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Pixelberry's Choices and the insanely popular, wildly overlooked genre of interactive fiction romance on mobile.

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The "texting adventure" that got millions of people to swap urgent messages with a fictional astronaut.

Nov 25

Inkle Studios and the hit that took players around the world through an interactive story with 16,000 choices.

Nov 18

The story of Versu, the legendary storytelling engine that never got its chance to shine.

Nov 11

A revolution of text games powered by blue links and radical prose: Twine and the rise of Porpentine.

Nov 4

The simple text game that hid an infinite textual multiverse behind a single word.

Oct 28

The visual novel turned indie breakout that launched a career and took players "five minutes into the future of 1988."

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