Clever-Crow

Hi! You can call me CC or Bran (he/him). I am currently working on an Interactive Fiction novel called Malagast whenever work and family allows.

[clever--crow]

MALAGAST

Malagast: Part 1 - Fear: Demo now available!

A work-in-progress rural fantasy interactive novel, written in ChoiceScript.

You are the blacksmith's apprentice in a remote small village threatened from all sides. An attempt to buy your village more time against these threats changes your world forever.

When everything changes how will you cope?

And more importantly: How will you feel about it?

Features:

A focus on interpersonal relationships under pressure.

A small, detailed world and cast.

Decisions that can carry real consequences.

Two Deep Romance Options. Neither of them what you expect from a classical romance route.

There will be no Happily Ever After - at least not for everyone.

What it is not:

No simple villains, no easy solutions.

No quest to save a kingdom — there isn't one.

No princes, no princesses.

LINK to Demo

[clever--crow]

So now that Part 1 is available (Yay!), I wanted to take some time to explain, where I am in the project at the moment and where this all is heading.

So: Malagast is currently conceived as a story in five parts (and I will not yet spoil the reason for this). What is available now is the first Part consisting of the first four chapters and it is essentially Act 1.

The story as planned has 22 chapters (the last one is more or less an epilogue). All of them are sketched and I have a rough idea what will happen when. When writing I realized of course that things change more than initially anticipated.

Where am I currently?

Chapter 5 and 6 are written and I am editing and revising them heavily right now. Once this is done I will update the Stat-screen as necessary and update the Lore sections as well. The final pass is then balancing and editorial stuff. At the same time I already have started writing Chapter 7. They only get more demanding, do they? This one will have some serious branching (with consequences of course).

And then?

Part 2 will consist of Chapters 5 to 10. It is the longest part, so I decided to split it. The first half will consist - surprisingly - of Chapters 5 to 7. I plan to make them available once I have first drafts for Chapters 8 and 9, so I can see if the prior chapters really work.

No timeline yet but I am working on it whenever time allows.

Have a great time and thanks for reading!