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The prologue and first chapter of The Murder of Devon Whicker have been released and can be played here! This is very rough so there’s most likely a few typos here and there (feel free to let us know if you find any!), we’d love to hear what you think!

Featuring:

Around 12,000 words of total playable content (average route length will be determined soon)

Meet all three LI’S

Raise your Confrontation or Passive points to affect the story

Murder <3

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The Murder of Devon Whicker is a murder mystery interactive novel surrounding murder, loss, grief and potential romance.

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CONTENT WARNINGS: The Murder of Devon Whicker is rated 16+ due to descriptions of blood and violence, racism, swearing, and alcohol and drug use.

After witnessing the brutal death of your best friend, Devon Whicker, you’re quickly thrown into a world of murder accusations suffocating you in your small town. You barely have time to grieve before you’re thrust into the public eye. Everyone’s turned against you—except for three of your peers.

You never imagined being blamed for simply finding a dying boy in a stairwell, but here you are with nearly no one left to turn to. Navigate through your new normal while trying to piece together Devon’s murder, start a potential romance, and keep your own sanity.

- Customizable MC (gender, pronouns, appearance, etc.)

- Romance 1 of 3 LI’S, one male, one non-binary, and one female option.

- Make impactful choices that will affect your relationships with characters and how your MC goes through the story.

- Uncover a twisting murder mystery and enjoy your remaining memories with the victim.

Velia Hall [F | she/her | 18 | 5’9” | Romanceable by NB + Female MCs]

Velia is your neighbor of six years. She’s popular and it baffles you she even talks to you, you’re sure it’s just the nostalgia from an old middle school friendship that keeps her loyal. Shes warm, incredibly smart and always greets you with a cup of hot chocolate with extra whip cream--just how you like it.

Blaise Nieves [NB | they/them | 17 | 5’5” | Romanceable by all MCs]

Blaise is your best friend, besides Devon, and the three of you have been a dynamic trio since junior year. They always smell of leftover cigarette smoke (yuck) and you know they wouldnt hesitate to punch someone for you despite their small stature. They’re snarky and overly confident, and is always one to steal the extra fries from your plate at lunch.

Ambrose Lockheart [M | he/him | 17 | 6’1” | Romancable by all MCs]

Ambrose is your lanky, sweater wearing tutor. The two of you meet every Monday and Wednesday to go over your workload. He’s painfully shy and you're pretty sure the only reason he agreed to tutor you was the fact that he’s had a massive crush on you since freshman year (he’s never told you directly but the blushing and seemingly unnoticed staring tells you otherwise).

This story will be co-written, and the plan is to have individual routes for each love interest with a bad and good ending for each! As this is our first try coding and writing an interactive fiction story there unfortunately won’t be platonic routes.

A New Interactive Novel

A Tale of Crowns is a high fantasy romance with Middle Eastern roots, free to play from start till finish, both on pc as well as mobile! It’s entirely text-based, with choices throughout to shape both your main character’s personality and skills as well as influence their relationships with others. There are four love interests for you to choose from, both female as well as male, each with their own stories and secrets for you to uncover!

❂ THE SETTING

The story takes place in Arsur, a fictional empire within a fantasy universe that draws inspiration from historical settings in the Middle East. Much of it is based on Kurdish culture, drawing from my own experience as a Kurdish woman.

Your character was born and raised in Arsur, where magic is considered a skill no different from reading or writing. Gender, sexual orientation and race have no bearing on social position or class; it is instead only based on wealth and level of education.

The Arsurian Empire itself is overseen by a single ruler known as the Crown. Unlike traditional monarchies, however, the title is not inherited through blood. Whenever the Crown dies, their famed golden eyes pass on to the one chosen by the spirits of this world to be the new Crown: this appears to happen at random, as Crowns in the past have ranged from the poorest farmer to the wealthiest noble.

❂ THE STORY

Their parents murdered and the previous Crown of Arsur assassinated, your character finds themselves on the run as they’ve been bestowed with the golden eyes that mark them as the new Crown.

Unseen enemies at their heels, will they succeed as the Crown, or will they lead to the downfall of the Empire?

❂ CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

At the beginning of the story, you’ll have the opportunity to customize your Crown’s name, pronouns, sexual orientation and their skill in magic. You can also customize many parts of your Crown’s appearance: hair color, hair texture, hair style, skin color and height are all up to you and will be reflected in the story as well. Their backstory and ethnicity are the only things that are locked in. The Crown is also locked in as a person of color, as is in line with the setting - their specific race is up to the player to imagine.

As for your Crown’s personality, there are twelve different character traits in total that will be decided based on the choices you make in game. This will subsequently change your Crown’s behavior during story scenes.

The character traits are: Charming/Blunt, Kind/Calculated, Intelligent/Intuitive, Cautious/Adventurous, Flirtatious/Reserved and Assertive/Passive. Some of these will mix and interact with each other in different ways as well!

❂ THE LOVE INTERESTS

Depending on what your Crown’s sexual orientation is, the gender of the love interests will change accordingly to match that. There are four of them in total, and regardless of their gender their titles are as follows: the Sorcerer, the Hero, the Protector and the General. Each love interest will have their own route which you will get to choose from at the end of the common route.

So far, the common route of the story has been completed, and I have started publishing the routes for the love interests! The story overall has 8 chapters so far, with a total word count of ~257k, including scene variations. I will release each chapter as I finish it, so the game will be a continuous work in progress. Would you like to know more about the story, the setting, or the love interests? Check out the game blog!

NOTE: This game is not suited for those under 16 years of age! Please keep the age rating in mind.

❂ PLAY THE GAME ❂ DESIGNING YOUR MC ❂ THE STORY & SETTING ❂ THE LOVE INTERESTS ❂ PINTEREST REFERENCES ❂ PLAYLIST ❂ FAQ ❂ DISCORD ❂ KO-FI ❂

Last updated: 20 mar, 2022

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