The rise and fall of Paradise Falls

danderson · October 12, 2013, 12:08:47 AM

Another day, another playthrough. It didn't get owned quite as badly as last time, but... Well, let's just say some tactical errors were made.

For bug reporting purposes, I run a script that takes screenshots at regular intervals, so that I can refer back to them for illustrative purposes. Then I went back and picked out some to illustrate the rise and fall of my little corner of the rim.

So, here's my story of Paradise Falls: http://goo.gl/A5Em41 . Be sure to also read the captions, they explain what you're looking at, and what eventually caused my downfall.

On a meta-note: is this format interesting to folks? I don't have a good video recording rig, so this is about as multimedia as I can get.

nomadseifer · October 12, 2013, 12:44:07 AM

Great pictures and story! How long did this game last?

Great Wyrm · October 12, 2013, 12:54:14 AM

I liked the format. I think it provided a good synopsis that showed a nice, understandable progression. Not a bad run, I'd say. At least it's a mistake you could learn from, right?

danderson · October 12, 2013, 01:00:21 AM

Quote from: nomadseifer on October 12, 2013, 12:44:07 AM
Great pictures and story! How long did this game last?

In real time, 3.5 hours or so. I have no idea where that time went, it was like playing Civ5, whole days just vanish

. In game time, I almost made it to the second cycle of the moon around its planet, which I guess would be two "years" ?

I also spent another 30min after losing just watching the raiders ransack my colony. That was also fun, though a more bittersweet kind.

Quote from: Great Wyrm on October 12, 2013, 12:54:14 AM
I liked the format. I think it provided a good synopsis that showed a nice, understandable progression. Not a bad run, I'd say. At least it's a mistake you could learn from, right?

Definitely. I suspect my next playthrough will actually try to emulate the setup that killed me, but with me in the winning spot. About to dive in now, we'll see how it goes.

Lechai · October 12, 2013, 01:15:44 AM

Nice work, i enjoyed it immensely

Pheanox · October 12, 2013, 01:22:07 AM

That was a great format, loved the screenshots with bits of story thrown in. Hope to see more!

Semmy · October 12, 2013, 07:06:10 AM

Nice way of telling the story.
thanks alot m8

Spike · October 12, 2013, 01:31:59 PM

Nice story, and I do like the format. Plus it's nice to know that the raiders actually will destroy your walls to get to you.

Hypolite · October 12, 2013, 03:27:31 PM

Very good story, enjoyable format, rookie mistakes :p

Tynan · October 13, 2013, 12:10:38 AM

I'm glad you enjoyed the week-old building-trasher pirate AI

Bodog999 · January 28, 2014, 11:12:59 AM

Man you have some nice stories to tell you really need to do more of this.