Credits | Choice of the Viking

Choice of the Viking

Writer: Declan Taggart
Art: Phill Simpson
Copy Editing: K. Lascoutx
Chapter Headers: Paul Wang
Beta Testers: Najma Adhyaksana, Nevada Adie, Alter, Brooke Anderson, George Aspesi, Miha Baroš, Philippa Bourne, Alexander Campbell, Natalia Carmo, Adrian Colchado, Véronique Heijnsbroek, Lance Heyen, Nick Jensen, Jay'morah Johnson, Nexus Knight, Aletheia Knights, Ed Lawrence, Livingdiamond, Irene García Losquiño, Kevin Manzanares, Egbert McDougal, Blake Middleton, Silvano Oracolo, Säde Pesonen, David Peters, Producer, Alex Roberts, Marney Robinson, Oonagh Taggart, Ronan Taggart, Evans Tanner, Harry Thundow, Jhenne Tyler
Managing Editor: Rebecca Slitt
ChoiceScript Language: Dan Fabulich

About the Author

Declan Taggart is a writer and a researcher of Old Norse religion at the University of Iceland. This is his second work of interactive fiction after the more ramshackle and much shorter Choose Your Own End to the Viking World, an adaptation of the Old Norse poem Völuspá. He has published a range of articles on the medieval North as well as a book investigating the mythology of everyone's favorite god, Thor (How Thor Lost his Thunder, 2018). So far, Thor hasn't struck him down for his blasphemies, but it can't be long now.

About the Vikings

The author has posted the following further reading: Choice of the Vikings: Historical Accuracy, Bibliography, and Acknowledgements.

About Choice of Games

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