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On Friday, December 20th, we’ll release our last game of the year under the “Choice of Games” label: “Choice of the Deathless,” by Max Gladstone, Campbell Award-nominated author of “Three Parts Dead” and “Two Serpents Rise.” Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you’ll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don’t lose your own soul first. Our beta testers are giving it rave reviews; I have a very good feeling about this one. To be notified when

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It’s almost time for the annual Spring Thing interactive-fiction competition! The Thing is designed to create a place for longer, more polished games (which means it has often featured a more select set of entrants than the IF Comp) but is open to any new, completed interactive fiction. You need to pay a $7 fee to enter, but there are cool prizes. In some years there have been over $1000 of prizes! To enter, you’ll need to submit an “intent to enter” by March 1, and submit your entry fee and your finished game by April 9. Be sure to

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Choice of Games has two announcements to make. First, Reckless Space Pirates, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux. Second, we’re announcing that Zombie Exodus Part V: Resolution is now available under our “Hosted Games” program as a $0.99 in-app purchase for iOS and Android, and Kindle Fire. This special sale price will only last until December 20th, when the price will increase to $1.99 for Part III, Part IV, and Part V (each). The

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Paolo Chikiamco, author of Slammed! and resident of Manila, is participating in Authors for the Philippines to raise money for the relief effort after the typhoon. Support a good cause, and you could get your name featured in Slammed! http://authorsforphilippines.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/439-a-name-of-your-choice-in-slammed-the-pro-wrestling-interactive-fiction-game/

We’re proud to announce that Showdown at Willow Creek, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux. Saddle up and defend the town of Willow Creek from nefarious outlaws and city slickers! It all starts when a rancher’s daughter goes missing, and it ends at the showdown at Willow Creek, where greed, lust, science, and Mother Nature will face off at high noon. “Showdown at Willow Creek” is the interactive western mystery novel by Alana Joli

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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. And you won’t be alone! A number of authors on

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We’re proud to announce that The ORPHEUS Ruse, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux. Infiltrate the enemy as a psychic spy, leaping from body to body by touch! But when your own body is stolen, you’ll race against time to find it before your mind disintegrates. “The ORPHEUS Ruse” is the thrilling interactive spy novel by Paul Gresty, where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based–without graphics or sound

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Choice of Games is proud to announce three new games as part of our Hosted Games program! 1) Paradox Factor, by Mike Walter. If you could travel through time, what changes would you make? Alter your past and future in this edgy, thought-provoking time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause? “Paradox Factor” is one of our most unusual “Hosted” games yet, allowing you to travel freely from past to future and back again. You’ll need to use your memories of the future to solve puzzles in the past, before the probability

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We’re proud to announce that Heroes Rise: The Hero Project, 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. As a contestant on “The Hero Project,” you’ll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered “Infini” powers. Will you vote to eliminate your rivals, or betray your alliance to curry favor with the celebrity judges? “Heroes Rise: The Hero Project” is the sequel to last year’s hit “Heroes Rise: The Prodigy,” the epic interactive novel by Zachary Sergi,

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We’re proud to announce that the third part of the Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court trilogy, our popular series of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, OS X, and Linux. The third part, titled “‘Til Death Do Us Part,” is the climactic conclusion to the trilogy, a fantasy story of clandestine love affairs, revolution, and betrayal, which started with “Choice of Romance” and continued in “Choice of Intrigues.” Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to

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