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cerberus-writes

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hello! i’m cerberus, or cer, writer / artist of stories with a target audience of one (me). that being said, you’re more than welcome to come along for the ride.

[ ITCH.IO ] [ KO-FI ] [ ART BLOG ]

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WALK WITH ME.

RELEASED 10/07/21. HIGH FANTASY. TWINE / BITSY.

— amid the war of gods, a young god finds a friend in the mountains. snippets of conversation throughout a very long life.

[ PLAY ON ITCH.IO ]

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CARNIFICARE.

RELEASED 22/09/23. FANTASY. TWINE. VISUAL NOVEL.

— a stranger tells you a story about a monster.

[ PLAY ON ITCH.IO ]

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i’ve made a handful of other things as well on my itch.io page, including a few smaller games and a ui template for twine that i still have to update. if you’re here about coding questions, you might want to check out my answered asks tag or the coding tag. 

i’ve also got an art tumblr & twitter that i’m somewhat more active on, and i’m more likely to sneak in wip updates there so check those out if you’re interested!

#srb#finally cleaning things up yippee#pinned#anyway ive been doing more art stuff and cooking up a few projects slowly#tho that mostly translates to a bunch of small untitled projects on my itch.io for the forseeable future LOL#anyw hope everyone is doing good in the [checks notes] 2 weeks of 2025 that have alrdy felt a lot longer
northern-passageneointeractives
neointeractives

Smoochie Jam!

A Valentine's Interactive Fiction Jam

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For this Valentine's month, you can help make romance happen with a smooch!

The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam all about kisses, real or imagined, love and romance.  The name and concept of this jam were inspired the original SmoochieComp in 2001, hosted by Emily Short.

Smoochie Jam
A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-01 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. For this Valentine's month, you can help m
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Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof. Here is an optional list of story ideas and concepts:

♡ first kiss, last kiss
♡ kissing in the rain
♡ kiss of life (or kiss of death)
♡ sealed with a kiss
♡ kiss with a fist
♡ spaghetti kiss

Constraints and Rules:

  • Your Entry should relate to romance, love, kisses, or the deliberate subversion thereof.
  • The Jam is open to any program/medium, as long as the piece can be considered Interactive Fiction (i.e. the game is interactive, and its focus is on the text).
  • The Jam is open to any language.
  • You can submit up to 3 entries!
  • You should aim for a 15-30min maximum gameplay.
  • Entries can have NSFW content, as long as you indicate it in your submission.
  • Games should not include any generated AI content (incl. Cover Image/Game Page). Entries using AI/LLM will be removed.
  • Assets used must be properly credited.
  • Spam or hateful content will not be accepted.

Join the Jam!

We will track entries on Tumblr with the #smoochiejam, but you can also tag @neointeractives!

Join the Neo-Interactive Discord

#game jam
lydiaalinwinxroxy5
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Dashingdon: Free ChoiceScript Game Hosting
Hello all, I am no longer able to maintain the dashingdon.com system and server. It is terribly outdated and there are creeping security co
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So this is super important I saw on reddit and cog

https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/dashingdon-free-choicescript-game-hosting/9250/798

Yeah anybody on dashingdon needs to see this

#from the link: stuff will be deleted at the end of the month so move em if u want to keep them!
nyehilismwritingkithj
kithj

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Announcing the second Queer Vampire IF Jam!

This is a month-long game jam that will run from January 10 - February 20th, 2025. The goal of this jam is to create more interactive fiction games about queer vampires, focusing both on queer relationships and queer experiences as told through a vampiric narrative.

Check out the entries from last year here!

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JAM RULES:

  1. Your project must focus on queer characters and vampires. Queer relationships, romantic or platonic, as well as other queer experiences, whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary - this is an inclusive jam. 
  2. You can write from a human or vampire perspective (or both!)
  3. This jam will accept any medium, so long as the work is an Interactive Fiction.
  4. This jam will accept adult content as well as games covering heavy & uncomfortable topics, but please be sure to properly list trigger warnings either in-game or on the game page.
  5. Entries that promote any kind of bigotry will not be accepted.
  6. Games should not include any AI generated content.
  7. You can submit as many entries as you'd like.
  8. There is no language requirement; we will accept games in any language.
  9. You are allowed to start working on your project early! That's why I'm announcing it now. This jam is unranked and it's not a contest, this is just for fun.

Submissions open midnight, January 10th EST. They'll close February 20th at 11:59pm EST.

Join the jam here!

hosted by me and @nyehilismwriting

Additional questions we got asked frequently last year, for clarification:

Do Visual Novels count?

Yes!

What is Interactive Fiction?

Personally, I find interactive fiction hard to define, and I’m not interested in policing it, so as long as it’s recognizably interactive fiction - ie, the game has a narrative focus primarily with text, and the player can interact (whether that be with direct choices, clicking through links, or allowing the player to choose how to move around and interact with the world/the game like in bitsy) then it counts.

Parsers, visual novels, choose-your-own-adventures are some of the popular examples of IF, but there are plenty that don’t fall within any category. Check out the IF tag on itch.io and you can see just how varied it is.

Does it have to be horror?

No, any genre is accepted!

#YIPPEEEE#LETS GOOOOO#in the trenches currently so doubt ill be submitting anything but im looking forward to all the submissions hehehe#rubbing my hands together like a little gleeful fly#game jam
Anonymous inquired:

Hey Cer, I'm not even sure if you're still active on here. But I was hoping to shoot my shot with a question.

I'm working on character creator and I was wanting to allow players to select more than one scar. And have that show up in text later.

What would be the best way to do this?

heyo! not particularly active but once in a while i see a notif at just the right time before i get distracted so-


the specifics of this probably differ depending on how your character creator looks like and idk if this would be the best way, but i’d probably do something like:

- some kind of cycling link / dropdown that allows players to choose none or one scar option, & store this as a temporary variable

- add a button that when clicked (probably a linkreplace or something) adds a second cycling link / dropdown for another scar option. save this as another temporary variable

- repeat (all of this on the same passage!) as necessary until the maximum no. of options you want to let players have

- upon confirmation / moving to the next passage, store all of those in an array as a variable (a normal one not a temporary one)

#cer answers#anonymous