2016-03-12 13:33:41

here is an announcement from choiceofgames, that two new hosted games titles have been released, which is cool.
for those who don't know, the games are available on Ios and Android through the  various ap stores, and on the choiceofgames website through an account system, so can be played on everything.

Below is the description of the two new titles (one has pirates, gaaaaaar!!!).
Scarlet Sails
There are two more games in our
Hosted Games
program ready for you to play!
Scarlet Sails: A fantastical pirate romp on the high seas!
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight
with a cutlass, or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain
in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Scarlet Sails
is an 80,000-word interactive novel by Felicity Banks, author of
Attack of
the Clockwork Army
. 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.
Enjoy an 80,000 word adventure on the high seas.
One of the top ten games in the 2015 Interactive Fiction Competition.
Choose your personality, fighting style, and magical skill.
Choose who to love, including options for singlehood or polyamory.
Face the horrors of your past, and of the deep.
Find treasure, treachery, and maybe even true love.
Play as male or female, gay or straight.
Magikiras
Magikiras: Don powered armor to fight against terrorists and
eldritch beings!
Magikiras
is a 1,100,000-word story by Gabriel Chia that takes place in a near future
where magic and technology exists side by side. Don powered armor as you take on
terrorists and eldritch aliens in the not too distant future! Modify your armor to suit your
needs and stand tall against your foes.
Choose your team and your enemy for different sides of the same story.
Play as a normal soldier or one with magic at their command.
Modify your powered armor to better suit your needs and preference.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2016-03-12 14:23:39

Wait a sec, how many words is magikiras? IS it really over a million words? That's Zombie Exodus and Tin Star Teretory right there, that one's going to be massive! I'll probably have to think about it. Is it going to be one of these multiple part games or is it all complete?

2016-03-12 17:13:01

I have actually tried magikiras when it was in beta, exciting stuff! sept I wasn't able to save proper and its obviously too huge to do in a single sitting so the ios version or the windows browser based one should probably do me.
I have been reading a lot of navel fiction lately what with Dewey Lambdin's alan lory series and not to mention the very good Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, so Scarlet Sails should be right up my Allie!!
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2016-03-19 17:07:52

Hello.
Holy moly, I can't actualy belief that magikiras has over a million words, I mean zombie exodus was huge already, but it contained over 750000 words if I am not misstaken.

Hail the unholy church of Satan, go share it's greatness.

2016-03-20 00:50:09

I just downloaded these, and they could be fun, I love pirates, and a huge game sounds awesome, though I hope it doesn't go of like zombie exodus.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)