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Choice of Games is pleased to announce the release of Sons of the Cherry, by Alex Livingston, author of The Nightmare Maze. Play it on the web, or download the iPhone version or the Android version. “Sons of the Cherry” is a game of espionage and arcane magic in the American Revolution. Choose a side or go it alone in the secret war for the soul of the new nation. Use multiple magic disciplines to reach your goals and change history. Both “Sons of the Cherry” and “The Nightmare Maze” are part of Alex’s Waking Cassandra series, which now includes

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The Kindle Zombie Watch was upgraded to a Zombie Warning on Monday, following eyewitness reports of zombie sightings on the Kindle platform. Kindle users are advised to stay indoors and practice Zombiepocalypse Survival techniques with Choice of Zombies from Choice of Games. Choice of Zombies for Kindle Fire Choice of Zombies for E Ink Kindles Or, just search for “Choice of Zombies” on your Kindle. The game is also (still) available on the iOS App Store and the Android Google Play Store.

Choice of Games proudly unveils its Zombiepocalypse survival training simulation: Choice of Zombies, by Heather Albano and Richard Jackson.

Mark your calendars! Choice of Zombies, our newest game from Heather Albano and Richard Jackson, will be released on Friday, April 13th. Download it this Friday from the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play Store, the Amazon Appstore for Android, or play it on our website. If you’d like to be reminded when our 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 Zombiepocalypse countdown on Twitter/Facebook/G+, featuring

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There’s nothing quite like the high of galloping toward the end of a project, so I am particularly happy to report the “Choice of Zombies” finish line is in sight. The first third of the game won IntroComp 2011 back in July (and have I mentioned that I am still floored by that? The Ego-Boost That Keeps On Boosting) and we’re pretty sure the rest of the game meets the expectations set by the beginning. We’ve tried some new things with this one—Zombies is the most complex game ever made under the official “Choice of” brand, and it’s the first

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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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