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IF author of Silk & Secrets (available on Steam or Heart's Choice)

[asimonauthor]

I did the math so you don't have to...🤭 admittedly, 9 out of 10 chapters with spicy scene options didn't stress my gray matter much!

Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure

Infiltrate the elite secret sex society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their ritual orgies or surrender to the

[if-seal]

Say hi to your new advice-giver, IF Seal!

In honour of the dear dormant @if-confessions and the even older, beloved Story Hospital I am here with an advice blog to hand out cheerleading, encouragement, advice, and maybe even some writing and narrative design wisdom to interactive fiction creators and players.

If you have questions like...

I'm stuck on a branching scene that's turned huge and can't figure a way of getting through it.

I'm worried about players wanting to take actions in my IF that I don't want to include.

I've fallen in love with an IF and want to give critical feedback but don't want to offend the author.

I've made some characters that I LOVE but once I start the story I just don't know what to do with them.

Readers are saying my game doesn't take their choices into account and I want to change that.

Readers are saying my game doesn't take their choices into account... and how much does that really matter?

...or anything else, I am here to help out!

I hang out in @hpowellsmith's bathtub from which I dictate my many and varied thoughts.

I post an answer each Monday. You can find an archive of answers here.

Please send in your questions and I will share my sealy knowledge and experience!

A few notes:

If you're talking about a particular game in a negative fashion, please anonymise it. If you don't, I will assign it a comedically anonymous title

I am not much of a Tech Seal and it is unlikely that I can answer detailed technical questions, but I will try to point you in the right direction

I am not interested in answering "which scripting tool is the objective best" because unanswerable questions are beyond my sealy ken but I will have much more to say about "which scripting tool might suit this project best for which reasons"

If you send a non-anonymous ask, I will check that you're happy to have your name on it before I post an answer

Enjoy!

[if-seal]

Friends, I have been away for some time but I have been flipping through my inbox with my large flippers and have a good number of questions and answers now queued up. I will begin posting weekly or perhaps fortnightly on 6th July.

Please send in questions here, or on the Choice of Games forum, or on the anonymous form.

In the meantime! Here is the Q&A archive for perusal while you wait.

IF Seal Archive

Here's the question and answer archive for my advice blog, IF Seal. Have a question of your own? Ask it through the Tumblr blog or this a

[lidiamolinawhyte]

Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion is on sale!

Posting on socials has taken a bit of a backseat while I focus on my next interactive project (and on growing a human), but I couldn't miss the chance to shout about Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion being on sale on Steam! If you like Greek mythology, steamy romance, and tough choices, you can enjoy them all for 40% off until 9th July 💜

Save 40% on Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion on Steam

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

[asimonauthor]

When finishing your dissertation requires extensive fieldwork 👀 and you infiltrate a secret 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 club

It's an IF where you choose your role in initiation and so much more...

📖 Silk & Secrets: Rites of Pleasure by A. Simon from Heart's Choice (available now from Steam or in the HC app)

[magicatthemasthead]

I have made a companion blog!

Hello! I have come back to tumblr after like a decade to make a blog for my new choose your own adventure game for Choice of Games.

I'll post any newsletters I write that are relevant to the game (which is currently all of them because I am basically just thinking about tall ships all the time!), and the pictures of ships I draw.

Magic at the Masthead is an LGBTQ+ inclusive tall ships game of adventure, magic, and romance. You can find out all about it on my forum page here. You can also play a 60K word demo there, or you can go straight to the demo here.

You are the new first lieutenant on the MNS Meredith, a neat, fast little frigate in the Measarrean Navy. Officially, your orders are to get out there and harass the enemy. In fact, Measarrean naval intelligence has tasked you with finding out if there is any truth to the rumours that your enemies, the Oriolenn, have developed a weapon powerful enough to manipulate the fundamental laws of nature. It’s a mission that will take you into the heart of enemy territory, and challenge your crew to the utmost. And if you can find, or even claim, this weapon, what then? Will you allow it to transform the world forever? Claim it for yourself? Or attempt to destroy it?

Play as cis or trans; male (he/him), female (she/her), nonbinary (they/them), agender (e/em), or set your own pronouns; gay, straight, bisexual, asexual and/or aromantic with alternative ‘particular friend’ paths available for platonic intimacy.

Focus on naval prowess and hone your crew into a fighting force that can win any battle - with your tactical genius, of course.

Focus on naval intelligence and gain as much information as possible on the enemy’s plans - while using your skill and guile to sew sedition in their ranks.

Focus on natural philosophy, and become a world expert on magic and all the ways it can - or can’t - be harnessed.

Survive attacks from magical creatures and miasmic magical storms. Build diplomatic relationships with mer people. Build a happy and efficient ship - or let it become lubberly and mutinous.

Use your influence over your fellow officers to shape them into very different possible versions of themselves.

[anything4thecrown-if]

I thought it was tomorrow, but actually it is today, that one year ago I published the first version of this game.

To celebrate, I've decided to take commissions for drawing your MCs from the game.

For these prices, I will draw your MC anyway you want, and for $20, I will draw your MC with any character you want. There are 4 slots open per option.

For more info, check out my Ko-fi page. Thank you in advance to anyone who commissions me. <3

[asimonauthor]

[asimonauthor]

When your romance lets you choose, who you hookup with, who you date, and more...

The choices are yours...

📚 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure by A. Simon from Heart's Choice app

[asimonauthor]

Do I have an author newsletter signup at asimonauthor.com? Yes. Have I sent any newsletters lately? Alas, no. BUT! But one is coming soon, and I should have new wip news 👀

[asimonauthor]

Standing on a balcony in nothing but confidence while men on the street below forget how to function. Marcus's building has security. they can only watch. They can only watch.

silk & secrets: rites of pleasure by a. simon 🖤

[asimonauthor]

When you gave to decide if joining the secret *spicy* society inside the Palace of Versailles is worth owing him a favor...

📚 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure by A. Simon, erotic romance from Heart's Choice

[asimonauthor]

When you infiltrate a secret erotic society...for academic research

[asimonauthor]

When finishing grad school means joining a secret society inside the Palace of Versailles that history pretends doesn't exist...

A secret society. Dangerous desire. And a love story you control.

In Silk & Secrets by A. Simon, your choices shape the romance, the scandal… and how far you’re willing to go. Find it on Heart's Choice or Steam. 📚

[interact-if]

You can find all of the submissions for the Modern/Slice-of-Life Interactive Fiction category down below!

(Not listed in any particular order—top games in each category coming soon)

Ongoing

Paved in Ashes by @pavedinashes-if

Apartment 502 by @apt502-if

Infamous by @infamous-if

Hold My - Oh Shit, Call 112! by @holdmyohshitcall112-if

Soulmates Inc. by @soulmatesinc-if

After Hours by @afterhoursbyfaye

Merry Crisis by @merrycrisis-if

All That Glitters by @allthatglitters-game

Press Play by @pressplay-if

Warm Me Up by @naturalecho

Can't Save Your Love From Dying by @untitledrockstar-if

When Life Gives You Lemons by @when-life-gives-you-lemons-if

Costa-Sul by @costasul-if

Throne of Blood and Roses by @throne-of-blood-and-roses-if

Sinners by @sinners-if

College Tennis: Origin Story by @collegetennisoriginstory

Raiders of the Caravan by @leftski-if

Deux-a-Deux by @deuxadeux-if

Good Company by @threadbare-stories-if

High School Revenge by @high-school-revenge

Spices of the Heart (formerly A Taste For Heat) by @when-life-gives-you-lemons-if

Before We Are Ghosts by @anjiefiction

Completed

Something A Little Super by Barbara Truelove

See You by @stchematelier

[asimonauthor]

When you infiltrate a secret society inside Versailles to research your grad school dissertation and you get to decide what role you play...

Step into a secret society beneath Versailles where desire, power, and love collide.

Silk & Secrets by A. Simon is an interactive romance from Heart's Choice—every choice is yours… including who you trust, who you tempt, and who you fall for.

[asimonauthor]

[asimonauthor]

I still ❤ this cover @defenestratin