#Vanguard Games

[vanguard-if]

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FULL PROLOGUE RELEASED - DEC 24, 2023

LAST UPDATE: MAY 23, 2024

Vanguard is a high fantasy interactive fiction, driven heavily by the player character's decisions. Features a customizable playable faering character, romantic/platonic routes, and having fun as a dragon!

CONTENT WARNINGS: VIOLENCE, SUGGESTIVE AND SEXUAL CONTENT, LOTS OF SWEARING, PROBABLY GASLIGHTING (looking at you, Vera), POSSIBLE UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS. Intended for an audience that is 17+ ; read with discretion!

YOUR STORY

As a faering, you should want to keep to yourself. Your home is a safe haven where your dragon kin people reside; a place of true neutrality. There are no allies to the Midlands, nor are there enemies. Your people simply are, and this will not change.

But you were never one much for rules, were you? With whispers of a certain prince in the Northlands allegedly receiving death threats from your docile leader, Cirrus, you could only slip away into the depths of the North to go see for yourself. It's so hilariously outrageous that your peace-loving ruler has such rumours teeming about them.

You did not expect to find a bounty hunter bleeding out from her abdomen. And most of all, you did not expect her to know you by name, even through her raggedy breaths. And most of all, you did not expect her to have leads on the one you seek: the Northern Prince.

FEATURES

Customize a playable character (pronouns, gender, appearance, sexuality, etc.)

Be helpful to a stern prince...or not.

Develop relationships with a diverse cast of: three non-binary characters (Cirrus, Vio, Kiera), two male characters (Emilio and Charles), and two female characters (Vera and Nia). Note that Vio and Kiera are non-romanceable.

Approximately 12k words thus far; chapter one in progress.

CHARACTER PROFILES

✧VERA ✧ EMILIO LOVELL ✧ NIA LOVELL ✧CIRRUS✧ CHARLES MORROW ✧ KIERA + VIO ✧

[lavenderarts]

See you starside, Commander.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

hello skyen! what are your thoughts on vanguard and the way people react to it? really appreciate your videos, keep it up

I'm not a tech guy and I don't know all the technical details of kernel level anticheat.

What I do know is that you cannot trust a corporation. Riot has claimed many many times that they definitely don't want to collect user data or behave in any invasive way with kernel access to millions and millions of players' machines, and literally nobody with a brain and the capacity for memory should believe them when they say that.

The demand of capitalism is this: if you can get away with it and it makes you money, then there is literally no reason not do it. Corporations are amoral, they do not have ethics, and as has been borne out again and again and again, so long as they calculate that the fine for doing something is less than the benefit they can extract from it, they will do it every single time.

I am not saying that the engineers at Riot who came up with Vanguard want to abuse the access the system gives them, I am entirely confident that the on-the-ground workers just want a way to more effectively moderate against cheaters and hackers, and this is the most convenient means they've come up with.

But the engineers don't run the company, and the shareholders (much like cancer cells) demand infinite growth forever, and at some point some suit-and-sneakers wearing silicon valley vulture dipshit executive asshole is going to look at all that access their kernel level anti-cheat has and go "hey we could monetize that," and they fucking will. Not because they are uniquely evil or immoral, but because they are the exact normal level of evil and immoral for a business.

Do not trust a corporation. Ever.

[emmster]

Exos are hard

[sylenth-l]

Here comes the best family counselor in the City

[aghostsdestiny]

Ikora Week Day 1! "Vanguard"

Everything she build was with blood, sweat, & tears, on a foundation of every piece of spirit left broken that they had brought together again.

This is the Vanguard. 🌈

[angoryt]

Sleepover turned therapygroup

Zahndrekh thought that it would be a great idea to throw a midnight tea party for some people who seem to need an opportunity to relax. Imotekh was not very much interested in the invitation, until he was befuddled by hearing that Orikan had been invited, and accepted? At which point he thought he might as well give it a shot.

And so the Sautekh emotional support club was formed.

[guannimadepishi]

black myth wukong boss fights by Superl廖大超

[pedroam-bang]

Star Wars: Squadrons (2020)

[atariforce]

2000s small CRT by Cinetheodolite

[echosong971]

we are COOKING

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Perfect Draw is a game meant to emulate card game anime and manga, such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, Duel Masters, Cardfight Vanguard, and even Destroy the world! it cannot be regenerated to an extent. Perfect Draw features a simple system of quick card and deck creation that is simple to pick up, but rewarding to those who put in the time and effort into learning it. This game's currently on Kickstarter, but you can check out the quick start right now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seb-W09HV5A&list=PLHRw5pTDmzMzCKvspWP3xnQaT90BX0OTx If you want to check out an actual play, here's one by the great Nel Celestine, it's a great time! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/double-summon-games/perfect-draw-a-ttrpg-about-people-who-play-card-games#story_section_3725 here's the backerkit!

[vanguard-if]

vanguard update - ver 1.1

HI EVERYONE here is the bug fixing update, as promised.

ver update includes:

bug fixed where sidebar menu on mobile takes up screen with no way of closing it

character creation other option textbox removed, with more pre-made options instead

minor grammar issues fixed (hopefully)

a bit more writing

chapter one is steadily being worked on, and i'm really aiming to get it out by the end of summer LATEST before i get back to uni (august). hope everything is alright now ARGHHH. also, you’ll probably have to restart your saves again :]

[emmster]

Hey look it’s Andal Brask

[sylenth-l]

The whole fandom rn

[madcat-world]

Lords of the Fallen: Heroes keyart - Alexandre Chaudret