7/30/2024

1/14/2026 2:28 PM

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1511 wins / 1485 losses

Marauder

Gay and Depressed in Prison

3rd place entry in Corgi's Gaybellion Contest

In this game, you play a very familiar character from the previous Gay and Depressed stories, who is now in jail. You used to be a side character in other people's stories, but now the spotlight is finally yours in this Gay and Depressed spin-off!

If you're interested in some more Gay and Depressed story games, check out the original by queenlatifah04, Gay Old Time by Darius_Conwright, Gay and DepressedER!!! by fresh_out_of_the_oven, and Gay and Depressed: The snow bunny society by Benholman44. All of the "gay and depressed" stories are stand-alone stories, so each one can be read separately, but I highly recommend you check these stories out!

Mechanossassin

unpublished

Entry for Endmaster's Prompt Contest 5 Special Thanks to Siyu for helping me out with proofreading, along with some helpful advice!

I know right! It's such a good book. I did not expect half of the weird crazy sci-fi stuff when I first started reading. Dan Simmons takes all these complex ideas and does such a cool job of weaving this intricate epic science fiction story. And I also loved that the story doesn't just end with the pilgrimage itself, but the pilgrimage also acts as an imbalance that shakes up the tenuous status quo between the hegemony and the AIs. Really great series.

People have done this before. Check out Mizal's "Read my stories or die!", Ogre's Explorer Inn, and there may be a few others. Other people have integrated short stories as a major plot device, like Camelon, since his story features a storyteller who, depending on the quality/style of his stories, may or may not get the money he needs to go on the journey he's attempting. I'd recommend you read all 3 to get a feel for this style. Heck, if you want examples from published novels, Dan Simmons's Hyperion(which I've recommended on here a few times), and Canterbury Tales both do this. Hyperion is actually based on Canterbury Tales interestingly enough, except in Hyperion, the pilgrimage is to the home of a giant metallic spiky monster who travels through time, and impales people on a giant tree.

yes you can!

I would say making a choice-driven game is the way to go. With "linear"(there's a distinction between "linear" stories, and 100 percent linear stories. If you write a story that is 100 percent linear, it will get taken down for low ratings) storygames, you can get away with it, and a few authors on here are known for making games that have comparatively less choice, but the reason their games are rated so highly is because of really high quality prose and great character work. So you can still do it if that's what the story you're telling demands, but it's better to have more choices in your story. Even when you do choose to make a choice-driven game, you don't have to overload it with choices on every page that change the narrative, funneling the story into separate branches, if that's not your style. There are top rated games that are of 2 varieties, depth and scope. Mystic about depth vs scope. in her article on writing epic storygames. here's the link: https://chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=4394 Depth is where there are 2 or 3 main storylines, with most choices leading to either one of the main endings, or a bunch of death endings. An example is "These Shackled Souls". You're not going to see like 20 epilogue endings Scope is where there is a sense of breadth and expanse in the world. Examples include As Ink or Reborn. You get comparatively less story in each branch, but each branch feels conclusive and yet at the same time, makes you want to see more from the world. Sherb is great at this! But whatever you do, don't make your story completely linear! This is when new authors will basically ignore the "choose" part of "choose your own story", and just write a really boring linear story that has literally 0 choices, and then ends after 10 pages. Don't do that!

RIP Chris, I'll pour one out to my Batman homie.

Glad you enjoyed it, Darius! It was a real treat to get the chance to pick your brain on writing! I'm excited to see your story for this year's contest.

Good to see you back, ninja! Hope you’ve been having a great 2026 so far! Glad to see you’ve been keeping up with these posts! I read Last Wish this year as well and really enjoyed it. I heard that the main story officially starts by the 3rd book: blood of elves, but I’m so glad that I got the first book though, I’ve been enjoying the various short stories. My favorite was the lesser evil. The story where he meets Yennefer was also really good. What was your favorite, Ninja?

Clayfinger is an amazing singer! I just listened to the recording again, what a melodious voice! Nicely done all of you! It was so cool to be a part of this event. Thank you Chris for the wonderful secret Santa gift, and Mystic, thank you for hosting this! Also, gryphon. What was your secret talent tha you were going to use for your gift?

Credit where credit's due though. His "The Lost Realm" is such a good game. I almost wanted to ask Cavus to review that one alongside "The Book of Vanishing Tales" by Camelon, but I got cold feet after seeing his review on "Bestest frend Jane". (This part is for people who haven't read Lost Realm, I know you, End, and all the old guard already know everything what I'm about to say here). The story is about a warrior whose wife gets captured by her people and taken back to her realm, the lost realm, and you have to venture there to save her. It's a really good classic fantasy story with all the typical monsters you know and love, and the writing is well done. It's emotional and really heart felt, and really challenging to beat because of some truly exquisite variable work. Basically, even super trivial stuff gets counted in the variable mechanics when deciding whether you beat an encounter or not, so even just getting past the first battle requires a bit of rerouting and going back. There's a great variety of branches, and it's a really hard game to find the winning end. Chosen hero's also decent, but lost realm is head and shoulders above it for sure.

Here's the link if you want some LOLs, Shadow: https://chooseyourstory.com/story/bastard Chris and Sent also did a few dramatic readings, with more passion and originality than what was present in the original piece: Sent's dramatic reading: https://audio.com/sent-nel/audio/basically-this-is-what-happened Chris's dramatic reading: https://audio.com/chris-l-7/audio/bastard The most likely explanation, given the April Fools joining date, and the fact that the user never logged in after the 19th of April, was that it was an alt of someone playing up this overly enthusiastic caricature who made a complete fool out of themselves for the LOLs.