#choices update

[thechaoticarchivist]

Chapter 8 has been scheduled!

Truly, Readers, thank you so much for your patience as I worked through this one. We are just shy of 16K words, so make sure you're comfy when it drops at 11AM CST tomorrow!

A03 readers might get it dropped a *tad* earlier!

[storyofmychoices]

Blades 2 Inside Choices Blog: Blades of Light and Shadow 2

We’re so happy to be back in action with the gang we know and love! Where does Blades of Light and Shadow 2 pick up after the first book’s ending?

Emi: I will say that we don't pick up where you're expecting. 

Kathleen: Unless you were expecting to get hucked out the back of the plot truck and onto the action highway at 80mph. (Fury Road theme plays)

Lil: (is overtaken by the Two Towers theme)

Emi: But rest assured, our original four love interests are back and dealing with their own challenges. 

Lil: And they’re definitely going to need help with those challenges whether you’re romancing them or not. Though we support all variations of ‘mancers here. Mono-, multi-, and necro- . 

Emi: Also they get some new looks that can best be described as "sleeves are B.S."

Jay: Don’t forget “badass pirate coat important”.

What kind of new main characters will we meet in the sequel? Or perhaps, any new love interests?

Jay: There is a strange but familiar hooded figure…whose hotness level was of great discussion.

Lil: He’s very constructive with his feedback. And a monster from Book 1 returns, but not in a way you expect. 

Emi: I think we all know I'm obsessed with Valax. I mean, she's a badass purple lady who only has one sleeve. Obviously that makes her my wife.

Tom: EMI YOU HAVE TOO MANY WIVES!!!

Kathleen: Idk I'm still mad that hot scorpion lady didn't win the monster contest.

Lil: Sky whale supremacy how dare. 

Kathleen: Okay I am excited about the dwarves and goblins though. New dwarf friend is just A+ chaos babe and I love her.

Emi: Honestly though, my fave character is the one who's "head empty, no thoughts, falls over a lot."

Making this sequel has been a labor of love. Does the book team have any must-tell stories/bloopers during production?

Jay: There was an accidental floating dwarf? And too many battles with code. Writers, please don’t do it to me again. I cannot take it. The while loop will win.

Kathleen: During one of my editorial passes I had to give Emi a note like "Okay when we first meet the Big Bad maybe we should use that moment to establish that she's really imposing/scary instead of just going off about how hot she is."

Emi: I may have made too many Aerin memes that are now weekly traditions for our team.

Danielle: I was instructed to design a character with “Vision as a hotness bar” as a guide, I ignored them and used Jeff Bridges instead 😏. 

Jay: Danielle also came up with some incredible filenames, my favorite being “tentacle_monster_buff”.

Danielle: It’s accurate, is it not?

Are there any elements that you are particularly proud of?

Tom: The Shadow Realm was fun to make! Think the Upside Down, but more purple. And to make all the awesome new weapons and armor work with the outfits took 150 unique assets! You’re welcome.

Danielle: My first full book!

Lil: The lore guide for Blades was 60 single-spaced pages before we started adding things that came up during active production. I’m really pleased with how much actually ended up being discoverable in the book itself, so be sure to explore every nook and cranny of Morella and beyond! Because they are filled with beauty and chaos. 

Emi: I cannot tell you how many spreadsheets we made to keep track of things. I mean, the outline alone was 100 pages!

Jay: My code built 😭. And that my production planning got it to you a little earlier than y’all had anticipated hehe.

At the end of the first book, we seemed to have wiped out the forces of evil for at least a day or so. What kind of dangers will we face in the second edition?

Lil: Evil never sleeps y’all. It gets its coffee from Aerin. 

Kathleen: (Aerin, walking up to the counter): "I have a large non-fat birthday cake latte with caramel drizzle and four shots of espresso for (squints at label) ...Emile?"

Lil: In all seriousness, you’re really getting it from all sides in this book. There’s rival factions, shifting leadership, societal upheaval, and monsters. So. Many. Monsters. (Thank you for giving us the Shadestalker, by the way. Can’t wait for you to meet the beefy boy.) 

Kathleen: One cool scary thing about book 2 is that THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL (like instead of you and your buds racing against bad guys to collect the magic things, you've now got a villain single-mindedly hunting you down so she can steal your <REDACTED> for use in her evil plans).

Emi: Kathleen may have called me out for it but our Big Bad is hot! Both literally and figuratively!

How much do you love QA?

Lil: SO MUCH.

Emi: Pour one out for our poor QA folks who have had to test what is the most complex book we have ever done! You are the real heroes!

Jay: QA peeps are my saviors!! Their work alone cures my anxiety.

Kathleen: Gawd I would be lost without QA my grammar is a disaster

Erin: Everyone on the Blades team is so wonderful to work with. I also tested Book 1, and to be able to contribute to Book 2 means everything to me. It’s absolutely a labor of love.

We know that years of hard work and passion went into this book. What would the Blades team like the readers to take away from this sequel?

Emi: So Kathleen and I actually helped to brainstorm the entire Blades world back when it first came into being, so it felt like coming full circle to be back and expanding it in new and fun ways. I was already in love with all of these characters and they're even closer to my heart now. I can't wait for you all to see what we've come up with!

Jay: Y’all better like it! This book has taken years off my life. *lies down on floor* (But seriously, we’re as excited about Blades 2 as all of you and hope that it brings as much joy to you as it did for us to make. I think the best word to describe the team as we wait for September 1st is giddy.)

Danielle: I hope you like our art :).

Tom: If you don’t, please keep it to yourself, artists are fragile :’} 

Lil: I was one of the few people who was new at Choices when I began working on this book, and it was truly an honor to see this thing come together. These are the minds that brought you The Crown & the Flame, The Cursed Heart, Wake the Dead, and the first Blades. It was amazing to go from watching them work as a fan to taking this epic journey together. 

Kathleen: THE REAL VILLAIN WAS THE IMPERIALISM WE MADE ALONG THE WAY

Lastly, how much does the team love Aerin?

Kathleen: I DON'T love Aerin he KIDNAPPED my WIFE.

Danielle: Which one…

Emi: Aerin is my sweet baby boi with a little dose of evil. He should be protected at all costs but also really needs to go to therapy. I live for the angst of him and Raine though. It's so juicy.

Danielle: Aerin has caused me, personally, a lot of pain.

Lil: Really, one of the fun things about the book is you can decide how much pain Aerin causes you. Unlike us.

Jay: He haunts my dreams and my Wednesdays.

Danielle: Livid and sad and livid and sad

Thank you team for taking us through the fantastical production journey of the Blades of Light and Shadow 2! We can’t wait to dive in and meet up with the gang. Launch day is so close!! 

Thank you, readers, for supporting us and our book teams!

<3 The Choices Community Team

[hadesmalum]

Boys and girls who dont want to stress about diamonds on choices anymore heres a tip:

Gain infinite Diamond is very easy the only thing is not is to gain free keys so im gonna Tell you guys how get infinite diamonds ok?

Step 1: Download the app AckMarket in the navegator

Go to google and look for ackmarket app and gonna appear the official site of the app. Download it (dont forget to give permission to download on another way)

Step 2: Using the app Ackmarket to Download Choices

Well after downloading the app and enter you look for choices inside the app ackmarket and you will find it. Download Choices and after that you will have to download normaly in your cellphone ok? Good

Step 3: Getting away of the bug

As a illegal way of downloading the app it comes with a bug but dont bother its nothing really warmfull (and i didn't get any virus after download the app in ackmarket) When you open the app Choices for the first time always appear a form of connect (via Google Facebook and etc) but ignore the window cuz this will trigger the bug and dont bother after enter the app you can connect in your account normaly ok? 💗💗💗

And that's it i hope i helped you guys (and sorry about gramatic errors im from brazil and i never made a tutorial here before so be kind) and if you guys still have any questions or doubts about the content in general feel free to ask me and i will try to help the best way i can. I see people here on tumblr really upset cuz they cant affort the diamonds choices and i want to help cuz is really easy. And i gonna make a post using the app choices downloaded on ackmarket for you guys see it really works 🐯💜💜💜

[the-light-of-stars]

[yesivefallenpreytothechoicestrap]

Ok so from the recent update pixelberry posted on their blog they released a whole lot of new information and so far the highlights of that have been:

We’re getting a follow up series for The Royal Romance!!!!!!

There’s going to be a werewolf book released

Desire and Decorum Book 2 is being released this winter!!!!!! So finally I can explain to Sinclaire that I’m disowning my grandmother

AME is coming back this winter also. I’m not really looking forward to this one that much just from how the 1st book went, but maybe this one will be better

There’s going to be 3 new books involving ‘running from the law’ which could be the heist: Monaco im assuming if mc is the one pulling of the heist, another involving ‘solving medical mysteries’ and a book where we ‘sail the open seas’ from this I’m thinking something about maybe pirates or just a historical book I’m not sure but I think a pirate book would be awesome if it’s something like pirates of the Caribbean

Apparently the choices app itself will be getting a makeover which I think will be cool just because since it’s release the only change they really made was adding new shelves

The diamond reward glitch when you watch ads should be getting fixed also but I’m not holding out hope on this one

Bloodbound book 2 won’t be released until spring 2019 - I guess I’ll have to fill the void with the new werewolf book

Hero book 2 probably won’t be released until 2020, they didn’t say this was a defintite but its looking like it’s gonna be a while

Across the void is coming back in spring but I’m okay with this one

Red carpet diaries will be out in 2019

At this point it’s not even surprising that most wanted continues to be on hiatus

And apparently there will be some other new way to earn diamonds coming soon

[playchoices]

Choices Update

As you all know, in recent weeks some of you have been experiencing new game crashes. We're really sorry about this, and hope the game is now working for you after the latest update. Thank you for your patience.

With the new version update, besides the crash fixes, there have been a few changes. That includes an update to James' appearance in The Freshman and The Sophomore. We know that many of you, like us, are very passionate about James. We don’t like changing our characters and didn’t do it simply because we wanted a new look for James. We made changes to James and some other characters, too, so that there would be no doubt that these are fictional characters. We apologize for the abrupt change and any confusion it may have caused.

As always, we appreciate your feedback. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have comments, game support queries, or questions. You can send us a message on Facebook, message our Support Team within the game, or email us at [email protected]. Thank you for sticking with us and continuing to share new adventures in Choices with us.

-Oliver

[pixelbaerry]

sorry, I must’ve missed the option to punch Manny in his homophobic face

[thechaoticarchivist]

Writing is so weird, because, like - what do you mean that scene I wrote months ago doesn't fit now?

What do you mean that I have to adjust it all, because the scene itself is still important, because my characters and their relationships have developed faster than I was planning?

What do you mean past me couldn't predict how much this would change into something more technicolored than I could understand at the time?