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ChoiceBeat is the world's only zine dedicated to visual novels, interactive fiction, narrative games, and other forms of choice-heavy, text-heavy digital games. This eclectic issue features 45+ pages of news, articles, reviews, previews, and interviews including:

  • Apex Patrol
  • Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked
  • Breathless Winds
  • The Case of the Golden Idol
  • Collar X Malice
  • Insert-Rich-Family-Name
  • Five Dates
  • Monster Prom 3
  • Oulipo
  • The Stillness of the Wind
  • Veil of Dust
  • queer games
  • game demos
  • and lots more!
StatusReleased
CategoryBook
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorWilly Elektrix
GenreInteractive Fiction, Visual Novel
TagsFMV, Game Design, Historical, Narrative, zine

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Nice issue!

My fav article was definitly "Three alert peas (or not): Some oulipo proto-games" by MindApe, learned something new with that one. I also appreciated the article about content warnings by KuroKairin, to misquote the book review by Andi Hagen "the topic was something I already understood, although it was nice to see them written down and articulated clearly".

At the moment my PC gives me a lot of trouble, but when it calmed down a bit I want to check out some of the games/demos (mostly: Breathless winds (the story sounds interesting, and I like to play more trans games), Stories from Sol the gundog (the look just gives me nostalgia), as you wish (wasabi tape art style sounds interesting) and Amarantus).