(unpaid) Playtesters wanted (Twine in-browser alpha)

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Hiya all.

I’m building a game to teach myself Twine. (Two, actually - a branching narrative type and a life sim type.)

I’m estimating roughly 35% completion on the one I’m steadily grinding away at. I’m looking at a few more weeks, if I’m predicting my free time schedule correctly.

Anyone willing to volunteer for playtester duty? No pay, but if you want I can credit you in the final game. I’ve noticed that the download and play rates for games I release peak in the first week and a half, and I don’t always catch all the bugs / issues, so having a small cadre get to play it before it goes public seems like a good idea. Less embarrassing for me, more enjoyment for the early players.

(This one will be text only, no images [and thus no genai since I don’t let it write code for me]. Multiple endings, short playtime [aiming for 30 min to an hour] and centers around a hopefully-relatable but obsessive woman desperate to make an impression on her crush.)

Leave me a message here, or shoot me a DM, if you’re interested. Thanks for reading!

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I would like more details about the the game before hand

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Agreed, any details you can give on the game? If it’s in my wheelhouse, I wouldn’t mind trying it out.

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Sure.

Gameplay involves making one of a handful of choices during slice-of-life events of the MC. Typical ‘Twine’ behavior - read a few paragraphs, choose an option from a list of potential exclusive choices. I’m going for consecutive scenes from start to end, albeit with scenes being modified, included, or bypassed based on the player’s previous choices so it’s not exactly the same thing on subsequent playthroughs (which was the biggest problem with my game A Unique Diet).

Thematically, the game deals with obsession, self doubt, the dramatic irony inherent in having a point of view character who isn’t objective, and the quasi-fetishistic urge to subsume yourself to the desires of a willful person you look up to. Basically the MC has self-destructive tendencies and an inclination towards hero worship and wanting to belong, sees gaining a lot of weight as a means to that end, and you guide her along to see how that ultimately plays out (or if she can change).

Again, aiming for about 30 minutes a session. Currently have 21 endings charted out.

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