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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! You’re a naturally heroic and quick-thinking space captain flying a starship from world to world while keeping your hair groomed to perfection. It’s your duty to keep the engine running, the scotch flowing, the crew happy, and your outfit looking fabulous. There’s carnivorous flora, deceptive aliens, space anomalies, horrifying creatures, and too many arch enemies to keep track of them all! Can you survive? Starship Adventures is a 50s-style sci-fi interactive comedy novel; a collaboration coordinated and edited by Felicity Banks. It’s entirely text-based—60,000 words, without graphics or sound effects–and

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! Survive in the demolished district after the nuclear bombings. Face mutants born of the nuclear radiation, while dealing with what humans are left in the struggle for the hope to end your living nightmare. Decide who you’ll trust and overcome the challenges that await you. Doomsday on Demand is an interactive novel by Norbert Mohos. Your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–102,000 words, without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Enjoy a 102,000-word novel filled with action, drama, and tough decisions. Face

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! Gambling with Eternity is a ghost story starring you! Explore the afterlife, discover the secrets of a mysterious Agency of spirits, and terrify anyone who gets in your way. But be careful—make the wrong choice, and you could meet a fate worse than death. Will you gamble an eternity? Engage in a 50,000-word paranormal story of morality, mystery, adventure, and daring confrontation. Create a unique and memorable personality by customizing a variety of distinctive traits like name, gender, job title, physical description, and more. Play multiple times to experience all

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Choice of Games is proud to announce that we’re auctioning off cameos in six of our most anticipated games; proceeds will go to My Friend’s Place, an organization that assists and inspires homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. The auctions close on Thursday, May 19th. Name a Fallen God in “Exile of the Gods” (NEWLY ADDED MAY 11th) The Gods of Xylhis have been banished to the Western Lands by their own mortal servants. Now you, the Champion, have been charged with returning the fallen deities to power, and punishing those who betrayed them. Will you carry out your mission

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We’re proud to announce that “The Sea Eternal,” the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 25% off until April 29th! In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart’s desire? Dive into a world of mermaids, mermen, and other merfolk, where every character has secrets, and nothing is what it seems! “The Sea Eternal” is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Lynnea Glasser, author of “Creatures Such as

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We’re happy to announce that one of our bestselling games, “It’s Killing Time,” is now available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. (It’s still available on iOS and Android, too.) Travel the world, meet interesting new people, and assassinate them for money! “It’s Killing Time” is an ultra-violent 140,000-word interactive novel by Eric Bonholtzer, 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. Earn respect, reputation, and wealth as a hired assassin. You’ll be dressed to kill, driving an exotic car with outlandish weapons in the

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Hosted Games has a new game for you to play! It’s the dawn of superpowers! Grab a cape and stand with the first generation of heroes as they struggle to join society and vanquish a criminal conspiracy, or lay the foundation to become the first villain. “Best of Us” is an interactive novel by Teo Kuusela, author of “Lords of Aswick.” Your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–127,000 words, without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Choose your powers: freeze your opponents, or carry them to the skies. Don your very own

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This is Part 3 of a 3-part series of posts about the Hosted Game First Year Demons. In the first part, I talked about games in education, and why ChoiceScript games can be a good method for teaching about culture. In the second part, I talked about our process for developing the setting and story for First Year Demons. In this part, I’ll talk about the differences in design and story between the two versions of the game. Educational Game vs. Story Game An educational game – at least, this particular variety of educational game – is written with the

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This is Part 2 of a 3-part series of posts about First Year Demons. In the first part, I talked about games in education, and why ChoiceScript games can be a good method for teaching about culture. In this part, I’ll talk about how we decided on the setting and story for First Year Demons. Choosing a Culture and Story The people who would be playing these games to learn the information contained in them would primarily be university students in the US and Canada. Therefore, we took North American culture as our “home” culture. We decided that the contrast

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We’re proud to announce that “The Hero Project: Redemption Season,” the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 25% off until April 15th! America’s #1 reality show for heroes is back for another season! Harness your superpowers to steal the spotlight, win votes, and save your sister! “The Hero Project: Redemption Season” is the first installment in a new series of interactive novels by Zachary Sergi set in the “Heroes Rise” universe. Your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–129,000 words, without graphics or sound effects–and

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