Laughter Through Tears

Wreath of Roses is a 16,000 word text game written in the Twine engine and playable through any JavaScript-supporting web browser.

It is the story of Thalia, a princess on her way to an arranged marriage. The story follows Thalia as she arrives at the kingdom meant to be her future home and gets to know her future husband, tracking her responses to her environment, positive and negative. As the wedding nears Thalia can choose to explore the castle and get to know some of its inhabitants, and at the end of the game the player makes a decision based on Thalia's overall impressions: to go through with the wedding, or cancel it.

This early version of the game is fully playable and features character customization and four different endings.

An excerpt from the game's opening will be available on my Patreon later this month.

Crossposted to hazelgold.net and Patreon.

I was absolutely determined to produce some new material today, so I set aside the morning to be completely offline. Printed out my prompt sheet, which I had generated specifically for this purpose. Packed a notebook and a bottle of cold water. Slathered myself in sunscreen, just in case. Picked up a latte at my favorite bakery and took it to the little playground park nearby.

Of course I forgot to take the printed sheet with me, because I'm me, and I wouldn't be me if I didn't forget something. But I spent a little time recreating it, or trying to. And that gave me the mental process to decide what I should start writing. As par for the course, once the words are flowing then Newton's laws of thermodynamics are in effect, as in, "a wordcount in motion tends to remain in motion". Now my hand hurts!

It was a good morning.

I'll write about my birthday, too, but not until after my thing on Thursday. right now I have a book review to get to.