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May 27, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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All barriers have now been removed between you and the WORLD'S OLDEST AND BEST #indiegame zine.
A few weeks ago I did a lovely interview about Videotome for the new issue of Choicebeat, which is now out! Check it out here:
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ChoiceBeat: Issue 15 by Willy Elektrix
The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A few weeks ago I did a lovely interview about Videotome for the new issue of Choicebeat, which is now out! Check it out here:
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Readers of ChoiceBeat Zine may be interested in...
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Readers of ChoiceBeat Zine may be interested in...
The new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
#indiegame #narrativegame
SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
#indiegame #narrativegame
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
#indiegame #narrativegame
SO MUCH STUFF!
Long Live the Queen
Ladykiller in a Bind
ChoiceScript
Videotome
Hypercard
MORE!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
#indiegame #narrativegame
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
June 24, 2026 at 1:44 AM
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
New ChoiceBeat magazine (the magazine for text adventure and visual novel games) is out! My games get a shoutout but I'm particularly interested in the new Serial Experiments Lain game.
ChoiceBeat #16
ChoiceBeat has always been about quality over quantity, but this massive 50-page doorstop is also about quantity. You will never find more of anything in one place. Zombie Exodus – An intervi…
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March 5, 2026 at 12:42 AM
New ChoiceBeat magazine (the magazine for text adventure and visual novel games) is out! My games get a shoutout but I'm particularly interested in the new Serial Experiments Lain game.
It's issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction zine!
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
March 3, 2026 at 3:40 AM
It's issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction zine!
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
meanderware was featured in ChoiceBeat: Issue 17. i’m honored! this is a beautiful curation.
“It's like an entire plane of existence where the fundamental building block of the universe is the Easter egg…”
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
🙏💕
“It's like an entire plane of existence where the fundamental building block of the universe is the Easter egg…”
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
🙏💕
June 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
meanderware was featured in ChoiceBeat: Issue 17. i’m honored! this is a beautiful curation.
“It's like an entire plane of existence where the fundamental building block of the universe is the Easter egg…”
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
🙏💕
“It's like an entire plane of existence where the fundamental building block of the universe is the Easter egg…”
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
🙏💕
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available in print for the FIRST TIME EVER.
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We were once "The world's best magazine about narrative games."
Now we're shooting for "The worlds best magazine."
#indiegames #narrativegames #zine
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We were once "The world's best magazine about narrative games."
Now we're shooting for "The worlds best magazine."
#indiegames #narrativegames #zine
July 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available in print for the FIRST TIME EVER.
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We were once "The world's best magazine about narrative games."
Now we're shooting for "The worlds best magazine."
#indiegames #narrativegames #zine
www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb...
We were once "The world's best magazine about narrative games."
Now we're shooting for "The worlds best magazine."
#indiegames #narrativegames #zine
Issue 14 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine just burst into your reality. You better hide!
It's narrative game anarchy here, so be careful!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...
#indiegames #zine
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Issue 14 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine just burst into your reality. You better hide!
It's narrative game anarchy here, so be careful!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...
#indiegames #zine
The new issue of ChoiceBeat is out! This issue has a review of Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names, an interview with me, and a coupon that offers 30% off the game!
ChoiceBeat #12
ChoiceBeat #12 is for the real fans. Check out four interviews with Choice of Games authors, but don’t stop there. Read about Decker, a highly wacky and highly chicken-filled game development…
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October 28, 2024 at 9:00 PM
The new issue of ChoiceBeat is out! This issue has a review of Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names, an interview with me, and a coupon that offers 30% off the game!
Yo choice fanatics,
Issue 13 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Game poems
The first sound novel
Superheroes, Choice of Games-style
Sexy Hatoful Boyfriend pigeons
35 pgs!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...
Issue 13 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Game poems
The first sound novel
Superheroes, Choice of Games-style
Sexy Hatoful Boyfriend pigeons
35 pgs!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...
February 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yo choice fanatics,
Issue 13 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Game poems
The first sound novel
Superheroes, Choice of Games-style
Sexy Hatoful Boyfriend pigeons
35 pgs!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...
Issue 13 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Game poems
The first sound novel
Superheroes, Choice of Games-style
Sexy Hatoful Boyfriend pigeons
35 pgs!
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...
I was featured on page 17 of #choicebeat for my #videotome entry, Running at Night! Go check it out!
Some of the comments about Running at Night make me think I should create a postmortum for it haha
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
Some of the comments about Running at Night make me think I should create a postmortum for it haha
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
ChoiceBeat: Issue 17 by Willy Elektrix
The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
willyelektrix.itch.io
June 26, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I was featured on page 17 of #choicebeat for my #videotome entry, Running at Night! Go check it out!
Some of the comments about Running at Night make me think I should create a postmortum for it haha
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
Some of the comments about Running at Night make me think I should create a postmortum for it haha
willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
In ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...
We got an article about nonfiction visual novels. A standout is Running at Night by @railgunrabbit.bsky.social
Set in Korea, it captures the special vibe of being out alone past midnight.
Page 18: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
We got an article about nonfiction visual novels. A standout is Running at Night by @railgunrabbit.bsky.social
Set in Korea, it captures the special vibe of being out alone past midnight.
Page 18: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
June 29, 2026 at 10:36 PM
In ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...
We got an article about nonfiction visual novels. A standout is Running at Night by @railgunrabbit.bsky.social
Set in Korea, it captures the special vibe of being out alone past midnight.
Page 18: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
We got an article about nonfiction visual novels. A standout is Running at Night by @railgunrabbit.bsky.social
Set in Korea, it captures the special vibe of being out alone past midnight.
Page 18: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
NarraScope is proud to be sponsored in 2026 by Choicebeat, the visual novel and interactive fiction zine 🥳
ChoiceBeat Zine
The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
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May 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
NarraScope is proud to be sponsored in 2026 by Choicebeat, the visual novel and interactive fiction zine 🥳
Reading an article about game fanzines (www.forgottenworlds.net/video-game-f...), and I realized...
At 5 years and 16 issues, ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has outlived 95% of gaming publications.
WE GOTTA CELEBRATE. This week, I'm posting some of my ChoiceBeat favs.
At 5 years and 16 issues, ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has outlived 95% of gaming publications.
WE GOTTA CELEBRATE. This week, I'm posting some of my ChoiceBeat favs.
April 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Reading an article about game fanzines (www.forgottenworlds.net/video-game-f...), and I realized...
At 5 years and 16 issues, ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has outlived 95% of gaming publications.
WE GOTTA CELEBRATE. This week, I'm posting some of my ChoiceBeat favs.
At 5 years and 16 issues, ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has outlived 95% of gaming publications.
WE GOTTA CELEBRATE. This week, I'm posting some of my ChoiceBeat favs.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
did you know❓ you can order 🔡 an on-demand 🔜 print 🐾 version of ... choicebeat ↕️🪘 !!
here 👂🏼: www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb...
or if you wanna just...
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
itch.io page: willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
here 👂🏼: www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb...
or if you wanna just...
Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
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itch.io page: willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-i...
There's an interview up with me in ChoiceBeath #12, if anybody's interested!
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/c...
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/c...
ChoiceBeat #12
ChoiceBeat #12 is for the real fans. Check out four interviews with Choice of Games authors, but don’t stop there. Read about Decker, a highly wacky and highly chicken-filled game development…
choicebeat.wordpress.com
October 29, 2024 at 12:13 PM
There's an interview up with me in ChoiceBeath #12, if anybody's interested!
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/c...
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/c...
I love that everyone is getting into this gamebook-style JRPG.
If Veritas Tales is your jam, you should read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. We cover this sort of thing ALL THE TIME...
Example: Issue 16 has 3 gamebook-style RPGs: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
If Veritas Tales is your jam, you should read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. We cover this sort of thing ALL THE TIME...
Example: Issue 16 has 3 gamebook-style RPGs: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
I reviewed Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, going over the history of gamebooks in Japan and the affordances of the genre for an independent developer: ogrerun.com/2026/07/11/v...
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle and the Good New JRPG
There are a number of origin points for the RPG including performance, wargames, cybernetics, and literature. It’s this last element that I briefly want to focus on. Following the release of TSR’s …
ogrerun.com
July 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I love that everyone is getting into this gamebook-style JRPG.
If Veritas Tales is your jam, you should read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. We cover this sort of thing ALL THE TIME...
Example: Issue 16 has 3 gamebook-style RPGs: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
If Veritas Tales is your jam, you should read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. We cover this sort of thing ALL THE TIME...
Example: Issue 16 has 3 gamebook-style RPGs: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
In the new ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...
Hell Farm Calendar! An outré interactive presentation (?) from the 1990s made in glorious #hypercard.
We are DESPERATE to find its mysterious creator!
Read the article in ChoiceBeat: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Hell Farm Calendar! An outré interactive presentation (?) from the 1990s made in glorious #hypercard.
We are DESPERATE to find its mysterious creator!
Read the article in ChoiceBeat: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
In the new ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...
Hell Farm Calendar! An outré interactive presentation (?) from the 1990s made in glorious #hypercard.
We are DESPERATE to find its mysterious creator!
Read the article in ChoiceBeat: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Hell Farm Calendar! An outré interactive presentation (?) from the 1990s made in glorious #hypercard.
We are DESPERATE to find its mysterious creator!
Read the article in ChoiceBeat: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
new issue of ChoiceBeat is out! the second half of my Videotome interview is in here, alongside a bunch of the community's games made in the engines :)
It's issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction zine!
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
In gaming zine terms, 16 issues makes us about 1,000 years old. Lots of wisdom here. 🧙♂️
choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...
> Blippo+
> ChoiceScript games!
> Serial Experiment: Lain PSX game
> Videotome
> SO MUCH MORE
March 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
new issue of ChoiceBeat is out! the second half of my Videotome interview is in here, alongside a bunch of the community's games made in the engines :)
I'm so honored to share that my game Dirk the Dictionary has been featured in ChoiceBeat, an awesome online zine about story-based indie games! 🤩
Check it out free (or order a hard copy!): choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
#visualnovel #interactivefiction #queergames #zine #choicebeat
Check it out free (or order a hard copy!): choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
#visualnovel #interactivefiction #queergames #zine #choicebeat
ChoiceBeat #17
ChoiceBeat has always been about vibes. Sometimes those are chill vibes, like Keep Driving, a game about being young and taking road trip. Sometimes they are weird vibes, like Loom, a game about wi…
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June 28, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I'm so honored to share that my game Dirk the Dictionary has been featured in ChoiceBeat, an awesome online zine about story-based indie games! 🤩
Check it out free (or order a hard copy!): choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
#visualnovel #interactivefiction #queergames #zine #choicebeat
Check it out free (or order a hard copy!): choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
#visualnovel #interactivefiction #queergames #zine #choicebeat
Issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available IN PRINT!
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Imagine you're at the bus stop reading ChoiceBeat. You look over and someone else is reading THE SAME ZINE. Your eyes lock, and then maybe...
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Imagine you're at the bus stop reading ChoiceBeat. You look over and someone else is reading THE SAME ZINE. Your eyes lock, and then maybe...
March 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Issue 16 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available IN PRINT!
www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb...
Imagine you're at the bus stop reading ChoiceBeat. You look over and someone else is reading THE SAME ZINE. Your eyes lock, and then maybe...
www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb...
Imagine you're at the bus stop reading ChoiceBeat. You look over and someone else is reading THE SAME ZINE. Your eyes lock, and then maybe...
cute review someone wrote of it www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
ChoiceBeat - Issue 12
The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine
www.flipsnack.com
October 30, 2024 at 11:57 PM
cute review someone wrote of it www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c...
yay choicebeat! featuring a lovely mention of my bitsy game/essay on bread making and the invention of time 🍞
ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out!
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
Scientists did research. Conclusion: It's impossible that an #IndieGame zine as sweet as ChoiceBeat appears more than once in a human lifetime. This is it. Don't waste it.
Issue, 17 baby! choicebeat.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/c...
June 24, 2026 at 8:29 AM
yay choicebeat! featuring a lovely mention of my bitsy game/essay on bread making and the invention of time 🍞