Literotica has been publishing adult interactive stories since the 1990s. We were not the first website to publish Adult IF, but we are proud to have been an early proponent of the format.

In the early days of the 1990s, we would hand code every single page of every interactive story that was submitted to Literotica for publication. Each choice in the story would lead to a new HTML page, which would have more choices leading to more HTML pages. There were some interactive stories in those days that contained hundreds or even thousands of individual HTML pages.

In the 2000s, new technology arrived that made it easier to create interactive adult stories without static HTML pages. We replaced our initial IF tech with a more modern version in the early 2000s. Eventually, that technology also became outdated, slow, and difficult for both authors and the site admins to manage.

Several years ago, we began work on the third generation of Literotica interactive fiction technology. This new technology uses state of the art gaming features to blur the line between adult interactive fiction, visual novels, and other indie games. The new Literotica Story Games were available to a limited audience of authors and readers during the BETA. We are excited to announce that everyone can now both read and create adult interactive fiction at Literotica using our new system.

If you’re interested in authoring your own adult interactive fiction, please see the Literotica Story Games FAQ.

If you’d like to read/play some of the new adult IF, see the list of the New Literotica Story Games updated daily.

We’d love to hear your feedback on the new Literotica Story Games, so please give them a try and let us know what you think. You can also post or read about the Story Games in our Adult Interactive Fiction Forum in the Literotica Forums.

Thank you to all of the Literotica Authors and Readers who’ve helped us to develop the new system and please contact us with any suggestions you have for improving or expanding Story Games. This is just the beginning and we have high hopes for the future of storytelling games on Literotica.

As most of you already know, we’re in the middle of a huge update to the Literotica website. Literotica.com is due for a refresh, and we’ve spent the last few years reworking everything – from the hardware that runs the site to the underlying software to the new user interface (now in public testing).

In addition to refreshing Literotica, we’ve been working on several other related projects based on feedback and suggestions from the Literotica community. Some of these projects have been in public/live testing phase for years (anyone remember adult-ebooks.com – first launched in 2000 and is still in BETA?), and some will be released in the coming months and years. One of the sites that has been live for some time, but which we will start putting more effort into this year is LitTV.

LitTV has a simple primary goal – to bring sexy audio stories on video to the Literotica community. The second – just as important – goal is to make sure that we don’t take anything away from Literotica’s writing or audio community with the addition of video. That is why LitTV is a totally independent website rather than a direct part of Literotica.com.

After several years of development, and many months of author BETA testing, we have opened the new Lit Control Panel to all registered members.

If you’re a registered Literotica user, just login to the site and point your browser to this link:
https://Literotica.com/my

The new Lit Control Panel includes all of the features of the old control panel along with several new ones. The most notable changes are:

1. Improved activity feed.

2. Favorite authors are now Followed authors. Easily see the latest works from all of the authors you follow.

3. New Lit navigation header.

4. Favorites has become Lists. Create your own custom Lists to save stories or use the two default lists – Favorites and Read Later.

5. Mobile friendly everything.

We plan to go over some of these features here on the Lit Blog in more detail later. For now, please give the new Lit Control Panel a try and send us your feedback and suggestions.

Thank you everyone!

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, but don’t worry – I’m still alive! Not only still alive, but I’ve actually been busy working on Literotica.

I’m happy to announce that part of that work is coming to fruition with the launch of a new feature called Literotica Series. Here it is live on the site:

Literotica Series

Literotica Series Horror Category

Literotica Series Author Submissions

The idea behind the feature is to allow readers to find longer multi-part stories that they are interested in, and to give authors more control over multi-part stories that they’ve written.

This BETA rollout is just the beginning. Eventually, authors will have full control over their Series, and we will roll out more related features like comments and voting on Series, Series contests, etc. This is the first step in a long term vision to give multi-part stories a bigger place on Literotica.

If you have suggestions for the feature, please feel free to leave a comment here or post them on the Series feature announcement post on the Literotica forum.

Thanks for all of the ongoing comments and suggestions and more updates soon! 🙂