We’re very excited to announce the coming launch of our newest interactive narrative storytelling format – “Story Games”.
The History of Literotica Interactive Fiction
Literotica first started publishing interactive fiction in the 1990s – one of the first adult sites to do so.
Every adult interactive story back in the 1990s was submitted by an author, then hand-coded into an HTML choice story by Laurel and Manu. Each paragraph of those early interactive stories was made into a single HTML page, with HTML links to other HTML pages, and so on. Readers clicked HTML links to choose their own path through the story.
Around the year 2000, we collaborated with a developer to move Literotica Interactive Stories to a custom PHP script that made both creating and reading interactive fiction easier. While the new technology was a great improvement over our previous system, it also introduced its own set of issues that we weren’t fully able to solve.
Until now.
The Future is Literotica Interactive Story Games
Literotica is currently BETA testing, and preparing to publicly launch, the technology that will power our next generation “Story Games” format.
Our next generation tech will allow authors to publish simple interactive “choose your path” type adventure games, the same type Literotica has been publishing for the last 25 years.
The exciting part of this announcement is that the new technology will also allow Literotica authors to create fully featured text games.
Literotica is a storytelling community, and gaming has become of the important storytelling formats of our times. Though Literotica is best known for publishing text stories, our authors were pioneers of early online erotic audio stories, interactive fiction, comics, and even experimented with video storytelling. We believe that the technology behind our new “Story Games” format will empower Literotica authors to create full featured narrative games.
Some of the things that are possible in this new storytelling format include:
- State Management
- Inventory Management
- Player Statistics
- Non Player Characters
- Random Logic
- User Text Input
- Dialog Trees
- Programmatic Function
- and much more.
The technology behind the new Literotica Story Games is a modified version of an open source project with a strong community behind it that has been used in numerous commercial and independent games over the last several years. There is extensive documentation published in both text and video format to help authors, and the technology is regularly being updated by the developers, promising an even more exciting future.
If you’re ready to learn more about how you can get started creating (or playing) Literotica Interactive Story Games, please see our growing Literotica Story Games FAQ, or check our Interactive Adult Story Game Authors thread in the Literotica Forum.
We’re excited about the future of this new format, and looking forward to your feedback to make it even better.