelan trio, on whatever terms

get assistance from the Gray Regent

spend an uncomfortable night

and maybe, just maybe, recall a fragment of your forgotten self...

Coming next:

settle into a nice inn

investigate a small town of Wyrm's Nest

get on the path of uncovering what plagues it, magical and human

for better or for worse, spend time with your new companions

Extra features:

the settings menu now offers another font and a selection between the light theme (the prior default) and the all-new dark theme!

tidied codex page that does not look so crammed

starring Secrets that you can collect, discover and use to your benefit. This mechanic will replace Achievements because the two overlap a little too much for my taste, and Secrets make more sense to me narratively.

relationship stats page is now available

an alternative font, configurable in the settings

character stat screen now shows respective numerical values on the personality/mastery bars

small restructuring: former Chapter 1 is now a Prologue, and this update kicks off Chapter 1

added a few more suggested dialogue choices to the prologue section

lots and lots of fixes to what is now the prologue

This update is about the size of all the previously released content, driving up the total to upwards of 70k words.

My recommendation is to replay the game from the beginning as I did some work on the stats. In theory, it should not break your saves as the update guesstimates the missing variables, but for the most intentional result you should start from scratch.

Huge thanks to the fantastic people that tested the game, scoured it for errors and typos!!

[virtues-end]

Virtue’s End — Game Update 24 July 2023

The Patreon version of the game has been updated. This update includes the entirety of the hekse encounter, as well as an investigative detour afterwards, depending on your choices.

Patrons get 1-week early access to any game updates, as well as high-res versions of my art. The public version of this update will be released on 31 July 2023!

[chubberdy]

Spacethumper 2 update

[thesovereignsring-if]

You’re eighteen now. You are no longer the child you used to be when you first stepped foot in the capital.  Some things have changed, while others stayed the same.

Demo: Chapter 1 Part 1 (Play here!)

(09/16/2023)

Update word count: 22000+

Total Word Count: 38,000+

IMPORTANT: A lot of things were added to game that MAY cause errors with old save files. If they do please give me a heads up! Also if there's any weird bugs in the update that's all on me being insane and doing last minute edits and changes without my playtesters-

What to expect:

✦ A few things have changed over you years. Have you?

✦ Meet the Imperial Generals, Ignatus Bellerophyn and Wolfram Brynhildr!

✦ Have dinner with mummy dearest the Empress!

✦ Reunite with one of your brothers!

✦ Meet the Wizard and his assistant!

Changelog:

✦ Additional stoic choices for players at the birthday party with Thea and Finn.

✦ Light Mode implemented!

✦ Player Profile & Cast Profiles get unlocked in Chapter 1!

CONTENT WARNING: The Sovereign's Ring is intended for an 18+ audience. The Sovereign’s Ring contains disturbing/dark subject matter that is not for everyone, such as graphic depictions of violence, gore, death, trauma, sexism, racism, poverty, misogyny, sexual assault/violence, child abuse/grooming, suicide, depression, alcohol more.

Have fun guys <3 Tell me what you think afterwards!! Just realized that tomorrow is the one month anniversary of the prologue ; w ;

[adoriels-tears-if]

GAME UPDATE

This is an even day, an Update day guys !!!!

The last update was 81165 Words the new one is 101940 Words

For those of you who have been here since the beginning, Replay the famous scene that caused such a stir last time; for the others…well…I await your reactions.

Welcome Elia back home

and indulge in sweets.

I'm so bad at telling what's going on with each update.

Anyway, expect: bugs, lots of them I think (I have too many branches, only one brain, too little time and patience and I'm not Loki, I can't hold them all).

My little tears, I'm waiting for your bug reports, your feedback, your asks.

bisous !

[bacchanal-if]

“Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the eve of your betrothal to an unscrupulous merchant you are presented with an opportunity you cannot refuse: admittance to the fabled Bacchanal. A night of costumed revelry awaits you at high society’s most anticipated underground ball of the season. Unburden yourself of every pretense, find a romance most real, and satisfy your lust. Can the sentiments endure when the masks are dropped?

Bacchanal is an interactive story about romancing the hidden depths of another, unobscured by layers of practiced charade. The year is 1742, set in an alternate Georgian London where all colors/genders/sexualities are treated equal and magic is subtle yet doubtlessly exists. When the masks are donned the façades are disrobed, and your world is suddenly filled with uninhibited characters. End up in the arms of a courtly charmer, flustered ingenue, mysterious rake, uninvited guest, loathed betrothed, childhood friend, or find yourself torn between them.

18+ filled with (optional but recommended) erotica.

Set your protagonist’s age, gender, pronouns, sexuality, and more.

Choose between a variety of masks, costumes, and enchantments.

6 gender selectable romance options.

Enter a romance with one of 4 masked figures in a love triangle/square where you must establish your final desire.

Entertain yourself with various encounters.

Explore a sexual relationship or remain chaste all the way.

Learn the shocking secrets of your friends, family, and acquaintances.

Marry or declare your independence.

❥ Characters of Interest

Preorder Information

This story is currently under development. By pre-ordering you will receive:

A discount. The pre-order is $3, while the final game will be $5 after release.

Access to the complete nsfw version of the game. The sfw version will be entirely free as a demo, but without sex scenes and other depravities―these will fade to black.

Access to the nsfw game wip and every update.

Access to the nsfw blog which contains spicy asks, drabbles, and art.

Exclusive nude portraits of Edith, Edward, Tamsin, and Thomas.

PLEASE NOTE: The current wip does not have any nsfw content yet. As such, it is currently the same as the demo.

[ramonag-if]

The second part of the mini-update for Chapter 9 is now up and playable for Ishari Tier Patrons.

Play the game here.

The update schedule is as follows:

8 April 2024: Ishari Tier Patrons ($15)

11 April 2024: Vinia Tier Patrons ($10)

16 April 2024: Cyre Tier Patrons ($5)

23 April 2024: Nomad Tier Patrons ($2)

New to the update:

Added around 37K of code and words. Word count will probably range between 30-35K;

Added more name options at the beginning of the game;

A late-night chat with Zikar (optional);

The Vinia family one-on-one scenes;

A memorial ceremony (optional) to honour Yara and Ahlf;

Dialogue scenes with Rana; and

Choose to give Rana her gift (based on earlier decisions).

This is the family portion of the chapter, so you'll not get any RO scenes this time. It mostly deals with the arrival of the Vinia family in Ishari, so if the family or Rana doesn't interest you, I suggest waiting for the next (and final) portion of Chapter 9's update.

Enjoy!

[ri-writes-if]

Chapter 1 is released!

LINK | wordcount for one playthrough: ~9,5K

In this chapter

you will learn more about your situation, choose your hobby, and decide how you feel about your ex-friends,

meet five important characters (potential friends / love interests),

some interesting things will start happening to you,

you will see your future! 🤭

At last it's here. It's not a super big chapter, but I put everything I wanted & needed into it, and I'm satisfied with it for now. The second chapter will be bigger (as it's already more than 40K words), and when I return to it, I feel like I'll miss the smaller wordcount of the first chapter.

I also added codex & the characters' profiles which will be updated as the MC learns new information, plus the page with relationship progression bars (there's not much going on yet, expect for Ash's status).

If you have any thoughts/feedback, don't hesitate to share it with me! If you find any bugs/typos, please send them my way too, I'd appreciate it. I tried to check everything thoroughly, but something could have slipped under my radar.

[soulmatesinc-if]

Demo Update

Here at Soulmates Inc we specialize in chance meetings!

|| LINK to the demo || [62k +17k]

This update to the first case introduces new ways to complete the goals for your chosen meeting setting and employs your character's stats for that. With this, the game will now react properly to the power choices you have made for your MC, potentially locking options that were available in the previous build and unlocking new ones. There are new and rewritten scenes for the art exhibition branch and a whole new path for the game event one, expanding the role of your soul-link powers and enabling no-powers solutions.

All-new options:

pick a fake job

commandeer a digital fleet

get Wyatt banned

[everythingisblue-if]

Hey, guys!

After a long deliberation, I have decided to publish the rewrite publicly, as part of the public build. Before, I planned for the beginning or end of August, but I chose to get it over with because I will be very busy and unable to be as active as I usually am. There are also other reasons that I’m not going to get into.

Anyway, this public release is scheduled for Wednesday (July 19, 2023). It will be posted in the early mornings of that day, but a specific time is not set. For Chapter Two, there will be a longer wait time until the public can read it, but future patrons will have full access. Until then, I’m releasing Chapter One quickly.

FEATURES

Drop into a fantastical world as you try to make it out alive

Meet your companion, an amazed soldier who’s planning to get you to safety

Dig through your memories to discover what truly brought you to this unknown world

Discover what other characters are up to as you travel accordingly

Make tough decisions that set your stats so you’ll be able to see them in action in Chapter Two

~

Thank you for those who support this game and me, as an author!