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Willy Elektrix
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Game designer, writer, and artist. I love building crazy worlds full of aliens and mutants!
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An enemy from my #RPGMaker game.

Yeah, killer animatronic mascots are passé now, but the heart wants what it wants. #pixelart
pixel art of a damaged, animatronic aardvark with a crowbar
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine has covered LOTS #ChoiceScript games over the years...

...we put a LIST in our new issue: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...

@choiceofgames.bsky.social should pay us!

KIDDING. (They already gave exclusive discounts in EVERY ISSUE.)
"ChoiceSript Games - The List" Shows approximately 20 game names.
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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More highly compelling writing from this strange gem.
Black and white Mac Classic screen with text that reads, "Page 35. Do you ever feel like you're living in a zoo or an experimental laboratory and someone unseen is studying your life?"
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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...
Retro computer graphics reading, "CONGRATULATIONS! You've eliminated TRUST from your consciousness. You're on your way to life of power and wealth! Good For You!"
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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In the new ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine...

Long Live the Queen by @hanakogames.bsky.social

Pleased to finally feature this classic game in the zine!!!

Maybe this isn't the LLtQ review we wanted, but is it the review we deserve? choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Screenshot of a game. There is an anime girl with pink hair in front of a status menu.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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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
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. It features a humanoid lion made from a photo collage.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available in print for the FIRST TIME EVER.

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
Printed issue of ChoiceBeat sitting on a desk.
July 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Screenshots from my game! After hours of play-testing, I'm starting to get used to my own ugly graphics, and now I love them. Good job, me!
#rpgmaker #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
Overhead map view form a JRPG-style game with pixel graphics. It shows 4 characters moving through a green natural environment.
July 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Battle screen from the #RPGMaker game I'm making. The Girl Scout is my favorite enemy in the game, I think. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
Battle screen from a JRPG-style game. The enemies are 2 lions, 2 tigers, and a girl scout that looks like a hunter.
July 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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OM MY GOD! I once thought, "There will never be another game 428: Shibuya Scramble."

WELL, MAYBE THERE WILL BE!

I wrote a review way back in the first issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine.

choicebeat.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/c...
June 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Monster graphics for an #RPGmaker game I'm working on. I'm really into fungus creatures. #pixelart #gameart
Four pixel art monsters. They are based on different mushrooms.
June 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Here is the palette I'm using for the whole game! It's definitely "a look." 😜
June 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Title screen for the #RPGmaker game I'm working on. That bubble font is just about perfect, I think.
#pixelart #gameart
Pixel art title screen. Title says, "FUN ZONE OMEGA." There is a blue snake with a big brain in front of a tropical island. On the island is a glass dome with a crack in it.
June 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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ALTER EGO is the first "life sim" from 1986. Written by a REAL PSYCHOLOGIST.

For a "realistic" game, there are so many ways to die. As a child, I got abducted by a murderer. What game!

Review in new ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...
Screenshot reads: "One of the older kids in school takes you aside and offers you a quick way to make money by dealing drugs -- nothing too heavy or dangerous, according to him. All you would have to deal is some pot, and a few ludes. No one will suspect a girl."
June 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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This is haunting me: thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/adventures/

A website with 1,000+ dream-like flip phone camera pictures.

There is an article about the artists (game devs...?) in the new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine.

choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...
June 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. A man in a suit with tentacles over his head reaches through a pixelated computer screen.
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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More enemies for my game. The guy on the right is the Mothman (coolest cryptid). #gameart #pixelart #gamedev #rpgmaker #indiedev
JRPG-style monster graphics in pixel art. 1) beetle pushing atomic bomb 2) insect orb with lots of eyes 3) shadowy winged humanoid with glowing eyes
May 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Game over screen for the game I'm making.

I don't LOVE it, but I LIKE it.
#pixelart #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #rpgmaker
Pixel art of a culture with a hat and monocle eating a decaying hand. The background is a tropical island. The text reads, "Unfortunately, your quest ended badly."
May 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker
Pixel art of a rabbit whose body is made of stars.
April 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This was supposed to be a marmoset, but then I went freestyle.

Just give him something to eat! #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker
Pixel art of a red goblin-like creature with his tongue hanging out.
April 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Cute platypus from the game I'm making.

You gotta fight him! Too bad!
#pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker
Pixel art of platypus with many eyes.
April 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Howdy, all! Dropping off a rare post to say hi, and show you that I'm still alive and making games!

Here is a chameleon commando guy. Don't mess with him!

Peace! Talk again in 3 months! (Kidding, maybe!)
#pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker
Pixel art of a chameleon in commando gear.
April 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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You didn't read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine, so I have to post again. ☹️

What about the quiz for interactive fiction freaks?

Test yourself and see if "Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?" is a real game or a hoax!

Zine: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...
Cover of ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine. A goat with human arms coming out of its back is biting something. Soccer balls float in the background.
February 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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In-progress map screen for the #rpgmaker game I'm writing. The blue letters should probably be smaller.

Adding the hand in the corner is my greatest accomplishment as an artist.

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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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...
Cover for ChoiceBeat, the visual novel and interaction fiction zine. There is an anime-style drawing of a goat with human arms coming out of its back. Soccer balls float in the background.
February 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM