The Day After Ever After: A Cinderella Story (WIP, Updated 1/15/21!)

[hustlertwo]

This fairly odd fairy tale is intended to be the first of several stories united by a common theme: they will begin at the point where the traditional fairy tales they are based on end, and let you decide what happily ever after actually looks like. Will you remain with your fated true love, or find another? Remain a loyal royal, seize the throne by force, or bring the monarchy crashing down forever? You choose to play as Cinderella or the prince, both of whom have customizable names whichever way you go (since Cinderella was never a name to begin with, just a cruel nickname, and we aren’t calling this prince Charming unless we want the House of Mouse shutting this production down). Expect romance, palace intrigue, and hopefully some humor too as you enter a world that is at once incredibly familiar yet completely new and unusual.

To play the demo for The Day After Ever After, go here: https://dashingdon.com/go/7455

Hi, everybody! For anyone who does not know me, I am Matt Simpson, and I wrote two previous Hosted Games, Nuclear Powered Toaster (link here: https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/nuclear-powered-toaster/#utm_medium=web&utm_source=ourgames ) and The Parenting Simulator (link here: https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/parenting-simulator/#utm_medium=web&utm_source=usercontrib ). I also have a third WIP, League of Lunacy, but I have shelved it for the time being as the coding was just too much for me to manage at the moment.

This was a bit of a rough year writing-wise, as I bounced from project to project without any real traction and got out of the writing habit for the first time since I found this place. Suffice to say, I never saw this story being the one to break me out of that slump, but it did and I’m quite grateful. Like they said in Chasing Amy, this was the one least likely. But I’m having fun with it so far, and wrote more in the last ten days than in the previous hundred, so that has to count for something. I’m looking for all kinds of feedback, so please feel free to chime in with anything, large or small!

1/15/21- The first update is a beefy boy; at 5,779 new words it almost doubles the demo in size, with a new word total of 12,114 words.

12/29/20- The demo is at 6,262 words, excluding commands. I’m not so much of a rookie anymore as to make a concrete projection of its finished length (at one time I didn’t think Parenting would reach 100k lol rofl lmao), but I don’t intend for this to be super long. We’ll see if the story itself has an opinion to the contrary.

[peaches]

Let me just say, I’ve been wanting a fairy tale based WIP for the longest time so this came as a happy surprise!

I’ll be looking forward to more

[William5738]

I found this, Addison is the name of “Cinderella” however this should say the name of the Prince instead I believe.

[LastLau]

There are name lock in and continuation errors. After picking a name, both the prince ant the princess were referred to as simply ‘Name’.

[Moonbreaker]

Woo i love this concept, i think i read something like this in tumblr a while back. But a lotta cinderella stories that i’ve read end to just end or stay in the honeymoon period without any thing else, it’s probably the point of these types of stories but it leaves a weird sense of like an uncannily perfect bubble. It’d be fun to see the less rosy and more vicious and business part of being a royal.

[AMER1CANN1NJA09]

[hustlertwo]

Thanks for mentioning about the name issues, and ditto for @LastLau . I’ll try to work on those during my lunch break.

@peaches Glad this is scratching an itch for you!

@Moonbreaker I am hoping to bring some of the same doses of reality to the fairy tale genre that I tried to do with Parenting. Fully expect a scene at some point with your spouse scratching their rear end. I’m not even sure if I’m joking about that.

[AMER1CANN1NJA09]

I picked ella as the name for my princess and near the end of the book it said “Prince Ella and Princess name”

[redfield]

Decided to play as the prince, I chosw the name Ella for the princess but the gam3 just keeps calling her “Name”

[WarMaster999]

I used to be fascinated with the tale of Cinderella in my youth, And now there is a WIP on it! It definitely intrigues me and I will keep an eye on it!

[Ant_Merf]

Very interesting, I look forward to see how this will go

[hustlertwo]

This is intriguing. Just hit 50 thread likes. For frame of reference, here’s how long my four WIP threads took to reach that level:

Nuclear Powered Toaster- 11 months (July ‘17-June ‘18)
League of Lunacy- 12 days (April 1-12, 2020)
The Parenting Simulator- Can’t tell for sure, but three days, if I recall.
The Day After Ever After- Four hours.

I’ll buy that for a dollar.

[Marvey]

Aah, what?
Looks pretty interesting so far, though tbh the name issue can get distracting.

[hustlertwo]

Yes, it’s been mentioned a few times above. When I get my lunch break I will try to resolve whatever issue is causing that, so hopefully in the next couple hours.

OK, it should be fixed now, I hope…?

[Snowflower]

An interesting game, for sure. I will be following this with interest, similar to TPS. Kudos for writing this, @hustlertwo!

[Kirlett]

I remember ugly sobbing while playing The Parenting Simulator, and I love fairytales, so this is a must-read! Good luck and keep up the hard work! ^^

[my.quothy.raven]

I wasn’t expecting this demo today, but it was exactly what I was hoping for all along as it turns out. What a fairytale come true.

[butterbeann]

I’m absolutely loving this demo so far!! Once I seen that you wrote Parenting Simulator I automatically knew this was going to be great lol. Looking forward to the finished product!!

[derekmetaltron]

Fantastic so fan, nice to play the Prince and make him less of a cardboard cutout than the Disney version.

[Snowflower]

Small bug (playing as Cinderella, picked the name Madeline (did you think of the children’s book Madeline? I did)), and named the prince Eugene (loved the Tangled reference)). “This is my wife [Eugene]” should be “This is my wife, [Madeline]”.

Will there be nicknames for the characters, similar to TPS?