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In this unsettling, mature story with a set main character, help average office worker Ash gain the confidence to make new friends in an exclusive nude painting group. The Gray Painter is a 145,000-word, 20-chapter interactive novel. It’s entirely text-based, fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It’s 25% off until July 14th!

You can select Ash’s sex, gender, and orientation. Ash begins the game in a relationship with Harper, a gender-selectable partner. The option to break up with Harper becomes available in Chapter 9.

Praise for the Gray Painter:

• “I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.”
• “I came in without expectations and was pleasantly surprised. The characters feel deeply flawed but still understandable. My first impressions of everyone were all totally wrong.”
• “What just happened, I was utterly not expecting that, stop messing with my head!!!!”

The Gray Painter depicts drug and alcohol use, smoking, inferred suicide, explicit sexual content, horror, and high-impact violence and gore. The story also features themes of body insecurity and dysmorphia. This is a story for adults aged 18 and up.

• Play as straight, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, or all of the above.
• Meet seven complex, flawed, human characters.
• Immerse yourself in the sprawl of New Jersey in 2012.
• Turn a mild-mannered accountant towards a life of sex, drugs, and rock & roll.
• There are no secrets in this game. And if there were any secrets, it’s best not to look for them.

William developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.