#demos

You can find all of the submissions for the Fantasy Interactive Fiction category down below!

(Not listed in any particular order—top games in each category coming soon)

Ongoing

A Thin Line Between Desires by @theostwistedtales

The Gray Ascendancy by @thegrayascendancy-if

The Sword of Rhivenia by @theswordofrhivenia 

The Marked by @peonyb

The Lost Bride by @thelostbride-if

The Midnight Bay @midnight-bay-if

A Tale of Crowns by @ataleofcrowns

Stygian Sun: Total Eclipse  @stygiansun-totaleclipse

Wayfarer by @idrellegames

Shepherds of Haven  by @shepherds-of-haven

Cantata by @fir-fireweed

When Twilight Strikes  by @evertidings

The Lonely Shore by @thelonelyshore-if

God-Cursed by  @wings-of-ink

The Bastard of Camelot by @llamagirl28

Crown of Exile by @ramonag-if

Misplaced by @calliopefiction

Wolfsbane by @wolfsbane-if

Pactbinder by @pactbinder-if (mentioned in action/adventure)  

The Nameless by @parkerlyn

Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector  by @tales-of-wocdes

Small Fires by @smallfires-if

The Exile (also mentioned in action/adventure) by @exilethegame

Speaker  by  @speakergame

Pro Patria Mori by @pro-patria-mori-if

Kindling  by @kindlingif

Island of Whispers  by @islandwhispers-if

Anything for the Crown  by @anything4thecrown-if

Guardian of Time by @guardian-of-time-if

Crown of Ashes and Flames by @coeluvr  

The Sovereign’s Ring  by @thesovereignsring-if

Garden of Bones  by @gardenofbones-if

The Pretenders Guild  by @thepretendersguild

The King’s Hound by @kal-down  

Golden Ashes* (Demo unavailable—currently being rewritten) by @goldenashes-if

Skin & Scales by @skinandscales-if 

Honor Amongst Thieves (also mentioned in action/adventure) by @leoneliterary

The Rot of Witchwood by @rotting-ink

Venturis by @venturis-if

Ashenmaw - Dragons of Marrowoods by @ashenmaw-if

The Well of The Divine by @well-of-divine-if

Chains of Destiny by @chains-of-destiny

RPG in Another World  (also mentioned in action/adventure) by @drowsyruigames

Burning Academia by @burning-academia-if

The Abyssal by @theabyssal

The Ballad of the Young Gods by  @childrenofcain-if

Softly, Opulent by @softlyopulent-if

The Eternal Library  by @leiatalon

Hyperion by @hyperion-if

God Syndicate by @god-syndicate-if

Forever Gold by @lsdoiphin

The Abyssal Song by @ri-writes-if

Bladeweaver by @bladeweaver-if

The Brightest Stars by @brighteststars-if

Summoners Return by @king-of-fae

The Bonewitch by @thebonewitch-if

The Iron King’s Heir by @ironkingsheir-if

Fellow Traveler (urban modern fantasy) by @robotvampire

Thicker Than  (modern supernatural) by @barbwritesstuff

Wolf Set Free (modern supernatural) by @wolfsetfree-if

Sanguine Sky (dark fantasy) by @sanguinesky-if

Bride of Shadows (dark fantasy) by @mortish-writes

Weeping Gods by @jcollinswrites

Completed

A Mage Reborn: Book One by @mage-parivir (sequel in the works)

Love the Guard, Be The King by @ligiawrites

The Night Market Book One by @night-market-if (sequel in the works)

Lovewood by @lovewoodvn

Arcadie: Second Born by @sofia-d-asb (sequel in the works)

The Second Sight: Dead Reckoning by @spoiledblogif (sequel in the works)

Choice of Rebels: Uprising (sequel in the works) by Joel Havenstone

The Wayhaven Chronicles (book 1-3 completed, book 4 is in the works) by @seraphinitegames

Their Majesties' Pleasure by @leiatalon

Ink and Intrigue by @leiatalon

Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion by Lidia Molina Whyte

NonPlatonic Forms by @alexis-royce

The Case of the Serialized Killer by @alexis-royce

Blood Moon (supernatural/modern supernatural) by @barbwritesstuff

Fields of Asphodel (sequel in the works) by @chrysanthemumgames

After being essentially lost media for years and years, user aka nandy has re-uploaded the alternate version of DBTT.

Oasis began recording this album in 2004 with Death In Vegas, but ended up scrapping the demos (twice) after Noel wasn't pleased with the results:

(— Noel for the Oasisisnet Webcast, April 22 2005)

In May 2008, five of the tracks recorded from the Death In Vegas sessions (Turn up the Sun, The Meaning Of Soul, Love Like a Bomb, Eyeball Tickler and A Bell Will Ring) were leaked on YouTube, but because of copyright they got deleted and it couldn't be found for years— some pieces survived but in very poor quality.

Yesterday seven songs were found but the demos of 'Eyeball Tickler' (written by Gem) and 'The Meaning of Soul' (written by Liam) have already been blocked by Youtube.*

Still, here are the recovered demos! (and I may have put all the songs into a zip file before copyright does its thing)

Columbia

The famously re-recorded Columbia (back in 2009 there was a leak of this exact demo and a long debate regarding if it was real and who the vocals belonged to lmao) and it's very different compared to the original. New vocals, a bit slower I think, and it's a bit darker and more psychedelic. I'm actually really liking this version tbf

Turn Up the Sun

The one song that Noel said it sounds exactly like an Oasis tune even though he didn't write it, Andy did. This one was available on YouTube, probably because it sounds quite different from the final version and because back in the 2000s it was up on iTunes. It sounds more stripped down and Liam's vocals are a bit more raw

Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Sung by Liam! Liam's demo of this song was actually available but in really poor quality. I'd like to post the entire thing but Tumblr won't let me— still, the full version is in the zip file ^^

Love Like a Bomb

A Bell Will Ring

These last two I wonder if they're from the second batch of demos, produced by Noel, because they're the same set of vocals but the production is slightly different— maybe they're early takes of the Dave Sardy tracks. Either way, nice to have them.

That's all for now! To be fair I expected them to be a mess, given how Noel talked about the sessions and how adamant he was on keeping the demos unreleased (but then again the brothers always say x thing was rubbish and then it turns out it was alright) I'm just excited more people will get to listen to these demos. Such a shame they were vaulted for so long, I'd love to have them in a deluxe edition of DBTT or something.

*EDIT: @dem-scissors thankfully had the missing demos so here they are! (thanks again <3)

Eyeball Tickler

I've always loved this tune but hearing this demo I think it's genuinely better than the original. So much of Liam's vocals got lost on the final version.

The Meaning Of Soul

Finally, the last one, a more stripped down version as well, sounds good

A first demo, 92-93, recorded in Manchester, half a step down from the later 1993 version, which somehow gives a more heartbreaking sound to the chorus... like god, I can hear the regret coming through those guitars and lyrics. Like it's an apology more than an elation, which the later version sounds a little more like. This one's like "it breaks my heart to have to hide this/you". The later version's a bit more "this is ours and nobody else's"

The later, 1993 demo of Lock All The Doors.

Comin' On Strong, recorded at The Real People's studio in Liverpool. A lyric from this song would make it onto Half The World Away - about bodies being young but minds being very old. This was another of the songs that would go on to become Setting Sun, the tune Noel wrote for Chemical Brothers in 1996, the other being the Lock All The Doors demo.

In the meanwhile, in summer 1996, Noel recorded a demo of My Sister Lover while on holiday in Mustique for Be Here Now (minus the pianos). It borrows the opening verses from Lock All The Doors, and while it loses the LATD chorus alluding to an illicit, hidden encounter, the chorus of this version takes on a decidedly more incestuous note with the lyrics "You're my lover, I'm your brother". And everything that's going on in the verses.

Chemical Brothers released Setting Sun as a single from the Dig Your Own Hole album in 1996. The song borrows verses from the demos of Lock All The Doors and Comin' On Strong.

My Sister Lover was officially released in 1997 (Liam on vocals) as a b-side to Stand By Me for Be Here Now. Stand By Me single cover art:

Years later, Noel polished up Lock All The Doors, added a few new lyrics and verses, but kept the original chorus intact and released the song in 2015... on the anniversary of the day Oasis split up: 28 August. See also: Noel playing it live that year. He said it was too good and he couldn't stop thinking about that song, so eventually he decided to do something with the original demo.

Liam wasn't fond of people mistaking the song for a High Flying Birds song, and performed it multiple times on the Definitely Maybe 30 anniversary tour solo in 2024. He began the Cardiff show by pointedly reminding people that it was an old Oasis demo. That he'd sung on.

GAGA: The Unreleased Collection

The complete unreleased collection by Lady Gaga including: Unreleased songs & albums, Rarities & B-Sides, Demos, and Live Albums

Google Drive Link:

I'm getting messages asking how Pete could have signed a band based on all of the demos we're listening to today, and it's like no... some of the demos you're pointing at were done as drafts of ideas in spring 2005 and even the studio in summer 2005. They weren't legit songs on purevolume like Nails, Relax Relapse, and It's Time to Dance were.

Nails was posted to purevolume in mid-November 2004 shortly before Ryan successfully got Pete to listen to Panic. The first garageband demo below from fall 2004 was the other song already on purevolume... this is what got the band signed: