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Letters for the Letter Carrier

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This is a short, interactive fiction for the Single Choice Jam (2025) hosted by @neointeractives. The jam ran from July 15, 2025 to August 16, 2025.

Written by an Indigenous Filipino, Letters for the Letter Carrier is a mundane, fantasy, interactive fiction inspired by Igorot settings. It's about community building, and being a stressed, bat-winged, letter carrier in an era of texts and emails.

Release Date: August 15, 2025 Status: Completed Word Count: ~6,000

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The Story

You are a bat-winged Cordilleran, an Indigenous local to the Cordillera mountains, and you work as a letter carrier. Times are tough and its just the first day of the second month. Perhaps you should look for something else but the job market is vicious. At the very least, you could look into aplications for the rest of the year, work until you can collect your 13th month pay, then quit.

You are very stressed and in need of comfort. Fortunately, the people around you want to help, and will help.

This is a day in the life of a letter carrier—during an era where emails are the norm.

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Notes

Game Jam: This is an entry for the Single Choice Jam (2025). Mini-game: This is a standalone mini-game. Age Restriction: PG-13

CWs Include but are Not Limited to: Blood and mentions of discrimination based on wing structure and if someone has wings or not. Single Choice: The rules of the game jam requires only one choice, but allows for a timer to lead to a different scene when it runs out. The Single Choice is initially locked for a minute to encourage the player to breathe like the Player Character. Timers: There are two kinds of timers. The first one is always a minute, and when it passes, the Single Choice is unlocked. The second one will have a countdown of different lengths, depending on the task. If they reach 0, the game notes it, but you must still click on the Single Choice to proceed. Ending: Waiting for the countdown or not shapes the player character's thoughts and feelings, but does not change the ending.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, entities, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

We recommend reading the Player Guide if its your first time playing!

Thank you ❤︎

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Trello Boards

The resource links in the end of the game, which includes zines like Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism — Yes, You! Yes, Now and masterlists like Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting are in Trello Boards I organized with a friend.

• General Resources • MLM Resources • Palestine and Lebanon • Misc Resources • Health and Wellness • Sudan and the DRC • Anarchist Resources

If you have anything to add for the boards or additional info about the existing ones, you may also include them in your letter at the end of the game. You can also inform me about them through my Neocities Website or here on Tumblr.

"My first game jam! If you haven't yet, please also consider playing my main IF passion project, Loving Starless Skies on itch.io. You can also play it directly from my Neocities Website. Constructive comments are much appreciated. Thank you for reading!" — Paragrasya

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Credits

"Another Round" is a 25k word, interactive fiction, urban fantasy game made with Twine for the Single Choice Game Jam.

PLAY THE GAME | REVIEW | KOFI

Written and coded for the Single Choice Game Jam! The Jam where you only give one choice to the player!

STORY

You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once.

Yes. At least once per day, you don't regret ending it with Agnes. Except tonight. You definitely regret it tonight.

Those are the facts you can't change. How any of those things came to be is up to your imagination. It's not part of the story, anyway. The story is about tonight. The night you save Agnes...or not. You don't get a lot of say in what happens.

Well, you get a say. Once.

So maybe you save her. Maybe you save yourself. Maybe the "fuck it" train you're on derails and takes the whole nightclub with you. The story is a bit unhinged. But, then again, so are you.

FEATURES

gender-locked; name-locked; appearance-locked, sexuality-locked (congrats! you're a lesbian) protagonist. No customization available--free yourself from the burden of choice!

bad life choices come pre-made! Never fear. I'm sure you'll be able to make some more of them. Or, hmm, I guess just one more bad life choice, technically

adult language the author has already used in this description without warning...dang

hundreds of endings, but only one place the story stops. Lots of things can end, you know. The breath you just took ended

set in a world with demons and half-demons because why not?

unhealthy coping strategies! Co-dependent former relationships!

a demon who calls himself Seven because he liked that movie and tends to shout "WHAT'S IN THE BOX?" at inappropriate moments

a single choice in the entire game. Make it a good one

Recurrent

New complete game! Made for the Single Choice Jam.

You’ve completed your mission. Your only remaining task is to make it home alive. How hard could that be? Turns out, it’s a lot harder than you think.

Recurrent was written for the 2024 Single Choice Jam, and you have one choice: Jump. Mind your timing, the obstacles are deadly and plentiful.

A Brief History of Divine Instruments, Vol. 1

Prior to his desertion, Lieutenant Colonel Anre Diehs had been known as a genius strategist and cutthroat leader with few allies, even within his own regiment. When he was twenty-three, Diehs became a Captain, making him eligible for the Naming ritual and subsequently for obtaining his first Divine Instrument. Unfortunately, for an undisclosed reason, this ritual failed. Diehs seemingly did not attempt the ritual again until he became a Lieutenant Colonel. This one, however, succeeded, and Diehs bonded with Divine Instrument 1a059, which he would give the name “Halcyon.”

Almost exactly forty-five days after bonding with 1a059, Diehs disappeared during a harsh winter. The disappearance was officially ruled as desertion.

A Brief History of Divine Instruments, Vol. 1 is a short piece of interactive fiction written for the Single Choice Jam 2024. Though I had all month, I somehow only worked on it in two days after finally deciding what to do.

There is one choice. Please choose wisely, and don't look.

Approximately 6000 words. Please see game page for a list of credits and content warnings.

A Single Choice Jam entry.

Entry - IFDB - More by Kastel - @kastelpls CW: Sexual harassment, transphobia, racism.

Family Dinners, am I right? We've all been stuck in one of those dinners, the one you don't want to be at but have to, the one where the host mainly organised it to show off, the one where guests came there to make themselves look better than the rest, the one where snide comments are thrown left and right... and the food? well... usually not worth it... You really want to leave but can't really, not for a while. You could participate more, but it would mean pretending to be someone you are not (like a man or a meat eater), and that's exhausting. So you quietly sit through and maybe mumble a few words, or clench your jaw when an aunt tells you your degree is probably useless, or an uncle reminds you never to trust [insert minority/other ethnic group]. Or maybe you just listen, drifting your thoughts somewhere else, or finding refuge on your phone for a while. Even through this very linear parser, and the short prose, this game manages to encapsulate all these murky feelings of uncomfortableness, stress, and exhaustion. The error messages when trying to engage with others or yourself or the meal is humourous, even if at time self-deprecating (I saw the influence of the Pageantverse in there too). There is not much to do, mainly because you don't want to do much as the character either... And this worked quite well as the author's first try in parser and Inform!

I did a double whammy and made it (-ish) to the Single Choice Jam and Orifice Jam. It is kinda incomplete... there is one ending, but not all I had planned. This week has been weird... but still something to show for I guess?

Play The Dinner...