Gay text based games
Amy Griswold
- Role: Writer
- Company: Decision of Games
- Location: North Carolina, USA
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QRM was lucky enough to have a chat with Amy Griswold, writer of interactive fiction!
QRM: Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do in the games industry?
Amy: I write science fiction and fantasy, and I've written two gay fantasy/mystery novels for Lethe Compress (with Melissa Scott), Death by Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club. I've also written a number of licensed tie-in novels for the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis TV series.
As a journalist for Choice of Games, I inscribe and code interactive fiction games. They're text-based games that are something appreciate 'choose your retain adventure' stories, but with more refined branching narratives based on your choices as a player. The game can track not only significant decisions, but the skills a character is building, the personality traits a character's deeds reveal, and the relationships being built between characters. The story varies based on your choices, and leads to a wide range of endings.
QRM: How long have you been involved in the game industry, and what projects have you
Bunnies everywhere! You can now get a quest from the bunny warrens in vanilla mode that allows you to taint the community college! Produce those students into bunnies! As adv as opening up the Bunny quest to vanilla players, we have also made it a LOT bigger! If you have ever wanted to dig a hole in the park, but didn’t want to turn on shota content, now’s your chance!
https://badneverland.wordpress.com/download-bad-neverland/
Achievements!
You can now type “Ach” or “Achievements” to see your in-game achievements! Why not suggest some more?
Trophies!
Trophies are a cool new highlight of Bad Neverland that you usually get as part of a unique sex events! Once you have a Trophy, you can reply the event by looking at the item! Go review out your trophies in your inventory right now and see which ones have events attached to them.
Fast Travel
It works again! And now you travel instantly! Verify it out! We will be adding a lot more stuff to this as we proceed along.
More!
We’ve added a huge amount of stuff to the game, and fixed so many bugs!
Future Plans!
We are working on a new tainting quest for the lions! Soon
Games for those interested in gay characters, storylines, and player options
Twine & Other Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io
If one is open to a broader subgenre of IF than “COG-inspired choice-based interactive fiction written in Twine by Tumblr users”, there are tons of fantastic IF games on Itch that feature exclusively male protagonists.
Three of my favorite works of IF ever:
1. Kyle is Famous (Unity) by John Szymanski
itch.ioIt’s weird, funny, occasionally gross (in a gastronomic, not moral sense), and exactly the sort of untethered absurdist humor I crave. Very much taps into the “you can do that? Oh my God, you can do that” aspect of interactive fiction.
Markiplier did a Let’s Play of the game that garnered 2.5kk views, so strangely Kyle really is celebrated, and mainstream in a way other text adventures can only dream of.
Kyle is Famous by Ducky
Kyle prepares for his most important interview yet. Resolve his path through 21 endings in this comedic adventure.
You can also procure an expanded and polished version on Steam.
2. Will Not Let Me Go (Twine) by Stephen Granade (author of the COG title Professor of Magical Studies)
In many ways, this game is the antithesis of everything s