I’ve been talking to the folks at Choice of Games over the past few weeks, and it looks like they’re in favour of releasing HMS Foraker as an ad-supported title on their main catalogue.

What does this mean? First of all, it means HMS Foraker will be getting a general release as a free-to-play title (with in-app purchases to remove ads). More importantly to me this also means that the little side-project that I’d more or less started on a whim will be an official part of the world, and “Choice of Broadsides canon”, which is something I’m pretty proud of. Choice of Broadsides was the first CoG IF I ever played way back in 2011, and it’s what got me thinking about the potential of interactive fiction in the first place, so to have my own writing considered good enough to add to its continuity is a bit of an honour.

I’m looking forward to seeing this one released. Even though it’s only a fraction of the size of some of my other titles, it’s still got a few new and interesting mechanics I’ve been wanting to test out, along with some of my most polished writing and design work yet.

In other news, new installments of A Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea and An Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms are up. As usual, my worldbuilding articles are funded by my Patreon supporters. If you want to see more of this sort of stuff, you can donate to my Patreon here.