I have a lot to think about

Actions speak louder than words however

I will try to be "less annoying/quiet" while I self reflect on what happened

But again...best course of action may be to just...leave for now...

We shall see though...

For whatever its worth

Even though its not worth much

I'm sorry to all I bothered...

Honest question...

Does anyone care to see my storygame?

Cause if not then I won't bother finishing it...

(not that it matters either way)

Would it have been better if instead of submitting my crappy story...I instead a few hours before the deadline said something like "Hey guys! Unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to finish my story on time. Best of luck to everyone else though!"?

Ok so I accepted my fate BUT...there's one small thing I want to correct...

There's one section of my "story" (After you deny the text and continue traversing the mall) where I made the stupid decision to copy the text to a word document and then replace the MC's name (Rebecca) with "you"...and nothing else! Case in point it makes that entire section completely unreadable.

Here's a link to the unedited Google Doc which keeps it in 3rd person.

It's not much...but it makes what I wrote actually half tolerable instead of literately unreadable!
 

Didn't the last Endmaster contest also only have 18 valid entries?!

I'm honestly surprised. Just like everyone else...I expected a bunch of actually completed stories to be sent in at the end instead of...well what actually happened.

Before now I actually wondered how so many people could mess up on sending a story at the end. Now I get it...it just takes one thing to go wrong to ruin things.

Part of why I was confident was cause I entered 2 Youtube contests before in the past...which I successfully scrambled something of worth on both occasions. I figured this would be no different. Boy was I wrong!

I cannot for the life of me imagine that if the dead links weren't there (which there are only 2 of them) that it would make any difference to be honest...

Everything else is fair though. (Though I hoped that I could off set my annoyance by not posting too much...but that's pretty subjective so I'll just leave that be... :/)

I am a f**king retard then.

When you put it like that its such a common sense thing that I should have saw coming. If I started experimenting with the editor more actively instead of just the last few days...this would not have happened. I would have shortened my story appropiately instead of constantly writing like an insane person.

RIP me...

P.S. Also...from what you can read in my story (its not much) a lot of my prose in my story is...not as messy as it is there. Specifically the Pterodactyl route and deny text route...the accept text route (where you get teleported to an alien planet) is more so a half average representation of what most of my story actually reads like...so critique on that part would be the most useful...

I only got shamed due to two reasons

1. What I already mentioned in my text

2. For some stupid reason I was solely focused on working on a secret path up to the last f**king hour! I hate this...

If I keep copypasting my text into editor right now and publish my game in a few hours...can I get just...half shamed?

Cause I do want people to see what I written. As I did spend over a month writing it...barely talked to anyone or did anything else that entire time...

Would be a waste if it couldn't be considered part of the contest at least in spirit due to a stupid fuck up on my part...

Basically what I'm asking is...does anyone care to see what I typed if I promise not to add any new text? Or would people rather I COMPLETELY finish what I have written more properly?

P.S. I'm at least glad I got an customize your stats screen to properly work in just a few hours after reading the help pages on here...so you can check that out if you like!

I published my game right before the deadline!

Its unfinished cause I SEVERLY underestimated how much time it actually takes to copypaste your text into the editor despite writing WELL OVER AT LEAST 100,000 WORDS! but whatever...

Enjoy my failure!

https://chooseyourstory.com/story/distant-past