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Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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Hi, do you have a progress update on the demo? I think it's been a few months since you've posted about the game.

Admittedly there's been very little progress. Some rather major things happened that derailed my work into anything and everything at the end of last year and then my focus had to be on securing employment.

I'm still working on it and I'm mightily annoyed with myself about how long it's been since I made a proper amount of progress.

This isn't the blog to follow for rapid updates, I'm afraid. You'll be better off unfollowing if you're not the patient type.

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THE EARTH HAS TEETH Chapter 1 and 2 are ready to play!

Chapters 1 and 2 are now playable for everyone!

Lose everything. Piece it back together, if you can.

Welcome to the steppes of Amikya. Good luck surviving the storms.

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Try listening to this song from my writing playlist while you play: You Aren't Welcome Here by Mushroomer

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The Earth Has Teeth Intro Post | Forum Thread | cogdemos link | itch link | Feedback Form

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Content notes

By the nature of the below notes, some story elements will be spoiled. Not all the content notes below apply to the current demo.

Paths through the game can include cruelty and violence to humans and magical animals, including blood, gore, injury, and death; dead bodies; duststorms; floods; dysphoria; earthquakes; landslides and avalanches; recreational alcohol and drug use; starvation; ritual skin-cutting; trauma responses; wildfires; various other environmental hazards and disasters.

Some paths will contain optional sexually explicit scenes. These can be played through in detail, or played as fade-to-black.

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Fonts I Use In My Projects Masterpost

Allow me to share my fav fonts (on googlefonts) I use for my IF projects. Maybe there's one you've been looking for for your projects :3

(in no specific order, long list below cut. click the images)

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Hi author...

It seems you provide a variety of knowledge to the MC from clueless to lore nut, so my ask is when MC could use this knowledge to their benefit? While I understand this probably could make drastic change to the original story, surely there has to be somewhere the narrator no longer intervene? I mean MC is alive and this is their new reality, to not interact and able to influence outcome seems weird.

OKAY. So. Flavoring this with a warning that I spent most of today trying (and failing) to save one of my new corydoras (this is why you quarantine your new fish folks) and treating my QT tank to try and keep the others from getting sick, when my day off was supposed to have been spent writing so my apologies if I sound a little more abrupt than my awkward ass already usually is.

I have reasons that the Narrator (capitalized for character, versus me as the narrator) does what they do and how they CAN, and a big one with making this choice a thing is because I needed to draw the reader's attention to the Narrator. So. Yeah. It's kinda supposed to seem weird? That's the feeling that is supposed to happen there - it was deliberately meant to put a reader's hackles up about the Narrator and make y'all go "yeah, this is SUS".

The MC can use that knowledge to their advantage, but not YET. This is early days in the game, even in the rewrite the attempt to warn or change anything remains a non-choice: you cannot save the MC's and Auberon's parents. There is nothing you can do to stop the Empire. Nothing you can do as a child will ever change Ausones' fate.

Remember, folks, there is always an agenda behind every narration and every narrator has at least one that they may or may not be sharing.

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Agents of Lucifer Book 1 Demo: New Link Up!

Here it is, ya'll! Click here to begin the demo! Now, I believe I got my errors fixed and such, but it's possible I may have overlooked certain things. Such as pronouns, despite my efforts. PLEASE let me know of any issues you come across, especially if they prevent progression!

Let me know your thoughts!

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Okay all -- few quick thoughts about the Elon Muskifying of the government, especially the takeover of the Treasury and associated financial data for every single US citizen and organization, that we are learning about in detail today.

Don't panic. This sounds bad, because it is bad. It's really, really bad. It's outrageously fascist bad. But we've still gotta take a deep breath and get through it.

This is the kind of shock-and-awe exercise of untrammeled fascist power where they are absolutely counting on gleefully terrorizing, paralyzing, and stunning you into mounting no resistance, or just giving up and giving in. They are literally live-tweeting it in real time and boasting about all the access and influence they have right now. They want you to know about it and feel like you can't do anything, so you might as well let it happen.

We have to show them that's not true.

TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. Because it's Sunday night, I've gone ahead and contacted my state Attorney General and both senators by email (but come Monday morning, we should all be calling). Here is the email that I wrote to my AG:

Dear Mr. [AG],

As you will be aware, today (February 2, 2025) the Trump administration has granted wide-ranging access to sensitive US Treasury data, including the personal and private information of [state] citizens, to Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Musk is an unelected private citizen who has no legal right to access this data, and is engaging in extensive intimidation and coercion to fulfill his personal and harmful ideological agenda. The present and material harm that this causes to US citizens, [state] residents, and basic laws of government, privacy, and financial security is direct, unconscionable, and actionable. I strongly urge you, in your capacity as [state] Attorney General, to file direct suit against the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the "DOGE" office, and any identifiable individuals who have taken part in this action, in order to protect consumer data, citizen privacy, and basic faith and trust in government.

All the best,

[Qqueenofhades]

Short! To the point! Doesn't waste time, tells him what I want him to do, how Elmo's nonsense directly harms the residents of my state, and why he should take action to stop it! And frankly, given how on-the-ball blue-state AGs have been thus far, they're probably already working on it. You are very welcome to copy-and-paste this message and fill in your AG's last name and your state as appropriate. Super easy to do. Takes five minutes. Call tomorrow.

If you are in a red state, your voice is particularly important right now. The Trumpsters are counting on and are even emboldened by blue state pushback, but you really need to make it start coming from Republican strongholds. Congressional Republicans will only feel the slightest amount of unease about docilely enabling this BS when it starts threatening their own personal power. Hit them where it hurts.

Other lawsuits are coming. Marc Elias, Democratic lawyer extraordinaire, is well aware of this situation and has noted on Bluesky that more lawsuits are in the works. He often wins his cases. This does not mean that you shouldn't loudly make noise elsewhere, but please remember that this is one of those 24-hour periods where, as noted, they are counting on demoralizing you with a nonstop blizzard of bullshit. It does not say anything about how this will play out long-term or the opposition that can and will be mobilized to stop it.

Once again: courage. Take the small steps that you can do today. Then take a breath and get off social media for a little while. Try to take the long view. One step at a time, we will get through this.

Courage.

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dashingdon is shutting down at the end of the month - anyone with cs demos should move them over to the new provider manually, or find somewhere else to host them. at the very least, make a backup of your files so they aren't lost forever!

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part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

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Converting your ChoiceScript game to Twine - Cheat sheet

Previous Twine related posts:

Switching to Twine - Sample code to get you quickly started

Twine/SugarCube ressources

Below is a transcript of the handwritten notes I took while converting Arcadie: Second-Born from ChoiceScript to Twine.

Note: I used Twine 2.4.0.0, and SugarCube 2.36.1. The notes below can only be useful if you have working knowledge of ChoiceScript, and some knowledge of both Twine and SugarCube. Terminology might be off; I'm not a programmer.

*create

You don't need to *create your variables in Twine, but it's good practice to do so, so that you don't lose track of them.

Create a StoryInit passage, and put all your variables there.

Boolean variable: <<set $var = true>> String variable: <<set $var = "Hello">> Numeric variable: <<set $var = 0>>

*comment

/* comment */

*set

You can set several variables at once:

<<set $var1 = 1, $var2 += 1, $var3 = "text">>

Below, operators in CS -> Twine equivalents:

CS->Twine + -> += - -> -= * -> *= / -> /= % -> %=

*hide_reuse

<<if not hasVisited("name of passage")>>[[Choice->NameOfPassage]]<</if>>

*if

<<if $var = true>> <</if>>

*elsif/else

<<if $var == 0>> <<set $var -= 5, $var2 = true>> Outcome1 <<elsif $var == 25>> Outcome2 <<else>> Outcome3 <</if>>

*temp

<<set _var = true>>

Will only exist for the current passage.

*rand

Generate random number

<<set $var to (random(x,y)>>

x,y = range; for example, 0 to 10

*page_break

<<button[[text|passagename]]>><</button>>

*choice

[[Choice text->PassageName]]

*Capitalize (!var)

<<print $var.toUpperFirst()>>

Inside a link: $var.toLocaleUpperCase()

or create a separate, capitalized variable

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DEMO

I am exhausted, at the end of my rope, but finlly FINALLY it's here. I have no words, am only tired (and there might be bugs. You might also need to play from the beginning), I only pray you like this.

(send asks. it's the only thing I need.)

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Happy (belated) NEW YEAR!

Here's hoping this one somehow manages to be better than the last. I mean, it being worse, is a fairly steep bar to clear because of events in my personal life but:

Goals this year include:

Finish the prologue and Chapter 1 revamp of MMttCR, which if my estimates are right will probably double the length of the current content but also give me a better footing for what comes later. (It will make the MC more of a character than a self-insert, but that's fine by me.)

Redraft TPK's outline to replace the one lost in Lu's Puppy Teething Phase

Learn to keep my notebooks out of reach of the sometimes bored German Shepherd Mix so I stop having to rewrite my outlines.

Continue training Lu because the 60+ pound GSD-mix jumping on people because she gets excited to be paid attention to is not okay. (I'm trying to get her to the point she can pass the CGC evaluation, at the least, I also like to set up Rally courses in my backyard for us to do when the weather's nice.)

Get my first planted aquarium up and running without reenacting Commander Shepard in ME2. (I'm in the planting stage and slowly building it up. Once they're established and I get the water consistently in a safe range for them I plan on getting a small colony of Neocardinia.)

Grow potatoes.

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It's here!! I'm excited to finally announce that you'll be able to play the new holiday special, "Under the Mistletoe" starting January 1st, 9AM EST!! For those who want it earlier, it's currently available as an early release on Patreon for the Midnight tier and will be released a day early on December 31st for the Twilight tier.

The new content is around 12,000 words, with 5 branches for each of the ros. You can also customize the routes as either platonic or romantic, for those of you worried about the implied romance in the title.

Obviously I'm a little late for the holidays, but I thought I'd gift you all the story regardless. Chapter 12 is, of course, still in the works, so enjoy the fluff while you can (before things get really crazy). Thank you for being so patient with me. Your support and love for this story means the world to me. 

Thank you so much for such a wonderful year. Here's to 2025! <3

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Viatica is now complete! 🥳😱

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

Story Link | 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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New Chapter Released!

Hello again! Hope your winter has gone well ❄️

With the public release of this new chapter we’re continuing with the Crown's development as a monarch, while romance and courtly intrigue build further:

Friendship scenes to deepen your Crown's relationship with the other characters outside of your main love interest

Diverging paths depending on whether you chose to meet the peri trader in disguise, or arrange a meeting with Kham instead

Within those diverging paths, you will make further decisions on how to handle the peri trader and/or Kham, with big consequences for future chapters

Romance specific scenes, of course, with your chosen love interest!

A and R both have very different scenes for their high romance and low romance routes! D and X romancers are in the clear... for now

If you find any coding errors, typos, pronoun mistakes and such while playing, you can report those through this form! Thank you for all your patience and support, I hope you enjoy the new chapter with the nearing end of 2024 💖

For those that are unfamiliar with the game

A Tale of Crowns is a high fantasy romance story, told in the form of a text-based interactive novel with choice mechanics. The setting is inspired by Kurdish culture as well as other historical settings in the Middle East such as Ancient Persia, but it also draws heavily from other cultures and countries in the region.

Your character is native to Arsur, a vast empire overseen by a single ruler known as the Crown. Unlike traditional monarchies, however, the title is not inherited through blood. Whenever the Crown dies, their famed golden eyes pass on to the one chosen by the Spirits of this world to be the new Crown. In this story, your MC takes on that role.

There are four different love interests to choose from, whose genders will be customized to suit the preferences of your Crown. You can find more info about them on the blog page!

Also note that this current version of the game is safe for those 16 years and older.

Like the premise so far? Play it and give it a try! The entire game is free!

If you enjoyed the game, please reblog! Share it with your friends! Recognition and reader interaction is just about the only thing I get in return for creating it ❤️

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Merry Crisis Chapter 5

In this chapter:

Nat arrives in Singapore!! Things come to a head!

Attend Nat's conference panel discussion, then head for lunch along the river 🍛

Make dumplings for dinner with Qiu (and sleepover at their place) 🥟

Watch a Malay horror movie and have dinner with Shay (and sleepover) 👻

Go for a bike ride 🚴‍♀️or hang out at the winter funfair with Nat 🎪 (then head to their hotel room for the night) 🛏

Commit to your RO of choice + some rejections (though the full suite of consequences for your actions will come over the next 2 days)

Word count: Around 50-60k with code depending on how ruthless my eventual editing is

This update will also come with some edits to the previous chapters, which may or may not improve the continuity between routes...*

*I am still going through a herculean combing-through of stats and branching paths with the help of my wonderful beta testers. Things should be sorted out soon!!

Release dates:

Non beta tested: 28 Dec (~10pm GMT-5)

Beta tested: 1 Jan same time

Public: 8 Jan same time

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Twas the night before… Eternal Library Edition 🎄

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the realm, The people were wary of the wrath of the crown. With the royals divided, the nobles and all, Shaky alliances were ready to fall.

I wanted a demo of the Eternal Library ready for Christmas, and I’ve done it!

Some might call it a Christmas Miracle.

I call it hard work bordering on obsession.

Please accept this demo of The Eternal Library as my gift to you this season. I hope it brings you joy. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Yule, and a very Jolly Holiday to all! 🌟

The Eternal Library: A Romanatsy Retelling

What if Cinderella and the prince grew up together?

What if the king was the evil one?

What if the missing piece wasn’t a glass slipper, but ancient memories buried in your soul?

Play the DEMO for FREE! (40k words)