June 2026 Writer Support Thread

[MoonlightBomber]

Are these ChoiceScript-exclusive or it allows for other engines?

[Jonathan_Bagelman]

I was hoping to update The Rise of Cthulhu with Chapter 5 in June, but that’s not going to happen, though I do expect to finish it in July. I lost almost the entire month and got very little writing done. I haven’t had that much sleep, and as a result it takes me a lot longer to do everything, and it made writing more difficult on the rare occasions when I did have time. I’ve also been spending a lot more time looking for work, and I wasted a lot more on what was supposedly a job offer but turned out to be a scam.

[Fusion_Ultimatum]

Could I get a spot for Velocity? It wasn’t actually an update but the web demo just went live today.

@raywilson

definitely, just added it.

Thanks lots!

[MoonlightBomber]

@raywilson

i think any interactive fiction type project is totally fine :))

Thanks for the clarification. It’s quite not IF (as it’s instead a story-heavy RPG), but the Lily Adventuresses! series, of which the fourth of the planned five episodes is what I’m currently working on, counts.

[HarrisPS]

It’s back! I’ve caught up on the ChoiceScript releases, new WIPs, and updates for Feb-June. Let me know if I’ve missed any and I’ll add them to the list. June’s Choicebeat also came out recently including an interview with Paul Wang - do take a look!

Current Full Game CoG Beta Testing:

• A Blade for the Emperor

Expected release next month:

• Velocity: the Race Begins by Matt Ryland (2nd July)

CoG Releases:

• Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential by Eloy Lasanta
• Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION by Evan J. Peterson
• Wizard Confidential by Anthony Eichenlaub

Heart’s Choice Releases:

• Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion by Lidia Molina Whyte
• Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure by A. Simon

New CoG WIPs:

• Magic at the Masthead by @gracierocket
• The Lamplighters Guild by @LisHz

New HG/Hobby WIPs:

• A Choice of Ants by @Squul
• After Hours by @ByFaye
• All That Glitters by @DreaMS
• Apex Rising by @Specs
• Back in Action by @Eryl
• Blissfallen by @sana
• Dead Horizon by @JamesDominion
• Dirtcheap Orbit, Terminal Run, and Gerry! by @DacCo
• Edges of Winter by @CodedQuill
• Emperor Decides Heir by @tmaty
• Hand Me Downs by @DiabloObsidian
• Iron Vigil by @heartbeet
• Kingdom: Apocalypse by @rathryon
• La Cosa Tua by @Lisa_Fox
• Lab Rat by @holysalmon
• Le Fay by goldberry
• Might or Magic by @aethernano
• My Darling Psycho by @Aurora_Boreal
• N01R Book 1: Quintessence by @Writing_Fever
• Nanny Wanted by @CC_Hill
• Negative Exposure by @raineydayz
• NPC Barbarian by @tmaty
• Out of the Dark by @velena
• Panopticon: the Hacker by @Somethinkorignl
• Pendragon: Sword of No Name by @JXSXNBLXCK
• Reincarnated as a…? by @DiabloObsidian
• Revenge of the Astronomical Glowing Man by @DacCo
• Rise from the Ashes by @DarkSaint223
• Romantic Comedy of the Damned by @artwoo
• Sailing Game by @Dan_Rasmussen
• Shattered Blades: A Wish by @DevilsFeather
• Sins in Chrome by @reqn
• Soft as Steel by @MeowMeow422
• Solitude of Space by @silverflame
• Somewhere Out There by @Aslen_Khel
• Stagebound by Den
• Tales of Ellaria by @FrozenStream
• The Boardroom and the Fatal Filth by Ann
• The Fame Game by @blaise212
• The Heavenly Path: Ascendant Soul by @Ominking1
• The House of Egmont by @bonbons
• The Intelligencer’s Apprentice by @SkaldOfTheEast
• The New Hope by @Jun_Sad
• The Oracle of Phoros by @Writing_Fever
• The Prodigal’s Road by @eloise_writes
• The Prodigy by @ByFaye
• The Rooms by @HUMANMEAT
• The Space Between Storms by @Santana_Verse
• THEÎON by @Dannie
• Through Fire and Storm by @MillenniumStar
• To Break A Curse/To Break The Cursed by @Bizimo
• Town of the Ancient by @DutchFeverDream
• Untitled by @Sum1HugMe
• War of Havan by @Zerkeous
• What Heroes Leave Behind by @DiabloObsidian
• What Makes A Shinobi by @heeheehaw
• World Happiness Survival Plan by @sephonie

Updated CoG WIPs:

• Crime Families of Aplista by @Jonco548
• Jolly Good: Tea and Scones by @Gower
• To Reign in Hell by @stuartmartyn

Updated HC WIP:

• Dance of the Night by @Dash

Updated HG/Hobby WIPs:

• 1966 by @an_inspired_guess
• A Nation Divided: A Civil War Officer’s Journey by @RedizE
• A Shriek of Ash and Fire by @NumberedEntity
• After Dark by @Daleko
• Age of Archdemon by @Sylents
• All the Way by @Zodac01
• Arceus: Awakening by @Dryinspection
• Arthurian Tale: Camelot by @Cain_Abel
• Ashenmaw - Dragons of Marrowoods by @Meltingpenguins
• Azrael by @Sambit_Mishra
• Before the Incident by @Terrorcrest
• Beneath the Plum Tree by @beneaththeplumtree
• Blood Legacies by @L.D.nunes
• Blood of the Living by @Jaybirdy
• Blue Dominion by @Max_Ferran
• Chains of Destiny by @Notlev
• College Tennis: Origin Story by @burninglights
• Concurrent by @profanedaisy
• Corruptant by @big_pickle
• Dao Ascension by @DaoImmerser
• Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian by @HaleyM
• Deux à Deux by @raywilson
• Digital Dog by @Cain_Abel
• Dragon Kin by @Dubs3
• Dragon of Steelthorne: War Sky by @ChanceOfFire
• Drink Your Villain Juice by @izzily
• Fallen Hero: Revelations by @malinryden
• False Ancestry by @ClearBlueStar
• Fate of the Undead by @Miznie
• God Syndicate by @Morgan_J
• Grey Swan - Birds of a Rose by @Schrodinger
• Guardian of Time by @Cat-Toes
• Honor Amongst Thieves by @leonewrites
• I-doll by @Mfein
• I, the Unbroken One by @Bacondoneright
• In the Cards by @KLou
• Infamous by @radicallytamed
• Kindling by @OwletNest
• Laws of Passion by @CC_Hill
• LoSE: The Trainee by @Writing_Executive
• Lost in Your Eyes by @Silly_Cat_69
• My Darling Psycho by @Aurora_Boreal
• Pactbinder by @Hamartia
• Party of Four by @zozopuff
• Phantom Thief: Money’s For Fools by @JazzThief
• Pillars of the Light by @lliiraanna
• Project Vampire by @Sylents
• Rosemary Isles: Book 1 by @Dariel
• Running Out Of Time by @iraisheree
• Sanguine Sky by @whizumi
• Scapegoated by @fionapple
• Scarlet Sorceress by @ChanceOfFire
• Season of Shadows by @Kwartel
• Soulbound: A Ghost Story by @CorvusWitchcraft
• SPLIT: the Mortal Wound by @Zoska and Anna Nazabi
• Starways Saga by @Optimal_Crisis
• Strings of Fate: Origins by @the.normandy
• The Abyssal by @Holtzmann
• The Bar on the Abyss by @EscharCohen
• The Cruel Guardians by @Samuel_H_Young
• The Dragon’s Covenant by @RGHV
• The Epsilon Vanguard by @MissMountaintop
• The Eternal Library by @leiatalon
• The Fractured Cage by @Morkai
• The Golden Chronicles by @Biwa_Man
• The Golden-Eyed Raven by @Susubachee
• The In-Between by @Daleko
• The Iron King’s Heir by @hellanikthi
• The Last Witch: Shadows of the Ashwood Trials by @Audrine
• The Lonely Shore by @apothe0sis
• The Mark of the Devil by @M.K.Bramble
• The Marked by @PeonyB
• The Rise of Cthulhu by @Jonathan_Bagelman
• The Sword of Rhivenia rewrite by @nutellaqueen
• The Veil: Whispers Between Worlds by @Feathers
• The Weighted World by @Destrogod
• Until Armistice by @Doginacan
• Velocity by @Fusion_Ultimatum
• Villain Intern by @quillpen
• Walls of Natrun by @Omeg
• War of Beasts by @Marlyena1
• Weeping Gods by @jcollins
• Wonderland Noir: Behind the Looking Glass by @Wannabe_Human
• Wraithbound by @crunchyteeth
• Your One Moment by @cottage14

New Steam pages to wishlist

• Community College Hero: All Things End by Eric Moser
• God of Chaos by Brennan Gilpatrick
• Superheroes Inc by Maria Dones

AletheiaKnights Reviews

• Choice of the Dragon by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse
• The Magician’s Workshop by Kate Heartfield

Kate’s Reviews

• A Kiss From Death by William Lowman
• A Wise Use of Time by Jim Dattilo
• Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked by Fay Ikin
• Choice of Magics by Kevin Gold
• Choice of Rebels: Uprising by Joel Havenstone
• Fallen Hero: Retribution by Malin Rydén
• Heart of the House by Nissa Campbell
• Heroes of Myth by Abigail C. Trevor
• Hunter: the Reckoning - The Beast of Glenkildove by William Brown
• Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents by Dora Klindžić
• Samurai of Hyuga Book 5 by Devon Connell
• The Vampire Regent by Lucas Zaper and Morton Newberry
• Vampire: the Masquerade - Out for Blood by Jim Dattilo
• Vampire: the Masquerade - Parliament of Knives by Jeffrey Dean
• Vampire: the Masquerade - Sins of the Sires by Natalia Theodoridou
• Wizard Confidential by Anthony Eichenlaub

Mathbrush’s Reviews

• A Sensei’s Story
• An Unexpectedly Green Journey
• Evertree Inn
• Hero or Villain: Genesis
• Journey into Darkness
• Life of a Mercenary
• Lux, City of Secrets
• Meteoric
• Moonrise by Natalie Cannon
• NE by NW Oz
• One Minute Mysteries
• Sabres of Infinity by Paul Wang
• Samurai of Hyuga 2
• Samurai of Hyuga 3
• Samurai of Hyuga 5
• Samurai of Hyuga
• Samural of Hyuga 4
• Sordwin
• Swamp Castle
• The Aegis Saga
• The Great Tournament 2
• The Great Tournament
• The Passenger
• The Soul Stone War 1 by Morgan Vane
• The Soul Stone War 2 by Morgan Vane
• The Soul Stone War 3 by Morgan Vane
• War for the West

Author Interviews

• A. Simon for Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
• Anthony Eichenlaub for Wizard Confidential
• Charli Battersby for Pride
• Eloy Lasanta for Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential
• Evan J. Peterson for Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION
• Evan Peterson for Pride
• Harris Powell-Smith for Pride
• Lidia Molina Whyte for Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion
• Natalia Theodoridou for Pride

[Wannabe_Human]

Add my voice to the chorus. Wonderland Noir should be getting a July update. The chapter is mostly written, I’m just debating if I should add some vignettes and smaller ‘side quests’ before releasing.

[hellanikthi]

@raywilson

if any of you has a demo/project you’ve updated in June (or plan to update in July), please lmk

I updated The Iron King’s Heir in June and plan on updating it again July 10 thanks!

[Wayland_Fultz]

One of the WIPs I’m most excited about!

[hellanikthi]

Aw yay tysm

[raywilson]

hi guys! this month somehow felt so long and so short at the same time. not sure what’s in the wind the past few months, but this year has been kind of kicking my ass. however:

@raywilson

this month, i plan to have a more chill schedule with writing again, perhaps try to fully outline chapter 3 and write+code a scene or two. it’ll be good to just take it slow for the first time in a while.

i did do this! i actually think i have two scenes fully polished/very confidently drafted, since i’ve gone back to the edit-as-i-go style i used in my project’s Chapter 1. it’s feeling a lot better getting each scene (however small) really polished before moving on to other ones.

so…yeah! slow month technically speaking, but i feel like i’m on a better track now to making the project in a way that is satisfying/fulfilling for me creatively, and that i’m more likely to feel confident in putting out when it’s eventually update time again.

i’ll post the july support thread right after making this comment, for those of us in time zones ahead of mine (i think it’s july for some places, now?). congrats all on another month of progress

[Cat-Toes]

@Cat-Toes

June is going to be a bit busy for me, so I’m going to try and keep my goals managable. (I never do, though)

• Get enough posts in my Tumblr to queue to last my whole vaccation, so I don’t have to post while I’m traveling.
• Add 20k to chapter 5
• Less of a stretch goal more of an alternate, but fix the relationships page in the stats screen.

Yeah, none of this happened. I ended up needing an unplanned surgery on my right eye, so I spent the month laying around not able to see much of anything. But I can read stuff again, and my doctor said I’m good to go back to writing full time, so that’s good at least.

[LiliArch]

Get well soon!

[gracierocket]

Hello! My WIP just went up a week or so ago!

Magic at the Masthead by Grace Knight WIP thread + 60K word demo

[Banner. Blue line drawing of square rigged ship to left. Title to right reads "Magic at the Masthead" by Grace Knight. Background is off white and slightly textured.] Hello! Welcome to my shiny new development thread for Magic at the Masthead, an LGBTQ+ inclusive tall ships game of adventure, magic, and romance. Demo You can play the first two chapters on COG demos or on Itch, and I plan to add at least the next two chapters when I’ve written them. This Thread I will post updates on the g…

And as for my June goals…

@gracierocket

OK, aims for this month:

1. Finish a first draft of chapter three before the summer holidays start and my writing time becomes dramatically curtailed.
2. Actually post my demo.

Cue maniacal laughter. Lol god no. Well, I did post my demo. But the summer holidays are well under way and the PC has literally just got back from their first mandatory chat with the admiral in Floresta. Which is basically the first thing that happens. I also had to tie up about 5000 inter-reactive variables from the end of chapter 2. It is about 19K words long already, and I literally haven’t started the actual stuff in my chapter 3 plan. See you all in July!

[Jaybirdy]

@Jaybirdy

My goals this month are a lot less fixed than last one. I’m right at the beginning of a new chapter, so obviously I want to get that outlined and coded properly, then start making forward progress on it. Will I be able to finish the whole thing this month? Probably not. On the other hand, I’ve been blitzing through things recently (is this what being a functional human feels like?), so I might end up fairly close, depending on how long it needs to be.

I guess this time, I’ll just wing it and see where I land.

Outlined and over 50% complete, so I’ll call that good enough. I’ve slowed a bit in terms of wordcount from my previous highs over the last couple of months, but I’m considering that a good thing because I’ve been (once again) flirting with burnout, so slowing down is appropriate and necessary.

I’ve also been devoting a day a week to working on planning new things, which has been admittedly very refreshing.

[LisHz]

@LisHz

My June Goals:

• Write at least 15k.
• Finish Part B of chapter 4.

I did get 15k written, but I am still working on 4b. I’m near the end! But I’m not there yet. Still, this feels like it was a good month.

[tlon]

June accomplishments:

• Wrote a fair bit of a chapter 1 for a WIP
• Have managed to sustain a daily writing practice for the first time since writing school
• Ordered fingerless gloves because the AC at my desk is overpowering
• Got a “new member of the month” award, which was surprising and flattering

Pretty good, all told. I keep thinking about how many authors say they weren’t very prolific at first, but consistent practice meant they were turning out tons of words eventually.

e: Oh, and I did a lot of outlining. I keep forgetting that’s actual work.

[hellanikthi]

@tlon

I keep thinking about how many authors say they weren’t very prolific at first, but consistent practice meant they were turning out tons of words eventually.

Please let this be the case, I am such a consistent snail

[Cain_Abel]

@hellanikthi

Please let this be the case, I am such a consistent snail

Same. Though there is something to be said for consistency. I doubt I will ever be a particularly quick writer, but I have yet to give up on writing. It might take some of us longer, but a steady pace will eventually cross the finish line.