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Hello and welcome to Varlance Interactive!

Varlance is my pen name for my gay erotic fiction creative work. This site is for archiving published work and presenting other projects such as my interactive fiction games.

For more about my current projects, visit https://www.patreon.com/varlance.

Content warning: The content in these stories and on VarlanceInteractive.com is a work of fiction, which contains explicit descriptions of sexual situations and explicit and crude language. It is not intended for children. The situations described may be unsafe in real life – use good judgement and play safe, sane and consensual.

Anodyne

This story was posted at https://www.gayspiralstories.com/story/show/10010971 on 2024-11-25.

Arthur Tremaine, CEO of Prehensio, gets caught up in a plot by one of his employees.

(Author’s note: A revised version of a Discord caption story I wrote on 24/11/2024.)

I had just finished rebooting my laptop to complete an annoying Windows update when there was a knock at my office door.

“Arthur?”

Our commercial director, Geoff, popped his head in. “I need you for the Anodyne demo now. Can you come to the Trafalgar meeting room with me?”

I frowned. “I thought that was scheduled for tomorrow.”

Geoff smiled that overly wide smile which I knew meant that he was up to something, the smarmy bastard. “Yeah, mate, that one’s with the healthcare executives. I put in another meeting this morning with some other potential buyers. Come on, let’s go.”

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October 2024: monthly review

Last month (October 2024)

Still working on the initial framework and mechanics of Surrendr. Not much to show yet, sorry!

  • But as a little teaser, I’ve attached the default face pic for a character in the game called Jack Harnham, a.k.a. Surrendr user ldn_dominant, who will be the ‘captor’ in Surrendr. Image from GeneratedPhotos.

I also pushed a bugfix for The Zhonghua ZeroDay, taking the current version to 1.7.2.

Next month (November 2024)

Working on Surrendrremake. I’m working to get something basic and playable out.

As usual, I’m around on the Homotextual Gaming Guild Discord server, where you can message me, discuss my creative projects, and grab dev builds of my current games. If you’re a fan of gay-focused interactive fiction, come and say hello!

As always, many thanks to all my patrons for your support!

September 2024: monthly review

Last month (September 2024)

Work has started on Surrendr remake. So far it’s been me re-familiarising myself with the development plan, and getting the skeleton of the game ready.

Next month (October 2024)

Working on Surrendrremake. Not much news I’m afraid. I’m working to get something basic and playable out.

A reminder: Patreon is mandating its creators to switch to subscription billing (instead of first-day-of-month or per-creation billing). You can read more about this change in Patreon’s news post here. From November 2024, I’ll allow my Patreon page to switch over to subscription billing along with most other creators.

As usual, I’m around on the Homotextual Gaming Guild Discord server, where you can message me, discuss my creative projects, and grab dev builds of my current games. If you’re a fan of gay-focused interactive fiction, come and say hello!

As always, many thanks to all my patrons for your support!

August 2024: monthly review

I know August isn’t over yet, but I wanted to close this month early and start a new cycle. Also, there are some important changes to Patreon billing – please read carefully.

General changes

1. Stories are on indefinite hold. These days I mostly write for fun in the Wildwood Discord server. Monthly updates will focus on the games I’m working on.

2. Billing is paused for September 1st, and will resume in October.

3. Patreon is mandating its creators to switch to subscription billing (instead of first-day-of-month or per-creation billing) to comply with demands from Apple, to do with Patreon being allowed in the App Store. You can read more about this change in Patreon’s news post here.

  • From November 2024, I’ll allow my Patreon page to switch over to subscription billing along with most other creators.
  • This will mean that new patrons will be charged when they join and then every month on the same date in the month that they first joined. You can read more about how this works here.
  • Existing members will continue to be billed on the 1st of each month.
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