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This feature was rejected 6/19/2012: JJJ can add these now; we will eventually have a better storygame search, promise :-)

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14 years ago

I know this will probably never happen, but do you guys think there should be some new tags for the story games? I think one should be random, for those humor games that revolve purely around having random choices. Even though they are tagged for humor, I noticed some people getting mad in the comment based on how there is no point.

If anyone else has any other ideas for new tags, feel free to add.

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14 years ago
This kind of thing -could- actually happen, because JJJ can make them! He made 'Geared for Extremists' recently, and I think a few others.

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14 years ago
Random could be a good tag, anyone else have any opinion on it?

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14 years ago

There are alot of stories it would apply to, I have no objection to it. I can't think of any negatives to adding it, accept that you would hear an awfull lot of people saying, "3J this needs the random tag", because of all the stories that were written before it was added.

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14 years ago
If someone can compile right now, a complete list of all storygames that need it (for points), then I'll do it :)

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14 years ago

though i considerd spending all night, looking through story games, for only the perpouse of picking out the random ones, ive decided against it. Here is a small list though, to help out the guy who actually goes through with it.

Modern Adventure > The Midnight Monster
Fantasy Adventure > The Labyrinth of Monyx (also may belong in puzzle section)
Horror > The Midnight Monster 2 (also needs humor tag)
Horror > It Was a Dark and Creepy Night
 
People often mention that something is their first story game, could that be a tag?
 
 

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14 years ago
Pretty much anything by JDog belongs in that category.

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14 years ago

Thats a long list of its own. jdog wrote alot of stories.

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14 years ago

Yes but all of them were really random.

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14 years ago

wasnt arguing with you in that, actually quite the opposite, i was saying that it was a good find.

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14 years ago

ugh, look through modern adventure, I waded through a whole lot of random games when I was trying to read them all lol.

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14 years ago
Most of the stories that are random are done by the same authors.

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14 years ago

Deven711

all his games accept the quiz.

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14 years ago

post that as a link, not as a big word in bold, lol

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14 years ago
sorry here we go.

http://chooseyourstory.com/member/?Username=JDog

http://chooseyourstory.com/member/?Username=Deven711

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14 years ago

AH! you beat me to it, i had just copied those links, good job.

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14 years ago

Don't forget Moony!

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14 years ago
I like Ugilick's idea for "First Storygame" as a tag but I don't think we'll implement simply on the basis that I doubt anyone would ever feel like searching for only first storygames. Whereas it's conceivable that someone might want to search "part of series" to find a series of stories to read or search RPG to read an RPG.

Random is borderline and if someone will e-mail me a fairly complete list, I'll implement it. I went through all of the storygames once to tag and I'm not intent on doing it again. Point reward of course.

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14 years ago

i would do that before publishing mine, just to see where mine sits in comparison to other peoples first go. other than that i cant think of any reason to have that tag.

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14 years ago
But I think that I don't necessarily want to promote that attitude, I'd rather people looked at what a good story is and measure against that!

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14 years ago

hmm, true, i cant argue with that.

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14 years ago
JJJ... you're silly. lol.

You're against having a "First story game" tag, but FOR having a "First story game" category, or icon beside it like featured stories. At first I thought that this was just 2011 JJJ having different opinions from what 2005 JJJ thought. But you actually posted on the other topic just less than 2 months before here.



Compare:

"I doubt anyone would ever feel like searching for only first storygames. " -current JJJ

"You should have a catagory for First games ... so we can compare which are the best" -old JJJ

See? Silly.

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14 years ago
My god. This site is messed up.

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14 years ago
Whatever you do, don't try to reply directly to the above post. I forgot to close a link script, and it goes really screwy... Also, the forum post I tried to link to didn't show up so I'll do it again. First Games

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14 years ago

how did you cause that weird link error?

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14 years ago
I forgot to close a tag.

It actually used to continue through the entire page, because this site is weird. All posts below it (and all buttons, and all links, including the 'Who is Online' links and reply buttons, everything!) was turned into a link to that page. If you try to reply directly to that post, you'll see what I mean. I'm gonna make a bug post about this... Craziness.

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14 years ago
I like both those tag ideas. I'll see if I can get a complete list. I've recently got a lot of free time on my hands, but don't let that stop anyone else from trying it. I can sometimes be slow at these things.

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14 years ago

well, we already have a decent sized list prepaired for you. best of luck.

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14 years ago
So is JJJ being a hypocrite? Also if this has been approved why was it not created?

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14 years ago

No he is not, and dont ask silly questions. use your brain for a minute. ;)

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14 years ago

And your eyes, your eyes help a lot.

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14 years ago
That wasn't up when I looked at it.

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14 years ago

Ya it just freaking materialized.

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14 years ago
Hits head on desk in shame.

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14 years ago
I'm not saying that JJJ is a hypocrite at ALL. I just thought it was funny, mainly because he said nobody would want to search for first story games, but apparently he did in 2005. Its kind of like, just because something is presented to you in a different light, it makes you change your opinion on it completely.

Also, a lot of things are approved and not created on this site. We've seriously been over this.

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14 years ago

Like what I like to say, It's not what you say, its how you say it. (responding to your different light part.

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14 years ago

Well when you put it that way... lol

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14 years ago
I really only thought of tags for searching but I guess since we have a demo tag, they are also for identification. Good point, I support this.

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14 years ago

Wait, has anyone actually sent a list to 3J yet? I didn't see an approved or rejected thingy at the top of the page, so I'm assuming they didn't. I'm willing to make a list if I have to, but it would take a while.

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14 years ago
A couple people started one, including myself, but no one ever finished one as far as I can tell. It would be awesome if you could.

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14 years ago
I am about a qauter of the way through my list.

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14 years ago

Well everyone just message me what you have and I'll combine them and check all the ones not listed for randomness.

No reason to check what's already been checked, right? I'll start when I get Cool and Ugi's, seeing as Zikara hasn't been on that recently.

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14 years ago
Mine is posted further up, i didnt get very far. haha

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13 years ago

Even with SindriV's help, I had a difficult time selecting a tag for my story. It's not completely humorous nor is it all serious, so I thought not to include either. It isn't "part of a series" yet, and not really about war - even though it has bombs in it. In a demo of my story, someone commented it had a "puzzle" so I went with that. Hope that's ok...

I couldn't find anything in the "Help and Info" articles on how to select tags so I was hoping I could get some help here. 

I would like to suggest new tags like: Action or Dramatic, or Fast-paced or Suspenseful; even Fun or Tragic. I don't know, I'm reaching here... am I grasping at straws? ... what does that mean...

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13 years ago
I think Tragedy would be a great tag.

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13 years ago

Would any story yet qualify as a tragedy?

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13 years ago

"Farewell My Childhood Self" comes to mind.

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13 years ago

Now that I think of it, "Snow" is probably a tragedy too.

Still, it's a relatively rare type of tag. Considering how you define tragedy that is. After all, the begining of OMS could justify it as being a tragedy. Though I'd be hard pressed to consider it a tragedy story.

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13 years ago

Maybe even "Death Song" could count as a tragedy.

Well either way, I agree it is kind of a rarity.

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13 years ago

Desperate Heart by Corinthian counts, I bet! There's, like, no happy ending! It's awesome! One of my two contradictory loves, in fact! (Three if you count Antithesis. Good Omens fanfiction.)

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13 years ago

Just to clarify, it's tons and tons of angst and tragedy and everybody dies that I love, not specifically Desperate Heart.

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13 years ago

I was thinking, how many stories on this site have multiple perspectives. Because I thought that could be a tag. Multiple Perspectives.