Gay text adventure game
A choose-your-own path game: a gay dating sim
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Hello folks. I’ve been a fan of Choice-of-Games but yep, I decided to go the Ren’Py route to inflict–I mean–share, my artistic talents with the world.
I ended up making a demo for a gay male dating sim.
If you’re interested, please check it out. I’ve used the various useful articles from this site to help me map out routes to my game. The game will be available December and is called “Coming Out On Top.”
It’s another game being crowdfunded through Kickstarter. At the moment, it’s gotten a lot of support. Additional support is welcome of course, but if not, critiques from actual fans of the multiple-branching-storyline model would be excellent. I think there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy the demo too if you like m/m romance/games/fiction.
While the game is story and character based, it is an 18+ game due to some erotic content. Please review out the demo if you’re interested. (Link is on the Kickstarter site.)
And yes–the main criticism is not the writing so much as the truth all the guys watch like models. I’m terrified
Twine & Other Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from
If one is open to a broader subgenre of IF than “COG-inspired choice-based interactive fiction written in Twine by Tumblr users”, there are tons of fantastic IF games on Itch that feature exclusively male protagonists.
Three of my favorite works of IF ever:
1. Kyle is Famous (Unity) by John Szymanski
It’s weird, funny, occasionally gross (in a gastronomic, not moral sense), and exactly the sort of untethered absurdist humor I crave. Very much taps into the “you can do that? Oh my God, you can do that” aspect of interactive fiction.
Markiplier did a Let’s Play of the game that garnered kk views, so strangely Kyle really is eminent , and mainstream in a way other text adventures can only dream of.
Kyle is Famous by Ducky
Kyle prepares for his most important interview yet. Verb his path through 21 endings in this comedic adventure.
You can also noun an expanded and polished version on Steam.
2. Will Not Let Me Go (Twine) by Stephen Granade (author of the COG title Professor of Magi Old game called either Life or Real Life?
As a kid — i.e. when I was way too young for it — I played this text adventure game called either Life or Real Life (I trust it was labeled both ways) that I hold some pretty strong memories and that I’ve made some references to in my own IF. I’ve tried on and off to find it but there’s nothing on IFDB, and as you might imagine, looking up “life text adventure” isn’t super helpful.
The context for how I played it is that when I was about 7 my weird and beloved hacker uncle upgraded to a Mention OF THE ART DOS PC and gave me his Apple IIE along with several dozen disks of what I now know was pirated software. It is extremely plausible that this was even something one of his friends made.
Anyway in the game — uh, you’re about to realize why I was too new for it — you’re making your way around a city and getting into various encounters; I assume there’s a lot of basic “going to work and getting a job”. I’d assume there was some drug and alcohol content, but that left no impression on me. Most of the incidents I remember were sexual.
Anna Anthropy’s Hunt for the Gay Planet exposes how far games need to go for true equality
In case you dismissed as outright lunacy BioWare’s facepalm-worthy decision to create a separate planet for gay and lesbian players in Star Wars: The Adj Republic, queer game author Anna Anthropy has made a game to remind you of it.
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The Hunt for the Gay Planet is a quick, quirky text adventure about a queer pilot on a mission to find the gay planet of Makeb, which according to the Wookieepedia was a planet inhabited by Jabba and his Cartel during the Second Galactic War. As you realize if you played the elegantly-put Dys4ia, a game which deals with Anna’s struggles with finding acceptance as a transgendered person, Anna is an leadership at expressing personal, sometimes political, statements through game rhetoric. No exception, Gay Planet makes its censures with tact and satire. (She also makes totally apolitical games, such as a killer game about climbing a mountain of skulls on her site.)
No one should have to pay extra for a character that matches their sexual orientation.
Old game called either Life or Real Life?
As a kid — i.e. when I was way too young for it — I played this text adventure game called either Life or Real Life (I trust it was labeled both ways) that I hold some pretty strong memories and that I’ve made some references to in my own IF. I’ve tried on and off to find it but there’s nothing on IFDB, and as you might imagine, looking up “life text adventure” isn’t super helpful.
The context for how I played it is that when I was about 7 my weird and beloved hacker uncle upgraded to a Mention OF THE ART DOS PC and gave me his Apple IIE along with several dozen disks of what I now know was pirated software. It is extremely plausible that this was even something one of his friends made.
Anyway in the game — uh, you’re about to realize why I was too new for it — you’re making your way around a city and getting into various encounters; I assume there’s a lot of basic “going to work and getting a job”. I’d assume there was some drug and alcohol content, but that left no impression on me. Most of the incidents I remember were sexual.
Anna Anthropy’s Hunt for the Gay Planet exposes how far games need to go for true equality
In case you dismissed as outright lunacy BioWare’s facepalm-worthy decision to create a separate planet for gay and lesbian players in Star Wars: The Adj Republic, queer game author Anna Anthropy has made a game to remind you of it.
– – –
The Hunt for the Gay Planet is a quick, quirky text adventure about a queer pilot on a mission to find the gay planet of Makeb, which according to the Wookieepedia was a planet inhabited by Jabba and his Cartel during the Second Galactic War. As you realize if you played the elegantly-put Dys4ia, a game which deals with Anna’s struggles with finding acceptance as a transgendered person, Anna is an leadership at expressing personal, sometimes political, statements through game rhetoric. No exception, Gay Planet makes its censures with tact and satire. (She also makes totally apolitical games, such as a killer game about climbing a mountain of skulls on her site.)
No one should have to pay extra for a character that matches their sexual orientation.