Where are the other Choose your own adventure games?

“Don’t take it personally, babe” was the only visual novel where I wanted to be cruel to my admirer. Arianna is an annoying, entitled, manipulative brat, and I hated seeing my character getting instantly interested in her.

Are any of these games available on Kindle Paperwhite?

@Hildigard Amazon is moving away from publishing games for the e-ink Kindles. If you want to game they want you to buy a kindle fire instead. (Which is backlit, and so not great for reading, and there may be better tablets out there.)

If you want your kindle for playing games on, and bought your kindle extremely recently, I’d see about getting it returned and getting a Kindle Fire. (Assuming you don’t have issues with the backlight.)

Great one about a guy who runs away from home & you guide him as he braves the streets of LA…
http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-runaway-game

I wouldn’t have even noticed if you hadn’t linked to that.

Someone in the comments section mentioned that the story was plagiarized from over here:

http://www.therunawaygame.com/index.html

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Alter Ego is actually by Dan Fabulich.

EDIT: Nevermind xD I thought it was.

@Samuel_H_Young Alter Ego isn’t by Dan Fabulich, it’s by Peter J. Favaro. Dan got permission to code up the web and app versions.

I suspect that Choice of Games came into existence because of Alter Ego.

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@FairyGodfeather
Yeah I realized that. Well I’m glad that happened.

There are lots of new CYOA stories at http://dendritestories.co.nz/ - written by users collaboratively, so some of them are pretty crazy (but cool).

Hmmm, lots of.interesting games…any specficly allowing you to be a king , emperor , lord ,crusadwr etc etc?.

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Oh man…there was this really cool one where you played an emperor well , his.apprentice.

Thing…and you play for about two gundred yeats of.actually playable.time, the game tries to say its like a thousand but not really. The branching options while a. Little boxy and with the feel.of forcing you down certain paths…like those fun but. Annoying books this genre is based off of are fun, althouhh thw “you die if you choose c or.g instead of.p” annoys…anyways, anyone have am idea? Its a choose your own adventure game…as in from.that website.

Boy, do I wish Dan had rewritten it to make possible to be gay, but then again that would have required making a almost a different game entirely, as it says in the Alter Ego Faq.

Can anyone tell me what game it was where you played an emperors apprentice and could eventually one way or another take over the empire yourself…about a thousand year timespan on CYOA.

Going to hazard a guess that you’re talking about my story Eternal.

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/eternal

Yes! Its one of the few stories from that site i can enjoy as much as many of this sites games. …id love to see a game authored by you on this site :slight_smile: espically if its along the same lines .

I just played a mobile choice game. It’s mostly linear and the MC is well defined, but the characters and plot are interesting.

The game is Red Spider: Vengeance on Google Play or Apple apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.org.rpgdl.wasp.RedSpiderLilyforAndroid.en

Warning: the game is not for children and has sensitive topics.

I found an article about a company doing something similar to choice of games a few months ago.
http://www.themarysue.com/oms-games-story-games-and-narrative/ and just remembered it a few minutes ago and figured maybe others would be curious.

The company’s https://onemorestorygames.com/ and they’ve a post on their blog linking to a discussion on Diversity in Games. https://onemorestorygames.com/2016/03/14/wp-diversity-in-games/ (Which I’ve admittedly not listened to.)

I haven’t actually played the games, I had a poke at them but they didn’t quite seem my thing, and the price for the software to make the games seemed really prohibitive to me. Although that was a few months ago and things might have changed.

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There’s a contest at chooseyourstory.com for the best school based chooseyourstory game that ends June 20th and first prize is a $25 gift card. That’ll probably result in more IF games.

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As far as choose your own adventure games go this is about as expansive as they come. I would say it is more story than game, but it has 13 different epilogue endings. Many branching paths that are completely different from eachothers. it is crazy long. (and fortunately has a go back a page button as every choice that doesn’t branch into its own path or continue a path kills you.)

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/eternal

Regarding Eternal. Doesn’t your character default as a straight guy? I started to play that game but my character ended up raping someone(?) and that’s when I put it down.

In the comments someone said that a fellow named Cygnus was gay, but I assume he’s not a romance?

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