Choice of Games is pleased to announce the release of Choice of Romance, by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse! Play it on the web, or download the iPhone version or the Android version. Play as a young aristocrat who comes to court looking for love… and catches the monarch’s eye. Will you find true love? [...]
One of the hardest tasks in learning to write a ChoiceScript game is figuring out a process for writing vignettes that works. We all have experience writing stories, essays, and other prose forms. And many of us have written computer programs before. But a ChoiceScript game isn’t like a normal story, although it needs to [...]
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about what games we’re working on and when they’ll be released. I thought I’d give a quick run-down of some of the games that we have in progress. We have two games that are fairly far along. Choice of the Vampire by Jason Hill is in beta testing currently. [...]
When writing a ChoiceScript game, it’s tempting to think that you should write the game the way that it will be played: start with the first vignette (maybe with some character-generation questions), then write the second vignette, then the middle vignettes, and finish with the concluding vignettes and epilogues (if any). That can work, of [...]
Some people who are starting up the process of writing a ChoiceScript game have asked how to plan/outline/storyboard/etc. a game before writing. I don’t presume that we know the best way, let alone the one true right way to do things, but I thought people would be interested in how we plan our games. This [...]
Authorial intent is a slippery concept at the best of times, but it becomes even more so in the context of interactive fiction (IF), whether multiple-choice games like Choice of Games makes or text adventures with a parser. In a standard book (or a legal document, which is the context in which I’ve had most [...]
Choice of Games is pleased to announce the release of Choice of Broadsides! The web version is now live, as is the Android version. The iPhone version is currently under review at Apple and will presumably be available soon. Choice of Broadsides is a multiple-choice swashbuckling naval adventure, in the spirit of C. S. Forester’s [...]
As we’ve mentioned, we’re currently finishing up Choice of Broadsides. That means that we’re also working on picking our next couple of games for development– whether that’s Choice of the Dragon II, Choice of the God, Choice of the Consort, or something else. We thought it might be interesting to discuss our method for selecting [...]
As we finish up work on Choice of Broadsides, we’re starting to plan our next couple of games. We’d like your opinion on these ideas. We’re also happy to hear if there’s another game that you would really like to see. We don’t promise to make the game that gets the most votes–our preference as [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, we’re working on finishing up our next game, Choice of Broadsides, a game set in a fictionalized version of the Napoleonic Wars. Of course, the real-world Royal Navy was an (essentially) all-male institution at the time. We wanted to avoid embracing the sexism of both history and of [...]