You are Shay Perkins, a runty nerd in your senior year of high school, constantly harassed by your bitchy twin sister.
You spend most of your time playing D&D with your equally nerdy friends, or sitting alone in your room writing bad interactive fiction on antique computers.
But soon all that will be thrown into disarray in...
A typical body swap story. Our runty nerdy young adult protagonist switches bodies with his intolerable mean-girl twin sister. Hijinks ensue. You'll also get to play as the mean-girl twin sister part of the time, starting in the next chapter (they are both viewpoint characters, at different times).
This is Chapter 1. which ends on a cliffhanger right after the body-swap (you have been warned! ;3 ). Chapter 2 is completely written, but is still being edited and graphic-ified. Chapter 3 is fully outlined, but has not been written yet.
This game currently requires ES6, HTML5 Video, and will require HTML5 Canvas in the next release. If you're using an obsolete web browser, you're probably out of luck. Sorry. ;( The game is tested on and should work properly with the current releases of Firefox and Chrome. Other browsers may work, but there is no guarantee. Formatting may be strange on mobile devices; a problem that I need to correct.
I've split the game mechanics (but not the story itself) off into its own 4-clause BSD open-source library. It's intended for use with Tweego, but it may be possible to make it work with Twine as well. You can find more information on this (and this game, and other stuff) at http://www.echohollow.net .
Only stable public releases will be posted here to the IGDB. Unstable prereleases are currently publicly available on the discord server at https://discord.gg/H4MskX9 , but I do not recommend playing the prereleases. They're incomplete, buggy, and you'll spoil the game for yourself! But please feel free to pop in and hang out anyway. It's always nice to have a little prodding to move me along, heh.
The viewpoint characters are:
And a cast of supporting characters, various jocks, mean-girls, weirdos, skinny goth waifs, nerds, hobos, etc.
The walkthrough is built into the game. Once you complete a chapter, subsequent playthroughs of that chapter are put into a "Hints and Commentary" mode, which displays unrollable spoilers and random authorial musings.
This update adds the next two scenes of Ch2, wherein Brandi pretties Shay all up and sends him on a date with Logan in order to keep up appearances, and then Brandi has to try to pretend to be Shay when Ada and Melvin show up to play D&D. Hope you enjoy!
Body swap isn't usually my thing, but this was not only very well-written but also interesting to have both sides of the swap. Will keep an eye on the updates for this.
So damn glad that this has been revived! I remember seeing this way back when and loving the writing style and all the plot set ups. Right now, I love the UI and general feel of the game. Everything feels truly interactive and it does not feel overwhelming with images or text. I hope to see more updates!
potentially a final game????
Glad this is back. Very promising. Don't get me wrong, there is still little more than an intro, it feels like a little less content than the original release, although I can't be sure because it was so long ago when I played it. But considering the quality of this, and how it exactly tickles my fancy, I'm excited there's finally gonna be more. Given that right now it ends right after the eponymous switch you might wanna hold out till the next update.
This is not some epic game like other reviewers are saying about, its a small game as of now, chapter 1 is just 1-2 days of content and on top of that with one masturbation scene. Regardless, it is a good start.
Since dev is starting work on it, game can be good, maybe one of the best choose your adventure here. But I really can't say for sure unless I see some Chapter 2 content.
Really enjoyed the writing - hope Chapter 2 makes it out on schedule!
