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I played SHS AGES ago... On my first phone💖

An Inspiration For Other Story Games

Inside Choices is a weekly behind-the-scenes blog from the Pixelberry team. Have suggestions for future blog posts? Let us know!

Every once in awhile, while I look around at our studio, I get amazed by how much things have changed for our team.

I remember back to 2004 when our team was the first to create story games for phones. At the time no one had thought about creating stories for phones. In fact, when we first came up with the idea, we didn’t even have a writer on our team yet. We ended up finding a talented student, Max, at Stanford who would write for us at night after class. He’s now our Head of Content and namesake (but not inspiration) for High School Story’s Max.

We launched our first story game, Surviving High School, in 2005. It was the first and only story driven game on cell phones for many years. We thought a text based game was a perfect fit for cell phones that were limited by screen size and power. Our belief was that with limited information, our players would use their imaginations to fill in the blanks. And even though our art has greatly improved from the pixel art of a decade ago, that basic premise continues to today.

Surviving High School grew in popularity and became the #3 game on the biggest “app store” at that time, Verizon’s Get It Now service. It did better than well known brands, like Pac Man and Madden Football. Story had proven its appeal.

Later at EA, our team developed a brand new version of Surviving High School for iPhone and Android. We followed up with Cause of Death. And later, as Pixelberry, we launched High School Story, Hollywood U, and Choices. Even though we’ve been with four different companies - Centerscore, Vivendi Games, EA, and now Pixelberry - it’s always been the same team.

Through the years, our story games have inspired many other companies to follow. But as pioneers of the space, we take great care in making sure that the quality of our current work rises to the expectations of the many fans we’ve delighted over the years.

And together, as a team, we’ll keep on innovating in the space.

-Oliver & The Pixelberry Team

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WHY AM I SO OBSSESSED WITH GOTHIC HOUSES!!! HELP ME!!!

The Haunting of Braidwood Manor art appreciation post 1 of ?

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The first music note thing for Sully!

Heyhey thanks so much for asking!!🌟Sully🌟- Bright ~ Echosmith- Home ~ Gabrielle Aplin- The John Wayne ~ Little Green Cars- Something Pretty ~ Patrick Park

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🌟⭐️🌟Oooooh ask!!! For those of you who are not familiar with my babies: - Mary-Jane Sullivan “Sully” (The Freshman) - Carrie Louise Thorne (Endless Summer) - Francesca Harper “Frankie” (#LoveHacks) - Bridget Graham (Braidwood Manor)

💙Please please ask… would really like to establish more of these characters’ personalities💙

music related oc askbox game!!

send me a ♪ and one of my characters and I will reply with 2-5 soundtracks/songs that suit them.  send me a ♬ and two of my characters and I will reply with 2-5 soundtracks/songs that suit their relationship. (bonus: also state if it should be songs or soundtracks)

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To be honest, TF3 is all about third parties, like Zig coming into your life the minute James is about to leave, or Natasha messing with Kaitlyn at the time when she's the most insecure. Really does make me wonder what will happen to me and Chace Chris, things are just waay too perfect right now👀😳😡

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Loooool Leo means Lion and in ROE Leo is a prince

I do love me some intertextual links

Lion mask and Royalty? Confused

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Endless Summer- 12 is significant but 13 is more

This week’s episode of Everything is Evidence, brought to you by someone who is very bored. I’ve seen tons of posts going around about how the number of people in Endless Summer is significant and wanted to add my two cents.

Keep reading

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Chris Powell's FC is Chace Crawford, @hollyashton agrees so it is OFFICIAL ladies.

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Dark times all around but there are still people out there who love you

Do not hurt yourself, do not hurt others, get help, talk to someone, anyone. Humanity has survived before and we can do it now if we all just support each other. My country and my people let me down and endangered my life but there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about that so let’s try to spread the love that is so clearly lacking.

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Aaah then maybe CHRIS can be Chace Crawford! Pixelberry should bring in some new Chace Crawford character à la Zig

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Endless Summer- 12 is significant but 13 is more

This week’s episode of Everything is Evidence, brought to you by someone who is very bored. I’ve seen tons of posts going around about how the number of people in Endless Summer is significant and wanted to add my two cents.

So at this point i’m pretty sure we all know that there must be some sort of link between how there’s 13 people (with one being extra) and how they each seem to have been assigned to a role based on their personalities. 2 things I’ve taken into account; a) They each had been chosen randomly for the trip, meaning that whatever contest they won was probably rigged and there’s a purpose for each one of them being there, and b), 13 is always an unlucky number because it breaks the balance established by the previous 12 (norse, catholic, and mythologic instances of this + this whole thing. There’s even some in prisoner of Azkaban lolz) 

Now, the game wants us to think that Estela is the alien here but I’m pretty sure that’s a red herring. I bet you it will end up being one of the main characters, Agatha Christie style. 

Either way, I wanted to sort out the characters* in different and significant sets of 12 elements and 4 elements, to see if we can shed some light on this affair before they get eaten by the prehistoric tiger.

*I’ve based many of the theories of this post, which is super cool& super accurate.

Zodiac Signs aka everyone’s favourite.

The most obvious one, duh. I mean it was the password for the computer so...

Aries - MC 

Taurus - Sean

Gemini - Grace

Cancer -  Quinn

Leo - Craig

Virgo - Alesteir

Libra - Raj

Scorpio - Michelle

Sagittarius - Jake

Capricorn - Diego

Aquarius - Zahra

Pisces - Lila (??)

(I’m going on with the theory that Estela is the odd one out so I won’t add her into anything. )

Olympian Gods aka my favourite.

Zeus - Sean

Hera - Michelle (Which makes sense cause she’s such a cow) (Jks love her eyeshadow)

Poseidon -  Jake

Demeter - Diego

Athena - Grace

Aphrodite - Would say Quinn...

Ares - Craig

Apollo - Diego

Artemis - Lila

Hermes - MC

Dyonisus - Raj

Hades - Aleister

Birthstones regardless of everyone’s birthdate.

Siam - Lila

Amethyst - Quinn

Aquamarine - Jake

Crystal - Zahra

Emerald - Raj

White Opal - Diego

Ruby - Sean

Peridot - MC

Sapphire - Grace

Rose - Michelle

Topaz - Craig

Azore - Aleister

Four Elements

Fire

MC, Craig and Jake.

Water

Lila, Quinn and Michelle.

Earth

Sean, Aleister and Diego.

Air

Zahra, Grace and Raj.

Four Personality Ensemble

(I’m so obsessed with this. I’ve sorted everyone I know into endless combinations of this. Look it up here if you don’t know what I’m talking about, and then try not to get sucked in like I did.) 

(Clockwise order: phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric and then melancholic.)

Phlegmatic:

Zahra, Diego, Quinn.

Sanguine:

Sean, MC, Lila.

Choleric:

Jake, Craig & Michelle.

Melancholic:

Grace, Aleister, Raj.

¡¡BONUS SET!!

The Beatles

John

Jake, Craig, Michelle

Paul

MC, Sean, Aleister

George

Quinn, Diego, Grace

Ringo

Raj, Lila, Zahra

So there you go! Please comment if you agree, and please comment if you disagree.

Aurevoir babes 😘

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Wouldn't Chace Crawford make a cute Dom? Or do we already have a certified™ Dom face claim? Is my love for Nate Archibald taking things too far? I'm asking for a friend here

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awwwwh 💙💙thank you so so much💙💙

I'm new to the Choices fandom. What blogs do you suggest I follow? 🤗

Me 😂😂😂😂😂 lmao JK well hmm… first of all you need to follow @hollyashton cuz she is like our fandom’s queen bee 😂😂😂 also I suggest @plumboasis @hwuariana-writer-movie-star @eclecticpizzakryptonite @emperor-chance @incorrectplaychoicesquotes @pandae1 @kaitlyn-liao @anithefreakinfashionista @birdieplayschoices @choicesnoregrets @choicestrash @choicesimaginesandmore @choices-central @ilovechoices @venuspisces90 @sarcasticace since my memory is shit I an trying to sort out more blogs but I can’t LMAO, I think you’ll figure *u 😂😂😂

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Nonono! 🎶Illinois ILLINOIS🎶

PROOF that hartfeld university is in canada:

unpredictable weather

everyone is old enough to drink!!

average age for university freshmen is 18-19

so is the legal drinking age in canada

tuition is actually affordable

this

zach is canadian.

i have no evidence to support this. i would just really like it to be true

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are you the sun or the moon? the earth or the sky? fresh fruit or fresh flowers? a field or a sea?

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he nearly starved… in the pantry.

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Agree with you!! The Tull case was probably super mediatic

I am so confused...

… with the connection of the stories??? Cuz we have Amara in the freshman wearing a most wanted shirt and in the special story with Kaitlyn we see a poster or something which makes most wanted a TV show in their universe and also we know that LoveHacks and The freshman are connected cuz there is a cameo of Yasmin in LoveHacks BUT we also see Nikhil in lovehacks but if he is just a TV character how come?… I am confused… 😂