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Nov 28

2012

Coming Soon: “The Fleet” from Choice of Games

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Mark your calendars! “The Fleet,” the newest game under our “Choice of Games” label, will be released on Friday, November 30th. Download it on Friday from the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play Store, or the Chrome Web Store. A free trial version will be available on our website.

Take back your home world from alien invaders! Forge an Intergalactic Alliance (with untrustworthy allies) to reclaim your planet; blast your way to victory with an ever-expanding arsenal. Will you sacrifice civilian lives to exact vengeance on your enemies? Will you return home as the president of a puppet state, a prisoner of war, or a military dictator? Will you even recognize home when you get there?

If you’d like to be reminded when the game is available, subscribe to our blog on the right-hand side of this page, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. We’ll run one more blog post on Friday to post download links.

Oct 29

2012

Enjoy a Treat from Choice of Games!

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To celebrate Halloween, we’re thrilled to announce that Zombie Exodus Part IV: Survival is now available to download on iOS, Android, and the Chrome Web Store for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Zombie Exodus won the XYZZY 2011 Special Recognition award for interactive fiction; Jim Dattilo has continued to develop and expand his game, incorporating extensive feedback from the Choice of Games community.

To play Part IV, you will need to update to the latest version of Zombie Exodus (version 2.0.0); you can purchase it as an in-app purchase at the end of Part III or at the very start of the game.

In addition, we’re running a sale on Choice of Zombies and Eerie Estate Agent until November 4th. This week only, pick up both games for only $0.99 each on iOS and Android.

Lastly, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t forget the Vampire: the Masquerade LARP we’ll be running at ConVolution this Friday! (It’s a very big week for us.)

Oct 26

2012

Choice of Games Presents “To the City of the Clouds,” A Colombian Archaeological Adventure

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We’re proud to announce that To the City of the Clouds, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Search for the lost Incan city known as La Ciudad de las Nubes in the mountains of Colombia. Your fledgling archaeologist will battle venomous pit vipers, tropical diseases, and the FARC guerrilla army to secure fame, fortune, and tenure at a prestigious university. Alcohol, lustful young students, and Incan spirits delight and bedevil you along the way.

“To the City of the Clouds” is a thrilling interactive adventure novel where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–but powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Choose your persona, your sexual orientation, and your propensity to wear khaki native huipiles…then let the adventure begin!

We hope you enjoy playing To the City of the Clouds. We encourage you to tell your friends about it, and recommend the game on StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Don’t forget: our initial download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. Basically, the more times you download in the first week, the better our games will rank.

Oct 24

2012

Coming Soon: “To the City of the Clouds” from Choice of Games

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Mark your calendars! “To the City of the Clouds,” the newest game under our “Choice of Games” label, will be released on Friday, October 26. Download it on Friday from the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play Store, or the Chrome Web Store. A free trial version will be available on our website.

Search for the lost Incan city known as La Ciudad de las Nubes in the mountains of Colombia. Your fledgling archaeologist will battle venomous pit vipers, tropical diseases, and the FARC guerrilla army to secure fame, fortune, and tenure at a prestigious university. Alcohol, lustful young students, and Incan spirits delight and bedevil you along the way. Choose your persona, your sexual orientation, and your propensity to wear khaki native huipiles…then let the adventure begin!

If you’d like to be reminded when the game is available, subscribe to our blog on the right-hand side of this page, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. We’ll run one more blog post on Friday to post download links.

In the meantime, we’re running a countdown on Twitter/Facebook/G+, featuring quotes from the game.

  • Monday: “Who says technical socks can’t be sexy? Black with silk ribbing at the ankle—yes please!”
  • Tuesday: “The whip has multiple uses. Sado-masochistic lovers? Jungle cats? You’ve got it covered.”

Sep 27

2012

ConVolution

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This is a little off-topic, but Dan, Adam & I will be running a Vampire: the Masquerade LARP at ConVolution in Burlingame, CA (just south of San Francisco) on November 2nd.

Dan & I wrote this one-shot game in 1999, and many of the people who played in it–to this day–maintain it was the best gaming experience they’ve ever had.

If you’re anywhere in the area, you should come out and join us! Make sure to sign up through the ConVolution website, and then drop us a note so we can get the casting done ahead of time.

Sep 25

2012

Choice of the Star Captain – Killer Blobs from Outer Space

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We’re proud to announce that Choice of the Star Captain, the latest in our popular line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Kindle, iOS, Android, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity and the hideous Blobs. (Not that anyone has actually seen a Blob up close, but everyone knows they have tentacles. Surely they’re hideous!) Go on stealth missions, run alien blockades, and investigate mysterious planets, “aided” by Lloyd, your insufferably obnoxious shipboard computer.

Choice of the Star Captain is a hilarious interactive science-fiction novel where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–but powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

“I set out to write a rollicking and ridiculous space adventure,” said Dorian Hart, author of Choice of the Star Captain. “My hope is that my readers will laugh out loud several times per minute–because the story is funny, of course, and not due to some unfortunate medical condition.” Dorian’s design credits include BioShock, Freedom Force and System Shock 2, among others.

Humanity needs you, Star Captain! Will you defeat the Blobs and come home as a war hero? Will you uncover the secret that sparked the Blob invasion? Will you serve as ambassador and convince the Blobs to spare the human race? The choice is yours.

We hope you enjoy playing Choice of the Star Captain. We encourage you to tell your friends about it, and recommend the game on StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Don’t forget: our initial download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. Basically, the more times you download in the first week, the better we’ll rank.

Sep 17

2012

Coming Soon: “Choice of the Star Captain”

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Mark your calendars! “Choice of the Star Captain,” our newest “Choice of” game, will be released on Tuesday, September 25th. Download this hilarious interactive science-fiction novel on Tuesday from the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play Store, the Amazon Kindle Store, or the Chrome Web Store. A free trial version will be available on our website.

Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity and the hideous Blobs. (Not that anyone has actually seen a Blob up close, but everyone knows they have tentacles. Surely they’re hideous!) Go on stealth missions, run alien blockades, and investigate mysterious planets, “aided” by Lloyd, your insufferably obnoxious shipboard computer.

If you’d like to be reminded when “Choice of the Star Captain” is available, subscribe to our blog on the right-hand side of this page, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. We’ll run one more blog post on Tuesday to post download links.

In the meantime, we’re running a countdown on Twitter/Facebook/G+, featuring quotes from the game.

  • Monday: “HONOR TO MEETING YOU, CAPTAIN. MAY TENTACLES WRAP YOU IN SLIME.”
  • Tuesday: “Lloyd sounds smug. Who in hell programs a computer to be smug?”
  • Wednesday: “Playing with your tiny human brain gives me treasured seconds of amusement.”
  • Thursday: “If gravity were a smell, what do you think it would smell like? A) burnt hair B) triumph C) whiskey D) gravity”
  • Friday: “More hostile function will be met with internal organ besplatterment!”

Aug 31

2012

Two New Games: “Eerie Estate Agent” and “Way Walkers: University”

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Today, Choice of Games is proud to announce two new games. First, Eerie Estate Agent, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Second, we’re announcing that Way Walkers: University is now available under our “Hosted Games” program for iOS, Android, and the Chrome Web Store.

Manage a Haunted House in “Eerie Estate Agent”

In Eerie Estate Agent, it’s your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired.

In this interactive novel, your choices determine how the story proceeds. For example, when your tenants, who haven’t slept in days due to bone-chilling whispers emanating from the walls, ask to break their lease, do you:

A) Let them transfer their lease to another property?
B) Allow them to break the lease, but keep their security deposit?
C) Insist on sticking to the terms of the lease?
D) Boldly investigate, like all the victims in bad horror films?

How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or use them to drum up publicity? How will you deal with ghost hunters, squatters, and celebrity tenants? Will you emerge as the top agent? Stage an office coup? Or will you become a permanent resident of 57 Crowther Terrace?

Embark on a Spiritual Adventure in “Way Walkers: University”

Which Way will you walk?

In a land were science and magic are the same, you are one of the few born with Extrasensory Abilities–and you dream of attending the most prestigious metaphysical university on the Continent. There, you can discover not only your potential and place amid the Twelve Ways of Spirit, but perhaps your ultimate destiny. Fight drakes, make friends or enemies, chase ghosts and argue with angels, be an upstanding student or a devious rebel–it’s all up to you.

Way Walkers: University is a truly interactive novel, set in a world where freewill is paramount. Every choice you make decides your fate, and defines your very soul. ‘For freewill shall choose between the paths fate has lain.’

Will you follow the Way of the Healer, or carve your reputation as a Warrior? Shall gossip and relationships fill your days, or shall you choose the Way of Truth and study? Will you seek fame along the Way of Creativity, or hone your Abilities under the Way of magic?

Will you choose a righteous path, or fall to the Way of Evil?

Our Two-Label Publishing Platform

Choice of Games makes games available under two labels: our official “Choice of Games” label, available only to select authors, and our “Hosted Games” label, which is open to everyone.

“Eerie Estate Agent” is the second game under the “Choice of Games” label written by a professional author outside the “Choice of Games” partnership. Our previous experiment with this was Heroes Rise: The Prodigy; it was a huge hit.

Like “Heroes Rise,” we’re not offering the entirety of these new games for free on our website. We’re offering the first part (about 20%) of each game for free; to play the rest, you’ll have to purchase the game.

We hope you enjoy playing Eerie Estate Agent and Way Walkers: University. We encourage you to tell your friends about them, and recommend our games on StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Don’t forget: our initial download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. Basically, the more times you download in the first week, the better our games will rank.

Aug 28

2012

Coming Soon: “Eerie Estate Agent” from Choice of Games

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Mark your calendars! “Eerie Estate Agent,” the newest game under our “Choice of Games” label, will be released on Friday, August 31. Download it on Friday from the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play Store, or the Chrome Web Store. A free trial version will be available on our website.

In “Eerie Estate Agent,” it’s your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired. How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or use them to drum up publicity? How will you deal with ghost hunters, squatters, and celebrity tenants? Will you emerge as the top agent? Stage an office coup? Or will you become a permanent resident of 57 Crowther Terrace?

If you’d like to be reminded when the game is available, subscribe to our blog on the right-hand side of this page, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. We’ll run one more blog post on Friday to post download links.

In the meantime, we’re running a countdown on Twitter/Facebook/G+, featuring quotes from the game.

  • Tuesday: “That house. It defies the axioms of Euclidean geometry.”
  • Wednesday: “You each recognise that the other is used to screwing people over for a living.”
  • Thursday: “One of the golden rules of real estate is ‘never grapple an armed client.'”

Aug 26

2012

Congratulations, Winners of IntroComp 2012

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The IntroComp award ceremony was today; Resonance, by Nereida Scales, took first place. This is the second year in a row that a game written in ChoiceScript has won IntroComp.

IntroComp is an annual interactive-fiction competition in which entrants submit only the first part of their games. Players vote for the winning game.

1st place: Resonance, by Nereida Scales
2nd place: Compliance, by Chris Conley
3rd place: Belief, by Justin de Vesine

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
The Bafflingly Casual Adventures of No One of Significant Import, by Robb Kinnison
Genesis, by I.B. a.k.a. ML
Wasteland by Taylor Melton and Alex Tocco

Congratulations to all of the winners!

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