#swtorween 2025

[ebitenpura]

sneak peek of my SWTOR interactive fic--intended to release around Halloween, but possibly earlier if the admin really busts their chops. Coming soon: SWTORween 2025, a short interactive fiction and mock Halloween event that allows you to roleplay between 8 of the base classes of SWTOR while navigating a spooky story meant to celebrate all the frightfulness in our lives.

[ebitenpura]

It's here! ...Well, the demo at least. Turns out a week is insufficient for a project of this size and i'm very very tired/lh

Presenting the SWTORWeen 2025 Demo!

SWTORWeen is an interactive fiction work made to celebrate Halloween in the SWTOR universe, told through a spooky story where you investigate the haunted past of a ruined planet and a desolate manor...as well as your own fate.

DEMO

Warnings: Graphic descriptions

Explore a haunted house

Encounter various NPCs

Uncover a chilling mystery steeped in the dark side

 Play as 1 of 8 of the base classes of Star Wars: The Old Republic with custom choices depending on your class

And more, coming soon!

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[ebitenpura]

Hi! Oh boy, I had been going a bit insane about swtorween back then and now I feel terribly predictable for choosing this but oh well. gotta keep on brand. A lil crumb on the swtorween notes?

@squirrelno2

A double entendre!

I talked about a good portion of the note's plot here already because I just couldn't not yap by myself, but I will gladly continue!

Besides lore regarding the planet and its strange rituals and other esoteric goodies/worldbuilding, I really wanted this to be a tragic tale of love. Many gothic stories cover these themes, and I thought it would be fun; one of my additional ideas beyond the search action and puzzle elements was having a scene where once you collected certain key elements the player's chosen Love Interest would appear in the Shrine of the Boundary--a sacred ground where weddings were normally officiated and where the planet's heart lies.

The player would need to finish the wedding ritual and dance with their LI to appease the curse the planet has laid over the population. The LI would disappear after, given that they can't follow you on your adventure and only briefly appeared in a metaphysical sense, but at the end of it, they would remember their time with your PC as a very nice and strange dream that they didn't want to wake from.

Obviously this was a very ambitious idea given how *many* romances are in SWTOR, with risk of getting many OOC, but I really wanted to try :P

[ebitenpura]

guys stop reblogging my advertisement for the intfic the demo's already out /j

anyways! planned updates/content for swtorween 2025 full version:

• Finished storyline, possible codex and map, and general lore

• A special scene with your love interest (if applicable)

• 1-2 more fully fleshed out floors of the manor

• More scenes and choices pertaining to your chosen class

as always, thank you to everyone who played! aiming for november or early december :}

[ebitenpura]

meant to send this earlier, somehow didn’t. But for the WIP game I would very much like to hear more about swtorween :)

I've mostly answered all I could in the previous asks (under the #swtorween 2025 tag), so there's not much left to discuss! But I will talk about beta ideas. Besides being an obvious ghost story with a selection of restless spirits, depending on your class, you would be haunted quite literally by some of your past. The Manor would reveal these to you and constantly have the player question what it means to be them, past their mortal shell and their own physicality. Who are you when you're alone? When you're robbed of your strength, your deeds, your power? What is your place in the world--or are you too just a vengeful wraith powered by purpose and the burdens others have placed on you? Most of this would manifest as flavor text. Little observations made by the player class, though this too mostly sticks to one interpretation of the SWTOR classes since I would probably explode if I had to write both Light and Dark versions of say, a Bounty Hunter. The Manor was intended to become a deeper, darker twisting maze that could change itself at will, though ultimately the PC didn't descend very far into its depths. (Quite a few people missed the hidden mouseover hint telling you how to solve a certain puzzle too, so more elaborate trappings may have backfired lol).

[ebitenpura]

swtorween 2025 was actually so awesome. what if swtor was a gothic ghost story. what if there was a sith riding an undead horse. what if you were dead and there was a creepy ageless mansion in a galaxy that retains no relics of the past