Releases

• Kung Fu Space Barbarian released the 20th episode in the Crypt Shyfter fantasy RPG series, which has been featured on the front page of Newgrounds several times and won more than 15 awards.
• George Murray released Megafauna, a game about a road trip that turns weird.
• Ethan J. Murray released to build a fire, a short game billed as “about two siblings, magic, and feeling alone.”
• Chapbook 0.1.0, a new story format, has been released. As the version number indicates, it’s still in prerelease state.

Events

• IFComp 2018 has results posted (this year, the results were announced live on Twitch; a recording has been posted). There are a lot of Twine games at the top! Congratulations to all who entered.
• Narrascope, a new IF-focused event that will take place in Boston, MA from June 14-16, 2019, is accepting session submissions. The deadline to submit is January 18, 2019.

Opportunities

• The V&A Dundee, a design museum in Scotland, is seeking to commission a digital game that explores character development and the idea of self in games. They’re specifically open to games created in alternate game engines like Twine. Learn more and apply on their web site.

Hello again! This is the first of our biweekly news posts. A quick reminder that if you have news you’d like to appear in the next post, which’ll be on November 30, please submit it online.

Releases

• Kris Ligman recently released You Are Jeff Bezos, a game in which you try your best to spend all of Jeff Bezos’s fortune. Kris also wrote a postmortem on the game.
• The Twine Cookbook version 1.2 is now online.
• Several Twine games were exhibited at WordPlay 2018, which took place on November 10 in Toronto: The Tower, The Eyes That Look Back, Wolf at the Door, Nod If You Can Hear Me, Circuits, Time To Feed, Sentry, It’s For Melody, and The Mirror. Mind the content warnings on these.
• DWaM’s The Tree of Life has some quite nice multimedia effects.
• Maggie Tan’s Spider Mother, as you might guess from the name, is not recommended for arachnophobes.
• CoderDojo Scotland recently held a workshop of Twine, and some of the works created by participants are available online.

Events

• Judging just ended on IFComp 2018, which means results will be announced soon. Even if you missed out on judging, you can still play all the entries, many of which are Twine works.
• sub-Q Magazine opened its first game jam on November 15th. The jam runs until December 16th and accepts short interactive fiction pieces (less than 1,000 words) on the theme of “love.” Two winners will be contracted for paid publication in sub-Q Magazine.