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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The Oxford Piranhas v1.0.2

In The Oxford Piranhas, you’re the reserve goalkeeper for a men’s water polo team at Marlin College, Oxford. After a disaster of a match, your team-mates jump you and tie you up on a pool float. Can you escape before they return? A short, sweet story with 12 endings. 

Content warnings are in game. The game is an interactive fiction game which should take you about 30 minutes on a first playthrough. This is the Twine version; the game was originally posted at CHYOA.com as an interactive story. 

To play the game, simply run the .html file in a browser. You can play or download the game at Itch.io:

(Current version v1.0.2 contains hotfixes for a HTML error when using the top stats bars.)

The Oxford Piranhas (CHYOA release)

The Oxford Piranhas has just been approved over at CHYOA.com and is now available to play. It’s an interactive fiction game hosted at CHYOA.com in the form of a collection of chapters on the site. The link to play it is:

https://chyoa.com/story/The-Oxford-Piranhas.35585

In this game you play as the reserve goalkeeper for a men’s water polo team at Marlin College, Oxford. After a disaster of a match, your team-mates jump you and tie you up on a pool float. Can you escape before they return? A short, sweet story with 11 endings (so far). 

Walkthrough: in-game, here: https://chyoa.com/chapter/Walkthrough-%28cheat-mode%29.1064280

Image credit: The Oxford Piranhas logo.jpg, based on ‘Practice Shot 9942’ by Chris Hunkeler, modified by Varlance and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). Original image available from https://www.flickr.com/photos/14913305@N00/32277201855 and licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0.

School is Hellish v1.1.2

School is Hellish is a mod of Outlands‘ game ‘School is Hell’. You can play the original here at philome.la. The game is an interactive fiction game which should take you about 2 hours on a first playthrough. There are three endings, based on your character’s karma score at the end of the game. You play as a student in a school that is invaded by demonic forces. Collect items and rescue characters to proceed through the school! Warning: the content can be quite dark, so pay attention to the content warnings in game.

You can grab the game here (v1.1.2, 656 kB):

https://mega.nz/file/CpFwnCCI#714-qWG2ORy-vX4noBD53-wdzTfA7HNkD1j_JrxF_2M

To play the game, simply run the .html file in a browser. You can also play the game on itch.io:

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Ollin’s Trek (Enderon fan story)

I was notified by user bigsmile21 at TUGStories that they have written a fanfiction story based on a playthrough of Escape from Enderon! It’s called ‘Ollin’s Trek‘ and you can read it here: https://tugstories.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=13619 (you might need a user account at TUGStories to access it).

It was posted back in May, but I only got notified about it in September. Go check it out 🙂