Author: Varlance

Paragon Pioneers Resources

So, I found a cool new mobile game called Paragon Pioneers. It’s a game by solo Berlin-based developer Tobias Tenbusch. It’s an idle city-building game with influences from the Anno series of games. You control an island of pioneers and build various buildings on a new island to produce resources and expand to other islands.

I helped to improve the translation of the game’s text and tutorial from German to English and have been busy creating useful gameplay resources for it. This post will make the resources I’ve made available beyond the Paragon Pioneers Discord community. Currently, there are three resources: the Production Predictor, the Production Ratios sheet, and the Building Patterns sheet.

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Escape from Enderon v0.1.3

Escape from Enderon: v0.1.3 is available from the link below:

Link: https://mega.nz/file/H8Ui0IqK#t11jRa_FdNVbBo9q7HwDrhpbHvnJaH2_h4k9oiuOlVI

Releases of Escape from Enderon will be free to everyone until further notice.

Escape from Enderon is built in Twine 2 using Sugarcube 2 format. It should run in your browser (I use Google Chrome) like other Twine interactive fiction games.

Trello board:  https://trello.com/b/150woSdI/

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Escape from Enderon v0.1.2

Escape from Enderon: v0.1.2 is available from the link below:

Link (updated from previous post): https://mega.nz/file/rld0XCrJ#jlLkhOWKI939dEdeAQVQXGaT5to9qPH6jUZdf-N_D3g

Enderon has changed a lot since the last version (v0.0.10) was posted. Note that currently this Patreon channel functions more like a tip jar. Releases of Escape from Enderon will be free to everyone until further notice.

Escape from Enderon is built in Twine 2 using Sugarcube 2 format. It should run in your browser (I use Google Chrome) like other Twine interactive fiction games.

Trello board:  https://trello.com/b/150woSdI/

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Buck(ed) at the Rodeo

This story was posted at https://www.gaydemon.com/stories/Buck_ed_at_the_Rodeo_32496.html on 2022-02-16.

The rodeo is in town and Buck tries his hand at a bronco riding competition. Winner gets $1000, losers strip an item of clothing. A short interactive story I wrote in the Homotextual Gaming Guild Discord community.

Author note: This story was originally written on the Homotextual Gaming Guild Discord community. Each section break offered readers two choices, and the votes determined the course of the plot. Images accompanied some sections of the story; links to these have been added here and there.

Buck saw the sign at the rodeo and couldn’t resist a closer look. ‘Ride the Bronco – Win $1000!’ The ride operator, a stalwart-looking, grizzled bear of a man, saw Buck looking and walked over. 

“Howdy, boy. You interested in this here com-pee-tish-un?” 

“Maybe,” Buck replied. He cast his eyes over the mechanical bull. It looked like it had been cobbled together by someone high on moonshine – all exposed wood and leather, and covered with a mat of dried hay that a pack of starving horses had chewed over. 

“All ya gotta do is stay on for three minutes,” the operator said. 

“That’s all? And if I do it, I get to walk away with a thousand dollars?” 

“That’s right.” 

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