still missing a courtesan of rome

she/her | this is a side acc

[thefirstcourtesan]

Help, I'm scared. There are weird people pretending to be TC&TF characters.

Although, ok, Leon looks kinda cool but Kenna, Dom and Annelyse... I don't know them..

[vivalgi]

😛

[the-unconquered-queen]

Close enough. Welcome back Stanford Pines 🙌🏼

[bladescourtesan]

time pass and i always go back to the freshman series for some comfort, those were the days + i just love these two 😭

[femmeinfernal]

NOBODY is hearing mc out on this one god i miss you acor you were so funny

[choices-binglebonkus]

[choices-binglebonkus]

They lowered it to only 2 keys per day.

[bladescourtesan]

damn that ending ... that was brutal 😭

[chanceisagoodboy]

WHO THE FUCK IS READY FOR BLADES OMG NON-VIP THROW YOUR SHIRT OFF AND CHEER!!!!

[the-unconquered-queen]

Which Choices book had you the most torn over which endgame LI to choose?

Guinevere

Endless Summer

Ride-or-Die

The Freshman

Open Heart

It Lives in the Woods

The Royal Romance

The Crown & the Flame

Bloodbound

The Elementalists

A different book (which one?)

I’ve never been torn when choosing an endgame LI

Voting ended onNov 23, 2024

[bejewellled]

would've could've should've

[kainebell]

damn nobody wants him fr 😔

[choicesenthusiast]

with fortunately convenient timing, the unnanounced narrative game company founded by former pb employees now has a name! candlelight games, led by none other andrew shvarts aka mr. blades himself (along with his brother daniel), megan schwarz (lead of tna, ame, ds, weh) and royal mcgraw (who headed the original hollywood u and then choices until 2021).

their first project is a fantasy story, so if the series ai acquisition and, most recently, the blades iii ai cover reveal upsets and disappoints you (which it should! fuck ai fr), i'd recommend taking a following to them as i have. i'm looking forward to what's to come!

[mikaelsrose]

they massacred my boy 🥲

[choices-binglebonkus]

So uhhhh. After seeing the Blades 3 AI cover…how are we feeling?

Super excited for it!

Eagerly awaiting it

Looking forward to it with cautious optimism

Not looking forward to it but not totally averse to it either

Not looking forward to it

Actively dreading it

Voting ended onJul 25, 2024

[bladescourtesan]

waiting terrified for it, 99% sure it will be a disaster 1% not totally averse bc i still wanna see the blades gang....tho its not looking good

[howtobeanerd101]

I haven’t posted about choices in like five years. Y’all might remember me as edwardstanno1 lol, or you might not because it’s been five years 😂

Anyway, I’m so saddened by the news of pixelberry selling out to a company “pioneering AI to make games.” Just thinking about the concept makes me sick.

I played so many wonderful games on that app, games that have changed my life, games with music that stays with me to this day, games that made me laugh or cry. These games were made by people who had a story to share.

I stopped playing choices because the games were going to crap, but I always loved those special games and loved the occasional gem they would release. Now there will be no more gems. Worst case scenario, the AI stories flop, the app gets shut down, and those beautiful and special stories will disappear forever. I hope that doesn’t happen. I want these special stories to stay around, but I don’t know how much hope there is.

I’m so sad. I hate AI so much.

[choicesenthusiast]

i genuinely wonder if any former longtime pb employees (especially the ogs that had been there 10+ years) look at the state of their beloved app and like. detest it or something. because you stay and you stay and you stay with the promise that things will get better until one day 75% of employees are laid off including yourself and then your game that you kinda put your heart and soul into is sold to a generative ai company. anyways i really do wish them well and onto better projects

[storyofmychoices]

PB shared the announcement on their blog.

I googled "Series Entertainment" and found article about this news and the article starts with:

Series Entertainment – itself a game development company that "pioneer[s] the use of generative AI to transform imaginative ideas into unforgettable gaming experiences" – says the acquisition "signifies Series' strategy to build out its studio system to deliver a diverse catalog of different genres that leverage its world class development technology, the Rho Engine", the world’s first "AI-native, multimodal full-stack game creation platform". [X]

And here is another article

Series Entertainment, a fast-growing AI game development company, has acquired interactive fiction mobile game studio Pixelberry.

From the companies website...

So basically we told Choices we didn't want AI and they sold the company to an AI entertainment company 🤦‍♀️

[bladescourtesan]

.....well it's really over isn't it, I'm really scared for Blades 3 atp