Showcase: 13Leagues of Stories
This is a biased showcase as I know the author and am part of the beta team of her stories.
Tierra is amazing to talk to, a lot of fun to discuss her stories with, and full of ideas. If you like some or a lot of angst in your stories, she can deliver.
Tierra Wright, also known as @13leaguestories, is an author creating various interactive fiction stories.
So far, she has published one story via the Hosted Games label of the Choice of Games LLC, and self-published another story on the website itch.io. Multiple other stories are in the works.
The main character in each of her stories is customizable: First name, gender (male, female, non-binary), appearance, personality, skills.
Characteristic for her stories is an emphasis on character development and interaction. Each game features a strong cast of companions to the main character, all with their own arc and distinct personality. One of the nicest aspects are the romances that are possible with almost every main character. Whether the romances are genderlocked or not depends on the game.
Her first published interactive story was “Dragon Racer” via Hosted Games. The first game of a planned trilogy, the game has you fulfill your dream of becoming a dragon racer. Growing up with a bonded dragon at your side and a racing stadium just one town away, you have always dreamed of joining them on the tracks. Now you finally get the chance to make this dream come true.
Aside of the main character, you also get to customize your dragon companion. By choosing which colour the dragon has, his personality changes. Where the red dragon is feisty, the blue dragon is more of a scaled puppy.
Dragon Racer features four main romances (2 straight, 2 bi) as well as one male character (gay) who a male main character can flirt with to then start a romance with in the planned sequel. It is planned that three more romance options are introduced in the sequel.
Her other published story so far is “Superstition”, a free-to-play game published on itch.io. Planned as a series of five seasons, the first season (game) is completely released. The second season is releasing on a bi-weekly schedule, though it is currently on a mid-season break.
The story has a supernatural modern US setting. As the existence of supernatural creatures is not known to the human population, the main character is not quite properly prepared when their world gets overturned and they have to leave their old life behind to escape supernatural pursuers. Whenever you think something goes right for a time, things take a turn for the worse.
Compared to Dragon Racer, Superstition is darker in tone and discussed topics. Warnings are in place to avoid choices that lead to possibly triggering situations.
As of season 2, all available romance options have been introduced. Three men and two women, all bi/pansexual. One of the male romance options so far was under the impression to be straight, which results in different scenes and talks with a male or non-binary main character than with a female main character in at least the first season as he questions his sexuality.
There are two other games currently work in progress / on hiatus.
“Insight” and “For the Crown” share the same fantasy setting of the world Jiwenia, though not taking place at the same time. There is no public demo for For the Crown at the moment.
In Insight, you play as a magical apprentice, using your unique abilities to help those in need. All is well until an enemy appears whose goal seems to be to take everything from you that is dear to you, one after the other.
All of the available romance options are available no matter the main character’s gender.
Tierra is active on her tumblr, answering nsfw and sfw asks about every Tuesday and Thursday. On Patreon, she releases extra short stories about the various characters of her stories. Among them are stories with explicit nsfw passages. For the Superstition series, she has released character studies about Bradley and Chris, as well as determined the theme of the DLC side story via polls.
Here’s the link to Tierra’s blog.
https://13leaguestories.tumblr.com/
You can play Superstition here on itch.io (free to play).
https://13leagues.itch.io/superstition
Here you can play Dragon Racer. The first few chapters are a free demo, but you have to buy it to unlock the rest of the game. It is available on the Choice of Games webstore, the Google Play Store, the AppStore, on Amazon.com, and on Steam.
https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/dragon-racer/#utm_medium=web&utm_source=ourgames