Topic by Dark 2015-06-27 23:43:36

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For those who want the original announcement is here  but here's the interesting bit:
Travel the world, meet interesting new people, and assassinate them for money!
“It’s Killing Time” is an ultra-violent 140,000-word interactive novel by Eric Bonholtzer,
where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or
sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Earn respect, reputation, and wealth as a hired assassin. You’ll be dressed to kill,
driving an exotic car with outlandish weapons in the trunk.
But in the glamorous, fast-paced world of murder-for-hire, you can never know who to
trust and who’s gunning to take you out. Who will betray you? Whom will you betray?
Will you be a spiritual hitman or hitwoman, a ruthless assassin, a total psychopath, or a
righteous killer? The choice is yours.
We hope you enjoy playing
It’s Killing Time


This one actually sounds sort of fun and I might well give it a go, sinse hay I was  looking for one of the choiceofgames titles to try next.

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Reply by Figment 2015-06-28 01:11:40

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Wow, these games sounded great until I learned that the only way I can play them is either online or through Steam. Thanks, but no thanks.

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Reply by mattymc2 2015-06-28 05:12:07

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Mega keen to try this, i bought it today on IOS smile

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Reply by Orin 2015-06-28 05:59:23

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I beta tested this game. Interestingly enough, it's called "It's Killing Time" now, not "Killing Time". Going to get the full release now.

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Reply by Dark 2015-06-28 07:45:19

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@GeneWarner, no steam required.  It's true that choiceofgames are trying to get more of their stuff onto steam, but steam is not needed for any of it which is good because steam is not hugely accessible without shenanigans, and I personally wouldn't recommend games on steam for this reason.

You have various alternatives on where to play the choiceofgames. You can play them directly online in most web browsers over at www.choiceofgames.com, you can also download them from the google play store for an android device or I believe for Chrome, or, you can get them on the Ios ap store which is what I do, sinse they play very well with Vo. Also note that choiceofgames themselves publish some games, but also many are published under the "hosted games" label as well.

This actually encourages me to try something I've been meaning to do for a while and reccord one of my infamous castings of the pod about choiceofgames, sinse it does seem people get the wrong end of the proverbial stick on this one.

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Reply by BlindJedi 2015-07-02 21:55:36

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Dark, do all of them require an app perchuse to finishy it? That is buying through the game it self? I sill haven't bought zombie exihus neighbourhood necromancer or choice of the rockstar, but those had free demos, and if this one is paid, does that mean the full game is right there? The same goes with choice of the zombie: its paid, so does that mean the full game is right there? I do not trust in app purchuses, i have had bad experiances with those in the passed.

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Reply by Dark 2015-07-03 06:59:30

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@Rory, when a choiceofgames title has a price tag it does indeed mean you get the complete game. You pay for it, no demo just buy and play.

A couple such as Hero's rise also have in ap purchices of extras, hero's rise for example had a guide you could buy for 69 P (or one dollar), which told you optimum stratogy for getting the best score, but this is not common, and is optional to the game. If a choiceofgames or hosted games title has a price tag as far as I know paying that will be enough to play to the end.

I'd actually recommend that certainly with some games like zombie exodus you buy the extra chapters with the game, sinse they're frankly speaking amazing! indeed, episode three is about three times as long as the first two, and episode 4 is even longer.

I'd be interested to know what your problem with in ap purchices is, sinse I've bought several things in ap from the aforementioned hero's rise  guide (which was a nice way to see all my mistakes), to some Espa upgrades in Solara, heck I have the double gems upgrade for battle arena which i bought just the other day.

Like anything else you buy you need to be sure of what your getting, and of course there are occasions when in ap purchices are used to sell rubbish or stuff you don't need or are attempts to gouge you in some way, but I don't have any objection to them in principle and there have been occasions they've been used to good effect, like buying the extra episodes in zombie exodus.

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