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Greetings, Praises, and a game idea

9 years ago

Hello Everyone.

My name is Roy, and I've recently re-discovered Gamebooks and was ecstatic to have found this sweet and creative community, so I've picked up "The Order of the Midnight Sun" and am having a great time so far, and wanted to say "Hi!"

I've also checked out the editor, and I must say the developer did an excellent job at making it very easy to use and lowering the technical barrier for creative writers to be able to jump in and start writing, I was also very impressed by the decision to not expose all of the editor's features until a user is ready for them, all the features at once can be intimidating for new users, especially those without programming experience.

A long time fan of computer adventure games, I've been active in the Adventure Game Studio community a very long time ago, and have created one of the first "full-length" fully voiced adventure games in AGS at the time (which also won an award for the sound) and naturally I was thinking of creating a storygame of my own as well, maybe after I've played some more.

I've always been very interested in generative games, basically systems that generate their own content so every play is completely different, and I've had the idea of creating a murder mystery game on that basis, I wonder if I'll be able to achieve this using the advanced editor.

I'm also a developer by trade and have a lot of HTML\CSS\Javascript\jQuery experience so I might be able to use that to my advantage.

Anyway, nice to meet you all. wink

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9 years ago

Welcome, hombre! What the hell is your profile picture?

Also, anything you can do on this site, you can do on the advanced editor, including basic games. You should probably use thee advanced editor regardless of whether you're actually going to be doing much with it or not.

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9 years ago

It looks like it's a guy wearing a beer-mug shaped hat.

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9 years ago

That's my ugly mug, literally :)

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9 years ago

Ahh, visual word-play gags. Fun times.

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9 years ago

Welcome, hope you enjoy your stay, feel free to ask if you have questions.

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9 years ago

Thanks Kiel_Farren

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9 years ago
Welcome to CYS. Don't get raped.

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9 years ago

Welcome. Brush the dirt off your shoes and come in for a cup of hot chocolate. We like to molest children give you the warmest welcome possible! If you like warrior cats, then I shall terminate you.

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9 years ago
Damn. I just told the guy not to get raped. I didn't say anything about children.

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9 years ago

Welcome!  Can't wait to see what you come up with.

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9 years ago

'ello Roy! Order of the Midnight Sun is good. One of my favorites is Devils Fire.

The developer is Alex_p. Well, something that involved 'Alex' and 'p'. Can't remember if there's the dash in it and I'm too lazy to look it up. Well, you'll know you found him if on his profile, the point number says 'infinity'.

Check the parlor room forum for threads with recommendations on what story games to read.

You can do just about anything with the advanced editor. If you need help, ask nmelssx, the_quiller, berka_zerka, Kiel_farren, Bradindvorak, or maybe ford. I think I missed someone there, but those are all well known scripting/coding goddesses on the site - despite the fact that they're all male.

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9 years ago
I don't mind being a goddess xD

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9 years ago

Welcome. Steer clear of the Warrior cats (WC), and I guess you'll be fine.

Also, if you'd rather use HTML to chat, you can always go to My Stuff>>Profile, and uncheck Use Rich Text Editor.

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9 years ago

I second that. The Rich Text Editor is far more a hindrance than it is useful.

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9 years ago

I move to vote.

Yes, yes it is.

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9 years ago

Thanks everyone, nice to meet :)

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9 years ago

Welcome to CYS. Hope you enjoy your time here and don't be Ryder.

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9 years ago

I understand what that reference means now, saw on another thread

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9 years ago

Good for you. Now you know everything you need to survive on here.

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9 years ago
Except for Penguin's fetishes.

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9 years ago

Sandwich-In-Vag, foxgirl, angst... what else?

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9 years ago

Burgers.

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9 years ago
And I believe he has not been informed of the scum that is WC.

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9 years ago
Creature made a brief reference.

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9 years ago
True, true. Of course, there is no current explanation on WHY Creature hates WC.

I wonder who's gonna post it...

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9 years ago

Not sure if Creature is in any position to judge WC Fans considering he's the guy that posted child porn on here at one time.

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9 years ago
He is?

I only remember TSR (or some other troll, I'm like 60% hazy on who exactly it was) that posted cp around the place.

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9 years ago

Haha! Seriously? How long ago was this?

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Creature and TSR are the same person. It was some time early last year I think when he did that.

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9 years ago

I wasn't around then. What a knob.
 

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9 years ago
Sometimes I get the feeling that every single account on this site besides mine is being controlled by a single person.

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9 years ago

Take your meds James.

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9 years ago
Take your meds James.

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9 years ago
Take your meds James.

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9 years ago
Take your meds James.

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9 years ago
Okay, I know you really are an alt.

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9 years ago

Did you take the damn meds?

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9 years ago
No.

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9 years ago
Take your meds James.

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9 years ago

Take your meds James.

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9 years ago

Take your meds James. I doubt that one person could keep track of so many different personalities of the users in the forums.

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9 years ago
...is that a challenge?

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9 years ago
Et tù, TacocaT?

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9 years ago

Well, of course! Everyone else was doing it! (jk) I did strike it out though.

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9 years ago
You are aware that all of those, except for iqqih, were Ford alts, right?

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9 years ago

I could also be a Ford alt...

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9 years ago

Yep. XD I don't know why the admins let him keep them all.

Now, don't get started on the whole; 'if someone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?' analogy. XD I've done it. Quite fun.

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9 years ago
Personally, I would just walk to the edge of the cliff and start dropping heavy rocks to make sure the other person is really dead.

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9 years ago

But then it's a huge mess to clean up! No, what you do is you get into a bungee suit and shove the other person off the cliff before jumping off yourself. They hit the ground first, and then you grab them by the collar as you come back up and repeat the process until they are well and truly dead.

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9 years ago
No, no, no, you arrange for them to fall crotch first on a stalagmite.

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9 years ago

I haven't seen too many stalagmite's at cliff bases.

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9 years ago
It's a very adventurous stalagmite.

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9 years ago
I'd jump off a cliff if all the rest of me did it

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9 years ago
Why shouldn't I be able to keep them all?

God dammit my first actual double post that I didn't mean to do :L

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9 years ago

Take your meds James.

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9 years ago

Take your meds james.

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9 years ago
:o I had no idea...but I didn't really care because creature just kinda randomly shitposts every now and then with no significant influence... what a plot twist!

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9 years ago

Welcome to the site, nice to meet you! I'm looking forward to reading your stories. 

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9 years ago

We should point out that we have been having problems with a certain fandom. Fans of Warrior Cats have a tendency of coming here and making lots and lots of games. The problem, however, is the fact that these games are often poorly made and there is little variance between the games. There are currently 35+ Warrior Cats stories in fan-fiction and possibly more in other categories. This is a very large number, three times greater than the number of Star Wars fanfics.

The problem isn't as bad as it was a few weeks back, but there hasn't been a formal resolution to it, yet.

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9 years ago

You do realise that by linking to that site, you're actually sending CYS higher up the Google WC charts, don't you? :P

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9 years ago
No, I did not. If you had PMed me, I could've removed my hyperlink, if that would've made any difference.

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9 years ago

Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't aware of that series of books, don't seem to be gamebooks from what I've seen at the site.

Still, I suppose it's good that so many people contribute stories to the community, maybe 1 in 10 Catbooks will be good :)

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9 years ago
The actual Warrior Cats books are static fiction. But, there are plenty of WC fans on this site who attempt to put their favorite stories in game book form. In a lot of those story-games, though, your only choice is whether to be a "tom" or a "she-cat". What's worse, the authors of those games require you to verify your gender several times throughout the game, because they don't know how to use the advanced editor.

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9 years ago

Maybe these are special gender-bending cats

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9 years ago
Well, I mean, they can talk and form human-like, if primitive, societies, so it is a possibility.

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9 years ago
Welcome, enjoy your stay :D

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9 years ago

Thank you :)

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9 years ago
Hello and welcome!