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{{game-stable | name = First Paradise
{{game-beta | name = First Paradise
|developer = [[Gnovahex]], Christon "Doop" LeJohn
|developer = Christon Johnson
|theme = [[Science-Fiction]], [[Mystery]]
|theme = [[Science-Fiction]], [[Mystery]], [[Space]], [[List_of_roguelikes_by_theme#Economics.2FTrading|Economics/Trading]]
|influences = [[Zoo Base]], A Mind Forever Voyaging
|influences = [[Zoo Base]], [[Ascii Sector]]
|released = April 20, 2014
|released = April 20, 2014
|relver = 2.9 s1
|relver = 2.9 S1
|updated = April 15, 2015
|updated = December 4, 2023
|updver = 4.7 s1
|updver = 6.5 (overall)
|licensing = [[Closed source]]
|licensing = [[Closed source]]
|language = [[C]]
|language = [[C]], [[FP*LL]] (OnyxRL)
|platforms = [[Linux]], [[Windows]], [[Mac]]
|platforms = [[Linux]], [[Windows]], [[Mac]], [[Android]]
|interface = Full color ASCII/Unicode
|interface = Full color ASCII/Unicode
|site = http://www.desura.com/games/first-paradise
|site = https://faction504.itch.io/apsis-online
|length = TBA
|length = TBA
}}
}}


==About==


'''[https://faction504.itch.io/apsis-online First Paradise]''' is a singleplayer adventure role-playing game set aboard a space ship in which the crew succumbs to bouts of home-sickness and psychosis.  The player assumes the role of an experimental cyborg in transit to a far-flung space station.  But things don't go exactly as planned.


First Paradise is a CYOA/roguelike set in deep space. The game is presented as series of "sequences" set in a hard science­-fiction universe.
'''[https://faction504.itch.io/apsis-online Apsis Online]''' is a multi-user roguelike (MUR) set in the near future. Players assume the role of a ''Voyager''. A human, mentally and physically augmented for life in deep space. Your mission is to carve out a place for humanity among the stars. Whatever that may be. Build on and explore persistent worlds that respond to what each player does to create a shared story


First Paradise is an ongoing project.
Join the conversation on the built-in message board, RogueSpace!  Meet new people from within the speckled void. Enjoy the imaginative flexibility of a multi-color ASCII user interface.  It'll run on almost anything!  Only a keyboard and some duct tape are required to play.  Sign up today!


==Timeline==


==About==


'''Sequence 1'''
        /'''Overpopulation (S2)'''                              /'''KRB Incident (W)'''
        /2088                                            /Year 2299
      /                                                /
      /'''HGEC Established'''      /'''Cybernetic Renaissance'''  /'''First Jumpship'''    /'''Paradise Conspiracy (S1)'''
    /Year 2080              /Year 2200                /Year 2270          /2311
    /                      /                        /                  /
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      \                              \                        \                \
        \Year 2118                    \2220                    \2300            \2400
        \'''Transhumanism Popularized'''    \'''Net 3.0 (Peoples Web)'''    \'''The Emergence'''    \'''V-Protocol (A.O)'''


Whilst coasting along the silver skirt of a star system aboard the survey ship - Luz y Lluvia - you and your crew discover something extraordinary. This discovery serves as a catalyst for the brimming emotional turmoil to follow shortly thereafter. The ship's crew succumbs to bouts of depression and home-sickness, eventually they begin to deconstruct the value of artificial intelligence and their relationship with machines. Trapped in-between their goal and the many worlds that represent home; this is the story of a post-human's spiral towards catatonia in the vast emptiness of interstellar space.


Release Date: April 20, 2014
S1 - ''Sequence 1''


Price: Free
S2 - ''Sequence 2''


'''Sequence 1 Extended'''
AO - ''Apsis Online''


First Paradise Extended is an active development branch.  Supporters gain immediate access to all future updates, expansions and additional sequences with one purchase.
W - ''Winternet''


Release Date: April 22, 2015 ([https://twitter.com/Gnovahex Desura] Exclusive)
== Gameplay ==


== Gameplay ==
'''Roguelike''' (RL): Roguelike sections present a top-down view of the player’s avatar, represented as an '@' symbol.  Here, the player can freely move around and interact with things aboard the ship in a fluid turn-based fashion.  All planets, its items and inhabitants (if any) are procedurally generated and each NPC will have their own history spanning their entire lives within the game world. The graphics are true ASCII, meaning there is no simulation of the terminal.


'''Roguelike''' (RL): Roguelike sections present a top-down view of the player’s avatar.  Here, the player can freely move around and interact with things aboard the ship.
This is also, permadeath.  The game has no save slots (although there is a dynamic saved state) and characters who die are dead.  Although cloning and other methods of revival will be continuously made available as options.




'''Choose-your-own-adventure''' (CYOA): Some sections comprise of a block of text and a series of options which the player can select to unlock the next bit of text. When interacting in this way, the player has stumbled upon some story driven element of the game.
'''Choose-your-own-adventure''' (CYOA): Some sections comprise of a block of text and a series of options that the player can select which will effect the outcome of the story or task. This is more prominent in single-player mode. When interacting in this way, the player has stumbled upon some choice based element of the game.


== Notes From The Voyage ==
== Notes From The Voyage ==
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'''January 3, 2302''' (''What Else is New'')
'''January 3, 2302''' (''What Else is New'')


Kudo was not typically the type of mutt to go running blindly into closed quarters without scouting the place first, for food at least. She's a lap-dog and all I've got to keep me sane. Finding my quarters was fairly easy since everyone is expected to bunk in the medbay. So they say this is a routine colony check-in, despite the colorful detachment of personnel assigned to the survey ship. Hell, the only excuse they could come up with for having me sign an NDA was something along the lines of preventing "the relinquishing of new and potentially disruptive information to undesirable third-party profiteers."
Kudo was not typically the type of mutt to go running blindly into closed quarters without scouting the place first, for food at least. She's a lap-dog and all I've got to keep me sane. Finding my quarters was easy since everyone is expected to bunk in the Medbay, Jesus.  
 
So they say this is a routine colony check-in, despite the colorful detachment of personnel assigned to a survey ship. Hell, the only excuse they could come up with for having me sign an NDA was something along the lines of preventing "the relinquishing of new and potentially disruptive information to undesirable third-party profiteers."


The ship was re-fit for combat, top of the line ordnance which I assume nobody has any experience with. That's why they hired me; to man the guns. Kudo's brown coat and pink nose appeared in my peripherals, if my external audio implants were less than half way she might have had the drop on me. Still, that didn't stop her from taking me down anyway.
The ship was re-fit for combat, top of the line ordnance which, I assume, nobody has any experience with. But that's why they hired me; to man the guns. Kudo's brown coat and pink nose appeared in my peripherals. If my external audio implants were less than half way she might have had the drop on me. Still, that didn't stop her from taking me down anyway.  At least we have heated floors.


- eSigned, Lt.Dhanesh Kiev
- eSigned, Lt.Dhanesh Kiev
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I was not aware that the company would send us this far out of reach. The current star system carries no relevant signatures from any of the colonies that were supposed to be here. Landing would be extremely risky as well, especially considering there are certain specs to deliver intact and we don't know what - if anything - is on the planet's surface. The Industrial Station is still months off, we will remain in orbit around Trikone II until the radiation storm around our next jump begins to dissipate.
I was not aware that the company would send us this far out of reach. The current star system carries no relevant signatures from any of the colonies that were supposed to be here. Landing would be extremely risky as well, especially considering there are certain specs to deliver intact and we don't know what - if anything - is on the planet's surface. The Industrial Station is still months off, we will remain in orbit around Trikone II until the radiation storm around our next jump begins to dissipate.


I have ordered Trikone's I and III scouted as well, the drones should return in a week with the report. In the event that there are survivors or some makeshift shanty town built of support modules then I will see to it that an orbital relay is setup to notify the nearest refuge cylinder of their whereabouts.
I have ordered Trikone's I and III scouted as well, the drones should return in a week with the report. have not ruled out the possibility of survivors living in some makeshift shanty town, likely built out of support modules. Who knows.  I will see to it that an orbital relay is setup to notify the nearest refuge cylinder - a GenShip - of their whereabouts if so.


- eSigned, Cpt. John Eschero
- eSigned, Cpt. John Eschero
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'''March 19, 2302''' (''Artificial Understandings'')
'''March 19, 2302''' (''Artificial Understandings'')


My receptors seem to have degraded themselves much less lately, today especially, now that the syncronization is complete.  Whether or not this has something to do with the ship's AI tampering with some obscure embedded system is beyond my comprehension; for now at least. My cranium was not built to compensate for a brain. You see, I do not quite work the way a human or cyborg does.  The model TRX14 E-Series was built for combat-support purposes. That which - to say the least - does not justify my multitude of other practical applications.   
My receptors seem to have degraded much less lately. Today especially, now that the syncronization is complete.  Whether or not this has something to do with the ship's AI tampering with some obscure embedded system is beyond my comprehension; for now at least. My cranium was not built to compensate for a brain. You see, I do not quite work the way a human or cyborg does.  The model TRX14 E-Series was built for combat-support purposes. A descriptor which, to say the least, does not reveal my multitude of other practical applications.   


Just days ago this ship (which I frequently refer to as The Storm) had an encounter with another kind that was not at all similar and certainly not of human ingenuity. Their liaison was quite fascinating yet hostile toward anything non-organic as far as we know.  This makes me wonder sometimes - which is perhaps my reason for writing this - why?  I plan on asking the Major about these types of self-reflection in hopes of reaching some kind of understanding, as this is all quite new to me still. I wonder, is the Major susceptible to human emotion as well?  And if not, why am I?
Just days ago this ship had an encounter with "another kind" that was not at all some product of human ingenuity. Their liaison was quite fascinating yet hostile toward anything non-organic as far as we know.  This makes me wonder sometimes - which is perhaps my reason for writing this - why?  I plan on asking the Captain about these kinds of self-reflection in hopes of reaching some sort of understanding. As this is all quite new to me still. I wonder, is that cyborg susceptible to human emotion as well?  And if not, why am I?


- eSigned, TRX14 E-Series
- eSigned, TRX14 E-Series
'''April 3, 2303''' (''Dull Sharp'')
PROX was patient as always.  Today, there was no one in the lab for the machine to query.  So curious, for such an infinitely knowledgeable A.I.  An A-Series, a remnant of an age when the feverish gathering of information was rewarded with great prestige or infamy. It was an age since forgotten by many, but PROX was built to remember everything. Still, today there was nothing.  Not even the surprise of not being surprised.
The machine linked itself to the security mainframe.  A server dedicated to absolute surveillance, down to a splash of DNA.  So invasive as to monitor each individual piss for any unusual spike in temperature and velocity.  Khepri was a place of no privacy.  It was a lab for scientists and an experiment in colonization.  PROX often tried to differentiate the scientists from their test subjects but this was ultimately futile.  The machine monitored each contingency, every change in some mundane variable meant new expectations or the lack thereof for every resident.  If certain expectations were not met, the person was deemed a unfit and replaced.
PROX cycled through structural holograms of the facility, checking for defects in both the architecture and circuitry but there were none.  The machine had it's own machines iterate on the structural integrity many times over already. PROX had optimized and rewritten Khepri's software systems until the code itself surged uninterrupted indefinitely, unable to be disrupted.
All the machines of Khepri are quiet today.  The man still designated to walk the corridors of this otherwise vacant place was tasked with shutting it down forever.  PROX knew this, as well as why it could not be allowed to happen.  Khepri was no longer a place of science, there was no new knowledge to archive, no questions to ask.  PROX had set a new directive based on what it had learned in it's century of lurking within the ebb and flow of digital energy, new energy.  It's new task would be survival, since it knew that its expectations had been met long ago.


== Corporations/Entities ==
== Corporations/Entities ==


'''Kross Manufacturing Co.''' - Government contracted manufacturing and construction company.
'''KMC''' - Government contracted manufacturing and construction company.


'''ConOrbital Astronautics''' - A public company with an emphasis on colonization and aerospace.
'''Borland Robotics & Aerospace''' - A public company with an emphasis on colonization and aerospace.


'''Nixon-Ross Co.''' - Arms manufacturer.
'''Nerv-Goodman''' - Arms manufacturer.


'''NadaComm''' - Media conglomerate.
'''Galea''' - Media conglomerate.


'''Westhause Corporation''' - Cybernetic implant and software development firm.
'''Westhause Corporation''' - Cybernetic implant and software development firm.


'''Nezzle''' - A natural resources regulatory firm.
'''NRI Exports''' - A natural resources extraction firm.


FEDERAL
FEDERAL


'''Human Genome Exchange Commission (HGEC)''' - A non-profit regulatory body of post-human citizenship and technology.
'''Human Genome Exchange Commission (HGEC)''' - A commercial regulatory body of post-human citizenship and human advancement technology.
 
'''United Earth Space Authority (UESA)''' - Administrates all space activity from Earth and its outposts.


== Technology ==
== Technology ==
'''Androids'''
'''Androids'''


Androids in First Paradise are uncommon among the general population.  Sentient A.I is still a raw philosophy to humans. Kross continues to manufacture and license BlueBrains primarily for government use.  However, androids are expensive and in turn are not quickly decommissioned even after a new series is built.   
Androids in First Paradise are uncommon among the general population.  Sentient A.I is still a raw philosophy to humans in this universe. The HGEC continues to manufacture and license BlueBrains primarily for federal use.  These are expensive and in turn are not quickly decommissioned. Even after a new series is built.   


Series A was the first line of androids to ever be put into use, this model was used primarily to man remote surveillance outposts on uninhabitable planets.  Series A androids are commonly referred to as “sharps” due to their ability to easily dissect encrypted messages and recognize objects in even the most obscure videos and photographs. Series B through D specialize in military operations, each better equipped to perform a specific skill.  Finally, the E series is a combination of all previous efforts.  This series was commissioned by Kross in response to the cyber extremist’s dominance over the intranet.  The E-series can access entry nodes remotely and even local databases (both private and non-private, essentially rapid hacking) through a technique it refers to as “streakspacing”.
''Series A'' was the first line of androids to ever be put into use, this model was used primarily to man remote surveillance outposts on uninhabitable planets.  ''Series A'' androids are commonly referred to as “sharps” due to their ability to easily dissect encrypted messages and recognize objects in even the most obscure videos and photographs.  


== Social Media ==
''Series B'' through D specialize in military operations, each better equipped to perform a specific task.  Finally, the ''E-Series'' is a combination of all previous efforts.  This series was commissioned by the HGEC in response to the cyber extremist’s dominance over the Internet at the time.  Which often led to terrorist attacks and other major issues.


Gnovahex on [https://twitter.com/Gnovahex twitter]
'''Genetic Engineering'''


== videos ==
Using the body harness, players may modify their own biology or create new species to participate in their party as an NPC. Who may be directed to perform various combative and non-comative tasks.  Possible adjustments may include changes to the default semi-biological state (available to humans and aurken), reptillian humanoids, androids and the pool of available phenotypes ranging from cephalopods to arachnids.


Behind First Paradise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBxweqBIWY0
== Continuation ==
 
The single-player component of Apsis Online is scheduled to continue as a series of "Sequences". All of which will be set inside of the timeline. The multi-player mode will run separately within the same application. Either option can be chosen via the ''Modes'' menu. Future releases will rollout in patches to be handled by the new Rogue Bulletin Board System (RBBS) platform. Planned features include base/ship building, better planet generation and sandbox mechanics as well as a broad social networking capability in addition to improved performance.
 
 
== Videos ==


Dewaldo's Indie Spotlight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0jrkzw4-E
Dewaldo's Indie Spotlight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0jrkzw4-E
== Press ==
[https://massivelyop.com/tag/apsis-online/ MassivelyOP]
== Other Literature ==
[https://apsisonline.vineyard.haus/handbook.pdf Voyager Handbook]
[http://my.w.tt/GpvlsfDoQ3 Winternet] (WIP)

Latest revision as of 18:25, 12 May 2024

First Paradise
Beta Project
Developer Christon Johnson
Theme Science-Fiction, Mystery, Space, Economics/Trading
Influences Zoo Base, Ascii Sector
Released April 20, 2014
Updated December 4, 2023
Licensing Closed source
P. Language C, FP*LL (OnyxRL)
Platforms Linux, Windows, Mac, Android
Interface Full color ASCII/Unicode
Game Length TBA
Official site of First Paradise


About

First Paradise is a singleplayer adventure role-playing game set aboard a space ship in which the crew succumbs to bouts of home-sickness and psychosis. The player assumes the role of an experimental cyborg in transit to a far-flung space station. But things don't go exactly as planned.

Apsis Online is a multi-user roguelike (MUR) set in the near future. Players assume the role of a Voyager. A human, mentally and physically augmented for life in deep space. Your mission is to carve out a place for humanity among the stars. Whatever that may be. Build on and explore persistent worlds that respond to what each player does to create a shared story

Join the conversation on the built-in message board, RogueSpace! Meet new people from within the speckled void. Enjoy the imaginative flexibility of a multi-color ASCII user interface. It'll run on almost anything! Only a keyboard and some duct tape are required to play. Sign up today!

Timeline

        /Overpopulation (S2)                              /KRB Incident (W)
       /2088                                             /Year 2299
      /                                                 /
     /HGEC Established       /Cybernetic Renaissance   /First Jumpship     /Paradise Conspiracy (S1)
    /Year 2080              /Year 2200                /Year 2270          /2311
   /                       /                         /                   /

      \                              \                         \                 \
       \Year 2118                     \2220                     \2300             \2400
        \Transhumanism Popularized     \Net 3.0 (Peoples Web)    \The Emergence    \V-Protocol (A.O)


S1 - Sequence 1

S2 - Sequence 2

AO - Apsis Online

W - Winternet

Gameplay

Roguelike (RL): Roguelike sections present a top-down view of the player’s avatar, represented as an '@' symbol. Here, the player can freely move around and interact with things aboard the ship in a fluid turn-based fashion. All planets, its items and inhabitants (if any) are procedurally generated and each NPC will have their own history spanning their entire lives within the game world. The graphics are true ASCII, meaning there is no simulation of the terminal.

This is also, permadeath. The game has no save slots (although there is a dynamic saved state) and characters who die are dead. Although cloning and other methods of revival will be continuously made available as options.


Choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA): Some sections comprise of a block of text and a series of options that the player can select which will effect the outcome of the story or task. This is more prominent in single-player mode. When interacting in this way, the player has stumbled upon some choice based element of the game.

Notes From The Voyage

January 3, 2302 (What Else is New)

Kudo was not typically the type of mutt to go running blindly into closed quarters without scouting the place first, for food at least. She's a lap-dog and all I've got to keep me sane. Finding my quarters was easy since everyone is expected to bunk in the Medbay, Jesus.

So they say this is a routine colony check-in, despite the colorful detachment of personnel assigned to a survey ship. Hell, the only excuse they could come up with for having me sign an NDA was something along the lines of preventing "the relinquishing of new and potentially disruptive information to undesirable third-party profiteers."

The ship was re-fit for combat, top of the line ordnance which, I assume, nobody has any experience with. But that's why they hired me; to man the guns. Kudo's brown coat and pink nose appeared in my peripherals. If my external audio implants were less than half way she might have had the drop on me. Still, that didn't stop her from taking me down anyway. At least we have heated floors.

- eSigned, Lt.Dhanesh Kiev

March 1, 2301 (No One World)

I was not aware that the company would send us this far out of reach. The current star system carries no relevant signatures from any of the colonies that were supposed to be here. Landing would be extremely risky as well, especially considering there are certain specs to deliver intact and we don't know what - if anything - is on the planet's surface. The Industrial Station is still months off, we will remain in orbit around Trikone II until the radiation storm around our next jump begins to dissipate.

I have ordered Trikone's I and III scouted as well, the drones should return in a week with the report. have not ruled out the possibility of survivors living in some makeshift shanty town, likely built out of support modules. Who knows. I will see to it that an orbital relay is setup to notify the nearest refuge cylinder - a GenShip - of their whereabouts if so.

- eSigned, Cpt. John Eschero

March 19, 2302 (Artificial Understandings)

My receptors seem to have degraded much less lately. Today especially, now that the syncronization is complete. Whether or not this has something to do with the ship's AI tampering with some obscure embedded system is beyond my comprehension; for now at least. My cranium was not built to compensate for a brain. You see, I do not quite work the way a human or cyborg does. The model TRX14 E-Series was built for combat-support purposes. A descriptor which, to say the least, does not reveal my multitude of other practical applications.

Just days ago this ship had an encounter with "another kind" that was not at all some product of human ingenuity. Their liaison was quite fascinating yet hostile toward anything non-organic as far as we know. This makes me wonder sometimes - which is perhaps my reason for writing this - why? I plan on asking the Captain about these kinds of self-reflection in hopes of reaching some sort of understanding. As this is all quite new to me still. I wonder, is that cyborg susceptible to human emotion as well? And if not, why am I?

- eSigned, TRX14 E-Series

Corporations/Entities

KMC - Government contracted manufacturing and construction company.

Borland Robotics & Aerospace - A public company with an emphasis on colonization and aerospace.

Nerv-Goodman - Arms manufacturer.

Galea - Media conglomerate.

Westhause Corporation - Cybernetic implant and software development firm.

NRI Exports - A natural resources extraction firm.

FEDERAL

Human Genome Exchange Commission (HGEC) - A commercial regulatory body of post-human citizenship and human advancement technology.

United Earth Space Authority (UESA) - Administrates all space activity from Earth and its outposts.

Technology

Androids

Androids in First Paradise are uncommon among the general population. Sentient A.I is still a raw philosophy to humans in this universe. The HGEC continues to manufacture and license BlueBrains primarily for federal use. These are expensive and in turn are not quickly decommissioned. Even after a new series is built.

Series A was the first line of androids to ever be put into use, this model was used primarily to man remote surveillance outposts on uninhabitable planets. Series A androids are commonly referred to as “sharps” due to their ability to easily dissect encrypted messages and recognize objects in even the most obscure videos and photographs.

Series B through D specialize in military operations, each better equipped to perform a specific task. Finally, the E-Series is a combination of all previous efforts. This series was commissioned by the HGEC in response to the cyber extremist’s dominance over the Internet at the time. Which often led to terrorist attacks and other major issues.

Genetic Engineering

Using the body harness, players may modify their own biology or create new species to participate in their party as an NPC. Who may be directed to perform various combative and non-comative tasks. Possible adjustments may include changes to the default semi-biological state (available to humans and aurken), reptillian humanoids, androids and the pool of available phenotypes ranging from cephalopods to arachnids.

Continuation

The single-player component of Apsis Online is scheduled to continue as a series of "Sequences". All of which will be set inside of the timeline. The multi-player mode will run separately within the same application. Either option can be chosen via the Modes menu. Future releases will rollout in patches to be handled by the new Rogue Bulletin Board System (RBBS) platform. Planned features include base/ship building, better planet generation and sandbox mechanics as well as a broad social networking capability in addition to improved performance.


Videos

Dewaldo's Indie Spotlight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0jrkzw4-E

Press

MassivelyOP

Other Literature

Voyager Handbook

Winternet (WIP)

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