Another game, another achievement guide! Like in Book 1, it’s impossible to get them all during a single play-through, so there’s no need to stress over them too much. I made many of these achievements to motivate players to pick less popular choices, as well as rewarding them for paying attention. Warning: spoilers ahead! Here We Go Again At the start of the game, load in a character from Book 1. No Pets Allowed...

Samurai of Hyuga Book 2 has been released! Check out it’s page here! For the newly initiated, this is where I give my post-mortem for the game, though that word doesn’t sound appropriate. Make sure to follow me on twitter @MChoiceStudios for blog updates and release dates! If you’re here from Steam, I want to give you a special shoutout. If you’re like me, you’re a guy and a gamer, and a decade ago...

Samurai of Hyuga Book 2 Update: Book 2 has been released! Follow me on twitter for updates and release dates: Follow @MChoiceStudios No writer of interactive fiction should use the genre as a gimmick to excuse bad writing. Creating smooth and clear prose is not a matter of style, but the result of techniques and fundamentals. Luckily for the amateur writer like myself, there are decades of eternal teachers out there in print. Beware...

The demo version for the sequel is here! Samurai of Hyuga Book 2 is the blood-pumping sequel to the interactive tale you already know. Return to the land of silk and steel, where fantasy and reality clash and tough choices await you at every turn. Good thing you’re still the toughest ronin around. This demo contains the first four chapters of the story. They are part of the second book in an epic series,...

Effortless attention. Complete immersion while pursuing a task. Working at your highest level without even knowing it. Sounds like a superpower, but it’s just psychology. Flow is a state of mind any musician, writer, athlete or programmer can enter. There are a hundred names for it: being in ‘the zone’, ‘wired in’, or just plain ‘absorbed’. You know you’ve been there when you look at the clock and hours have flown by. As I...

Creating a climatic and final resolution to which all readers will be satisfied is an impossible task. But–as luck would have it–the series-writer needn’t truly worry of that until his or her last book. Even so, the reader must be gratified and thrilled for something that teases them for the next one. A cliffhanger is one way, and is how the first book in the Samurai of Hyuga series ended. What does a good,...

Samurai of Hyuga Book 2 There will be a sequel to Samurai of Hyuga! I am pleased to say that it is a much-anticipated one, from all the great replies and reviews SoH has gotten. Thank you for all the kind words, they mean a lot to me! It is great to see so many people get wrapped up into the world of Hyuga, the characters and the drama. I was unsure how interactive-fiction...