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Okay, so I've been thinking about the first game I made on this site, "Ghost: A Wandering Soul". It was a game where you played as a ghost who had to figure out how he died while trying to keep from fading into oblivion. I have seen that several people have played and liked the game; I have also had someone tell me that I should try to rewrite it. What do you guys think? I would make some major tweaks of course, and this probably won't be any time soon, but I still want to know what you guys think I should do.

It was my first game on this site...and it wasn't very well written. Still, some people have shown interest in the concept, and I believe that at least one person asked me to redo it.

Did you delete it or something? Can't see it in your points. It says 'create game' but theres no link to it.

Yes, I deleted it quite a while ago for reasons I'd rather not get into. I thought I was going to be leaving the site permanently, but I kept coming back for some, odd reason.

Okay. Anyway, it sounds cool.

Yeah, @Reverencia even mentions it on his profile page as a personal favorite. So, I'm trying to get everyone's feedback to see if a rewrite would be well received...or just another waste of time.

If you put effort into it,it won't be a waste of time. Even if it were to be bad (which I doubt it will be), you will learn more from mistakes then you would from success.

*Her :P

I didn't even realize it was unpublished. Seriously, when did that happen? D: .... But yeah, the game did stand out to me and I liked the concept. If you think you can improve what you already had, then by all means go for it.

Oh, sorry. I assumed you were male. I don't know why I always do that.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to improve, aside from lengthening a few paths and snubbing one or two others. My main problems in writing the game are that I really don't what people want to see and I suck at writing modern fiction.

That's why I'm trying to guage what people liked and disliked to see what I should do.

Well, as you've already said above, you can improve grammar and spelling mistakes that you might've made. And you could always add small, subtle interactions between the main and side characters / add more to the lonely atmosphere that a "wandering soul" would have. Ambiguity would work well too. Personally, that's what I would enjoy. :P You can always ask people for advice once you've written a decent amount. Hopefully you've got a back-up of what you wrote before?

Sadly, I don't have a backup. I completely deleted all of my games, because I was under the assumption that I would never come back here. I can remember most of what I wrote, though.

How many story games did have before you deleted them?

Only 2 or 3. One of them was going to be my magnum opus. Nmelssx and I put a crapton of effort into that game, and I still feel like s**t for deleting it.

Oh, okay. Advice for the future (though I think you've already figure this out), don't delete games.  

Hey, I don't like them cluttering up my pretty "my storygames" box. :)

True. It get's annoying when I click on the wrong storygame.

I actually have one or two test storygames I've been meaning to delete, but every time I try to delete them, I remember all the effort I put into creating them.

Same here. I turned one of my mess ups into a testing thing for scripting and variables though.

D: That sucks. If you do decide to write the story, save what you write on a word document. You know, just in case. Either way its good for jotting down ideas if you aren't sure what to do next.

Okay, thanks.

If you do decide to write the story, save what you write on a word Google document. You know, just in case your computer implodes.

Fixed that for you. ;P

Or do the Word doc thing, but Dropbox it. That works too.

Yeah, lost a lot of work saved on word when my computer died. (like 21 pages from a story I was working on, and 62 on another)

Aw man. My sympathies. I lost some stuff when mine died a while back, but nothing that I was actively working on.

Dropbox is pretty awesome, FYI. Especially if you're switching back and forth between multiple computers.
 

Dropbox?

Dropbox!

Basically, once you've set it up (which is easy), you have a Dropbox folder on your computer. Anything in your Dropbox folder lives on your computer like a normal file, but also on Dropbox's servers. If you set up Dropbox on two computers, your files are on both of them, and Dropbox keeps track of when they change. Update a file on Computer A, and Computer B will have the updated file a couple minutes later. Also, you can go onto the Dropbox website any time, and find all the previous versions of all your files.

At this point, if my hard drive died again, I'd pop in a new one, set up Dropbox, and have lost nothing. Like I said, it's awesome. ^_^

That sounds awesome, except I don't have my own computer anymore.

Aw man, that sucks. Well, if you're hopping around on different computers that you can't install stuff on, Google docs is probably the way to go for writing.

Yep, and I even have my own account. Also, do you know how to make an account? I was going to make a different one for me since the one I'm using was created by my school. Once I'm no longer in the school system, they will delete my account and I will lose my stuff, though that won't happen for a couple years. I was hoping to make my own and switch everything important to the new one.

Okay, thanks!

XD Yeah, that too. Whichever you prefer.

To answer your question... if you like the idea and want to rework it, go for it! I think it definitely has potential. But if you're just considering it because somebody else said you should, I'd say you should work on something that you actually find compelling instead.

I also agree that you should go for it. The concept sounds really interesting, and I'm confident you've improved in skill since you made it, so a rewrite would be an improvement on what sounds like an already good game. If you already have a framework laid out for you and a good idea of what to write, then the first step is already done.

It might even be a good thing to be rewriting it from scratch, because who knows, you might suddenly come across a great idea as you're rewriting it.

He's already going to have to re-write from scratch. (see above posts)

Yep, and I'm saying that it might not be a bad thing.

Oh, sorry, misread that. >.< And, yeah, I agree.

I thinks you should go for it.

It's good to improve your creations.