Promote your story but JUST with an excerpt that references a game

Leyelle 2024-01-22 15:24:57 UTC #1

I look back at the timetable like the play-through of a lost game of chess. There were so many moments - so many chances when the tables could have been turned - when things could have gone differently - shifted - changed courses, twisted the red thread and doubled back - ended somewhere other than here.

I guess every game has even odds when it starts. Or maybe that’s only the case in a game of chess.

If we’d gone out for cake it never would have happened. If I’d let him - just one more time - try to drag me out of my slump instead of being sullen and content to simmer in it - if we’d gone out for dessert at some unholy hour - if I’d been sober enough to enjoy myself - or at least sober enough to want to - then we wouldn’t have been driving down that cursed frozen street, the drunk driver would have missed our car - and it never would have happened.

LordLacroix 2024-01-22 17:42:17 UTC #2

There are a lot of mentions of chess in my detective book, here is one of the most intriguing ones:

"I sent detailed instructions to Voluptia. Everything was now depending on her and sister Paula.

She would be a pawn in my game. But that pawn would be promoted to a queen if the other player did not anticipate my move.

To do that, I needed to remove my own queen from the chessboard"

sams_cartoon_shack 2024-01-22 18:04:26 UTC #3

kyupol 2024-01-22 19:58:54 UTC #4

First person shooter games...

stiatent 2024-01-22 20:33:04 UTC #5

Nice on FPS referance

The entire Sick Boy plays out like a 1st person and 3rd person Action-Horror videogame (the comic started as a videogame idea 1st and the mechanics remain the rules of the game. Trophy achievements pop up when the mcs do outstanding stuff, loadings screens act as bumpers and so on

The player has a bizarre condition/virus and had to avoid spreading his virus on civillians or they become monsters once infected. The Player bizarre condition also brought sideffects that allowed him to control states of matter. Player unfortunately causes an outbreak and must use his newfound abilities to defend them from the already infected, while also finding ways to avoid infecting the healthy civillians in process)

(this mystery character is always seen in 1st person just like an FPS game)

And makes referances to A Warriors Expo - which features stars from this world's version of WWE and UCF
so you see merch that includes the tv show and even videogames featuring the wrestlers. It's a foreshadowing of Season 2 that breaks into a Battle Royale and takes influence from Fighting Games
(merged a discarded fighting game idea with the Sickboy Universe).

(posters from the upcoming Warriors Expo foreshadowing the pro-wrestlers and battle royale arc)

Umber 2024-01-22 22:41:48 UTC #6

Well, I can't put my entire comic in here lol, so here's a part specifically referencing something from the game it's based on.

My comic is based on lore from that one game Hypixel Skyblock, which is actually full of lore, but nobody really cares about it for some reason?

skidiggy 2024-01-23 04:00:17 UTC #7

For Apparent Secrets, the archfiend champion teaches the avian Paxoram how to play card games.

Iris retired to bed early, leaving the door ajar for when Zayzann was ready to join her. It was still much too early for the others to sleep, so Byxx pulled out a deck of cards from the bookshelf and taught Zayzann how to play Slapjack. He immediately regretted this decision.

“Gah! Blast!” Byxx bellowed, pushing the cards on the table away. “Got me again! How are you so fast?”

Zayzann’s eyesight was magnitudes more sensitive than Byxx’s, and he was able to spot a “jack” from a mile away. Coupled with his admittedly superior reflexes, Zayzann’s speed outclassed Byxx’s immense strength every round after the first one. The only reason Byxx got any slaps in at all was due to Zayzann’s fledgling command of the rules of play.

"Just lucky, I guess.” Zayzann teased while he ran his tongue over one of his canine tooth points. “Would you like to try again?”

“No, thank you.” Byxx pouted. “This has gotta be some kind of bird-person trickery. There’s NO WAY you beat me eleven times in a blasted row!”

Leyelle 2024-02-21 01:59:24 UTC #8

What time is it right now in Mexico?

Goodness knows Andrew will be asleep by 9 p.m., like a good boy, and the last thing I want is to wake him, though I know he’d never complain.

I try to remember and calculate the difference in time zone, though I could just look it up.

I’m pretty sure Maryland is an hour ahead of Mexico City.

Still, he takes a minute or two to respond, and when he does, it sounds like he’s eating lunch.

At 3 p.m.?

“Why didn’t you wait to swallow before you called me?” I grumble, scoldingly.

“Didn’t want to miss your call and then end up having to play phone tag back and forth,” he says a little thickly. I hear him swallow and then the aggressive slurp of him drinking…something or other. Fruit juice probably, because he never could grow into drinking coffee or tea like any other adult.

I roll my eyes a little mom-ishly, though I know he can’t see me.

And then I curse my own brain for remembering-

“I got your Christmas card,” I say as steadily as I can manage when the racket stops, “How many times do I have to tell you to stop addressing my letters like that?”

“But the beauty of the mail system is that they have to deliver it,” he laughs, his voice vibrating through the microphone like crackly sunshine.

Leyelle 2024-03-13 17:22:01 UTC #9

This is cheating, but the chapter title's of most of the chapters of "Sun with a Paper Crown" are the names of children's games

Leyelle 2024-04-01 19:26:10 UTC #10

cheating again, check the chapter title:

Fuzzyman818 2024-04-01 19:56:09 UTC #11

I don't know if this is a reference to anything. The title of my story already gives away the name of the game.

jadendouglas 2024-04-01 23:52:47 UTC #12

One of my favorite systems the GameCube!