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Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024

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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:

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

The VNDB, or Visual Novel Database, is a community project that strives to be a comprehensive database for information about visual novels. The database is updated by its members, by adding titles to the directory, ratings games, writing reviews...
If a listing has not yet been created for your visual novel, please consider making one!

rattenprince
rattenprince

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I recently made a little visual novel for a queer vampire game jam that's been happening over on itch!
It felt like the perfect excuse to use a newer OC of mine as well as completing a game. (still working on another haha)
You can find it here and I highly recommend checking out the other submissions! I haven't gone through all of them yet, but they've all been great so far <3

lovely art and good story!!
vileidol
vileidol

"try & watch a horror film from the point of view of the monster." - Three Poems, Sam Sax

you are a vampire in the house of a vampire hunter. you are a corpse in the bed of someone painfully alive. you are a dirty, filthy thing in a room with the sun rising behind you and your lover's father in front of you, crossbow pointed at your chest.

this was so goooood. my heart!!
tabitha-writes
tabitha-writes

New game!

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A summer road trip with your best friend and his two younger sisters is the perfect time to finally tell him you're in love with him—right...?

“I'll Drive” is a short (~4,000 words) interactive, friends-to-lovers rom-com with a single ending. Starring...

  • Luke (protagonist) - Hopelessly awkward trans guy
  • Blaine (love interest) - Stressed-out sweetheart
  • Imogene (older sister) - Too-cool teen (who's terrified of driving)
  • Trish (younger sister) - Matchmaker in training

New game!

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A summer road trip with your best friend and his two younger sisters is the perfect time to finally tell him you’re in love with him—right…?

“I’ll Drive” is a short (~4,000 words) interactive, friends-to-lovers rom-com with a single ending. Starring…

  • Luke (protagonist) - Hopelessly awkward trans guy
  • Blaine (love interest) - Stressed-out sweetheart
  • Imogene (older sister) - Too-cool teen (who’s terrified of driving)
  • Trish (younger sister) - Matchmaker in training
interactive fiction my writing twine game
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You're a Time Agent! by Tabitha O'Connell

Play the game
Read other reviews
Other games by Tabitha (@tabitha-writes)

Silly time loops! (4/5)

When it comes to time-loops settings and gameplay, Tabitha always delivers. This time taking a more silly approach to the genre, with you playing as a "dumbass time agent" that ends their missions in the stupidest of ways (essentially winging it). The goal here is to get through a guarded door. Simple, right?

WRONG!
Who Thought trying to get through a measly door with just one guard would be so difficult!

With each passage are given a couple of options, each branching into other set of choice, until you either manage to enter the building or reach a dead end. The game also lets you reset the loop from the start. Resetting will sometimes add new options (when you uncover information).
There are 3 ways to properly end the game, with 4 achievements to get.

Each path is pretty silly, tricking the guard by confusing him, or distracting him. There are tons of funny one-liners and hilarious exchanges (I laughed so hard at the (Spoiler - click to show)). The third ending was so stupidly funny!

I had a bit of an issue with how the learned knowledge was displayed on the page (with the oldest bit disappearing from the page), but changing the colours of the links, to display which path had been taken or which led to a dead end, was really helpful when starting a new loop!

that's me!
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My latest game, written for the Queer Vampire IF Jam! (Also submitted to Ace Jam 2024 because both main characters are ace!)

Your name is Zach. You’re 23, you were an art major in the two years of college you completed, oh, and you’re a vampire.

Play as Zach, who has survived his blood-sucking life so far by keeping to himself, never getting attached to the people he relies on for sustenance. Tonight, though, he’s starting to feel a connection with the chatty grad student he plans to bite…

~3,000 words total. Multiple possible endings.

my writing interactive fiction vamp jamp ace jam my first ink game! vampjamp