Mila

Storm — A Dempsey

“Do you think P will forgive you?” you ask as you and A leave the magical being’s apartment complex.

The demi-god/dess arches a brow beside you. The two of you are alone now, bracing yourself for the cold air as the automatic doors slide open from the building and introduce you to the early morning chill.

“Forgive me for what?” they ask.

The corner of your lips turn upwards. “For calling their home the ‘embodiment of a Pinterest board’, if I ...

Beyond The Game: Sneak Peek — 2.

I mentioned this on the Tumblr progress update, but the formatting of these newspaper articles are probably my favourite things to look at and read when I playtest Beyond The Game. 

Of course Name and Surname will be changed to your player's name. 

Update — 42.

It's weird! I'm still not used to working with Twine and because I still find it intimidating my motivation to write is so much more different. I do still write though, and with Beyond The Game, I'm getting to the climax (if you will!) of chapter one. 

I know that people who aren't interested in football may read this, and some people may even completely ignore this story because it's sport related. But I'm trying to keep the writing fun and light-hearted, alongside the choices tha...

Heads or Tails? — K de la Renta

Maybe it’s a hot or cold demeanour.

K de la Renta isn’t the easiest person, vampire, to figure out.

Their aesthetic, body language and overall personality would scream ‘unapproachable’. But it’s been months, almost a year since you’ve known them now, and unapproachable isn’t what you’d describe them as. K’s sensitive, empathetic, if you’re to dig past the surface then you’re sure you’d encounter a bit of pain and trauma too...

Update — 41.

Writing is going somewhat well. I mean, the new Twine demo I’m writing is over 16k words now but I’m always conscious that I’m not writing quickly enough, or just enough words in general—but it’s coming along so that’s a positive.

It’s been nice navigating a new mc with new characters and a new plot. I’ve also realised how much slice of life is different from a supernatural and fantasy plot. An interesting kind of different, like I’m a lot more nervous about writing an...

Beyond The Game: Sneak Peek — 1.

I've been chipping away at writing this new story, about 14k words in so here's a sneak peek of... the drama that could occur with your rival N Tallon.

Update — 40.

We're officially in September, so I suppose mindset sort of turns to work mode for the pure fact that university starts again this month for me. I feel like the summer has gone by so quickly but slowly at the same time.

Although I say work mode, I took a few days off of writing because I was feeling a bit tired and just burnt out overall. Today, I got back into it and chipped away at Beyond The Game's first chapter again, and it reminds me that writing with Twine is a whole new experien...

Nostalgia — P Martens

There’s flour in their blonde hair, smears of chocolate over their hands. P’s sure that there’s even some smeared on their cheek.

Art is their usual go to. Pencils, acrylic paints, a fresh sketch pad to put their ideas onto a canvas — but now they’re trying something else — baking. P would tell you that they’re not entirely sure how or why baking came into their thoughts, but in the back of their mind they know it brings them that bit clos...

Drabble Vote

For the upcoming drabbles, I wanted to do a vote to see what you would prefer to see.

Update — 39.

Beyond The Game update: With the UI done, I've finally gotten into writing. It's interesting writing a slice of life/sport game. It's super duper different from a fantasy game, of course it's a lot less world-building etc. but fun all the same. 

The writing bit has been fun so far. The Twine interface is a lot more different than ChoiceScript and even though I've done a lot of the hard work with Twine coding and a UI, I still sometimes find writing in Twine slightly intimidating �...

Beyond The Game — Twine — Main Menu

Here are a few pages of the game in Twine too! It will be mobile friendly, comes with various fonts and also in dark mode as shown below. 

I expect the Golden Twine game to be similar, just with a different colour scheme.

2023-08-10 20:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Update — 38.

It’s officially over a month since Golden got its update, and I’ve delved into the world of another IF side project. For those of you who are sports fan, football/soccer fans specifically, I’m writing an IF where the main character is a professional footballer. Even if you’re not interested in sport/football, I hope you’ll give it a read. The tumblr for this IF is @beyondthegame — check it out.

I know this isn’t specifically a Golden update, however, working on this footba...

Nightmares — K de la Renta

My wrists are tied together tightly. Even though I can’t see them, I’m sure there is a deep red tinge over them. It’s cold. Wet. Dark. I can’t even tell how long I’ve been here. My joints ache, my muscles too — but that’s exactly what he wants from me. From us.

But this ‘survival of the fittest’ game isn’t something I’m cut out for.

If I admit I’m scared then it becomes true…

You feel yourself stir awake.

K 2023-07-27 18:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post