#if: events

[interact-if]

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June is PRIDE Month!

During the next following weeks, we will feature interviews of queer creators. Discussing their inspirations for their projects and experience as IF creators, we want to shed a light on their journey.

Here are our month’s featured authors, please check out their works and join us in supporting them!

Kit, Author of The Northern Passage

It’s cold, so cold, and your head aches, your ears pop, water choking your throat and nose, all you can do is watch as the sky gets farther and farther away from you. Clawed hands grab at your ankles, your legs, your arms, pulling you down, tearing at your clothes and piercing your skin.

You convulse violently, your body struggling to expel the water from your lungs as more floods in.

Staring up into the fading light, you feel your body grow weak, giving in, sinking now, your blood churning all around you in the water. A hand grabs at your throat, caressing a thumb over your skin, pulling you down as the dark water turns red.

The Northern Passage is an 18+ horror fantasy CYOA, where you play as a hunter sent up north to investigate a series of missing people along the border of your home country and in the port cities of the Blackwater. Working with your handler, Lea, you will travel north and discover that things are far worse than you ever could have imagined, and that there is something powerful lurking out in the deep, dark sea…

Read more about The Northern Passage here (18+). Play the Demo here. Kit's Patreon. Kit is also the author of Siren’s Call (18+). EDIT: TNP and SC are on a temporary pause until further notice.

Anna, Author of Wayfarer

When your mercenary work backs you into a corner, you take the only option available and accept a contract: to travel to the city of Velantis and steal an ancient artifact said to be blessed by the gods. Simple, right?

But Velantis holds more than you bargained for. Gathering a ragtag party of malcontents and renegades from across the city, you must navigate enemy factions, meddling guilds, and escalating political tensions. Your choices will ultimately determine the city’s fate – and the fate of every person who lives there.  

Wayfarer is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game. You play as a Wayfarer, a member of an order of warriors born with magical immunity in a world dominated by magic. It is currently in development. The full game will include three acts and a total of 14 chapters.

Read more about Wayfarer here. Play the Demo here (17+). Anna's Patreon and Ko-fi.

Jupiter, Author of Supernova: Renegade

In the distant future, Humanity has mastered space travel and joined the intergalactic community run by an alliance known as the Galactic Board for Interplanetary Peace. While none of the GBIP species have their own military, there is still a need for a peace-keeping force. Thus, the Arbiters were created.

You have just joined the Arbiter ranks—whether you wanted to or not. This prestigious position comes with a fair amount of perks, including your own ship and crew. However, it’s also the most dangerous job in the galaxy. When a small colony faces an attack from an unknown source, you’re sent to investigate. What you uncover reveals a danger far greater—and far closer to home—than you could have ever expected.

Read more about Supernova: Renegade here. Play the Demo here (17+). Jupiter's Ko-fi.

Brigid, Author of Event Horizon

[EVENT HORIZON] is a science-fiction-horror story, set far into a future in which humans are not alone in a hostile galaxy.

The Failsafe has been activated. War lingers on the horizon. Five years ago, you were one of the last people to be selected for the Failsafe and Final Stand Programs. You were frozen in time, placed into orbit at the edge of the solar system. And now, you’re hurtling through space towards a ship you’ve never seen before. The Nomad. A secret mission beyond the edge of the solar system, to stop the Enemy before they can begin their second invasion. A suicide mission. A point of no return.

Read more about Event Horizon here. Play the Demo here or here (18+).

Brigid is also the author of Lost Birds (link, 18+) and CLOSEDLOOP (link, 18+).

Abigail, Author of Willow Creek Run

It’s finally summer and you’re spending it in your childhood home of Willow Creek. It’s a small, idyllic town in mid-America filled with rolling green hills, winding streams, and miles and miles of horse country. Most of the population learned to ride before they learned to walk, and you are no exception. 

You’ve agreed to help out at your father’s training and boarding stable because he’s fallen on hard times and can’t afford the summer help he needs. He’s been missing payments to the bank, and if he doesn’t pay in full soon they’ll either take the farm or he’ll be forced to sell out to his old rival, Alexander Mannor. 

Your only hope is to win the town’s summer-end competition, Willow Creek Run, and use the prize money and prestige to pay your father’s debts and save the farm. The problem is that you don’t have a horse of your own to enter and you haven’t competed in years.

Just when it looks like all hope is lost, a mysterious horse turns up on your father’s property with no sign of an owner and a wild look in its eye. Could this be the sign you’ve been looking for? You have the whole summer to train your horse, make friends (or enemies!), and do your best to prepare for Willow Creek Run.

Read More about Willow Creek Run here. Demo: TBA

Maxim, Author of Werewolf Noir

Set in a modern fantasy world, Werewolf Noir is a dark mystery where you’re looking for the person who killed your kid. If it’s for justice or revenge is up to you. You play as a relatively new werewolf after having lost everything and everyone, now living in the city of Reaver, corruption runs deep through the system and the richer someone is the more corrupt they are. Meet interesting characters and ro’s as you put the puzzle pieces together, get adopted by a tiny little pup or kitten, and pick out your new career path (private detective, bounty hunter, criminal) to make ends meet as you navigate this world and try to keep the wolf inside contained.

Read More about Werewolf Noir here. Play the Demo here. Maxim is also the author of Ichor: Awakening (TBA) and A Hero’s Job (TBA)

Jessamine, Author of The Black River

Somewhere, somehow, you lost your memories. You’re aware that–whatever it was that happened –it involved chanting cultists, and horrible serrated knives, but unfortunately none of those nice gentlemen are around to explain what’s going on to you. Oh… and also it seems that whatever they did with the aforementioned chanting and knives tore a hole in the fabric of reality and opened a gateway from the world of the living to the Underworld.

Which you fell through.

And now you’re stuck, despite your best efforts, on an antique ship from several centuries ago, with a crew of dead sailors and a motley assemblage of others from the living world. You don’t know what’s going on back in the world where you’re supposed to be, but you know that it can’t be good.

In order to get home, you’ll have to help sail the Will-o’-wisp across the length of the Black River, uncovering truths that change the entire way you view the world and fighting villains whose ambitions extend to the very act of deicide.

And you’d quite like to get your memories back, while you’re at it.

Read More about The Black River here. Play the Demo here.

Nell, Author of Body Count

Your life isn’t going how you’d hoped. Despite having big plans when you graduated, you're stuck in a dead end job and a crappy flat with zero romantic life to speak of. All until a friend convinces you to join the cast of a new reality TV show.

The premise is simple: 12 singles are sent to a villa on a tropical island and they live there together for a month. After 28 days, the couple who is voted by the other islanders as being most likely to withstand the test of time will win £500,000. In addition, the couple with the highest body count will win £500,000. Total prize pool? £1,000,000. 

In this context, “body count” refers to how many people you’ve slept with... right? Well, that’s what you think when you sign your contract. Turns out, though, that not all of your fellow cast members will be using that definition to get to the prize. 

Fall in love, win big money, solve some murders and try to stay alive.

Read More about Body Count here. Play the Demo here (18+). Nell's Patreon and Ko-fi.

Heather B., Author of Jade Empire: Shadow of the Lotus

Legend tells of the Spirit Monks; servants of the Water Dragon, shepherds of the dead, warriors without peer. Though their order was all but wiped from existence forty years ago, they are slowly but surely rebuilding themselves. Young warriors from across the Jade Empire dream of joining their ranks.

You are no different.

You are the newest initiate of the Spirit Monk Order; raised in the idyllic Two Rivers and trained by a living legend, you are a martial arts prodigy. As the junior member of the Order, you travel the Empire, dealing with lost and vengeful spirits. But shadows of something far more sinister lurk on the horizon, and it’s up to you and your allies to unravel the dark mystery before it’s too late...

Read More about Shadow of the Lotus here. Play the Demo here.

#if: events #Pride 2022 #interactive fiction #queer creators #queer authors #queer fiction #queer stories #lgbtq #lgbtqa #image description

[manonamora-if]

This is a short-ish log. I know I forgot last week, but I'm sure you understand why :P There was the AMA on that Saturday, and I was sPENT.

Teatime with a Vampire

IT IS OUT! The thing I've been working for almost a month, which I thought I'd be done in a week... It's way too long for its own good. But you CAN PLAY IT.

If you like vampires and smooches, and slightly about-to-get-steamy scenes, but also weird wtf moments, then this is perfect for you!

While you're at it, play some Queer Vampire Jam games. There's some good stuff there.

French Comp Entry

Currently writing it. An epistolary one. The base UI is ready. I have half the passages drafted. And one week to finish it.

Website update

Last week, I've been working on updating my website since it had been a while, and a bunch of new projects needed to be added. (also ended up fixing some lil things in the process). Check out how cool the first page and project-list pages are now!!

And over on itch, I've updated my page to include neat collections to find games easier.

DOL-OS

The IFDB Awards were announced and DOL-OS won the Outstanding French Game of 2023!!! I'm reeeaaallllyyy happy about this! It was also nominated for a handful of other ones like: Outstanding Twine, Trailblazer, and Outstanding Sci-Fi!

Thanks to everyone who voted at the Awards (and for me :P ) Next is the Xyzzy... any day now xD

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I think that's all for what I've been doing. I need to add more to the @manonamora-if-reviews queue, cause I've been reviewing a bunch of stuff lately too! If only the IFDB and Tumblr would "talk" to each other so the posting would be automatic xD

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IF Events for next week:

The Smoochie Jam, the @seedcomp-if and the French IF Comp are ending very very soon! But there is still some time to submit!

The SpringThing will still accept intents to submit until March 1!

I've started the Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024 over on itch to try to find more IF release during the year. Consider sharing the post on Tumblr!

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And that's it for now :) The end of the month is approaching, which means a new check-in will happen (and lots of admin too... ;-;)

#devlog #progress #updates #interactive fiction #if: events #i have to do my taxes today ;-;

[lasttarrasque]

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free free palestine #current events #gaza strip #jerusalem #uk #london

[humanvoicebox]

I swear once you start digging out their crimes you'll dig to hell and back.

This article is more that 24 years old

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #gaza genocide #israel #genocide #current events #jerusalem #history

[sayruq]

like to charge reblog to cast

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #end the occupation #end the apartheid #apartheid #settler colonialism #american imperialism

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

It legitimately amazes me how the “We can't allow the Holocaust to happen again” crowd can look at something like this and still claim that the Israeli government isn’t committing any war crimes.

Absolutely horrific stuff.

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Gaza #Gaza Strip #Ceasefire #Current Events

[intersectionalpraxis]

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #palestinian liberation #palestine will be free #children of gaza #end the occupation #end the genocide #ceasefire now #ceasefire #gaza strip #gaza #gaza news

[slavicafire]

#in a shocking turn of events mine is a whole beautiful 0%. #against my better judgement? yes. but still #w ogóle wiadomo skąd wzięłam pomysł na poll ale cicho. ciii. #food

[cat4755776]

I’d just like to acknowledge that South Africa wouldn’t have such a strong case without the work of the journalists, both alive and martyred, on the ground in Gaza supplying the world with firsthand information about the genocide and that they deserve thanks for it.

#palestine #free palestine #current events #free gaza #gaza #end the genocide

[politijohn]

Source

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#capitalism #news #current events #the left #end capitalism #working class #unionize #workers rights

[astraystayyh]

the fact that Israel can precisely target ONE apartment in an entire residential block in BEIRUT to kill two hamas leaders, proves once again that they CHOSE to carpet-bomb Gaza and murder 31.000 Palestinians to "defend themselves" against Hamas. Israel CHOSE to kill civilians, they CHOSE to bomb every hospital, every school, every refugee camp, every residential block. israel does NOTHING to spare the lives of palestinians, they want to thin out the population of gaza so they'd be able to settle their citizens there.

this is a genocide it's an ethnical cleansing PLEASE WAKE UP don't stop talking about Palestine it is not a trend, people are still dying, Israel has no plan to stop if WE don't force it to, through public pressure and protesting and boycotting. it's the least we can do.

#free west bank #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #israel #save palestine #stop israel #human rights #current events #west bank #jerusalem

[interact-if]

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Hi everyone!

In an effort to spread more positivity in the IF community, we are encouraging you, the readers, to send some love to projects you enjoy reading, authors you follow, etc... If you were looking for a sign to send an IF author a compliment, here it is!

How to do that:

send an ask with a compliment, an emoji, a nice gif and tell them how much you like them/their projects

reblog their posts/share their projects with others

rate/review their projects (when possible on the platform demo/game is hosted)

comment on their projects

support them financially (if you are able to)

Don't know what message to send? Here's an example!

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I'm a big fan of your WIP! [Describe a character you like, a choice that stuck with you, something you appreciate about this specific WIP, etc.] Thank you, and have a great day!

Now go and spread the love!

#if: events #Author Appreciation #sticky notes #image description

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.

I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!

I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.

I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!

I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!

My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .

A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.

#palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza under attack #gaza under genocide #israel apartheid #israel is a terrorist state #bisan #journaling #journalism #journalist #free palestine 🇵🇸 #we are not numbers #december #joe biden #usa #america

[lasttarrasque]

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free free palestine #current events #gaza strip #jerusalem #germany #german news #jews #jewdaism #jewblr #antisemitism #never again

[copperrust]

me when i fuckging get you

#waaahh this was made very roughly and it shows #boop #boop o meter #april fool's day #april fools 2024 #april fools event

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #genocide #gaza genocide #hasbara