WIP: [The Fame Game] (300k Words) (Prologue Part 1) (MUSIC BASED IF)-[Release Date: March 15th 2026]

[blaise212]

[WIP] The Fame Game!- 300k word Public Demo Out Now!

An interactive fiction saga about ambition, betrayal, and the price of fame.

What would you do for fame?

Some people chase it. Others are born into it. A few destroy everything in their path to reach it.

And some discover that fame isn’t just a dream.

It’s a game.

You play as a prodigiously talented young musician whose life begins to spiral into a world of rivalries, devotion, obsession, and secrets that stretch far beyond the stage. The people around you all want something. Recognition. Power. Love. Survival. And each of them is willing to pay a different price to get it.

But the deeper you climb, the clearer it becomes that the spotlight hides more than it reveals.

Some people become stars.

Some people become legends.

And some people become something else entirely…

(This game is romance heavy. It is one of the main themes, but not the sole main theme. Music is, and always will be, and the rise to superstardom itself. In the prologue, romance is…well you’ll see. One thing I will say is that this is not a game where you set one RO at the beginning and are stuck with them no matter what. Expect the game to have a plethora of RO’s, with new ones introduced as the story progresses, and certain episodes showcasing specific characters more. What would you do for fame?)

Play here: CoGDemos

Trigger warning: In the prologue, I’m quite certain none of the elements would be considered18+. However, from episode 1 and onwards (in the future), there certainly are 18+ elements. You will receive specialised trigger warnings before the start of each new episode, when necessary depending on the content contained inside.

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Current Version: Public Prologue part 1 (300k words) - Released March 15, 2026

AI Disclosure:

No — This project does not contain the output of Generative AI
Yes — This project contains the output of Generative AI

[fancyparadise]

This is only prologue part 1 with 300k words ?

Or it’s prologue and part 1 ?

[blaise212]

Nope, prologue part 1. Prologue has 3 parts. I know it might seem like we took a bunch of chapters and called them the “prologue”, but when you get to episode 1 it’ll be clear why this really is just the prologue, it was actually written after I wrote the first chapter because I wanted to give more depth to the existing character relationships.

Also there’s a veryyy noticeable difference in tone when you compare this to prologue part 3 or any episode which will be released later. Still, there are plenty of choices, particularly in parts 2 and 3 to come, but the entire prologue covers MC’s childhood, with episode 1 being from adulthood and thus what was technically the true original ‘beginning’ of the game!

Honestly, I didn’t want to really cover childhood aspects at first, since when you have to do timeskips you often sacrifice a lot of detail, but I think we made it work for the most part. Some parts may feel rushed through, and that’s because I basically had no choice but to rush through them otherwise the prologue would basically never end, and I think we can all agree it’s veryy long as is. Part 2 is where a lot of branching really kicks in, as part 1 had to cover a LOT of years, and as such we couldn’t put huge diverging choices into the story too early, although there definitely is one particularly towards the end of the part 1!

I find that when a WIP has too much large branching too early, that’s basically a guarantee that it either never completes or it stays short and largely unsatisfying. I wanted to avoid that, so part 1 is more focused on narrative and getting from age 3 to 15. Part 2 then covers 15 to 16 and 3 is 16 to 18, then episode 1 launches. Still, the choices you do make will regularly have lasting immutable effects on the rest of the saga, so do choose wisely. Just be sure to regularly check the in-game diary system as they have in-universe lore events and updates that a lot of players will probably miss, especially in the archives between every timeskip, which often contain foreshadowing and hints for future events, characters and arcs.

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Infinity load

[blaise212]

Can you please tell me where you are in the story? Trying to figure out what’s causing this

[blaise212]

Fixed. Atleast I’m quite certain. Accidentally put a capital S on the *goto, apologies for that. Will be updating it in a minute, please let me know if it’s alright or not!

[Karl_Marx]

Can we choose what genre of music we want? Such as hip-hop, rnb, alt, pop, etc.

[blaise212]

Whenever you’re prompted to make your own song throughout the series, yes. In the current release, MC hasn’t quite reached that point. You won’t ever really have a set genre, you’ll just choose what genre you want each specific song or album to be in for the most part. Though this is more-so for the later episodes.

I suspect that most readers will tire of writing their own songs sooner than you’d expect, however, so often in the prologue MC just covers songs. Whilst writing your own song is appealing at the beginning, and always to me as I’m a musician irl lol, many would simply hate the idea of having to generate their own lyrics time and time again and then generating an internal melody that they think actually sounds good and or believable for the scene. So it’s a bit of a mix. You’ll definitely have your own options to choose genres, but most of the time I’ll likely write the lyrics of a song myself, primarily chorus, and have readers input only one or two lines as opposed to seriously asking anyone to input a full 20-40 lines per song. Also, particularly in episode 3, (which is still a ways off) MC will often simply collab with different artists who come with their own genres and simply ask MC to feature. MC will be known as a popstar, but never limited to the pop-genre. Opportunities will come to learn different instruments (one such is available in the current release), and genres from different people such as how to rap among other things.

In this same sense, you may notice how you aren’t prompted at any point to choose a vocal classification. This isn’t an oversight, rather that this simply won’t be an option until episode 1 when MC is an adult. Primarily due to how male voices change in late puberty above all else. It would be beyond foolish to describe MC as a deep bass at 14 years old after all, a man’s voice typically only ‘settles’ around 20, so it was best to add that touch of realism to it. MC’s greatest skill is versatility, so I don’t particularly see them being universally defined by any one genre, rather someone who can and will switch between genres depending on the players whims. (Or maybe they always stay in one when possible, if the player so wishes!)

[Azzy_Graysin]

I read the entire thing and I just want to say that I really enjoyed what you had written so far. The prose is simply just beautiful and effective. I’m not much of a music or dance person but I found myself caring and feeling the MC’s passion about their craft like its my own. I think the very best parts of this WIP is definitely the MC. They have so much character and the relationships they form with the other members of the book is really complex and heartfelt. The MC actually feels like they fit in their own story and I think thats really great because sometimes other WIPs forget to make their MC more than just a vessel for the players.

The prologue is very long but I think it also fits because it does well in setting up the MC’s backstory and the other characters in the story. I love Cece and Alex. Their own respective bonds with the MC is just so sweet and impactful.

Anyways, the only mistake I can see so far is that E’s pronouns tend to be switched. I played the story with E as a guy and there are times in the story that their pronouns would switch from him to her, especially in the latter half of the story.

Anyways, thats all. I am definitely going to be rereading the story again and again the entire week. E, i love you so much i cant.

[blaise212]

Thank you so much! And yeah, sorry, those pronouns are like whack a mole. Just when you think you got every one right you notice a mistake somewhere else lol.

[mintybunbun]

It’s been a long time since I felt this way (like I want to keep turning the pages and read and read ) and by the way, yes I did read this when it was like maybe posted at 2am (the queer hours when I refreshed the page)? It’s all a blur,I regret nothing . I am, however, thoroughly devastated at the ending of the Pt.1 of the prologue (and I played both choices , thank you for having saves/painnnnn).

I love the way this is written. It’s art in writing form and it’s very pretty and shiny . The way it’s written makes me taste the words and it’s so fun! When I read the prologue with all the ways MC was growing, it reminded me of when I first had soda, the sweet taste, the effervescent feeling, and then the burning in my nose where I tried to decide if I liked it or hated it. I really liked this story.

Characters. I really liked the groundwork you laid for the characters, you get pieces of their personality in the story, the way the do things, and in the diary (thank for mentioning to read it every so often). There’s also that fair bit of foreshadowing (E and A, looking at y’all sideways). I have such a love/hate for Cece, but overall, a real fondness for the girl. And also a sighing fondness for E, I understand why they did/said some of the things they did, but it still hurts . There’s a real weight to each of these characters and their motivations are very real (especially in the early chapters and even in the later chapters where I wanted to cry for MC/all of them). I just really like the way they feel and I especially loved the characters that felt like they grounded MC like David, Nina, and Alex.

For the pacing, I will say that although this is long. Like really long for a prologue, now that I’ve played it, I have to agree where you stopped for this Pt.1 right now. It feels like it’s setting up for something bigger and we really get to see our MC grow and see some of the dynamics of the school, friend group, and then inevitable disaster in this part. The really joyful parts are fun (made me feel giddy like a kid again), I really enjoyed all the before Arden school scenes and MC really growing into themselves, like with Mr. Banjo/Ms.Kline, but I was also concerned with all the weight/expectations on them when in Arden as the story progressed. But, you know, I liked the first part where MC is growing into themselves, it’s all fluff and kind of rainbows, but in the latter half in Arden, there was bite. It made things interesting and it made it seemed like not everything was going to be given and the MC had to learn to really truly had to hone themselves like they meant it or burn out. It really felt like they were growing, whether they wanted it or not. Also the slowburn with E (as that’s what I did in my first run) felt perfect like this.

Bugs (potential?)/ typos?/ things I noticed:

• Around prologue_2, it may be a continuity error, but my MC chooses “Star Power” for her/Cece’s group name and the choices initially reflect that with Cece saying that’s hers, but towards the end when the girls are both sleeping, she whispers “The Brights” which had me a little confused because I didn’t pick it (Below: the Star Power choice and then later in the part, when the girls are about to sleep, it doesn’t reflect it)

  
  

• As someone already mentioned the pronouns jumping around. I had the same issue with playing E as a guy and E’s pronouns switching from him to her in story. (Below: Around prologue_ardent_first_day)

  

• The same can also be said about Ash with the pronoun switching, Ash is a guy in my playthrough and the pronouns will sometimes switch in the story (Below: Around diary)

• Around prologue_ardent_first_day/ Maybe something with code with the name?

I think you mentioned it before in this forum that in this Pt.1 of the prologue, it doesn’t really branch out except maybe towards the end. I approve (if so), because you can have time to do that later, for now the flavor texts and small acknowledgements are just a good build up for the characters/story. I will say that on my first playthrough, if you keep choosing E, everything aligns and makes sense. Otherwise, when you choose someone else, like A, it makes you scratch your head because it does reflect a little in the diary when you have to choose between the two of them. But, in the story, it looks like MC will always have a crush or something like that (but I haven’t fully finished that playthrough/a third way there to check though) on E. I guess my one critique for Pt. 1 of the prologue may be that can feel that you are railroaded into this crush depending on your playthrough. Or at least what I thought for my playthrough (if that makes sense?).

ANYWAYS, coming from the end of the PROLOGUE PT.1 (with a romancing E mindset), I AM STILL DEVASTATED. IF I KISS E, I get relief for a moment and then give them some type of trauma from the vomiting . IF I DON’T, then I GET ALL KINDS OF GRIEF from everyone and then they’re like oh the solution is so easy. Nu-uh, I knew rushing with a crowd is bad, strawberries are bad, and then that quiet confession from A. I genuinely thought they were just platonic the whole time, it was only when I read the diary where I was like noooooooo, I AM COOOKED

TLDR: Anyways, I kind of checked over this post, but I’m mostly capturing the feeling. Thank you for coding this. I know this is monster of a thing to do especially with how much there is and all the variables. I love this story and the characters. I look forward to the next part. Please take your time and take rests as necessary (as many as you need really). I hope some of this was helpful and once again, thank you!

[blaise212]

Thank you so much for the screenshots, it actually helps a lot with bug fixing lol. Yes, so in the prologue the romance really will be centred around E. It’s actually the reason why I deem it all the prologue, since allowing another romance wouldn’t make sense once you see episode 1 which was technically the true beginning of the story. It’s easier to consider this truly just a backstory to set up episode 1 and the future in which more RO’s make appearances over time. But a lot of stuff occurs in Part 2 which will make a lot more sense, particularly in Ardent. Currently, there isn’t much detail about what Ardent’s like beyond MC’s hellish experience, that was just a narrative choice to show how MC’s kinda zoned out most of the time dealing with all the workload. But after the placement, when MC returns in part 2, you’ll actually see Ardent outside of your own perspective and how the school actually works for everyone and the dynamics going on between different departments etc. Hope you enjoyed your playthrough!

[LiliArch]

Could we get some selectable lyrics? I just blank out at the textboxes.

[pseudoviridae]

just finished playing through everything so far and overall i quite liked it! at the end with ernest i knew what was coming for us when i noticed the strawberry whatever… grim asf end with that which i will be very eager to see how that and everything else progresses as the story continues. my mc certainly is having the worst time she could possibly imagine i think and will probably continue to do so lmao. very teenage melodrama that just doesn’t need to be this world-ending to them but it is because being a teenager is the worst, and their school is insane on top of that. god bless their souls because they’re gonna need it. childhood usually isn’t my favorite sort of life stage to be at in a story, but here it’s pretty interesting to watch the mc change because of the external and internal pressures on them. i’m very interested to see how this all affects them in the later teen years and into actual adulthood. the way they can really shut down and just lock in and listen and do what they’re told vs. resenting being a tool or being wary about actually being free to do what they want to do themself… not exactly a witch’s brew to make a healthy, well-adjusted adult lmao.

other people have mentioned it but really really you have to go over all of the pronouns because all throughout and for every character it seems that is gender variable, there’s tons of incorrect pronouns and gendering. for the mc, i made her a girl and there was a ton of hes and hims or being called a boy. alex was a girl for me and was also getting a bunch of he/hims. i had ernest but he was getting a bunch of she/hers and a few moments where he was called ethel. at one point when the mc is checking their phone, the next button is i guess supposed to just say e’s name by printing the variable, but instead it just said ethel_name. ash was getting mixed he/hims and she/hers and i was actually confused if that was intentional or not at the beginning but based on everyone else too i don’t think it was on purpose. and what made it confusing at the beginning with ash and then eventually pretty irritating was that the pronouns would be inconsistent within the same sentence a lot. just going through with a fine-toothed comb for these errors would improve it a fair bit.

and besides that i would just note that all of the metaphors or similes or whatever imagery stuff going on all the time in the earlier childhood parts just kind of felt a bit strange to me. when it gets to the time at the school and that stuff stops, i enjoyed the writing a lot more. it feels like its maybe trying to be silly and childish since we’re playing as a little kid at that point and so we say weird stuff, but to me personally it just didn’t work and at points was just kind of confusing what they were even conveying.

but overall it’s pretty promising and i hope we see more of this!!

[blaise212]

Do you mean when you have to write your own lyrics?

[LiliArch]

Yes, those.

[blaise212]

Yeah, you get those in part 2 and basically the rest of the game. Anywhere you make a song that’ll actually recur.

[cheezbot]

When MC(Male) turns adult, can MC romance Ash and Cece?

[Banan1234]

Which is it hm? Great so far, my eyes bulged out of my face when I saw 300k words on a prologue that isnt even finished haha.

[blaise212]

I don’t even know how that one slipped past me. I hated revising those first few scenes because they had so many bugs that I just kinda avoided going back once the randomtests passed. Just fixed this one, most of the pronoun bugs, maybe all, are fixed and will be implemented once I update again with the next part lol. So long as nothing is game breaking, that is.