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Choice of Games is pleased to announce the release of Wizard’s Choice for iPhone and iPad, by Sam Landstrom. Sam has already published his successful series of Wizard’s Choice titles for Android, Windows Phone, and Kindle; we’re excited to partner with him to release the game for iOS for the first time. Fortune and glory or death? Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard’s Choice is a series of text-based adventures that will engross you in a storyline while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate. We hope you enjoy playing

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Yesterday, the 2011 XYZZY Award winners were announced. Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo was nominated in ten categories, including Best Game; it won only one award, a “Special Recognition” award, which was devised after voting started. This happened because folks from the ChoiceScript community and/or fans of Zombie Exodus voted as a block. In the first round of voting, where voters nominated games out of a list of more than a hundred, a large number of people voted as a block for ChoiceScript games. In round two, the votes were split approximately 50/50: votes for Zombie Exodus, and votes for

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The finalists in 2012’s XYZZY awards have been announced! The XYZZY Awards are given for the best works of interactive fiction released the previous year in a variety of categories (Best Writing, Best Puzzles, and so on). Now it’s time to vote for the winners! Anyone can vote for the winner in every category, even those who did not vote in the previous round, but please play all four games before voting for Best Game. Voting ends March 2. The nominees for Best Game are: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin) Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton) Six (Wade Clarke) Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo)

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The annual XYZZY Awards are here! The XYZZY Awards are given for the best works of interactive fiction released the previous year in a variety of categories (Best Writing, Best Puzzles, and so on). Anyone can vote in the XYZZY awards; in this round, all games released in 2011 are eligible to become finalists. In the next round of voting, starting in February, the winners will be selected from the most popular finalists in each category. This year, there are a number of fantastic ChoiceScript games on the list! (Here they are in alphabetical order.) Dead Already? Dilemma The Land

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Have you ever wanted to write an interactive novel? November is National Novel Writing Month or “NaNoWriMo” for short. This year, thousands of authors will write 50,000 words of fiction between November 1st and November 30th. Of course, most NaNoWriMo authors will write traditional linear novels this year, but we’d like to invite you use ChoiceScript to write an interactive NaNoWriMo novel. ChoiceScript is a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice games (MCGs) like ours. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. When you’re finished, you can even submit your finished ChoiceScript

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Choice of Games writer Heather Albano has branched out into non-interactive fiction! Her first novel, Timepiece, is available for download at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and will shortly be available on a variety of other platforms and formats. Timepiece is a steampunk time-travel adventure – the story of girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein’s monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London. (No, really.) If you like Heather’s games, you’ll love her book… come on over and check it out!

Amazon is running a sale on its interactive fiction titles for Kindle, ending July 24th. You can get all of our games (including our newest title, Affairs of the Court, which includes “Choice of Romance” and “Choice of Intrigues“) for 50% off. Share and Enjoy!

SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2011: Have you ever wished to be the heroine of a romance novel? Think you could have run Anne Boleyn’s life better than she did? Want to walk a mile in Princess Kate’s gorgeous shoes? Now you can. Choice of Games, a quirky independent games company, has released their newest interactive novel, “Choice of Intrigues“—giving you the chance to star in your very own royal romance. “Choice of Intrigues” is a sequel to last year’s popular “Choice of Romance,” and is available as an In-App Purchase on iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. Choice of Games is

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 2011: Choice of Games, a quirky independent games company, has released their newest interactive novel, “Choice of the Vampire,” for Amazon Kindle. At more than 160,000 words, “Choice of the Vampire” is one of the longest works ever written in the “choose a path” style, allowing players to choose their gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, and feeding habits. Play as a young vampire, from the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 through the end of the Civil War in 1866. You’ll meet (and possibly feed from) Andrew Jackson, Marie Laveau and Jefferson Davis along the way.

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We are excited to announce the release of Choice of the Vampire v1.2.2. This finally brings the new_orleans_rapport scene to iPhone, as well as introduces the player to Memphis. More importantly, though, v1.2.2 sees a new User Interface for Choice of Games, as well as iOS-specific animations (page-curls, etc).