Choices: Stories You Play Wiki
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Choices: Stories You Play Wiki
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StoryLoom, a place where stories come to life, is an interactive storytelling platform where readers can discover their new favorite worlds written by award-winning authors and creators like you.

History

In the March 2022 Choices Insider, Pixelberry announced they were working on a new product and encouraged players to sign up for the closed beta test. Players would be emailed if they were chosen for the rounds of closed beta testing, which began on or around April 4, 2022. Open beta testing for everyone transitioned from November 18, 2022, up to the maintenance on November 30, 2022.

On a currenty unknown date in 2023, Storyloom had its official launch. On or around July 20, 2023, the mobile app was launched.

It closed down on February 29, 2024, just about a year after its official launch release.

Around March 14, 2024, Storyloom social pages on Facebook, Instagram, and X were deleted.

It was initially announced by Pixelberry that the associated Discord server would be closed on the following day, around 1pm PST. However, on 1pm PST, Pixelberry gave the users ample time to move to fan-run communities before the server's shutdown on 3pm PST.

In May 2024, it was discovered that the squarespace pages were also deleted.

Features

  • As compared to Choices, Storyloom was available for PCs in addition to its own app form, which players could submit from and make their own interactive narrative content.
  • The art design is mostly anime-esque with some options for realistic Choices-like sprites.
  • Characters are non-customizable, although creators have an option to insert multiple sprites from the library for the readers.
    • Due to this, some of the MCs have set sexualities. For example, the protagonist in Star Crossed is canonically gay and the protagonist in Hope to Die is canonically lesbian. The MC of Summer Fling is canonically into men and women.
  • Some Choices soundtracks were used in Storyloom, while some other Storyloom music were carried over from the 1001 app.
    • There were 22 unique Storyloom Marketplace Soundtracks available for use, in addition to some selected Choices soundtracks.
  • The in-game currency was Storyloom coins for reading chapters. You could earn 50 Storyloom coins daily, up to a limit of 500 Storyloom coins.
    • Storyloom chapters cost 10 Storyloom coins.
    • While initially proposed in the guidelines to include gems (equivalent of diamonds) for premium choices/options, the idea was scrapped after the app exited out of beta.

Pixelberry's Storyloom Novels

These were official novels written by the official Pixelberry team.

On September 2023, Pixelberry had also released a behind-the-scenes content, Choices Secrets Revealed!

Action

Comedy

Fantasy

Romance

Sci-Fi

Shared Worlds

From the creators of The Royal Romance, Season of Love was the first venture into the "Shared Worlds" space.

Authors Kara Loo and Jennifer Young began with "Season of Love: House of Cards" and invited players to join in the Shared Worlds to continue the series. The stories listed below were considered "official" by the team. Later afterwards, the Shared Universe branched into Open Heart, The Royal Romance, and Bloodbound.

These were the official novels written by the Season of Love and Choices teams.

Season of Love

Bloodbound

Open Heart

The Royal Romance

Timeline

  • July 11, 2022 - PB posted an update through Choices' media channels regarding the beta test.
  • July 22, 2022 - Season of Love is mentioned for the first time, with writers Kara and Jennifer searching for creators to write with them.
  • October 14, 2022 - PB replied to a user that Storyloom will be going to open beta phase in November 2022.
  • November 18, 2022 - Storyloom is now available for open beta.
  • November 30, 2022 - PB announced the start of open beta in public.
  • June 30, 2023 - Storyloom advertises the launch of the mobile app.
  • July 29, 2023 - the first teaser of Open Heart joining Storyloom's Shared World is shared, with the first Open Heart x StoryLoom Writing Contest starting on August 3.
  • August 1, 2023 - the first Season of Love trailer is published, featuring the main characters from House of Cards who later become recurring characters in the other Season of Love books.
  • September 26, 2023 - PB uses Storyloom to answer questions about Choices.
  • January 22, 2024 - PB plans to shut down Storyloom on February 29, 2024. [1]
  • February 29, 2024 - Storyloom was shut down at around 9:18 a.m. Pacific Time.

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Trivia

  • The shortest number of chapters produced by Pixelberry is 1, and the largest amount being 32.
  • Similar to Choices, the stories released on the launch were released all at once. Starting with Heart's Blood, chapters of some books are updated on a weekly basis.
  • Hott House is the first story to have two chapters released weekly due to them being shorter than average chapters.
  • Despite being categorized as "Adventure" prior to release, Fake-cation is categorized by the writers as a rom-com.
  • On August 5th, Hope to Die was moved from "Mystery" to "Comedy". On the same day, Robots Can't Date premiered and was put under the "Mystery" section.
  • Similar to Choices, a new story initially premiered once a month.
  • After Robots Can't Date's finale, there hasn't been new books produced from Pixelberry.
    • Months later, they began to produce books under Season of Love and Choices Shared Worlds.

References

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