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Interactive Fiction in Yuletide 2022
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.
(This is copy-pasted from the excellent posts of previous years; let me know if anything needs updating – which it probably does...)
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 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.
If you would be happy to receive IF this year, please leave a comment below, following this template:
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.
(Many thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yhlee and liyana for helping start to compile this list - keep 'em coming if you see any missing!)
Other Works
- For a Change (Interactive Fiction [play online - button is in the top right corner]
- Galatea - Emily Short [play online - button is in the top right corner]
- Wayfarer - Idrelle Games. This is a choice-based IF game. Play here!
Books
- Stay? - E. Jade Lomax. This is a choice-based IF game whose canonical tag is mis-categorized. Play here!
Video Games
- Arcade Spirits (Visual Novels)
- Black Closet (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
- Café Enchanté (Visual Novel)
- Choices: Immortal Desires (Visual Novel)
- Collar x Malice (Visual Novel)
- Coming Out on Top (Visual Novel)
- Cupid Parasite (Visual Novel)
- DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel
- The Elementalists (Visual Novel)
- Exit/Corners (Visual Novel)
- Find Love or Die Trying (Visual Novel)
- Glory Hounds (Visual Novel)
- Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel)
- Home for the Holidays (Visual Novel)
- It Lives (Visual Novels)
- Lavender Laboratories (Visual Novel)
- Long Live the Queen (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
- Love & Legends (Visual Novel)
- Magical Diary (Visual Novels)
- Magical Otoge Ciel (Visual Novel)
- Magical Otoge Iris (Visual Novel)
- Monster Prom (Visual Novel)
- Olympia Soirée (Visual Novel)
- Room No. 9 (Visual Novel)
- Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel)
- Sweet Enchantments (Visual Novel)
- キコニアのなく頃に | Ciconia no Naku Koro ni | Ciconia When They Cry (Visual Novel)
- グノーシア | Gnosia (Visual Novel)
- ことのはアムリラート | The Expression Amrilato (Visual Novel)
- 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)
- ダウト～セレブは華麗に嘘をつく～ | Doubt ~Serebu wa Karei ni Usowotsuku~ | Liar! Scheming Socialites (Visual Novel)
- ダウト～嘘つきオトコは誰？～ | Doubt ~Usotsuki Otoko wa Dare?~ | Liar! Uncover the Truth (Visual Novel)
- ピオフィオーレの晩鐘 | Piofiore no Banshou (Visual Novels)
- ピリオドキューブ ～鳥籠のアマデウス～ | Period Cube: Shackles of Amadeus (Visual Novel)
- 与君盟 | My Vow to My Liege (Visual Novel)
- 古書店街の橋姫 | Koshotengai no Hashihime | Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Visual Novel)
- 百花百狼 戦国忍法帖 | Hyakka Hyakurou Sengoku Ninpou-Chou | Nightshade (Visual Novel)
- 花帰葬 | Hanakisou (Visual Novel)
- 英国探偵ミステリア | Eikoku Tantei Mysteria | London Detective Mysteria (Visual Novel)
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.
(This is copy-pasted from the excellent posts of previous years; let me know if anything needs updating – which it probably does...)
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:
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.
(Many thanks to
yhlee and liyana for helping start to compile this list - keep 'em coming if you see any missing!)Other Works
- For a Change (Interactive Fiction [play online - button is in the top right corner]
- Galatea - Emily Short [play online - button is in the top right corner]
- Wayfarer - Idrelle Games. This is a choice-based IF game. Play here!
Books
- Stay? - E. Jade Lomax. This is a choice-based IF game whose canonical tag is mis-categorized. Play here!
Video Games
- Arcade Spirits (Visual Novels)
- Black Closet (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
- Café Enchanté (Visual Novel)
- Choices: Immortal Desires (Visual Novel)
- Collar x Malice (Visual Novel)
- Coming Out on Top (Visual Novel)
- Cupid Parasite (Visual Novel)
- DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel
- The Elementalists (Visual Novel)
- Exit/Corners (Visual Novel)
- Find Love or Die Trying (Visual Novel)
- Glory Hounds (Visual Novel)
- Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel)
- Home for the Holidays (Visual Novel)
- It Lives (Visual Novels)
- Lavender Laboratories (Visual Novel)
- Long Live the Queen (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
- Love & Legends (Visual Novel)
- Magical Diary (Visual Novels)
- Magical Otoge Ciel (Visual Novel)
- Magical Otoge Iris (Visual Novel)
- Monster Prom (Visual Novel)
- Olympia Soirée (Visual Novel)
- Room No. 9 (Visual Novel)
- Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel)
- Sweet Enchantments (Visual Novel)
- キコニアのなく頃に | Ciconia no Naku Koro ni | Ciconia When They Cry (Visual Novel)
- グノーシア | Gnosia (Visual Novel)
- ことのはアムリラート | The Expression Amrilato (Visual Novel)
- 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)
- ダウト～セレブは華麗に嘘をつく～ | Doubt ~Serebu wa Karei ni Usowotsuku~ | Liar! Scheming Socialites (Visual Novel)
- ダウト～嘘つきオトコは誰？～ | Doubt ~Usotsuki Otoko wa Dare?~ | Liar! Uncover the Truth (Visual Novel)
- ピオフィオーレの晩鐘 | Piofiore no Banshou (Visual Novels)
- ピリオドキューブ ～鳥籠のアマデウス～ | Period Cube: Shackles of Amadeus (Visual Novel)
- 与君盟 | My Vow to My Liege (Visual Novel)
- 古書店街の橋姫 | Koshotengai no Hashihime | Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Visual Novel)
- 百花百狼 戦国忍法帖 | Hyakka Hyakurou Sengoku Ninpou-Chou | Nightshade (Visual Novel)
- 花帰葬 | Hanakisou (Visual Novel)
- 英国探偵ミステリア | Eikoku Tantei Mysteria | London Detective Mysteria (Visual Novel)
Some IF Tools
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.
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Letter link: https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/4380721.html
Fandoms:
- Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber (Song)
- Fallen London
- Fighting Fantasy - Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone (Gamebook Series)
- For a Change (Interactive Fiction)
- Galatea - Emily Short
- SoftBank’s Next 30-Year Vision
Anything else:
I would be delighted by a IF/CYOA/gamebook-style fill in any of the above requests. In fact, Fighting Fantasy is a gamebook series; For a Change and Galatea are parser IF; and Fallen London is a web-based narrative game that would lend itself well to an IF-style treatment. I'm familiar with pretty much all the major IF types - parser IF, CYOA/gamebook, visual novels, Twine, etc. I have access to both Mac and Windows machines.
Note that I am very bad at puzzles - if you do puzzles, I would appreciate hints or a walkthrough. :)
IF canons I've spotted in the tagset
Other Works
- For a Change (Interactive Fiction [play online - button is in the top right corner]
- Galatea - Emily Short [play online - button is in the top right corner]
Video Games
- Arcade Spirits (Visual Novels)
- Café Enchanté (Visual Novel)
- Choices: Immortal Desires (Visual Novel)
- Collar x Malice (Visual Novel)
- Coming Out on Top (Visual Novel)
- Cupid Parasite (Visual Novel)
- DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel
- The Elementalists (Visual Novel)
- Exit/Corners (Visual Novel)
- Find Love or Die Trying (Visual Novel)
- Glory Hounds (Visual Novel)
- Heaven Will Be Mine (Visual Novel)
- Home for the Holidays (Visual Novel)
- It Lives (Visual Novels)
- Lavender Laboratories (Visual Novel)
- Love & Legends (Visual Novel)
- Magical Diary (Visual Novels)
- Magical Otoge Ciel (Visual Novel)
- Magical Otoge Iris (Visual Novel)
- Monster Prom (Visual Novel)
- Olympia Soirée (Visual Novel)
- Room No. 9 (Visual Novel)
- Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem (Visual Novel)
- Sweet Enchantments (Visual Novel)
- キコニアのなく頃に | Ciconia no Naku Koro ni | Ciconia When They Cry (Visual Novel)
- グノーシア | Gnosia (Visual Novel)
- ことのはアムリラート | The Expression Amrilato (Visual Novel)
- 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)
- ダウト～セレブは華麗に嘘をつく～ | Doubt ~Serebu wa Karei ni Usowotsuku~ | Liar! Scheming Socialites (Visual Novel)
- ダウト～嘘つきオトコは誰？～ | Doubt ~Usotsuki Otoko wa Dare?~ | Liar! Uncover the Truth (Visual Novel)
- ピオフィオーレの晩鐘 | Piofiore no Banshou (Visual Novels)
- ピリオドキューブ ～鳥籠のアマデウス～ | Period Cube: Shackles of Amadeus (Visual Novel)
- 与君盟 | My Vow to My Liege (Visual Novel)
- 古書店街の橋姫 | Koshotengai no Hashihime | Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Visual Novel)
- 百花百狼 戦国忍法帖 | Hyakka Hyakurou Sengoku Ninpou-Chou | Nightshade (Visual Novel)
- 花帰葬 | Hanakisou (Visual Novel)
- 英国探偵ミステリア | Eikoku Tantei Mysteria | London Detective Mysteria (Visual Novel)
Re: IF canons I've spotted in the tagset
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Letter link: https://sarriathmg.dreamwidth.org/4523.html
Fandoms: DC vs. Vampires (Comic 2021), Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush (Comic), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale), Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Anything else: I love the ability to explore different outcomes emerging from the same setup. Characters ending up in different places due to small decision differences, becoming/growing into different people, or even having flipped good/evil alignments. How relationships can turn out differently if only some small things change. Some of my requests lean toward horror, so exploring different types of scares through IF also sounds wonderful.
My operating systems are windows and android, if that is relevant info.
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Letter link: https://keerawa.dreamwidth.org/5806.html
Fandoms: Shining Girls (TV), The Lazarus Project (TV)
Anything else: Both of these fandoms are 8-episode TV shows with very dark themes, involving time travel and alternate timelines.
In Shining Girls, our protagonist is a woman who survived an attack by a serial killer with the ability to travel through time. A CYOA IF trying to survive the week after being targeted by him would be disturbing and amazing.
The Lazarus Project involves a group of people with the ability to reset time, setting up time loops as needed. They use this ability to prevent humanity from wiping itself out - over, and over, and over again. IF would be an incredible way to explore the desperation and the horror inherent in this story.
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Letter link: https://lurking-latinist.dreamwidth.org/18150.html
Fandoms: The Game of Rassilon, Thieves and TARDISes, Doctor Who: Unbound: Doctor of War, The Prisoner (1967), Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully
Anything else: I have not played a lot of IF in general but am interested in unconventional narrative forms of all kinds, and I’ve really enjoyed some IF fanfic before. I like play with narrative that explores the weird, recursive, and meta parts of human storytelling! I would be happy with an IF gift or treat for any of my fandoms, but I think it might be an especially good fit for The Prisoner (1967), just because of the themes and style of the show.
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Letter link: https://estirose.dreamwidth.org/759802.html
Fandoms: Zero: Shisei no Koe | Fatal Frame III: The Tormented (video game), Tangle Tower (video game), ことのはアムリラート | The Expression Amrilato (visual novel), Fantasy Life (video game), The Tomorrow People (1992) (tv)
Anything else: I like stories with different endings, and CYOA-type IF is perfect for this. (Twine in particular is compatible with all modern browsers.)
Any of my fandoms lend themselves to stories with branching storylines, though probably Fatal Frame III, Tangle Tower, and The Tomorrow People fit best.
Additional IF Canons in the Tagset
- Stay? - E. Jade Lomax. This is a choice-based IF game whose canonical tag is mis-categorized. Play here!
Other Works:
- Wayfarer - Idrelle Games. This is a choice-based IF game. Play here!
Video Games:
- Black Closet (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
- Long Live the Queen (Video Game). This is a visual novel!
Re: Additional IF Canons in the Tagset
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Letter link: https://ginkgofan.dreamwidth.org/934.html
Fandoms: The Longing (Video Game), Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Anything else: I am not super familiar with IF but I like unusual and creative narrative forms and I have read/played Twine stories and games that I really enjoyed, including fan works. I use a Windows operating system
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the_alchemist
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kf3WWQLoNQcRCohWRKmDQXfCEviRR-Kk1erS_s6xH5M/edit?usp=sharing
The First Law - Joe Abercrombie
Sand dan Glokta
Barrett's Privateers (Song)
Narrator (Barrett's Privateers)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Captain Ahab (Moby Dick)
Cabaret - Kander/Ebb
Emcee (Cabaret)
Philoctetes - Sophocles
Philoctetes (Philoctetes)
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Letter link: https://quillori.dreamwidth.org/32907.html
Fandoms: (with optional extra IF prompts)
Ancient Egyptian Religion
• There are a lot of different versions of most myths - maybe that would lend itself to IF?
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Worldbuilding for this fantastic, dream-logic otherworld would work well with IF
Octopus People Paintings - Omar Rayyan
• More worldbuilding
كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة | Kitaab 'alf layla wa-layla | One Thousand and One Nights
• Perhaps something exploring the different options open to Jafar, or the different motivations he might have?
Liao Zhai Zhi Yi | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling
• Maybe something with fox spirits (will they turn out to be good, evil or somewhere in between)? Or the whole from a philosophical/religious point of view reality itself is just another type of dream/story might work with IF.
Tang Dynasty RPF
• Another prompt about navigating a dream-logic world of ghosts and spirits
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.
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Letter link: https://ceb.dreamwidth.org/394443.html
Fandoms: Glamourist Histories Series - Mary Robinette Kowal, The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher, Paranoia (Roleplaying Game), Dwarf Fortress
Anything else: I'd be delighted to receive IF for any of these fandoms, in any format. I like all types of IF and play on a linux system (with some access to windows)
no subject
Letter link: https://lielac.dreamwidth.org/18956.html
Fandoms:
- Bionicle (Generation 1)
- Cookie Clicker
- Dwarf Fortress
- The Planet Crafter
- Stellaris
- Untitled Goose Game
Anything else:
I am just, in full generality, a fan of the CYOA/IF format. It's delightful! How different choices can result in such divergent outcomes, or alternatively how no matter what you do you'll come to the same result. I especially like when routes "rhyme", for lack of a better word; where, if you play through several, there are beats that reoccur even if they're mostly different.
I'd prefer choice-based over parser-based. I have a Windows 10 computer.
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Letter link: https://sheliak.dreamwidth.org/103417.html
Fandoms:
Casey Jones the Union Scab - Joe Hill (Song): Worldbuilding
Glorantha (Tabletop RPG Setting): Any (tagset: Eneera Tor, Ezkankeko, Vestenbora, Vistera)
Planet of the Dragons - Richard Brightfield: Keesa, Millie, Sarda
(This is a CYOA book!)
The Vicars of Lower Squashby - Jared Pechacek: Any (tagset: Capuchin Vicar from Sussex, Dr. Shelby, Lydia, Vicar who is a College-Educated Woman)
Anything else: I strongly prefer choice-based IF to parser-based. I'm on a Mac computer.
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Letter link: Letter on DW
Fandoms: Sand Whale and Me (TV), Army of the Dead (Movies 2021)
Anything else: Notes about each fandom and why I think they might be good for IF...
* Sand Whale and Me (link goes to my promo post for this fandom)
- It's 25 minutes long and already has kind of a "game-like" structure; any weird branching possibilities leading to bizarre or silly or minimalist or peaceful or dark endings would work for this fandom.
* Army of the Dead
- Like any heist movie, things tend to fall apart chaotically and could have turned out completely differently based on the tiniest detail, so it might be interesting to see that explored in IF; I'm also a multishipper so multiple different romance endings would be interesting.
- Also, there's a completely unexplained implication/subtext in the second movie that everything in it takes place in a time loop, but not a complete reset; one where the characters are stumbling across their dead bodies from the last time they unsuccessfully attempted to accomplish their goal. I'm a lot more interested in characters only from the first movie (so you really only have to watch "Army of Thieves" to fulfill this prompt) but something along the lines of a time loop might be fun in IF format?
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Letter link: https://violetdawn.dreamwidth.org/302.html
Fandoms:
Paradise Killer: a cosmic horror dreamlike murder mystery with neon vibes! A super cool setting to explore, would be great for puzzles, murder mysteries, or just fun dreamy storytelling
Fortuna: tragicomic space webcomic about someone playing a game where they control a crew on a suicide mission and the AIs are aware they're in a game. Would be fun to play a game of Fortuna, or just hang out with AI gods.
Hashihime of the Old Book Town: psychedelic mystery BL with an unreliable narrator, time loops, and divergent timelines. The timeloops alone create a lot of fun IF possibilities, plus the character voices are very strong and reality is malleable.
Crewniverse: YouTuber/Twitch streamer RPF, but I've asked for a lot of AUs and I think it would be so fun to play an IF where they have to find the imposter, explore a dungeon, or, well, play a game.
Anything else: I love interesting formats of fiction, and IF definitely counts! Parser-based games are a lot of fun, I love the divergent/creative storytelling of Twine, and VNs are so much fun. I love dreamlogic and choice-based stories and time loops and metafiction.
My current systems are Windows and Android, but I'll be able to figure out other OS if need be.
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Letter link: https://penguinzero.dreamwidth.org/803.html
Fandoms:
Hitherby Dragons: A wonderfully surreal examination of the problem of suffering, as expressed through a series of fables performed by a very unusual cast. My request is a young girl who's an explorer, seeking to find Hell. I'd expect any IF about Hitherby to lean heavily on the medium, using the limits of the game system to amuse or dismay the player by the rules it sets for the story.
Undead Unluck: A manga about a girl who curses others with bad luck, and a man cursed never to die, and a world where the rules of reality are rewritten. What would happen if the UMA Parser transformed the world, making everyone have to act with text commands? What would the Negator Unparseable look like in that world?
Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers: A science-fiction setting where numerous different races are trying to get along and get by. Speaker introduced sims to Akarak society -- what if an IF game was essentially the experience of exploring a sim as an Akarak? There could be a game about Speaker exploring Wisengat, which could be a really interesting way to show off the inherent different perspectives of Akaraks and Quelin. Dealing with physical limitations and different forms of perception could be done fascinatingly in a text game.
Unpacking: A video game about a woman's life, and the homes she unpacks into along the way. There's already layouts of her various homes, which could easily be transported into a game's rooms. And IF has definitely had cases of trying to put the right object in the right room before, which could make for some interesting and amusing parallels.
Anything else: I grew up on the old Infocom text adventures, and though I've drifted in and out of text adventure fandom ever since, I've never stopped loving them. I love the way the parser can reveal and conceal, and the way a game can have a personality of its own expressed through its wording, its responses to commands, and its hidden assumptions about the player character that can get revealed in a breathtaking way at the right moment.
Disco Elysium x Twine
My partner made a set of Twine macros for Sugarcube/Twine 2 that do a good job of replicating parts of the canon UI/gameplay of it. I've done a lot of work in this (I wrote most of that documentation, and built a large fic/game using it) so am happy to help people who want DE Twine fic! (And I'm not participating in Yuletide this year, so happy to be helpful, whoever your recipient is.)