#storyscape games

[reallyhardy]

to my fellow former storyscape players:

are there any games out there currently that you feel are comparable in quality to storyscape?

please leave me some suggestions in the replies -- for me the gap left by storyscape has yet to be filled, and the books available in choices these days just do not hit the same as they did before PB started leaning hard into CEO romance and babymaking books.

[ekkurea]

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Commission for Reinajruiz (inst)❤️‍🔥 Title: Crimson Souls🖤

[cozmostreet]

so emotional after taking a trip down the memory lane™️ storyscape, love island season 2 … the two of you will always be famous

[ultimatebottom69]

You don't provoke a hoe dude. That's like the last thing you wanna do.

[archiveofillustration]

Early Pre-vis for Fogbank Games - Storyscape: Eternal City (2017) and New Game Mock-up by Thomas Scholes

[readingcutie]

Why you don’t have to worry about RC shutting down

Lately I have been seeing a lot of talk about RC shutting down. I want to smooth everyone’s fear with it by giving reasons of why they aren’t shutting down and an extra tidbit of why storyscape shut down (since I saw one post that brought it up and once I found out the reason of why it made barely any sense)

This is not even speculation, someone just decided to make a post complaining about people wanting DRs right away. They used RC’s finances as a reason for why people should stop complaining.

Other promotional deals, back when RC started doing DRs they would also did free diamonds and teacups events for specific books but that has stopped. I think that those events with those books were not profitable but DRs are so they continued them.

There are different standards of living in the world, that might seem like a no brained but someone compared RC’s profits (a Maldova base company) to that of three American companies and one German. I am only focusing on America because that is where I am from and have the best knowledge on. Even in my country the prices can change drastically, at my university which is in Rhode Island there is a chain store called insomniac cop lies and it was $5 cheaper here than the ones in Boston. I am saying this because imagine how drastic the change would be if insomniacs were in Moldova when a state change changes that much. I checked, a gallon of milk over there cost ~$3 while here it costs ~$6 and according to that same source as well there is a 87% decrease of Moldova’s rent compared to the US. Which means that RC would have to make less than the American companies to stay afloat.

Storyscape was a unique case of shutting down, storyscape was owned by Fox which is how they made series about The X-Files and added characters from Titanic because at the time Fox owned those titles. As many of you know Disney bought Fox but what many of you don’t know is that Disney does not want to develop their own games so when they buy out a company they close any game development under that company including storyscape

[hpowellsmith]

Hi! I have played and enjoyed all of your games, and even though I am a big fan of CoG, I have struggled to find any other companies who make similar games.

I’ve seen you post on a few  occasions about similar games and was wondering if you had any recommendations, CoG or otherwise. Thank you!

There isn't really a company that does exactly what CoG is doing, but there are lots of places to find IF or IF-adjacent games to play!

There are a lot of companies making and/or allowing users to make narrative mobile games which are often free to play with a model where paying opens up "premium" choices or cosmetics. Lots have sprung up over the years and sadly a lot of them have shuttered (Storyscape, Lovestruck, and others). Some friends have written for the Storyloom and Whispers apps. For a couple of years I worked on Love Island the Game but haven't been keeping up with it after I stopped working on it (which was during late Season 4/Bombshell). Then there's things like Dorian, Romance Club, and the older Chapters, Choices, Episodes, etc, some of which are created on commission and some of which are user-created games... It's worth having a look and seeing if any catch your eye.

I'd always recommend the work of Failbetter Games and inkle. (Mask of the Rose, Failbetter's first visual novel, is out now!) Both have branched out beyond being purely text-based but they have strong foundations in IF. Similarly Over the Alps, which was made by my former colleagues at Tributary Games, and King of the Castle (a narrative multiplayer game that I finished working on last year) are a great time. Games from Hanako Games are great, and if you liked Crème de la Crème I'd point you to Black Closet for dark academia school scheming. Christine Love and Autumn Chen are incredible creators too. I haven't played them fully yet, but Pentiment and Roadwarden promise fantastic narrative experiences with great storytelling.

I recommend having a look through the AdventureX lists of past exhibitors which include lots of really exciting narrative games. Narrascope also has plenty of speakers who have made or are discussing interesting games.

Also take a look at the IF Comp and Spring Thing archives for a huge collection of free IF with loads of different genres, tones, and sizes.

sub-q magazine isn't publishing new material anymore and you'll need to click past the expired security certificate but it published a wide range of short IF, some with more branching and some with less, but always interesting. (my first game writing sales were to them!)

On here, @/interact-if often posts themed recommendations. There are a lot of authors posting ongoing progress and devlogs of IF projects, sometimes on the CoG forum and dashingdon, sometimes on itch.io, and @/interact-if can be helpful for filtering though or finding ones that match what you're looking for. @/manonamora-if-reviews has started doing in depth IF reviews too. And on the subject of itch.io, there are many interactive fiction games on there both complete and in-progress.

Finally, if you're interested! Some of my all-time favourite ChoiceScript games include:

A Study in Steampunk

Asteroid Run

Choice of the Deathless

Heart of Battle

Heart of the House

Professor of Magical Studies

Tally Ho

(You can play Choice of the Deathless and Heart of Battle for free with ads.)

Thank you for the ask!

[sciralta]

originals never even released in my country… and we only got storyscape for around 3 months? 😭

anything high quality gets snatched from us

(at this point i’ve almost fully moved onto IFs..)

rip tbh Eternal City alone should’ve made storyscape profitable

Honestly the density of good IFs from Choice Of/Hosted Games is insane.

Let’s see how Candlelight Games, the new startup from ex Pixelberry employees fares

[choices-and-voices]

Okay, Story Time: Many moons ago, back when Choices was first beginning its descent into steaminess and Storyscape was still hanging on by a thread, there was also another interactive fiction app on the market, called Originals. Its stories were a bit more mature and a bit grittier, had more space for complex themes and difficult decisions and tough consequences, and all the MCs were gender-of-choice. Its take on a vampire story was called Immortal Thirst and was set in a 1920s jazz club. There were three love interests: Viktor, the owner of the club who was secretly a vampire; Marisol, a singer at the club who knew about vampires and protected them from hunters; and finally, Cary, a bartender at the club who didn’t know about vampires and was disgusted when he found out, considered them an abomination to God. In Episode 6 of the story, Cary was fatally injured, and you had to choose between letting him die or turning him into a vampire, saving his life by transforming him into the thing that he detested most. Then, if you saved him and also romanced him, the story eventually ended with the scenes above – with Cary saying that yes, he struggled at first with the thought that his soul was now damned, but deep down he knew that something born out of your love for each other could never, ever be damning. And now it’s been four years, and Originals is long gone, and whenever I want to post about it I have to write this huge intro because I have no idea if anyone still remembers, but – I still think about these scenes all the time. I think about how the writers somehow wrote a story that makes perfect sense no matter who your MC and LI are, but if you do happen to be a male MC romancing Cary, it is also a tear-jerkingly beautiful metaphor for a man in a traditionalist society learning to love the fact that he loves another man. And this is in an interactive fiction game, one that only lasted a couple of years before being shut down. One that wasn’t seen to hold its own against the pressure of ‘sex sells’. And it still blows my mind every. single. time.

[niealle]

Hey, guys! I’m thrilled to introduce you to a Discord server that I’ve created call Storyscape Lounge. I created this because tweeting about my feelings regarding anime, manga, and manhwa isn't enough anymore. I'm really hoping I can enthusiastically discuss the things I love with people who share the same interests as me. This was initially an anime, manga, and manhwa Discord server only, but then I realized that I also want to connect with others about gaming, K-drama, and other topics. So, this Discord server is pretty much for anyone.

Honestly, I also created this server with thoughts of befriending aromantic ace spec individuals who share the same interests as me.

Here’s the invite link to the server: https://discord.gg/nsvFamGc 🫶🏻

[they-callme-ami]

🎉Happy New Year!🎉 It's 1:21 am on January 2nd but here are ten things (in no order) I wanna see in 2023 on tv, movies, and media in general

Butch4butch/stud4stud and butch4femme/stud4femme representation.

Femme4femme rep can stay but it's disabled and/or plus size, and I don't wanna see a single white woman. Not ONE skinny white able bodied femme in 2023. None.

Tiana's show gain as much popularity as Tangled: the series

Black sci-fi and fantasy that has no racism. Period. Not towards them or any other fantasy race.

A sitcom about 4 black women trying to make it in the city (I'd you've seen this post, you know what I mean) but make it take place D.C. or Atlanta.

Bratz. Just bratz. Animated movie(s) and show(s). But make em 2d and not white-washed.

Reverse harem anime and/or manga with either a chubby protagonist or a black/brown protagonist. I want it girly, cheesey, and colorful.

Storyscape to miraculously come back to life.

Outlast Trials full release

Horror game with black-female MC that doesn't revolve around racism....unless we're killing Klan members.

Come on everybody, reblog and manifest for 2023 with me. At least some of these gotta come true.

[ekkurea]

Commission for Reinajruiz (inst)❤️‍🔥 Title: Crimson Souls🖤

[cderiva]

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prompts (askbox is: open) / wishlist tag / promo / interest check

general interests historical plots, horror plots, jujutsu kaisen, star wars, x-men, until dawn, the quarry, alien, pacific rim, hunger games, haunting of hill house, stranger things, storyscape's titanic (niche, but...) & many more

[ultimatebottom69]

Bro I'm at book 3 for real they be like that !

Heaven’s Secret characters as John Mulaney’s Quotes

Dino about his father:

Sammy when MC went to kiss him:

Lucifer 24/7:

Andy everytime:

Adi 25/8:

Mimi:

Geralt:

Fencio about MC’s mom:

Misselina:

[suikared]

I feel kinda not that smart. There's a button on our page on Moments where we find every. Single. Card. There. Is. On. Moments. App.

So ILLREN is from

Detroit Underworld: Psychic.

Out of the 20 chapters (from 30) I've already played so far... No sight of the character.

But we saw:

Vampire

Warlock

Succubus

Troll (why did you have to blink right at that moment, Terrance?

Werewolf

And whatever Nick Gorgeous is....

Yest. The cards move and talk, level up and boost some things in the game.

The sad part:

I found a community on Facebook and since the app haven't been updated in the last 2 years and the stories didn't have anything new for quite some time, we were speculating that Stardust Works is no more. The company from the App on Apple Store changed, as if the app was purchased by some other company and this company doesn't have any plans to it, so they are just gonna let it die.

No responses to the fan base on their e-mails and social media.

Speaking of Social Media.... Moments twitter-X account has been dead in the last 2 years.

The community group I mentioned also contacted some authors from the stories of the aforementioned app. The response in general was a big "I don't know."

Word is this company purchased Stardust Works and offered new contracts to the authors that paid less and some left the platform. In the end no one knows what's going to happen in the future to Moments.

I really cherished this app. Now I'm sad and just playing to my heart's content until it's over... While I still hope it's back on it's tracks in the future.

I really, really hope this doesn't become a Storyscape all over again.

[angstymarshmallow]

Who did you romance in the Storyscape games? 😊

Dearest anon -

Okay the first time I tried to write my thoughts, tumblr just decided not to post it but I would like to say thanks for asking me (i’ve been secretly hoping someone would lol). Now let me try this again

I’ll start with Life 2.0 (mostly because it’s the story I’ve replayed the most). On my first device I romanced Jaime (and what a mistake that turned out to be), because his life was a mess. Like a hot mess. He’s cute, but the guy has to figure his stuff out. I know MC’s life is kind of a mess too as she moves into San Francisco but his life is REALLY a mess. But I guess I wasn’t expecting just how much of a mess it was, it kind of surprised me lol (kudos to the storyscape team for being able to do that). And now replaying it the few times that I have - I get it. I get some of his choices, how he’s gotten to this point. Other than how the game hinting at the rough neighbourhood he grew up in by showing you where he’s lived (which he will defend tooth and nail about), the little bits with his cousin and his ex. I get why specifically he feels stuck in his ex-relationship. And not just his relationship, I feel like it spills over in other parts of his life too. But in regards to his relationship with his ex, I think I understand especially since I’ve had friends in similar positions in the past. Not to absolve him of any guilt - because he totally should have given MC more of a warning and been more open about it when he had the chance. It still just sucks on the other end of that. Even though my first MC Zara is more of open and to kind of likes to take everything day by day; she isn’t the type to fall for someone that isn’t upfront about something like that. Honesty is huge for her. So this as a big-time red flag. So nipping that into the bud, Zara moved on between flirting with Mishel and Cute Dave (who is very cute but very awkward lol, and I feel like there isn’t enough chemistry there) until Etan came along and honestly? I really like Etan. He’s older which surprised me but in a good way. He has this kind of sophistication without being a dick about it. And although his introduction was kind of cringey considering MC’s circumstances at the party and his ‘rescue’, BUT when he DECKED that asshole of a CEO - 10/10. I was like yup, that’s all I needed for you to convince me.

I also made it a point to romance Mishel on my second device with my MC Dior - who is very very gay. The whole Jaime flirting didn’t work out well for him and I forgot to mention how smitten I was with Mishel’s design? The girl is gorgeous and her cgs are probably my favourite in storyscape. (So are her flirting scenes). They’re hot, raunchy - and she’s got a great personality. I also like that they didn’t introduce her so…girl-next-door, I’m-only-here-to-be-your-friend, and more like a force to be reckoned with. Abigail grew on me in a way I think she was supposed to and I find that drunk kiss near the end of the book, very endearing. Also that the kiss in the rain? Romantic, beautiful *chief’s kiss*. Basically I sort of ended up romancing a little bit of everyone but what I really enjoyed is that the game doesn’t force you to choose one or the other and some characters (like Mishel when it came to Abigail) encourages you to pursue your options.

The characters made Titantic interesting for me. I wasn’t particularly sure I would enjoy it but I think every character had a part to play and the LIs were all interested but for their own different reasons. Matteo was definitely my favourite. He started off the way I expected; cold, callous and very-business like. Even when as he kind of came to terms with his attraction to the main character, he didn’t see it as anything more until later. But her influence on him changed the way he perceived things and I really love that kind of character development. I didn’t like Charlie’s as much and haven’t finished pursuing him; mostly because you have the option to leave him on the ship willingly or beat him over the head to knock him out. But his be the hero shtick made leaving him the best choice (and I’ve read that he gets really upset at you for taking him against his will), which sucks because his romance was more light humoured and sweet while Matteo’s was a lot more passionate and raw. I’ve started again for romancing Zetta because that woman is gorgeous and she deserves much better than the man she intended to marry but I haven’t finished that route yet.

I’m not sure if the X-files has any romance because I haven’t played it yet, but Eternal City kind of hints towards romance with the people your MC has known for their entire life. Because my MC was more of a loner it was kind of hard at first to make that connection seem intrinsic, but she did get a long pretty well with Cinder and when the option to kiss him came up as he was saying his goodbye, I was like huh? It was cute and bitter in a heartbreaking kind of way for him to leave their little circle but I wasn’t sure beyond that how to feel. IT HAD A CG AND EVERYTHING. Plus there’s also this really adorable scene between Violet and MC if MC chose to complete the Cager ritual with her by going to rescue her. Violet kind of brushes her forehead against MC’s after and I was really touched by that moment. But I don’t think there’s romance persay as yet in this part of the story, but I’m hoping it will continue with another season of Eternal City.

Well, I’ve written it all (mostly) again. I’M SORRY I WROTE SO MUCH. I just had so many thoughts about it. I hope I didn’t bore you, I appreciate the ask :)