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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! Gunpowder diplomacy in a city primed to explode! You’re a shapeshifting android created to infiltrate the enemy. Steal, lie, and persuade your way to success. Can you save a people on the brink of war? Machinations: Fog of War is a 150,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Chris Conley, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It’s 25% off until August 26th! Explore a 150,000-word tale of deception, intrigue and betrayal in an age of gunpowder

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Gunpowder diplomacy in a city primed to explode! Steal, lie, and persuade your way to success. Navigate plots and treachery as a shapeshifting android.

In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? Magic, bears, and cross-dressing disguises await in the forest!

For the first time, we’re offering our fans a chance to pre-order our next game, A Midsummer Night’s Choice by Kreg Segall. We’ll release the game to the public on Thursday, August 25th; you can buy it today at a discounted price. If you buy it here on our website, you’ll be able to play it on your preferred device (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, or Linux) when the game comes out. Fairy outlaws invade a Shakespearean comedy! In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? A Midsummer Night’s Choice is a 190,000-word interactive fantasy novel by

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Lead a team of five, make the most of their roles and skills. Play it friendly and stay true or plan betrayal. Your actions decide who lives and who dies.

Take the role of an amnesiac student to investigate the murder of a mob heir in a private school. Do keep your wits about you–this conspiracy runs deep.

Be the Lord in charge of a small castle. Manage your castle’s finances, hire troops, and resolve conflicts to bring order to the realm.

Hosted Games has three new games for you to play! The 3Games by Ema L. Bícová & Anna Michalcová Imagine an independent city in space, where drugs are a source of superpowers and lethal reality shows a source of income. Team up with equally desperate citizens and fight for your life. How many will you save from an untimely death? The 3Games is an interactive novel by Ema L. Bícová and Anna Michalcová where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–200,000 words, without graphics or sound-effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Join a deadly reality

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http://www.iftechfoundation.org/press/interactive-fiction-technology-foundation-announced/ Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30 June 2016—The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) was formally announced today as the first-ever nonprofit formed to support the success and growth of all forms of interactive fiction — text adventures, choice-based games, visual novels, and more. The Foundation’s mission is to ensure the ongoing maintenance, improvement, preservation, and development of tools and services necessary to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction. IFTF also announced today that it will assume stewardship of the prestigious Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp). Interactive fiction is a game category where the player’s interactions primarily involve text. Examples run the gamut

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We’re happy to announce that one of our bestselling games, Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, is now available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. (It’s still available on iOS and Android, too.) It’s 17% off on Steam until July 4th! Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations! Affairs of the Court is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse. It’s a tale of romance, deception and court intrigue, where your choices control the story. The game is entirely

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