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On Wednesday, Crème de la Crème by Harris Powell-Smith won the annual XYZZY Awards, winning in the “Best Game,” “Best Writing,” and “Best Story” categories. (“Best Game” was a tie with Zozzled by Steph Cherrywell; “Best Story” was a tie with Turandot by Victor Gijsbers.) To celebrate, we’re putting Crème de la Crème on sale! It’s 30% off until October 9 on Steam, iOS, Android, and on our website. The XYZZY Awards celebrate the best interactive fiction of the previous year, and is decided by popular vote among the interactive fiction community. We’re extremely grateful to the entire community for

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For a limited time, the following games are available for free in the Choice of Games omnibus app for iOS and Android, and free on our website.

We’re proud to announce that Sword of the Slayer, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, Android, and on iOS in the Choice of Games Omnibus app. It’s 40% off until September 19! Fight monsters and free the ancient city with your enchanted talking sword! You’re a common orphan scraping a living on the streets of Targas Adur—a city older than memory, full of dark corners and darker magics, ruled by a merciless Sorcerer King, Demorgon. While exploring one of those dark corners, you stumble upon…the sword, an ancient

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Fight monsters and free the ancient city with your enchanted talking sword!

In conversation with Google Play Store developer support today, they confirmed to me that all new Android apps now require at least three days for approval.

There’s a new app from Hosted Games available on the Google Play Store called Hosted Games. It’s an “omnibus app,” just like the iOS omnibus we’ve had for more than a year now, but now it works on Android. If you have an Android phone that supports the Google Play Store, please give it a try! What’s next: We’ve submitted the “Hosted Games” app to Amazon to review; we expect the HG omnibus to be available on the Amazon Appstore for Android in a few days. Soon, we’ll also release a “Choice of Games” omnibus app for the Google Play

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We’re proud to announce the launch of our new Choice of Games “omnibus” app for iPhone and iPad, available now in Apple’s App Store! It’s a new way to play our games on iOS: a single app that collects all of our Choice of Games titles in one place. (The omnibus app is only available on iOS for now, not Android.) Download the omnibus for free, and you’ll receive: Free access to eight complete Choice of Games titles: Choice of the Dragon, Choice of Broadsides, Choice of the Vampire, Choice of the Deathless, Choice of Kung Fu, For Rent: Haunted

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Do you want to know more about the origins of A Midsummer Night’s Choice? Do you want to impress your friends with how much you know about Shakespeare? And more importantly, do you want to know why there’s a bear? Now you can purchase the Director’s Commentary! In the “Director’s Commentary” mode, an extra option will appear on certain choices, “View new commentary,” allowing you to read the author’s notes about that moment in the story. To unlock the Director’s Commentary, you’ll first need to purchase the full version of A Midsummer Night’s Choice on the web, iOS, Android, or

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Choice of the Dragon was our very first game, and we’re proud to announce that it’s now available in Spanish! It’s completely free to play the entire game from beginning to end. On iOS and Android, if your phone uses Spanish as its native language, the game will automatically be in Spanish when you open it. On the web, you can click the “Español”/”English” link to switch back and forth. On iOS, you can click the “Settings”/”Ajustes” button on the Menu screen to change languages. On Android, use the Menu button and select “Change Language”/”Cambiar idioma”. Launching a game in

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For years, people have asked us for the ability to change the color and size of the text in our games, and now you can! We now offer a choice of three background colors (black, white, and sepia) and many choices of text size. You can find the new “Settings” button right at the top of the screen on web and Steam, or on the menu screen on iOS or Android. This feature is available today in A Midsummer Night’s Choice, Choice of the Dragon, and Runt of the Litter. We plan to update all of our games to add

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