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Welcome to the development blog for my (multiple!) IFs. One story, Viatica, is nearly complete and another in the development stage. Stay tuned for more news on the upcoming wip!

A new interactive fiction available free to read on itch.io and written in Twine Chapbook.

DEMO | ROs | Ko-Fi

Set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, with a focus on personal growth, as well as platonic, familial, and romantic bonds.

Your world is a desert, both figuratively and literally. Speech is prohibited, books are outlawed, and any meaningful human interaction is nonexistent. Humans are reduced to the job they do for The City. There are no names; instead, everyone is identified by a number.

You are H-313, a healer.

Create and customize your character: male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bisexual. Become an individual in a world of drones. Learn to speak, express your emotions, define your personality. Dream big, resist tyranny, inspire the masses, and forge a new world. Or not. This is your journey, after all.

There are no point-based choices or outcomes. No choice is wrong—it simply changes the type of person you grow to become.

Content Warning: This story is intended for mature audiences. Possibly triggering topics present in the story include blood, violence, death, suicide, rape (mentioned), child abuse, mature language, and sexual content (optional).

Art by the extremely talented Isabela Zaneti

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encyclopedia of lepidoptera & the language of flowers, my two latest bookmark designs!

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Halberd, Dutch Flemish or Luxembourg, circa 1580-1600

from The Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The Shore - Barry McGlashan , 2023.

British, b. 1974 -

Oil on paper over panel , 12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.

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LARGE FOSSILISED SEED FERN

Neuropteris dussartii

Carboniferous, 359 - 300 million years

Piesberg quarry, Northwest Germany

Koller

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Started a new vest project this week ! Test swatch + bottom section ⛪🌿

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✦ virtue’s end — public update october 15th 2024

the start of chapter 2! including...

travel to weynvordan, capital of burnesse

spend some time with your (new) companions

pick a pastime

get under shea's skin

have an unexpected meeting with someone from the past

receive your next job at the sanctum

and more....

check below the cut for more notes! and I do recommend restarting the game fully. hope you all enjoy. :-)

virtue's end is an 18+ interactive dark fantasy novel set in a sunless, medieval world struck by catastrophe. you play as a helvling, a cursed monster hunter with a (barely) suppressed monstrous side, bound to serve a human Keeper as you travel through broken lands teeming with danger.

✦ play virtue's end

update notes:

added a toggle for relationship hints (can be changed in the menu)

added a toggle for explicit scenes (can be changed in the menu)

added relationship icons to the companion page

penrose can now be set to female or male

added convictions to chapter 1

changed the personality stat from 'kind' to 'amiable'

added nokken variation text to elexis' kiss

fixed the shea scene in the cart after they got hurt and the MC tended to their wounds

updated the glossary/bestiary

plus a whole bunch of other stuff I probably forgot about!

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The Grandeur of the Alps by Jerdess

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Hey IF community ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

I haven’t been around for a long time and all of the interactive fictions I used to follow are on hiatus or completely forgotten. There are few wips that are still ongoing (The Northern Passage, A Tale of Crowns, Attollo, to name a few) that I’ve been following for years.

Since I’ve already read all of the new chapters of the most known ones, can you recommend some ifs (wips) that already have some chapters in the demo?

Thank you in advance! 🫶

(here all the ifs I’ve already read)

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The Northern Passage has been updated!

09.25.24: This update consists of what was previously the prologue; it's now our new Chapter 1. Heavy edits have been made and various scenes have been rewritten, as well as overall improvements with the combat system and lore to make the game more cohesive.

The demo, for the time being, will cut off at the end of this new Chapter 1. My plan is to continue editing and rewriting Chapter 2 (what was previously the first chapter after the prologue) and hopefully rerelease that relatively soon, and then complete the new content update and release all of Chapter 3. This process, while tedious, is helping me tremendously with streamlining code & fixing previous mistakes made by me when I first started this project, and while I wanted to avoid going back and editing originally until much later in the process, this is just something that I had to do in order to move forward with Chapter 3.

I've also updated the content warnings on the game page and allowed for players to turn on warnings in-game, so you get a more specific list of warnings at the start of each chapter (like with Blood Choke).

As always, please let me know if you run into any errors, especially since part of this rewrite included me redoing a lot of my messy code and renaming passages, etc. Thank you everyone for your patience and continued support of this game over the years 💕

Play it here!

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Italian rapier, circa 1570-1580

from Czerny's International Auction House

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

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The great organ of Saint Eustache, Paris

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september, 2023

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The new update is on Patreon in early access!

Chapters 7 and 8 contribute 6k words, for a total of about 24k words!

Go check out what is happening to MC, their friends, and their... not-so-friends? 👀

[ Patreon ][ Discord ][ Public Demo ]

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Art by • Reza Afshar

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Chord.