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Scene 4 has been added to the Demo!

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I have spent the past few months reworking and refining this update to make it all nice and shiny. It is finally ready! I can now take a break, lol

This will update is bringing over 63k words of new and edited contents. This amounts to 52l words in an average playthrough count (not counting the codex).

What you can expect in this update:

Visit the trendy shop of Judy's Scissors.

Choose your outfit for the ball.

Have some interesting exchanges with the owner.

Find a strange object with a lock.

Again there are a lot of things I have edited and fixed on top of the added Scene. So full Dev log under the cut.

A huge thanks to @gamesbyalbie, @groggydog, Lore, MeiZi, Riviera, & SjoerdHekking for beta testing the game, their invaluable help with their advices and help!

IMPORTANT: You will need to restart the game completely, since [again] I’ve changed a lot of code. Also spoiler-y log.

[New]

Story: Added Scene 4 (Original path and Morning path)

Story S2: Possibility to ask Theo to leave before the Ball.

Story S2: Added a flirting option with Raymond

Story S3: Possibility to visit the Palace in the afternoon under a specific circumstance.

Story S3: Possibility to choose a destination other than Judy's Scissors at the end of Sunwin Garden.

Story: You can now ask Jonah for destination recommendation and another question (if you found a thing)

Codex: Expanded Codex (More P.o.I and Lore)

Codex: Added a Quest and Clues pages to track your progress

Settings: Added text-alignment setting + Disabling text animation

Settings: Changed the Garamond Font and added 3 more fonts

Code: You can now skip the Prologue

Other: Updated the Trigger Warning list.

Other: Added your Schedule to the inventory page.

MC Customisation: Added grey eyes, choice of wrapped hair instead of wigs, family pet.

WIP: Relationship/Stats meters

[Fix]

Setting: Fixed autosave that would save at every passage rather than just the start of chapters

Code: Fixed the return from Codex bug, making you skip a part of the story.

Code: Fixed the MC and Edit Appearance Pages (not showing a value or showing wrong values).

Formatting: fixed the dialog indent, paragraph space and italics.

Code: fixed links going to the wrong passage.

Code: fixed code showing the wrong type of text when choosing a destination

Code: fixed code showing the wrong result of your bets

Code: fixed missing code for the MC title.

Code: the button to confirm your bets has been fixed. Only one click is needed.

Formatting: The end of italics sentences are more visible.

UI: Long Dialog boxes not having a margin at the bottom of the page for large screens

UI: greyscale did weird things in Firefox and did not include the background

Codex: Razac's page does not include part of Raymond's codex.

[Change]

UI: The Credit Page is now a dialog box

UI: The Character Codex and Maps Pages are now under the Codex

UI: The Codex and MC Pages had been reformatted, with a side menu.

Code/Text: Renamed some Passages (Destinations and Search Rooms) for easier re-use between Scenes.

Code/UI: The bets are in a dialog box rather than the main page.

Story: Edited/Proofread again Scenes 1 to 3.

Story: Edited passages with missing variation when visited multiple times (especially S1 with looking through the room, and the destination pages).

Code: Moved to TWEEGO and reorganised my code.

Code: Gender and Pronouns are now seperate.

Notes:

You may not reach the END Demo page if you chose to go to Judy in the morning. I will add the missing passage in the next update :)

Aside from answering asks/fixing bugs, I will be taking some time away from writing this story to focus on other projects nearing completion (see @manonamora-if for more info). I just need a break from the story for a bit.

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so i’m the Worst and promised a writing update a few weeks ago, then got sick and started my intensive etc etc.

anyway, i’ve finally finished the written portion of The Void! 

without code, it’s ~7600 words in total, including:

the prologue

chapter 1

chapter 2 (3 different strands)

now, i’m working on coding the whole thing, so wish me luck :)

thank you to everyone still patiently awaiting the project <3 would love to hear your thoughts and tips if you have any !

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welcome back!

the way this made me laugh hahaha

you're so sweet, thank you so much <3 i've missed being on here and i definitely need to catch up on some amazing IFs!!

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howdy there! i hope youre doing well!!

(i wanted to tell you that isra is so fun to write <3)

oh hii morgan !!! thank you so much for your lovely message, i am incredibly sorry it took me 2 months to get to it T-T

i'm doing better these days! hope you're well too <33

awhh i'm glad to hear it; thank you so much for trusting me to be a part of your wonderful work

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❤️

hi anon! how lovely to come back to this <33

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hi, i’m alive haha...thank you to those who continued interacting with the graveyard that was this blog <3 an update on my progress soon !

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Please re-blog if you’re OK with silly fan art of your characters.

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New writeblr ask game: you come to my inbox and just write my story for me, just the whole plot, entire thing, let's go

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reblog to send your writer friends (or yourself) a pat on the back and to let them know you’re proud of them.

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Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

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1972 Lamborghini Miura SV

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𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄

𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨.

bitch, what does this update contain?

the prologue (duh).

physical customisations.

character history.

interact with your family and a relatively strange long-time friend of theirs.

teefs.

b҉e҉c҉o҉m҉e҉ ҉s҉o҉m҉e҉o҉n҉e҉ ҉t҉o҉ ҉b҉e҉ ҉f҉e҉a҉r҉e҉d҉.҉

GET INTO IT (YUH)!

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These 🌹💐🌹💐💐🌸🌺🌹🌺🌷🌸💐🌺🌹🍫🌹💐🍫🍫🌹🌺🌸🌷🍫💐🌸💐🌺🌹🍫🌷🌷🌺🌸🌷🌺🌸🌺🌹🌹🌹🌷🌺🌺🌸🌺🌹🌹🌷💐🌸💐💐🌺🌹🌸💐🌸🌹🍫🍫🌺🌷🌹🍫🍫🍫 💐🌷r for my mutuals on this valentines day <3

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February is Black History Month!

This month is all about celebrating black authors. We want to highlight the experiences and hard work done by these authors in creating for the IF community.

Here are our month’s featured authors, please check out their works and join us in supporting them.

Clam, author of Trails Lead Home and Metanoia 

Trails Lead Home is a fantasy game with an emphasis on relationships and starting anew. The aim is to hopefully make the player’s choices matter in some way and to affect the characters and world around them. The end goal is to create a story that tells the tale of new found family and learning to be okay with starting one’s life over. 

Read more about Trails Lead Home [here] and Metanoia [here]

Trails Lead Home Demo | Discord | Metanoia Old Demo | 

Tags: Fantasy

Christabel, author of A Royal Vacation

Being the only child of the president of the united state of America has never been easy but what happens when you cause a disaster intentionally or unintentionally.

Well it’s your mess and you have to fix it.

Elections are just around the corner and you went and caused a big mess. Sadly the fact that americans see you as some sort of perfect demi god doesn’t even help.

Your hate or rather dislike for the british heir caused this..

You’ve always had this dislike for the british heir and this dislike has made you avoid them for a long time.

But what happens when you get dragged to an occasion and end up meeting the heir there..

You lose it well you actually don’t but that’s not how the media and your enemies see it..

Now it’s up to you and the person you hate the most alongside some other people to solve this national disaster but you’re not the only one with problems the heir also has a truckload of them considering the fact that his uncle the regent has refused to vacate the throne even after the heir has now come of age. Now you guys not only have to solve a national disaster but also help the prince ascend the throne and solve some murders in between.

Read more about A Royal Vacation [here]

A Royal Vacation Demo TBA

Tags: Romance, Comedy, Mystery, 16+

Jade, author of Redwood

Congratulations! You have just received an acceptance letter from one of the most elite universities in the modern world.

Yet, due to sudden unforeseen circumstances, your college fund has been drained of all resources. However, you suddenly have a benefactor who is willing to pay for your college fund, but there is one catch.

You have to pledge for one of the universities’ controversial ‘Houses’. However, everything powerful harbours secrets, the question is, are you willing to uncover them?

Read more about Redwood [here]

Redwood Demo TBA | Author’s Ko-fi |  

Tags: Romance, Mystery, 16+

Lou, author of Ascendance

You’re an ordinary college student who is simply trying to make it through your college days and graduate. Your life isn’t eventful and you don’t particularly excel at anything. On what looks like an ordinary day, something completely out of character happens in the middle of a lecture. Are you ready to ascend, or will you turn your back on the unknown?

Read more about Ascendance [here]!

Ascendance demo | Author’s Ko-fi

Tags: 16+, Fantasy

Mila, author of Golden

You’re from the big city of Lehsa, you’re returning home to begin your postgraduate studies after being away for three years. On your return, Lehsa is as you remember it; vibrant, bustling, modern - yet the city holds so many secrets.

Ones you are unaware of, ones you are now immersed in whether you like it or not.

You enter a world you never knew existed. You discover that supernatural creatures are not just a ploy to frighten children at night. They’re real. Even more so when a set of angry supernaturals make you their main target.

And even worse, your father — the mayor — knew all about it.

Maybe you aren’t just the ‘mayor’s kid’ after all.

Who knew a birthmark could hold so much meaning? 

Read more about Golden [here]

Golden Demo | Discord | Author’s Ko-fi

Tags: Modern Fantasy

Pretty Ink, author of College Craze

Sugardale U: Work Hard. Play Harder.

Welcome to Sugardale, a mid-sized college town and home of  prestigious Sugardale University. You play as an incoming female freshman, ready to make your mark in the world. Choose to study hard, work off campus, or party every weekend. Manage your grades, followers and bank account as you meet and interact with the 15 (and counting!) unique characters of Sugardale. Create your own story and get into steamy situations, all while helping (or sabotaging) your friends, keeping secrets and revealing mysteries about the town’s shady happenings

Read more about College Craze [here]

College Craze Demo | Patreon | Discord

Tags: 18+, Adult Dating Sim, Life Simulation, NSFW

Summore, author of A Trial of Horror

All you wanted was a break. Just a day when your life wasn’t filled with worrying about when your next essay was due or if you had a night shift with your sleazy co-worker who just won’t take no for an answer. Hell, you were so desperate for some downtime that you would be happy with just an HOUR of peace.  

One day, your friend Tama recommends an experimental VR game called “Little Trails of Horror” to destress. As someone who survived their very own horror movie, you figure that there isn’t anything that you haven’t seen that would shake you to your core. It also helps that there is an incentive of 10,000 dollars for participating. You decide to sign up, imaging that there were worst things that you could be doing on a Friday night. What you anticipated was cheesy graphics, with too much gore and too many jump scares. Not a darkness that seems too natural and a breath on the back of your neck that feels too warm.

Now stuck within these games with no way to leave without completing the objectives, your only worry now is to survive and find a way to break this vicious cycle. But every time you get even close to doing that or finding someone with answers, they die on you. Will you be able to escape for good or continue to be dragged from mission to mission, or worse?

Read more about A Trial of Horror [here]

A Trial of Horror Demo TBA | Discord | Beta Testing Application 

Tags: 18+, Dark Fantasy, Thriller

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

— Anne Carson, from “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides”

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‘wayfinder’