Viking Fiction Universe

OK! We should be getting back to normal pretty soon. In no particular order, things that may or may not matter depending on who you ask:  - SSS got skipped this weekend because of chaos, but it will return next weekend with something probably pretty eventful, given what’s going on in the story.  - Spoiler resumes 8/17 . This will be a linear story that will run for a while before we do it big with the third and probably final voting arc about Mayor Babs and the tough choices that she will face.  - We will have AR Returns next week as well, and then we’ll go back to FF1 for a bit. I forgot how insanely long ARR is, so that will be our backup story for a little while yet.  - Halloween approaches and I want to be ready. I will be doing some kind of Halloween special this year, but I haven’t decided on it yet. It should be yuri or futa. Anyway, for the price of one large Shaq-a-Roni pizza, you can choose the theme/characters/costumes you want to see for this Hall...

Not technically, but it is for me.  What this means for all the things if you want to know:  Futa Formula 1 – FF1 continues Monday through Thursday as the ‘main’ story, although for various reasons, I won’t hesitate to use backup chapters as necessary. Right now, that’s AR Returns. FF1 will continue this week and then switch to AR for a week or two.   Spoiler – the new Spoiler series should begin in August, and it will be posted on Sundays.  SSS – no changes are planned. Once the current Heat story is finished, the plan is to do something more chille d out with lower stakes. House Semya – HS is weekly now. There will be a new chapter each Friday, and they will be a bit meatier than daily chapters. The plan is to finish Part 1 (which won’t take too long) and then ask the readers what level of voting action they want, if any, and then do Part 2. I feel like we pretty much have to do Part 2 because it would be lame to do a story that builds up this visit to thi...

The CHYOA format, making the most of it, and how it applies to House Semya. Everybody’s different, so I’m not suggesting that there’s any one ‘best’ way to do it, but there are a couple things that I’ve noticed over time that affect how I’m handling my ongoing stories. My favorite is to write something with lots of options and interactivity and post it all at once so that when engaging with it the first time, the readers get to hopefully enjoy having the options and getting to actually click things. I would find it frustrating to have to wait days or weeks for options to appear and waiting for a big multi-branch story to be posted piecemeal would be pretty annoying. We saw this in the latter days of FSC. Writing up all that material with all those choices is a lot of work, but it’s also fun, so that’s not the problem. The problem is getting people to actually see that story. This isn’t just true of CHYOA; it’s true of most similar sites, but stories get bumped to the top when they’...

There’s a lot to unpack here. My last blog post talked about why we went with family values as the theme for House Semya, now let’s talk about the rest. I had three mostly separate challenges with this story: how go about telling a fantasy story and how to do a family story and have them at least mostly succeed at being kind of sexy. On fantasy, I thought about my own experiences reading fantasy novels and things I’ve read about other people reading them. I looked at some of the eroticism in things like Game of Thrones, and observed how even old-timey fantasy was massively horny. I concluded that from my perspective, the most attractive fantasy smut wasn’t smut at all. It was “legit” storytelling that happened to include a larger amount of horniness. I decided to risk going a little bit more plot and exposition heavy and to try to get some characterization in there instead of just throwing us into massive orgies. I felt like that would make a stronger story and make the family compon...

The latest in well-reasoned, meticulously planned things that are definitely not tone deaf and impulsive! In addition to taking commissions, I had two projects planned for this summer: FSCR and some kind of trappy crossdressy yaoi thing. To fully understand what has happened, we must go back 3000 years to when I first started taking commissions. I noticed a pattern back then: there were a lot of commissions about Riley and Kayla, a lot of commissions about Riley and Mary, sometimes a commission about Kayla and Mary, and then a lot more commissions about Riley, Kayla, AND Mary. It wasn’t like I’d never been to the internet before; I knew about the ’family’ tag on CHYOA and even back then a casual glance at the front of Pornhub was heavily loaded with Step-Bro/Step-Mom coded stuff that slapped you in the face with the truth. But you know what? That was never really *my* thing. I like trappy hentai and Sean Bean and Michelle Yeoh. And Colin Firth. Hentai anime from the 90s. I’m very norma...

This is a long one, but this contractually obligatory boobie gif will help you get through it. Riley’s Room exists . I really like making stuff like that. For better or worse, the current version of Twine is less friendly to images than the one I used to make RR, so let’s get this out there now: VFU Twine stuff for the foreseeable future is text-only. Even if Twine was better with images, I personally don’t use AI for anything, and the VFU probably doesn’t even break even let alone turn a profit, so there is no budget for like commissioning artwork. So, we’d probably be looking at prose-only stuff either way. This matters because lewd games specifically are probably strongest when they involve good visuals, and the lewd game market is crowded with games that have just that. So, it makes no sense to try to compete with or even really get into that space. Prose is what we have, so prose is what we’ll work with for now.  Last summer, I started work on an SSS Twine game. An actual game...