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Check the page out for some cool games!

one gijinka

im REALLY proud of this mostly for the hair and the face

i tried really hard to make her unsettling but some of the drawings are kinda cute ngl

Showcase your Game!

The Interactive Fiction Showcase is a year-long "jam" meant to collect and showcase Interactive Fiction games completed in 2024, and show how diverse the Interactive Fiction scene is! And maybe: build more bridges between the community, help people finding their new favourite game/author...

Whether it is long or short, an easy adventure or a complicated puzzle, a strange experiment, a quick creation, or a years-in-the-making game, come show off what you've made!

Are you more of a player? Then, come check this page regularly for new submissions! Maybe leave a rating or a comment too :)

This is an unranked event.

Rules:

The Showcase is open to IF games in all of its forms: kinetic, choice-based, hyperlinks, parser, visual novels... As long as it is Interactive Fiction (there is interactivity and the focus of the game is on the text), the entry will be accepted.

The Showcase is open to IF games in any language.

Entries must be playable and in its complete form when submitted. Completed games in 2024, whose demo was previously public, are welcome. Games submitted to other events (jams/competitions) are welcome.

Entries can include NSFW content, as long as it is indicated in the submission.

Entries should not include any generated AI content - or it will be removed.

Spam or hateful content will be removed.

Creating Interactive Fiction:

Interactive Fiction is a text-based narrative medium, where players can interact with the story in some fashion (input commands, click a link/button, press key). There are many different ways of creating IF, and many different programs to do so. You can find some mentioned below:

Primarily HyperText/Choice-Based: Twine,  Ink, ChoiceScript, Dendry

Primarily Parser/Input: Inform 6, Inform 7, PunyInform, Adventuron, ADRIFT

Other: Bitsy, Binksi, Ren'Py

and many more can be found listed in the IF Wiki.

If you are looking for other Interactive Fiction Events, discuss general IF, or ask question, you can visit the IntFiction Forum. (we also have monthly IF events over at @neointeractives)

Interactive Fiction Database and Archive:

IFDB

The IFDB, or Interactive Fiction Database, is an IF game information catalogue, creating a historical record of the IF landscape. The database is a community project, updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews... If a listing has not yet been created for your game, please consider making one!

IF Archive

The IF Archive is an archive of Interactive Fiction games, and IF-related elements (walkthroughs, interpreters, articles, collections...). The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. If you wish to, you can upload a copy of your game to the IFArchive, through the IFDB listing of your game (recommended) or directly to the archive.

The IFDB and IFArchive, as well as the IntFiction Forum and Twine, are managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. These programs are funded through individual donations.

Visual Novel Database

Link: BLACK FLESH

ver 0.8.0:

Restore Pain system

Add backgrounds

Restore Game Over

Change boar cub to frog

Change font to pixel

Add guide

Add emojis

Add Attack! menu

Change the game nuanse to be a bit more clicker

Delete everything that make the gameplay slower

Link: BLACK FLESH

In case you weren't aware, some of my games are over at IFDB!

A POT OF TEA is another short story, a conversation with yourself as you make yourself some tea. A submission to the Recipe Jam 2024

+ 2.2k words with currently a single branch and two more conversations to be added at a later update. + mentions of: parental death, smoking. + bad tea making.

@templeofshame and my hypertext game, The Gift of What You Notice More, won Best Surreal Game in the 2023 IFDB Awards!

Play the game about which one reviewer said:

A reference to folk pop from 25 years ago? A meditative game about life choices? Shut up and take my money!

If you finished my game Repeat the Ending, how long did it take you? I'm guessing there's a pretty big spread because of all of the optional paratext. Would love to get some data on this (please consider adding times to some of your faves to help potential players out).