Bitten!

@Red-Hood If you’re a fussy perfectionist like me, very time-consuming! But not so hard once you get used to the syntax. If you’re interested, I’d recommend reading the tutorials, picking up ChoiceScript and just diving in - it’s a lot of fun.

@Colshot You haven’t missed anything - there’s no reading sample yet! Hopefully very soon!

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Here we wait for patients, especially after your last work on the crusades :slight_smile:

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I hope that all interested users of this forum have liked the movie that I mention here. In addition, I ask everyone for your patience because making quality choicecripts takes time, so we should not put pressure so that the creative spark of this author does not disappear with such an outstanding previous work. I hope you all have a good weekend wherever you live from Mexico City :slightly_smiling_face:

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Muchas gracias :slight_smile:

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“I swear to you, this is what I saw, Detective! He glared at me from atop my own apartment roof and then swooped down out of sight! I’m telling you, this wasn’t some drug-induced stupor, and you saw my breathalyzer result! There is a vampire among us! And people are going to start dying, Detective!”

I can’t help but light my cigarette at the end of the man’s rant and blow a giant, stressful stream of smoke into the air around both of us.

A state coroner with no bad history, an expert personal sketch and negative substance test results saw me last night.

He barely got my face right, but how could something like this happen so fast? I need to be more careful.

But I need to silence him. Just how?

Suddenly, my eyes dart up from the sketch, and I instantly jump outta my socks in surprise.

“Detective! My God, what have you come to?”

That’s what the giant, disgusting visage of a human-moth creature says, bulbous, lined insect eyes gazing at me below long, furry antennas.

My body begins to quake, but then my stomach twists painfully into a giant knot as my heart begins racing.

My chin is soaked from drool. I shoot a hand up to it than check. Yep.

What the hell is happening?!

The wings taped to my back below my trench coat try to unfurl themselves. My knees are weak and I can feel my blood rushing in my ears.

First, he was terrifying and utterly disgusting.

Now, I’m unbearably hungry. I want to feel him struggle in my teeth.

He can’t get away. He won’t. He’s prey.

“Detective?” Doctor James Steward Howard says nervously, looking completely normal, now.

That’s when I launch myself at him, pushing him to the floor as my very humanity flashes before my chaotic conscience.

“Get out! Get out now! Out! Get out!” I shout angrily.

The coroner rushes out of my office. I don’t hesitate in slamming and locking the door behind him as I slowly slide down it to the floor.

I’m drenched in sweat.

How much longer will this go on?

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A mountain lion? A COUGAR???

SIGN ME UP. :grin:

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@Voldy That is a great piece of writing! If you’re not already working on your own story then you certainly should be…

I also appreciate the stripey drawers in that sketch, although they make me wonder what unnatural junk he could be hiding under there. :grimacing:

@pandaren Rrrrr… paws the air

UPDATE: Well, good news at last! I’ve been making solid progress again recently and have just had the second chapter cleared and approved! I’m feeling as glossy and frisky as a honey badger in a bar room brawl and I will be posting a playable demo this week.

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AHHHHH!!! I can’t handle the excitement! This week. YES!

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Heh, if I could find a coder, I would have already written one. I appreciate the kind words! Hearing feedback like that, especially from an author, is always exciting.

Yeah, I wonder how Spider-Man goes on like mutation is nothing.

It’s funny, y’know, I can’t tell if your game is going to be a freak show or not with the body horror. A part of me would love it if you were, the other is simply hoping there are no bug-based villains. I actually have clinically-diagnosed Entomophobia so it would be a real thrillride fighting a big bee or spider. This admittedly served as the inspiration behind the hallucination in my short story. My favorite animal is the bat, so that is my character, yet they eat my least favorite animal. It’s so perfectly tailored to horrifying me that it just makes me that much more eager to dive in.

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I am very happy that this project has gone ahead and you also enjoy writing within a time that attracts you and me so much attention. We wish you the best for you and this project goes ahead :wink:

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@Francisco_Mendez I believe you posted in the wrong thread, my friend.

I’m sorry

Oh, no need to apologize! It’s all good!

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Yo, where’s my eagle squad at?

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Definitely interested! Can’t wait to play a demo and see where this goes!

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Okay, the demo is now up here: https://dashingdon.com/go/6586

It’s only the first two chapters and it stops just before we get to the real superhero stuff so please don’t expect too much of that! What there is so far is really just setting up the world, characters and the MC’s backstory/personality.

You’ll get assigned an animal at random when you get bitten but later (and in the full game) there will be the option to choose. I’m not sure yet if I’ll allow that on the first playthrough or subsequent ones only.

Content Warnings: Nothing too extreme but definitely more sexual content than I had in Ironheart and much more adult language too. Also, some fairly light drug content to fit the sixties milieu, including the option for the MC to partake.

As ever, I’m hugely grateful for any and all feedback!

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The fact you mentioned Dick Tracy in the demo has given me immense respect for you

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I would much rather it not be randomized; it would make replaying if you chose the wrong thing a huge hassle (even if you can keep opening the stat page to reroll it).

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Also not a fan of the randomisation Maybe you could put it as a toggle? So turn on for random animal or turn off to choose.

Also I noticed a bug after who you choose to go with you to freed industries, I chose to take Arlo with me

Summary

When you arrive at Freed Industries, you check in with the clerk at the front desk and seat yourselves in the foyer to wait. “Look at this place,” says Arlo, gazing around him at the vast, minimalist space. “There’s no soul here, I just wanna draw something on these walls….”“This place gives me the creeps,” says Dancer, gazing around her at the vast, minimalist space. "It smells like a hospital in here."Quinn squeaks his fingers to and fro on the black leather of his chair and gazes around him at the vast, minimalist space. “This place feels like a morgue,” he says.

I love this so far and have been checking for the demo to come out and plaid it immediatly when I saw it on my break today :grinning:

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That was fun! Although I didn’t do too much socializing with my choices, the scenes, and narrative more than made up for the voluntary lack of interaction. This is definitely one I’d buy once it is officially released. :grin:

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