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Mar. 12th, 2019 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI recently bought Choice of Games "Gilded Rails;" an interactive fiction game set in a slightly-different gilded age. As the protagonist, I am in the position of acting president of, and potential inheritor of a controlling interest in, my father's medium-sized railroad. But he wants me to get married as part of the deal. On my first play through of these games, I like to try to make the kinds of decisions that I would make in real life. So I:
*Was accepted as a member of the Reformists, a socialist/anarchist labor group. (Does this surprise anyone?)
*Had a marriage proposal rejected by my office manager.
*Had a marriage proposal rejected by my childhood best friend.
*Disappointed my dad, who had gone through the process of setting a marriage date and making announcements even before I'd decided I wanted to marry anyone, which led me to make proposals out of convenience instead of love, which is probably why I was rejected. *THANKS* DAD!!
*Um, I improved some railroad infrastructure and told someone who wanted to buy my railroad to get lost, so I guess that was alright.
By the way, I've really loved interactive fiction as a genre even since I was playing Wishbringer and Enchanter as a little kid on my parents' Commodore 64. If you like IF too, Choice of Games makes some really fantastic stuff. They also go out of their way to be gender/sexuality inclusive. Go check them out!
https://www.choiceofgames.com/
*Was accepted as a member of the Reformists, a socialist/anarchist labor group. (Does this surprise anyone?)
*Had a marriage proposal rejected by my office manager.
*Had a marriage proposal rejected by my childhood best friend.
*Disappointed my dad, who had gone through the process of setting a marriage date and making announcements even before I'd decided I wanted to marry anyone, which led me to make proposals out of convenience instead of love, which is probably why I was rejected. *THANKS* DAD!!
*Um, I improved some railroad infrastructure and told someone who wanted to buy my railroad to get lost, so I guess that was alright.
By the way, I've really loved interactive fiction as a genre even since I was playing Wishbringer and Enchanter as a little kid on my parents' Commodore 64. If you like IF too, Choice of Games makes some really fantastic stuff. They also go out of their way to be gender/sexuality inclusive. Go check them out!
https://www.choiceofgames.com/
