ParaBEN
A downloadable story for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
ParaBEN is a conceptual romance visual novel set in a hi-tech, solar-fueled future. It's about how the relationships of our past influence our present.
Ben is developing technology that helps patients and therapists. It accurately replicates a personality and its mannerisms using information fed into the algorithm. Ben's boyfriend, Jesper, offers his diaries and vlogs to help him test the technology. The wolf meets with a younger version of his ursine boyfriend, and learns much more than he intended about the struggles he faced in his youth...
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Conceptual Visual Novel by ~Eyematerror & HypoNova. Spritework by ~HypoNova. Assembly by ~MechaPenguin.
Created for the 2024 MAY WOLF Visual Novel Jam by ~WagleUnagi
Music Credits:
- Sense, by Kai Engel, www.freemusicarchive.org, License: Creative Commons License BY 4.0
- A Storm at Camp, by human gazpacho, www.freemusicarchive.org, Creative Commons License BY 4.0
- Love Around (ID 2093), by Lobo Loco, www.musikbrause.de, Creative Commons License by-nc-nd
- Melancholy Serenade, by UNIVERSFIELD, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/universfield/sad-music/melancholy-serenade/, Creative Commons License BY-SA 4.0;
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, Android |
Release date | May 31, 2024 |
Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (8 total ratings) |
Authors | eyematerror, HypoNova, mechapenguin |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | Adult, Fantasy, Furry, Gay, Romance, Sci-fi, Short, solarpunk |
Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
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Reading it feel like I could actually appease a bit my anxiety. Nice writing, nice art: good job!
I forgot to do this weeks ago but here is the Superlative Voting Form for anyone that is interested: https://forms.gle/gwZW4U4Dvgae4RWs8
Superlative Voting ends when the Jam Voting Ends.
Ok. This will be the fourth May Wolf vn I will read.
Ok. I just finished playing it. Here I will share my thoughts.
This is the first time I read a VN about some kind of psychological therapy (which puzzles me a bit since I can't tell whether Ben is a psychologist or more like a coach given how he sometimes gives commands to the bear). The concept of a futuristic, sustainably-fueled society sounds appealing (reminding me of some solarpunk furry vn I saw a while back on itch.io). You can tell it's a vn with fairly polished visuals given how little time they give you to make a May Wolf vn (an aspect that the vn shares with other entries like One More Light).
That's my thoughts of this vn so far. Thanks for the experience!
Interesting premise. Can't wait to see you have in store for this project, keep up the good work!