Interactive Fiction
Ink and Intrigue
INK AND INTRIGUE from Heart’s Choice Games
Heed magic’s call! Find love on a lush tropical island among immortal warrior-mages as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Ink and Intrigue is an interactive high-heat fantasy novel by Leia Talon, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
As a seasoned spy from the kingdom of Minare, you have been sent as an emissary to the Kitherin warrior-mages of Ra’zai, whose tattoos give them supernatural abilities and whose magical rites bond them to powerful creatures from another world.
But, as soon as you enter Ra’zai, you hear the call of the Kitherin. The magic has chosen you, and now, your fingertips tingle and your heart pounds. An unnamed need grows within, like a thirst that can’t be quenched. Magic infuses your very breath.
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bi, and/or asexual.
- Romance a passionate artist, a serene sage, a feisty initiate, or a determined warrior.
- Choose high-heat or sweet options, or avoid sex scenes entirely.
- Form a psychic bond with a magical creature: choose a dragon, a griffin, or a phoenix.
- Learn how to craft dragon-rune tattoos, and infuse your art with powerful magic.
- Explore a lush island paradise crowned with ancient temples, peaceful healing gardens, a hidden library, and sun-swept beaches with the perfect waves for surfing.
- Indulge in magic elixirs and delectable food as you revel under the full moon.
- Dive through portals to strengthen your ties with your bonded creature, and explore other worlds!
When magic calls, where will your heart find its home?
Their Majesties’ Pleasure
THEIR MAJESTIES’ PLEASURE from Heart’s Choice Games
In this enchanted escapade, will you revel with mysterious rogues, cunning Fae, the Prince, or the Princess? Where will your heart and loyalty lead you as the kingdom trembles on the edge of war?
Their Majesties’ Pleasure is a 225,000-word interactive erotic fantasy novel by Leia Talon, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
As a member of the royal guard, it is your duty to protect the heirs to the throne: the rebellious, fun-loving brother and sister who lead you on a merry chase outside the palace. They open you up to a world that you never knew before: a secret network of assassins, corrupt city officials, and a cabaret brimming with songs, spirits, and sex. And when you are done carousing in the city, you can move into the dark of the magic-filled forest, where demigods and Fae throw jubilant, bacchanal revels…
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bi; asexual; monogamous or polyamorous.
- Romance a provocative prince, a feisty princess, a rogue king, a demigoddess, or an immortal warrior.
- Choose high-heat or sweet options, or avoid sex scenes entirely with lively conversation.
- Pledge your loyalty to the King, turn away from the Crown to side with its enemies – or become a spy to play both sides against the middle.
- Plunge into a steamy urban underworld full of assassins, criminals, and riotous taverns.
- Indulge in mysterious Fae revels, with magical food and drink to heighten your senses and otherworldly music to accompany your dances.
- Uncover the secrets of ages past to help prevent—or to incite—a future war.
Indulge your fantasies in Their Majesties’ Pleasure.
Read more and play the first three chapters of the game for free! (18+)
FANTASY ROMANCE – INTERACTIVE FICTION
Their Majesties’ Pleasure and Ink and Intrigue are spicy interactive fantasy romance games where your choices control the story.
- Choose your character.
- Choose your heat level.
- Choose your romance option.
- Revel with the Fae, plot with the rogues, and romp with the royals in Their Majesties’ Pleasure, or be a spy and become an immortal warrior-mage in Ink and Intrigue!
Play the game at Heart’s Choice! (18+)
What is Interactive Fiction?
In interactive fiction, your choices shape the story. There are many different types of interactive fiction (IF). Some are video games, while some are text-based, choose-your-own-path books. That’s the kind I write. You read a bit of story, pick an option, and follow the direction your character chooses.
According to Dictionary.com: Interactive Fiction (or IF) is an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
This excerpt from the Choice of Games website gives more detail:
Choice of Games is the world’s largest publishing house for interactive novels. Our games are entirely text-based—hundreds of thousands of words, without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Choose your path: your choices control the story.
Using ChoiceScript, the scripting language we’ve created for developing interactive novels, an individual author can write a full-length branching narrative, hundreds of thousands of words long, all in a single voice, under one creative vision. A player might read around 20% of those words on one playthrough, ensuring that our games remain fresh each time you play.
Writing interactive fiction is outlandishly fun and creatively challenging. If you’ve never read IF before, try it out! There are lots of games to choose from and all of them have free demos.
Check out the romance games at Heart’s Choice (I write fantasy romance IF for this company).
Find a variety of genres at Choice of Games.