Dakota Smith @dakotawritesif - Tumblr Blog

I’m Dakota, an interactive fiction author! This is my main tumblr, with links to all my WIPS and info about their current status.

Patreon

See below for more details about my works!

I have several projects going on right now, a mix of interactive fiction and traditional writing.

Interactive Fiction

@fallenlightsif

Status: Active Progress, demo available

@disenchantedif

Status: Active Progress, demo available

@reapersbayif

Status: Active Progress, demo available

@theunseelieif

Status: Active Progress, demo available

@indeepertidesif

Status: Active Progress, demo TBA

@faewildif

Status: In Development

Writing

Status: In Development

Status: Prologue out!

#organization post

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As some of you might know, I am studying to become a dietitian. I have a project to do, and since it involves indian food, I thought who better to ask than my dear followers. I figured it would be more accurate to ask directly to indian people rather than doing some vague google search.

This will take up a bit of your time, so I want to thank in advance everyone who will accept to do it. The only requirement I have is to do this specifically with only indian food in mind, as it is the focus of my project. It would be better if it was typical indian food, so I can see how your average eating day looks like, and explore the traditional recepies too.

First of all, thank you so much for your time. The focus of this survey is to explore a typical day of eating, specifically indian food and

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CHRISTMAS SHORT | O QUINN | 11K WORDS

I completely forgot to make a post! O’s holiday special is up and it’s 11k words! I think it’s my favorite so far. I don’t get to write O like this often so I enjoyed it! Hope you do too :)

PLAY HERE

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davrin drawing from november

#my man fr

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Hey everyone

Writing is going to be stalled, yet again. My grandfather is in a coma right now and is not going to make it through. I'll be having to travel to help my family out and attend his funeral.

This is the third family member that has passed since I posted my last chapter. It's made writing nearly impossible.

Thank you for the ones that are still supporting me through Patreon. It's meant the world to me and my family and has meant the difference between getting church boxes for food and actually buying what we need.

I am hopeful that this is going to be the end to a very long few months of trying to keep it all together. No, I am not okay. But hopefully, after this, I can get back to some sort of routine for sanity's sake.

I'll still be active on Patreon to try and keep money flowing in and I do miss engaging with the community, so still send in your asks. I'll keep you updated on the next chapter update when I can think properly.

Love,

Zinnia

#much love zinnia #wishing the best for you and your family

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Small Progress Report

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DEMO UPDATE AND PROGRESS REPORT:

Can you believe it’s already the end of January? As promised, the public demo of The Eternal Library has been updated to include all of chapter three (now over 65,000 words).

I’m nearly finished with the first draft of chapter four, which will go out to Patreon subscribers for early access once I’ve had a chance to do a read-through and polish it up a bit. I’m hoping to have that ready in a week or so.

I’ve been feeling the ebb and flow of energy this month. As we get into the deep winter up here in Canada, my body craves extra sleep. My days are full and my family is my priority, so some days I have time for writing and other days I do not. I have to give myself permission to rest, recharge, and get outside for walks with my dog. Down time helps provide the kind of inspiration and endurance it takes to write a project like this.

My guess is chapter four will be around 25k words (currently 23k). That would take the WIP to 90,000 words, and I feel like I’ve barely started telling the story. It’s possible this might be my longest IF novel yet. Their Majesties’ Pleasure is over 225k words and Ink and Intrigue is over 350k.

I started working on this project less than four months ago and the WIP is already nearing 90k words. I’m pretty impressed with that! As the story and variables get more complicated progress may be a bit slower, but I’ll keep marching steadily onward.

A week or so ago it occurred to me that I’m going to have to write two versions of chapter five. There will be a major branch split at the end of chapter four, offering one adventure or another before the storyline comes back together in chapter six. I’m both excited and apprehensive about how much work it will involve, but I’m quite sure it will be worth it!

Play the demo of The Eternal Library for free!

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The new Patreon demo update is out now! It adds over 20k words to the word count. The Patreon demo is now around 170k words long, which means that the total length of the game is over 400k(!) In this update, the celebration of Saturnalia starts with a drama-packed trip to the temple. Also, you can:

#ahhhhhhh!!!!!#🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Adoriel's Tears Sneak peek

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You cheered? Sir? (I'm wasting so much good stuff on that dream) 😭

And yes, that is how I pictured Alexis cheering

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Rehosted minigames! 🫡✨

All on itch

All in Choicescript

Working saves (as far as I have seen)

Mobile friendly

Free

💖

A Lestrade AU minigame — a different, douchier Lestrade...

A Watson baking minigame

#go doriii

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Development Checklist, Released!

Hi guys! Wanted to let you all know that the Dev Checklist I promised to help with transparency and give players better understanding of what is happening behind KaE scenes, has released!

The whole thing is almost 2,900 words.

It details things currently being planned to be added, things that have been added, and things being considered to be added.

Like with the Progress Report, it will be Free to access.

Get more from Kingdoms and Empires on Patreon

Hope yall enjoy!!!

#!!!!!!!#GO FLAME!!!!!!

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Infamous is 2 years old!

So sorry this was late! Funnily enough, I was deep in the Infamous trenches that I didn't remember until now! Ha! Two years is a long time. I didn't think this would turn into anything when I posted the intro post.

Infamous was born from my desire to read a band IF after a weekend binging band-related stuff. You can imagine I was gutted that there was a hole of music/band related stories in this community. The (amazing!) band stories were either demo-less or dead. Once that happened a seed of an idea was planted in my head. One I couldn't shake off :,) and thus Infamous was born.

500k words, three chapters (lol) and nearly 10k of you later (woah) and here we are! I love Infamous with all my heart and I'm happy to see that it's touched some of you, no matter how big or small. The art, the fanfic, the questions and funny musings in my inbox; they give me a lot of energy and motivation. I'd probably have given up on this a long time ago if not for how kind and supportive this community is to me. You guys do not have to welcome me the way you do every day. Or be so gracious and patient with my ramblings and stupid ridiculous jokes and Savina teasing but you are. I am very lucky. Thank you.

I wish I had something prepared but as we know I am not a very organized person. Instead, as a way to celebrate, I've uploaded an extended Chapter 4 snippet. For those on Patreon who have already read it, I did extend this one—not by a lot but still. It's something new.

There will be typos, errors (if there are game-breaking errors, lmk!), skipped scenes, some paragraphs/convos not fleshed out, and empty choices because I am lazy and fill those out near the end. (I usually write a big picture skeleton first and then map out the scenes in deeper detail). Plus, I don't want to spoil too much haha

I hope you enjoy it. And thanks for loving Infamous! More to come!!!

Amy <3