Indie Game: Triangle Boy: Sliding Thru Shapeland Loredrops

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So this is my game concept for the real game I’m working on in Google Slides codenamed Triangle Boy’s Slides Adventure.

It’s about this triangle called Triangle Boy and his misadventures across the world after he discovers that a criminal organization called the Mophand Gang took videos of him in his house and is planning on releasing a feature film of him to embarrass him and make themselves look better. Eventually he gets involved with a peacekeeping organization called the Sevi Squad who are working to prevent a WWIII from occurring between the Mophands and their greatest enemies: the country of Dismembria. Triangle Boy has to work throughout the story and make choices that will lead to the best ending.

Please feel free to ask me any other questions about the lore or the characters on the prototype title screen! : )

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Here comes Percy Percyson! The main antagonist of Part One of Triangle Boy's slides adventure, he's part of the criminal organization known as the Mophand Gang, an ambiguously European crime syndicate known for their extensive theft, espionage, terrorism, illegal militia building, indoctrination, stealing, looting, thieving, and looting again. He's the head propogandist, meaning that he's responsible for creating and approving every poster, cartoon, and book that the Mophand Gang produces to help salvage their tanking public image.

His real passion, however, is theater and film. He frequently puts his films in the theater in Mop Angeles in the hope of winning a shiny award one day (due to the high amount of Mophand ideology in the films, they usually are disqualified from every awards show except the International Film Awards of Evil).

His flamboyant personality and Shakespearean tone of voice (no actually, he speaks in Victorian English. It's really annoying) often makes him but heads with the rest of the Mophand Gang, but he doesn't care. He's off to live his own life and make his own movies, including one of a certain Triangle living a peaceful life alone..

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Ah, the Mophand Gang. The (technically) first major faction in Triangle Boy, The Mophand Gang is an international criminal organization dedicated to stealing all of the money in the world for the benefit of their leader, Thomas Thomasson, the first Mophand (shown below). They worship him with almost a cult-like reverence for him and his Anarcho-Capitalist policies.

You may notice that most of his limbs are replaced with mops. Given that the Mophands’ main rivals are called the Dismembrians, I’ll let you fill in the blanks. The Dismembrians gave him “the business” sometime right after their establishment when Thomasson was sent in on behalf of his country to fight to take back the territory, where he was taken in as a POW. He was soon released where his poverty forced him to start a gang as well as a life of crime. Replacing one’s limbs with cybernetic mops then went on to become a staple of Mophand culture.

Anyway, the Mophands are dedicated to getting all of the money in the world by any means necessary (including but not limited to stealing, thieving, extortion, hustling, ransoming, threatening, brinkmanship, stealing, GTA, train robbery, bank robbery, stealing, and various other Shadow-the-Hedgehog-isms).

Because of their terrible self image among the international community, they need Percy Percyson (read about him above) to help bring their public perception back from the red. Luckily for the gang, Percy has just found his next target….

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The Socialist Kingdom of Dismembria is a major faction in my game Triangle Boy: Sliding Thru Shapeland. The Kingdom is governed through their Socialist Monarchy with HM Chimerus Thrawnbus III (shown below) as the head of state.

Thrawnbus III’s father, Thrawnbus II, was educated in Beyond Reality before he returned to Shapeland and ascended to the throne in 1993. He was an infamous tyrant who stole all the food in Dismembria and consolidated power to the federal government. When he died of a brain hemorrhage in 2001, Thrawnbus III took power and began to deradicalize the country.

Dismembria follows a unique branch of Socialism known as Chimerism, an offshoot of Dismembrian Socialism. Essentially in a Dismembrian system, the economy is divided into several different industries, which all work together to achieve a free society. Chimerism means that free market aspects such as a King and competitive wages are introduced into the environment, making Chimerism a chimera of different economic beliefs.

Following the guided principles of Chimerism, Dismembria’s economy is divided into 7 sectors within a singular massive city on each of Dismembria’s Seven Plateaus:

Agriculture (Second Peak City holds the world’s largest greenhouse)
Mining (Centered in Defrindom Town on the Third Peak; world’s largest Rhenium deposits found here)
Manufacturing (Only for domestic and chemical products; Military production is outsourced to the foreign Inomic Company)
Tourism and Culture (Fifth Peak City hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics, beating London for the bid)
General Services (Education, barbershops, medical services, etc)
Utility Services (Water, electricity, as well as emergency services).
Government (Includes military; Seventh Peak City is home of the Dismembrian King’s residence, Jar-Ne Palace)

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Dismembria was first founded within the Siberian Steppe as the People’s Republic of Dismembria in 1952 by several British, French, and Soviet Marxists who followed the Dismembrian Socialist principles outlined by Distano Paula. Three leaders took greater power above the rest and formed the first Dismembrian Triumvirate: Krykan Paula, Quicksilver Gray, and Chimerus Thrawnbus, with Krykan Paula as the General Chairman of the Dismembrian Chamber (basically the Prime Minister of Dismembria). In 1960, with a greater ambition for power, Chimerus Thrawnbus led Quicksilver Gray and other radicals in a coup against Paula and assassinated him. Thrawnbus then set up the Socialist Kingdom of Dismembria and became Thrawnbus I, establishing the Thrawnbus dynasty for years to come.

Dismembria during the People’s Republic years and the first two Kings was a very different Dismembria. During the Dismembrian War of Recognition from 1952-1954, the Soviet Union called upon their NATO rivals to dislodge the Dismembrians from their territory in a last ditch attempt to try and salvage their falling tensions during the Korean War. NATO sent operatives into Dismembria, including one Colonel Thomas Thomasson, who were soundly defeated by the Dismembrians and taken as POWs. Many were subjected to capital punishments and other unspeakable horrors, souring the international community’s views on Dismembria. Resentful of his treatment by Dismembrians during the war, Thomasson eventually formed the Mophand Gang after he was released during a prisoner exchange but was not given any assistance when adjusting to civilian life, turning him to crime. NATO’s failure to contain the Dismembrian threat soured relations even more, causing greater tension during the Cold War (the Soviet Union eventually became an ally of the Dismembrian enclave until its dissolution in 1989). Dismembria kept up its cruel and unusual punishment program until its dissolution by Thrawnbus III in an attempt to improve his country’s public image.
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Modern Dismembria has an astoundingly high standard of living for a Socialist country (think of it like a Marxist Singapore). Employment among all able individuals is reported to be very high (reaching 100%). Dismembria’s export economy of raw materials and manufactured goods are also quite notable. Much of this money is funneled back into public works and given to the Inomic Company for generous military contracts

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Little do most know that Dismembria’s high investment into the military serves to protect the country as well as Shapeland from any potential threats from Beyond Reality should they return to wreak havoc on Shapeland once more…

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This bears the appearance of that Bugo almost....