Interactive Fiction in Yuletide 2019

[raininshadows]

This is largely copy-pasted from the excellent posts of previous years (2017, 2016, 2015). Any new errors are mine.

Spreadsheet available here!

Are you interested in text adventures, CYOA, Twine games, or other sorts of interactive fiction? Do you want to let your writer know you'd be happy to receive something along those lines? Are you looking for someone to write IF for? This post is for you.

What is IF?

Interactive Fiction (IF) covers everything from text adventures through to visual novels, by way of all sorts of experimental works. It can be mostly a game, or mostly a story; it can be a way to immerse the reader, or to play around with the concepts of storyteller and audience; it can be an exploration of chance, or of fate; it can be a straightforward story, or something else entirely. From Healy's post:

[IF] is a term used for games which are made up primarily of text, like Adventure, Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and other text adventures, or more experimental hypertext works like My Father's Long, Long Legs, or even visual novels. Interactive fiction these days is generally divided into two groups based on how you interact with the game: parser-based IF, and choice-based IF.

Parser-based IF, more commonly known as text adventures, are controlled by typed in commands, like "GET KEY", "OPEN DOOR", "GO NORTH", "LOOK UNDER BED", and stuff like that. Not every command you type in will work, though, so they're hard to get used to if you haven't tried them before. To make things easier, here's a card of most of the common commands. Some good parser-based IF to try first would be Ryan Veeder's So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, Admiral Jota's Lost Pig, Andrew Plotkin's The Dreamhold, and Adam Cadre's Photopia.

Choice-based IF is simpler; you just pick from a number of options. This can be done through hyperlinks and other clicky selections, though more rarely you may have to type a number from a list. Good examples of choice-based IF include Anna Anthropy's Star Court, Alan DeNiro's Solarium, the various games hosted by Choice of Games, and most every given visual novel.

Writing IF for Yuletide

IF is considered opt-in for Yuletide - please don't write it for people who don't want it. If you aren't sure whether it would be welcome or not, ask a mod to check with the intended recipient.

You are still required to follow the normal rules, such as focusing on requested characters (unless the recipient has said you needn't include them all).

If you're writing a treat, unless you're sure your recipient would be happy with it as a main gift, either post it to Madness or wait till they have another full-length gift posted.

It can be hard to figure out what word count an IF story really is - what you've written is full of code that doesn't count, and what your recipient sees may vary in length depending on their choices. If you're posting to the main collection, try to overshoot the minimum requirement a bit, just to be on the safe side. Say a minimum of somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 words. Or probably about 10 to 15 minutes play through.

If your post to the main AO3 collection is under 1,000 words (e.g. you're just linking to an online playable version elsewhere), please drop the mods a note so they know it isn't someone posting something under the minimum, and provide them with an estimated word-count.

Your recipient does need to be able to access what you've created! Please link to a suitable IF interpreter if required, or if possible make a web-playable version.

Requesting IF for Yuletide

If you would be happy to receive IF this year, please leave a comment below, following this template:

<b>AO3 username:</b> <b>Letter link:</b> <b>Fandom 1:</b> <b>Fandom 2:</b> <b>Fandom 3:</b> etc. <b>Anything else:</b> (optional - the sort of things you love about IF, specific IF prompts and preferences etc)

Please do stick to the template! This streamlines my loading it into the spreadsheet.

IF Canons Nominated for Yuletide

Plenty of IF canons get nominated for Yuletide! While it's still important to ask before writing IF for someone, someone who consumes IF already will probably be more interested in getting it. (Some of these canons were adapted into other mediums, so it's possible that someone who's interested in one of those isn't at all into the IF side of things. Thus why it's important to ask.) Consider requesting or offering one of these if you're interested in IF for Yuletide. Where possible, the below links are to play the games, but some of them aren't available online; some of them also cost money. I do not know every canon nominated; if you know of an IF canon that isn't on this list, or I have accidentally added a non-IF canon to this list, please comment to let me know!

80 Days (inkle)
Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance (Heather Albano, Adam Strong-Morse)
アオイシロ | Aoi Shiro (Success Corporation) (not available for purchase online)
Amnesia (Idea Factory)
Arcade Spirits (Fiction Factory Games)
Backstage Pass (sakevisual)
Black Closet (Hanako Games)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix)
Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
Chaos;Child (5pb.)
Changeling (Steamberry Studio)
Cinderella Phenomenon (Dicesuki)
Cinders (MoaCube)
Code:Realize ～創世の姫君～ | Code: Realize - Guardian of Rebirth (Otomate) (not available for purchase online)
Collar x Malice (Idea Factory) (not available for purchase online)
Coming Out On Top (Obscurasoft)
死印 | Shiin | Death Mark (Aksys Games)
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps)
The Dreamhold (Andrew Plotkin)
The Elementalists (Pixelberry Studios) (Choices: Stories You Play (cell phone app))
Exit/Corners (Max Manco)
Fallen Hero: Rebirth (Malin Rydén)
Fate/stay night (Type-Moon) (not available for purchase online)
fault (Alice in Dissonance)
Hakuoki (Idea Factory) (not available for purchase online)
花帰葬 | Hanakisou (Haccaworks) (not available for purchase online)
ファタモルガーナの館 | Fata Morgana no Yakata | The House in Fata Morgana (Novectacle)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry (07th Expansion)
Hustle Cat (Date Nighto)
イケメン革命アリスと恋の魔法 | Ikimen Revolution: Love & Magic in Wonderland (Cybird) (cell phone app)
イケメン戦国 時をかける恋| Ikimen Sengoku: Toki o Kakeru Koi (Cybird) (cell phone app)
I Love You Colonel Sanders! (KFC)
It Lives (Pixelberry Studios) (Choices: Stories You Play (cell phone app))
The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct (Office of Research Integrity) (interactive movie)
Lake of Voices (GB Patch Games)
The Letter (Yangyang Mobile)
ダウト～オフィスは男女の嘘だらけ～ | Doubt ~Ofisu wa Danjo no Uso Darake~ | Liar! Office Deception (Voltage) (cell phone app)
ダウト～セレブは華麗に嘘をつく～ | Doubt ~Serebu wa Karei ni Usowotsuku~ | Liar! Scheming Socialites (Voltage) (cell phone app)
ダウト～嘘つきオトコは誰？～ | Doubt ~Usotsuki Otoko wa Dare?~ | Liar! Uncover the Truth (Voltage) (cell phone app)
英国探偵ミステリア| Eikoku Tantei Mysteria | London Detective Mysteria (Karin Entertainment)
Long Live the Queen (Hanako Games)
Magical Diary (Hanako Games)
Magical Otoge Ciel (batensan)
Monster Prom (Beautiful Glitch)
Mysteries of Baroque (William Brown)
ピリオドキューブ ～鳥籠のアマデウス～ | Period Cube: Shackles of Amadeus (Idea Factory) (not available for purchase online)
Pyre (Supergiant Games) (gameplay is half visual novel, half sports game)
The Royal Romance (Pixelberry Studios) (Choices: Stories You Play (cell phone app))
Scrambled: Syd City (Team Rumblebee)
Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (demo) (Azalyne Studios)
Solstice (MoaCube)
Steins;Gate (5pb.)
sweet pool (Nitro+CHiRAL)
Togainu no Chi (Nitro+CHiRAL) (not available for purchase online)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry (07th Expansion)
VA-11 Hall-A (Sukeban Games)
Wayhaven Chronicles (Mishka Jenkins)
We Know the Devil (Date Nighto)
When The Night Comes (Lunaris Games)
キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Nankidai)
Zero Escape Trilogy (Spike Chunsoft)

Some IF Tools

This is from Healy's and quillori's lists from previous years. A * means they can make web-based games.

Parser-based
Inform*: One of the biggest development tools for making parser-based IF. Has an English-like code. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Quest*: Another big IF development tool. Has a click-and-point editor with the option to check out the code. For Windows and web.
TADS*: A long running engine for writing interactive fiction, though generally not as easy to use as Inform. The latest version can make web-based games, although they need to be hosted on a non-https address or on the IFDB.

Choice-based
Twine*: Very popular tool for making choice-based IF. Has a visual editor, with some code-y bits for variables and the like. Can be extended with some Javascript passages. Available for Mac and Windows, and Twine 2 is web-based. See this comment for more notes.
ChoiceScript*: Used by the fine folks over at Choice of Games. Uses simplified Javascript to make games. It's very stat heavy. Requires a text editor. See this comment for notes.
Ren'py: Engine for making visual novels. Uses a simple scripting language. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can make games for all those platforms.
Inklewriter*: A completely web-based engine for making CYOA-style games.
How to Make a "Choose Your Own Adventure" Fic by La_Temperanza: A guide to creating choice-based IF on AO3 - not just the standard click-between-chapters function, but using work skins to hide parts from readers until they click through to them.

If you need help with hosting now that philome.la's gone read-only, let me know (raininshadows@gmail.com) - I have a personal website, blatant.ninja, that I use for hosting sometimes.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

How to Make a "Choose Your Own Adventure" Fic (1769 words) by La_Temperanza
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: No Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Fanwork Research & Reference Guides
Series: Part 16 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
Summary:

This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.

[raininshadows]

Added to the IF Tools section, thank you!

[yhlee]

AO3 username: yhlee (etothey)
Letter link: https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/2999375.html
Fandom 1: Mojo Magical Horse Figurines
Fandom 2: Star Realms (Video Game)
Fandom 3: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! - Steve Jackson
etc.
Anything else: I’m familiar with the major IF formats/systems (Twine, parser-based, gamebooks/CYOA, visual novels, etc.) and I love them all, although I have a soft spot for the old-school Fighting Fantasy kinds of gamebooks. I would be delighted by IF treatments of any of my three requested fandoms. Please see letter for more notes/prompts.

[ashglory]

Aside from Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, here are some other games made using ChoiceScript that are in the tagset for this year!

The Mysteries of Baroque
The Wayhaven Chronicles
The Fallen Hero series

[raininshadows]

Added, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hakuouki is also a visual novel, available for different platforms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuoki

Quin

[raininshadows]

Added, thank you!

[sailorkitty]

AO3 username: Aquatics
Letter link: https://sailorkitty.dreamwidth.org/7533.html
Fandom 1: Desert Peach
Fandom 2: Stinz
Fandom 3: Bosom Enemies

Anything else: I have a very soft spot for dating Sims. Not just the romantic kind, but also the ones with character-focused, possibly platonic routes. I'd love to see something like that for Desert Peach or Stinz!

I'd also be happy for something that deals with slice-of-life in both fandoms. Löwards trying to mend a fence or find something pre-war (I would love some oppertunity to explore the Gieselthal and it's inhabitants.)? Trying to sneak past Kirschen at the barracks?

For Desert Peach, some zany camp life would be great. Chasing Dobermann? Trying to hide an allied tank? Great Afrikakorps Bakeoff?

Of course, if you have other ideas, I'm all for it.

[ladybird97]

Hi! Correction on Affairs of the Court: the second author's name is Adam Strong-Morse, not Andrew.

(Not the nominator, but I work for Choice of Games, so I am happy to answer questions about all things CoG, Hosted Games, and ChoiceScript!)

[raininshadows]

Fixed! Thank you for telling me, and sorry about the mistake.

[ladybird97]

Thanks for fixing it so quickly! And thanks also for organizing this post. It is awesome to see so much Yuletide excitement for IF!

[(Anonymous)]

One fandom nominated this year that's in an IF format/IF-adjacent is Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), a choice-based branching story originally scripted in Twine, conveyed in the format of streaming video with selectable path options. It's a psychological horror story about a young man trying to adapt an allegedly cursed gamebook into a computer game in 1980s Britain, with mixed results. It's streaming on Netflix and if anybody's curious but would like content warnings/spoilers, let me know.


AO3 username: skazka
Letter link: https://skazka.dreamwidth.org/172695.html
Fandom 1: The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters (Roderick Ayres, Caroline Ayres)
Fandom 2: Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin (Mary Reilly)
Fandom 3: AMC's The Terror (Cornelius Hickey)
Fandom 4: The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James (Miles, Flora)
Anything else: I'm familiar with pretty much all the major IF formats (parser-based, Twine, visual novels, gamebooks/CYOA, etc.) -- I have almost no experience with visual novels and likely won't get the full benefit of anything in that format but anything else is fair game. I especially love IF that's set in a single location (the different rooms of a house, for instance) or dealing with horror/mystery themes, but I'm hopeless at classic-IF-style puzzles, so if you love elaborate puzzles I'd love a cheat-sheet for my dense self.

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 username: TheBigCat
Letter link: https://therogueofblood.tumblr.com/post/188619262295/dear-yuletide-writer-2019
Fandom 1: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
Fandom 2: Beanworld (Comics)
Fandom 3: Rainbow Magic Series - Daisy Meadows
Fandom 4: Bernice Summerfield (Books & Audio)

Anything else: I have a soft spot for IF, especially Twine games - since I've done a fair few myself over the years. Stuff that leans into the format and the interactivity and pushes the limits of what it can do - it's all very cool and excellent.

[ashglory]

AO3 username: ashglory
Letter link: https://ashglory.dreamwidth.org/678.html
Fandom 1: HERO (Webcomic)
Fandom 2: Fallen Hero series (Video Games)
Fandom 3: Cinderella Phenomenon (Visual Novel)
Fandom 4: Magical Otoge Ciel (Visual Novel)
Fandom 5: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Anything else: I am most familiar with ChoiceScript and Twine, but would be absolutely pleased to receive any sort of IF! Visual Novels are great, gamebook-style IF is amazing, parser-based IF is fun, anything goes!

I just love the feel of being able to direct the narrative. Destiny and fate are some of my favorite themes to explore, and I find how IF interacts with those themes very interesting. That being said, I absolutely do not require that the choices have to "matter"; I'm okay with branching narratives that converge back into a single storyline again, and I'm also okay with widely varying endings.

I won't have access to anything that is Windows-only (or, I could, but I'm still trying to figure out how Wine works), so I'd prefer something that can be web-based if at all possible.

I'm not that great at puzzles, but if there was a walkthrough made available somewhere, I definitely would not mind receiving a puzzle-based game either!

[joking]

AO3 username: Poetry
Letter link: https://featherquillpen.tumblr.com/post/188582727912/dear-yuletide-author
Fandom 1: The Kingston Cycle – C.L. Polk
Fandom 2: The Good Place (TV)
Fandom 3: The Adventure Zone: Hootenanny (Podcast)
Fandom 4: The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct (Web Interactive Movie)
etc.
Anything else:
Since the source material is interactive, I think it would be really fun to see interactive fiction for "The Lab". Maybe have an interactive story from the point of view of Greg, or an AU with research misconduct in another setting, or one that explores the more personal aspects of what Greg did to the lab.

I think it could also be really fun to have interactive fiction set during the torture experiment era of The Good Place, where you play as Eleanor or Michael navigating one of the loops.

[corpsebrigadier]

AO3 username: CorpseBrigadier
Letter link: https://corpsebrigadier.dreamwidth.org/852.html
Fandom 1: Betrayal at Krondor
Fandom 2: Final Fantasy Tactics
Fandom 3: Hashire Melos!
etc.
Anything else: I really like IF that takes advantage of the medium to play around with the way games give us a sense of choice even while they tell limited narratives--things that show that your decisions make differences but can't always make the changes you anticipate or desire. I'm most familiar with Twine games, but I'm game for any sort of IF a person might be interested in making.

[prosodiical]

AO3 username: prosodiical
Letter link: https://prosodiical.dreamwidth.org/4335.html
Fandom 1: アオイシロ | Aoi Shiro (Visual Novel)
Fandom 2: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Fandom 3: Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game)
Fandom 4: Hustle Cat (Visual Novel)
Fandom 5: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Anything else: I'd be delighted by choice- or parser-based IF. Also, I'm up for any POV, multiple endings or a single click-through story. I'd love worldbuilding/exploratory style IF, or things heavily reliant on different routes and choices, or anything that takes advantage of the medium.

[hebethen]

If anyone wants a tester who's familiar with both hypertext and parser based IF to crash-test their game, feel free to message me. I won't be participating in Yuletide proper, so there's no chance of crossing the streams :)

[ruiswrites]

AO3 username: Ruis
Letter link: https://ruiswrites.dreamwidth.org/263.html
Fandom 1: Chess (Board Game)
Fandom 2: Shadowscapes Tarot
Fandom 3: Sorbian Mythology
Fandom 4: Historical Royals and Their Favourites RPF
Fandom 5: Dark Star Trilogy - Marlon James
Fandom 6: Nibelungenlied

Anything else: I've never created IF myself but I like the format a lot; I've played some Twine games so I'm familiar with the basics of that, and I'm also open to entirely new experiences. So I'm definitely opting in, for any of my requested fandoms!

[jaclynhyde]

AO3 username: jaclynhyde
Letter link: https://jaclynhyde.dreamwidth.org/3430.html
Fandom 1: Fate/Grand Order
Fandom 2: ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 - 三田誠 | Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - Sanda Makoto
Fandom 3: Nier Gestalt | Nier
Fandom 4: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Anything else: I love both parser and choice IF; basically anything without a timer is great! I especially like examining absolutely everything in parsers and a list of endings to find in choice. For specific prompts, I'd like to see more of the Nier text adventure section (see letter for more details). I'd also like dating sims in any of my fandoms, or absolutely anything IF you can think of!

[robberbaroness]

I'd be happy to get IF for any of my nominated canons!

AO3 name: robberbaroness
Letter: https://forthegothicheroine.tumblr.com/post/188628415496/dear-yuletide-author

Canon 1: Arthurian Mythology
Arthur Pendragon, Guinevere, Gawain, Ragnelle

Canon 2: Frankenstein- Hammer
Victor Frankenstein (Hammer Films), Elizabeth Lavenza (Hammer Films)

Canon 3: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance), Caradoc (Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance), Leo (Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance)

[alexseanchai]

AO3 username: AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki)
Letter link: letter
Fandom 1: 4'33" - John Cage (Song)
Fandom 2: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Cartoon 1966)
Fandom 3: Something Familiar - S. N. Arly

[reeby10]

AO3 username: reeby10
Letter link: https://reeby10.dreamwidth.org/23663.html
Fandom 1: Bill & Ted (Movies)
Fandom 2: Dinotopia - James Gurney
Fandom 3: Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Fandom 4: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Anything else: I'm not really very familiar with IF, but it sounds like fun!

[meteordust]

AO3 username: Serenade
Letter link: https://meteordust.dreamwidth.org/203426.html
Fandom 1: Falcon - Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson
Fandom 2: Fortress Series - C. J. Cherryh
Fandom 3: Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Anything else: I like interactive fiction and would welcome it!

[reconditarmonia]

AO3 username: reconditarmonia
Letter link: https://reconditarmonia.tumblr.com/post/188701876366/dear-yuletide-author
Fandom 1: The Psychology of Time Travel

Anything else: I love parser games best but I'd be excited for anything.

[karanguni]

AO3 username: karanguni
Letter link: https://karanguni.dreamwidth.org/287460.html
Fandom 1: The Culture - Iain M. Banks
Fandom 2: John Wick (Movies)
Fandom 3: Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Fandom 4: Edo Era Japanese Go Players RPF
Fandom 5: Keicho Embassy RPF
Fandom 6: Breakfast with Scot

Anything else: I'm happy with anything you come up with in any of my fandoms, but here are a few things that pop immediately to mind -

I'd honestly love an interactive Ship's log or conversation for The Culture, or a choose-your-own-Special-Circumstances adventure (maybe S.C. people spinning the roulette wheel on who to send out on what mission?).

John Wick - John Wick's inventory? Or him on a mission, or something about the general universe and how it operates would be amazing.

Keicho Embassy RPF - ooh, anything interesting in terms of cross-culture exchange - switching languages? Writing styles?

Edo Era Go - I don't play Go, but Go moves as a general setup to something IF-y?

[aris_tgd]

AO3 username: ArisTGD
Letter link: https://aris-tgd.dreamwidth.org/269587.html
Fandom 1: Master Ninja 2
Fandom 2: Fiasco One Shot: Saturday Night '78 (TableTop)
Fandom 3: **The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct (Web interactive movie)**
Fandom 4: The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anything else: I'm mostly excited to see IF for The Lab, which is my one IF nomination/request this year, but if you are my author and have an idea for any of the others, awesome! (I'd be happy getting non-IF for The Lab as well but this is the pro-IF post, so, you know, I'm pro it!)

[keerawa]

AO3 username: keerawa
Letter link: https://keerawa.dreamwidth.org/3052.html
Fandom 1: 킹덤 Kingdom (TV 2019) - Any
Fandom 2: 221b Baker Towers (5-minute fandom!) - Sherlock Holmes
Fandom 3: A Taste of Honey - Kai Ashanti Wilson - Any

Anything else: I most enjoy dark, choice-based IF where almost all paths lead to your doom. That sense of being trapped, and having to work through many bad endings to earn a good one, really works for me!

* For Kingdom, trying to get out of a zombie-infested town as the sun sets OR trying to make it through the murderous politics of the capitol without getting eaten alive by the metaphorical or literal monsters.

* For 221b Baker Towers, Sherlock just trying to make it through one damn day with himself and John alive and free. Maybe it’s really happening, maybe he’s blazed and his own powers of deduction are spinning out of control and driving him round the bend – your call. If I, as the reader, can’t tell, either, more power to you.

* In A Taste of Honey, the monstrous Sybil's fragmented view of the many future possibilities and probabilities as she sends Lucrio to Olorum to meet his love, anticipating his bitter tears.

[lea_hazel]

AO3 username: lea_hazel
Letter link: https://lea-hazel.dreamwidth.org/440777.html
Fandom 1: Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem
Fandom 2: Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
Fandom 3: Untitled Goose Game
Fandom 3: The Sims 4: Wedding Rags to Island Riches
Anything else: I love Twine a lot but I'm a novice to parser games.

[visarded]

AO3 username: Visardist
Letter link: https://visarded.dreamwidth.org/734.html
Fandom 1: Strictly Business - O. Henry
Fandom 2: Transients In Arcadia - O. Henry
Fandom 3: The Last Leaf - O. Henry
Fandom 4: A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fandom 5: Parker Pyne - Agatha Christie
Fandom 6: The Hidden Almanac (Podcast)

Anything else: While I'd welcome IF for any of my fandoms, I think Transients In Arcadia or A Little Princess would be best suited. I have what-if prompts for both in my letter. I'm most familiar with CYOA and visual novel types of IF.

[seinmit]

AO3 username: seinmit
Letter link: https://seinmit.dreamwidth.org/2869.html#cutid1
Fandom 1: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View - Immanuel Kant
Anything else: I'm only opting in for this fandom because I think it would be totally awesome. I've never played an IF game before, but it seems like a really cool idea--particularly for this fandom. In this, I'm asking for Immanuel Kant/Aliens (or & Aliens), based on one of his books where he talks about a species of rational beings that can speak only aloud. It would be a cool thing to explore in an interactive format.

[relle]

Here's a pile of other IF/visual novel stuff in the tagset that I noticed wasn't on the list!

80 Days (inkle)
Amnesia (Idea Factory)
Backstage Pass (sakevisual)
Black Closet (Hanako Games)
Chaos;Child (5pb.)
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps)
ファタモルガーナの館 | Fata Morgana no Yakata | The House in Fata Morgana (Novectacle)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry (07th Expansion)
Long Live the Queen (Hanako Games)
Steins;Gate (5pb.)
sweet pool (Nitro+chiral)
Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry (07th Expansion)
VA-11 Hall-A (Sukeban Games)
Zero Escape Trilogy (Spike Chunsoft)

I will return later with my actual requests, pffff.

[everysecondtuesday]

AO3 username: tuesday
Letter link: https://everysecondtuesday.dreamwidth.org/2019/11/03/
Fandom 1: Dwarf Fortress (no characters nominated)
Fandom 2: RED (Movies) (Han Cho Bai, Victoria Winslow)
Fandom 3: Rubyquest (Red (Rubyquest), Ruby (Rubyquest))
Fandom 4: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù (Mòběi-jūn, Shàng Qīnghuá, Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, System (Scum Villain))
Anything else: I'm open to any sort of IF and don't have a preference for POV when it comes to IF. My letter includes a bunch of different likes and my DNWs.

[echoslam]

AO3 username: echoslam
Letter link: https://echoslam.dreamwidth.org/5362.html
Fandom 1: Game of Zones (Web Series)
Fandom 2: ダウト～オフィスは男女の嘘だらけ～ | Doubt ~Ofisu wa Danjo no Uso Darake~ | Liar! Office Deception (Visual Novel)
Fandom 3: The Secret World (Video Game)
Fandom 4: Warriors - Imagine Dragons (Music Video)
Anything else: I especially love the dating sim/romance route format, but I'm open to anything!

[bardsley]

AO3 username: bardsley
Letter link: https://bardsley.dreamwidth.org/20513.html#cutid1
Fandom 1: 6th Century BCE Poets
Fandom 2: The Alchemy Wars
Fandom 3: Crazyhead
Fandom 4: The Goblin Emperor
Fandom 5: Jeeves & Wooster
Fandom 6: Mabel (podcast)

[spring_gloom]

AO3 username: spring_gloom
Letter link
Fandom 1: 80 Days
Fandom 2: Animamundi Dark Alchemist
Fandom 3: Crusade
Fandom 4: Hotel Dusk

By the way - Animamundi is canon IF and Hotel Dusk may qualify too.

[quillori]

AO3 username: Quillori
Letter link: https://quillori.dreamwidth.org/30277.html
Fandom 1: Ancient Egyptian Religion
Fandom 2: Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights
Fandom 3: Northwest Smith - C. L. Moore
Fandom 4: Tang Dynasty Poets RPF
Fandom 5: Tea in the Tempest - Omar Rayyan
Fandom 6: Liáo zhâi zhì yì | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pú Sônglíng
Anything else: I have far more experience with choice based than parser based games, but I'm open to either. I'm all mac though, so web based or works on a mac, please.

[ceb]

A03 username: molybdomantic
Letter link: https://ceb.dreamwidth.org/389597.html
Fandom 1: The Dundaxian Codex - Gloryhammer (Albums)
Fandom 2: Stacking (Video Game)
Fandom 3: Spaceteam (Video Game)

[weakinteraction]

AO3 username: weakinteraction
Letter link: https://weakinteraction.dreamwidth.org/14374.html
Fandom 1: Captain Marvel (2019)
Fandom 2: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Comic)
Fandom 3: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Fandom 4: Lady of the Shard (Webcomic)
Fandom 5: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Fandom 6: Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
Anything else: I am equally happy with both parser-based and CYOA IF. I'm happy for it to land anywhere on the various axes of "game" vs "simulation" vs "story"; I do enjoy puzzles, as long as they aren't insanely difficult to work out. On the more story-ish end, I do enjoy it when there isn't an obvious "good ending", or at least where it's left open to interpretation whether any particular ending is good or not. On the fanworks end, I do enjoy little details in how things are presented that call back to canon, if that makes sense (e.g. making the interface look like something in-universe), though I realise that's very tricky so it's very much an optional extra!

[tigerlily]

AO3 username: LittleRaven
Letter link: https://tigerlily.dreamwidth.org/52232.html
Fandom 1: So Weird (TV)
Fandom 2: W.I.T.C.H. (Cartoon)
Fandom 3: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip
Fandom 4: Romeo x Juliet (Anime)
Anything else:

I rarely write about IF, so I hope this is helpful! I've played mostly games which rely on reading text and clicking on text/making choices--for example, like Alabaster, The Book of Guenevere, visual novels, dating sims, and paper books where you turn to a page for every choice--but I'm open to receiving something different if the program is small and easily accessible. I use Windows 7 and Apple mobile devices.

This is also in my letter!

[raininshadows]

AO3 username: raininshadows
Letter link: https://raininshadows.dreamwidth.org/10741.html
Fandom 1: Dragon Pearl - Yoon Ha Lee
Fandom 2: Hive Mind Series - Janet Edwards
Fandom 3: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Fandom 4: Wings of Fire - Tui T. Sutherland
Anything else: I use a Mac, so I'd obviously prefer something that can be played on a Mac (I can emulate Windows if need be, I'd just rather not). My first love is parser games, but I've written my own choice games, and I love them both.

[esteliel]

AO3 username: Esteliel
Letter link: https://esteliel.dreamwidth.org/476614.html
Fandom 1: Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo
Fandom 2: Les Misérables BBC RPF
Fandom 3: Les Misérables (Dallas 2014)
Fandom 3: La Comédie Humaine - Balzac
Anything else: I'm open for anything. :)

[ashling]

AO3 username: Ashling
Letter link: letter on dw

The King (2019)
Henry V

Letterkenny (TV)
Tanis (Letterkenny)

Man Like Mobeen (TV)
Aqsa, Mobeen, Nate

Anything else: The IF that I'm used to is the Choices app type, but I also really enjoyed Affairs of Court: Choice of Romance. I'm totally down to try parser-based stuff, I'm just a big dummy so you may need to leave me instructions on how to make that run.

In IF, I like any of the following:
--options for player to romance someone (bonus if player has option to be bi)
--options to meddle around politically
--options to get in a fight
--moral dilemmas
--that thingy in really cool IF where you can tell that your choices impacted the final ending and/or important events

but really I love all kinds of AUs etc and will take anything as long as it's not in my DNWs or graphic horror--there's someething about horror in IF that particularly freaks me out, and tbh, I have a weak stomach for horror already.

side note I have found Twine to be absolutely fantastic, and since philome.la isn't working anymore, I use neocities to do the final publish

[acequeenking]

AO3 username: AceQueenKing
Letter link: https://acequeenking.dreamwidth.org/20611.html
Fandom 1: Hadestown
Fandom 2: Mythic!
Fandom 3: Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Anything else: I have IF-specific prompts in my letter, but any prompt I leave is always optional; feel free to work with my general likes, a different prompt, or anything you can think of that doesn't cross my DNW. I like dark dark fic and super fluffy fic equally, so go in whatever direction you want! I have no preferences for POV; first/2nd/third of any type is good with me.

In general I love IF in pretty much every format. What I think is my favorite use of it is when it's used to explore a small moment and all the little ways it could change, whether that exploration is recursive or has multiple endings or whatnot. I think my favorite example of this is "A Kiss"
(Original Work) where it focuses on a simple kiss between two characters, and spirals out into how they got into the kiss, what's going on in the house around the kiss, what was happening the minute before and the minute after. I basically love a very small moment, and all the ways that might have happened, or could have been, or just different information all gathered around a central point. Short and sweet is awesome, as is super long, and I like everything in-between two. :)

[reshiel]

AO3 username: Reishiin
Letter link: Dear Yuletide Writer
Fandom 1: Chess (Board Game)
* A correspondence chess simulator? Framed as a game between old friends, or strangers on a chess website? A chess A.I. that is more than it seems? (I love both sweet slice-of-life stories, and horrifying creepypasta/Windows 95 tips type stories.)
* A chess puzzle, from the POV of a chess piece? Nontraditional solutions (like attempting to escape off the edge of the board... alas, it wraps around?) are very much loved.

Fandom 2: Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
* I would love a Daneel sim of some sort, whether he's going about a case or about his day. What does a typical day look like for him? How do Aurorans treat him, and vice versa?
* A dating/friendship sim around Baley would also be very much adored.

Anything else: If you're working in parser I would appreciate a walkthrough. Otherwise, go wild :) (I am intentionally leaving this completely open so you have free rein!)

[lirin_lirilla]

AO3 username: lirin
Letter link: https://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/26727.html
Fandom 1: Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Video Game)
Fandom 2: Knitter's Almanac - Elizabeth Zimmermann
Fandom 3: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Fandom 4: Toliver's Secret - Esther Wood Brady
Anything else: I'm not very good at playing parser-based IF; I'm totally up for giving it a try, but please don't make it super difficult! As regards choice-based/CYOA, I'll soften my dislike of character death: as long as one ending (that I can pretend in my head is the "real" ending) doesn't contain non-canonical major character death, I don't mind if you include it in the rest of the story.

A few non-comprehensive possibilities for each of the fandoms:

Epistory - Perhaps some snippet of the canonical adventures but with the fox—or one of the creepy-crawlies, or an unseen observer, or whoever—as the protagonist? Feel free to require lots of typing, since this is originally a typing game...or play in any way with the interaction and overlap between words and pictures that is a bit of a theme in the game. For a CYOA, perhaps something where the protagonist doesn't always successfully escape the origami world.
Knitter's Almanac - EZ decides to add a 13th chapter (for Octember?) and considers various options for what she could knit in it. Or just something that explores the process of knitting one of the projects in the book—particularly the stops and starts that must come when one is simultaneously designing it.
Oxford Time Travel Universe - Perhaps something exploring some of the work Ann did on the "Living Through the Blitz" exhibit, or Colin and Ann doing research at the British library. (If choice-based, perhaps something where sometimes Ann finds out or figures out about the existence of time travel, and sometimes she doesn't.)
Toliver's Secret - Perhaps something that follows Ellen Toliver on her journey (if choice-based, perhaps exploring the places where things could have gone better or worse than they did), or another adventure later in the war or after the war is over.

[raininshadows]

Note: if you need help sorting out hosting, now that philome.la's gone read-only, let me know. I have a personal website, blatant.ninja, that I've used for hosting in the past.