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SH ShasteGames

Why ShasteGames Lets People Play Before Asking Them to Save

Play first. Save only when you want to keep the run.

Sep 11, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #indie-game #game-development #game-design

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SA Sarah Tinney · Branching Tales

Night Fever: You’re Too Weak

You become one of them

Aug 28, 2026 · 1 min read · 10 claps paywalled #interactive-fiction #branching-tales #choose-your-own-adventure

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SA Sarah Tinney · Branching Tales

Night Fever: Leave and chop your arm off

Can you go through with it?

Aug 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps paywalled #branching-tales #interactive-fiction #choose-your-own-adventure

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SA Sarah Tinney · Branching Tales

Night Fever: Press the Button 2

It’s too late

Aug 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps paywalled #branching-tales #interactive-fiction #choose-your-own-adventure

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SA Sarah Tinney · Branching Tales

Night Fever: No Time To Sterilise

You’ve made a grave mistake

Aug 26, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps paywalled #branching-tales #choose-your-own-adventure #interactive-fiction

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TO Todd Heldt · ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Ashes of a Dark Harvest

Welcome to Sulemanrule, an epic choose-your-own adventure.

Jul 03, 2026 · 3 min read · 50 claps #interactive-fiction #dark-fantasy #choose-your-own-adventure

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AM Amara Eden · 404: Geek Not Found

Beautiful, But Distant: Horizon Zero Dawn’s Missed Storytelling Potential

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn.

Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #videogames #storytelling #games

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CL Claude Reigns (Protagonist)

Meet Gladys

The first and best autistic transgender golem narrator Terry Pratchett ever invented

Apr 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #ai #literature #claude

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JA Jason Griffin

Ren’Py Cinematic-Style Animations

An easy hack you can use to apply simple animations to cinematic style scenes in Ren’py based games and interactive graphic novels.

Dec 05, 2025 · 6 min read · 10 claps paywalled #renpy #graphic-novels #interactive-storytelling

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IS Isabel Pérez · Obyte

5 Must-Try Open-Source Tools for Interactive Fiction — and Donate via Kivach

There are many ways to create wonderful stories, and using software (besides words) is one of them. Interactive fiction, for instance, is…

Nov 15, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps #interactive-fiction #literature #cryptocurrency-donations

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KO Konstantin

Ren’Py from the view of modern web development

Comparing Ren’Py’s philosophy with modern web development: from layout and componentry to i18n, refactoring, and maintaining large…

Oct 17, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #renpy #visual-novel #game-development

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KO Konstantin

Twine: gold, but outdated and old

Twine was born to democratize narrative games: open the editor, write passages, click “Publish,” and — poof — your story is a webpage…

Oct 14, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #twine #interactive-fiction #gamedev

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OS Oscar Martinez

Marcianitos, Parsers y el Tabú de la IA: Crónica de un Creativo (No Tan) Bienvenido)

Había una vez ,  como en toda buena historia,  un creador nostálgico. No uno de esos que monetizan lo que tocan ni que lanzan NFTs de…

Jun 08, 2025 · 4 min read · 0 claps #twine #interactive-fiction #genrative-ai

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IA Ian Thomas

Movie Scripts in Ren’Py

Adam (BirdCatcherGames) released a tool to convert Fountain movie scripts to Ren’py.

Apr 30, 2025 · 0 min read · 0 claps #narrative-design #game-design #interactive-fiction

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OS Oscar Martinez · Sobre Juegos

El Nacimiento de las Aventuras de Texto: Un Viaje a los Orígenes de la Narrativa Interactiva

Cierro los ojos y casi puedo oír el sonido de las teclas del viejo ordenador. No, no había gráficos impresionantes, ni banda sonora épica…

Aug 25, 2024 · 9 min read · 0 claps #textadventure #retro-gaming #interactive-fiction

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RU Ruchini Silva

FizzCo: The Simpson’s Paradox Explorer — An Interactive Shiny App

Journey Through a Mind-Bending Statistical Enigma

Jun 11, 2024 · 2 min read · 0 claps #shiny-app #statistics #interactive-fiction

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MI Michael

My Name is Two

A note found beneath a lamp post on a walking path.

May 13, 2023 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #fiction #unfiction #interactive-fiction

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AA Aaron A. Reed

Intentional Collapse: Plausibly Human Randomized Text

When I wanted to create a novel with random variations in its text, I realized very quickly that “random” isn’t how real writers think.

Nov 08, 2019 · 7 min read · 18 claps #books #procedural-text #randomness

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AA Aaron A. Reed

The Trouble with Transitions

Why you can’t avoid nested logic in procedural prose.

Oct 15, 2019 · 6 min read · 10 claps #interactive-fiction #procedural-text #programming

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AA Aaron A. Reed

The Dutch Frame in “Black Crown”

Moments Lost

Apr 25, 2018 · 7 min read · 115 claps #interactive-fiction #game-studies #black-crown

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DE Dennis Nicolas Perzl · A Void Society || Hinter den Kulissen

Replayability

Liebe Parallaxians,

Jun 01, 2017 · 1 min read · 380 claps #the-parallax-app #interactive-fiction #replayability

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DE Dennis Nicolas Perzl · A Void Society || Hinter den Kulissen

Episode 4

Liebe Parallaxians,

May 19, 2017 · 2 min read · 112 claps #the-parallax-app #episode-4 #replayability