Literotica – the world’s most popular publisher of fiction for adults for the last 25 years – has announced the launch of its next generation Adult Story Games platform, a major step forward in the site’s decades long journey of interactive adult storytelling. Literotica’s new platform – built using modern video game technology – gives authors and readers of erotic interactive fiction an unprecedented level of control over the narrative, creating an immersive game-like experience.
While Literotica will always support authors of traditional adult stories with a single, unchangeable narrative, the new Story Games offer an unlimited number of possible storylines and plot paths, each influenced by the reader’s choices. With potentially hundreds or even thousands of narrative paths, these interactive sex stories provide a new level of immersiveness while offering hours of replay potential to explore the worlds created within each game.
Literotica’s interactive adult storytelling experiments began in the late 1990s with hand-coded HTML pages representing each part of the choice-based stories the site published. In the 2000s, Literotica collaborated with a developer to create a new platform exclusively for interactive stories. As new technologies emerged in the smart phone and Steam era, it became clear that video game technology offered a chance for Literotica authors to create more powerful game-like adult interactive narratives.
After several years of development and testing, Literotica is unveiling their third generation interactive fiction technology – a hybrid of interactive stories and full on adult games. The new format and interfaces simplify the writing, reading, and management of interactive stories, providing authors with a powerful set of tools to create game-like sex stories.
This new platform offers more than just branching choices, the feature most closely associated with the previous “Interactive Story” or “Choice Story” format. With the new technology, authors can add popular video game elements like statistics and inventory, affection meters, battle systems, puzzles, and mini games. Literotica authors will now have access to advanced tools enabling them to create stories that function similar to adult visual novels
With the launch of their third generation story games platform, Literotica continues to support its large community of sex story authors and readers – giving them the tools needed to write the future of adult storytelling.
About Literotica:
Founded in 1998, Literotica has been the world’s leading platform for sex-positive adult fiction for over 25 years. With tens of millions of readers a month, the site has published over 100,000 stories, poems, and adult audio fantasies that cater to a wide range of kinks and tastes. All characters in stories published on Literotica are required to be at least 18 years of age and Literotica strives to foster a diverse sex-positive environment for its community.
