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I need help! I'm worried that my first will attract all the the negative attention to me.

Write a good first story game? :P

Ask people to take a look at it?   And what Aman said.

Try your best on it?

Go to the Writing Workshop thread and discuss your ideas there.  A snippet chapter might also be good to use as a base level for grading.

Do what I didn't take the time to make it. Had to edit that thing two times.

Don't worry. There's too much negative attention focused elsewhere.

Write the first story, have it be atleast ten-fifteen pages.

Publish it, get some advice on it.

THEN COMPLETELY REDO IT TO BE ATLEAST 100 PAGES.

Thats what I am doing.

I think it's helping my creative process atleast.

Publishing an Unfinished story will get you way lower Rating than the story deserves and tons of Negative Comments, that will likely kill any enthusiasm one has to actually finish it.

Never Publish an Unfinished Story - don't even Publish Stories in Small Chapters - unless you don't care about Ratings and Comments at all.

If one wants to show what they have done and get others to critique it, then Post the Story Link and let them go in and check it out through 'Sneak Peek' instead.

It isn't unfinished.

It is a smaller story.

:l

If you are going to call my advice terrible, either read all of it or don't comment about it.

Sorry that you took it personally (I'll edit out the first part as I can see how it is rather pointed), but the fact is that publishing 10 or so pages of a story that you intend to put 100 pages into later? - or publishing any short story for that matter, will get poor Ratings by comparison.

So it is not the best advice to give someone who is "worried that my first will attract all the the negative attention to me"...

I think its more of a "You need to know how you write, and how others view yours. Before making a huge writing"

You could just get someone to read it, but if your entire book you just wrote is complete crap, then you have to redo the entire book.

Now if it is just ten pages or so, then you can easily get help and work better in the future.

I think my method would maybe lead to a large amount of bad story games, but they could easily be remade in the future.

And thats ok, or atleast that is what I think, people need to /grow/ in a literary sense.

(I just realized 10 to 100 is a huge step, but I mean, you gotta go fast)

Better to rewrite a book than have the idea crushed and scrapped because it was not interesting or good enough.

Sees your 'method' is what every single bad author uses. Every good author does not do what you are saying. Don't publish incomplete works, you'll be bashed and you'll lose inspiration. Look at nigh all of the new games. Demos, updates, they all promise these stuff. None complete this

Hardly, there is no way you could seriously* write a story and have it draw bad attention. negative critism, yes, but hatred and disdain, never. No one expects Endmaster or 3J quality from a first story, only that you set a bench mark and improve over time (or at the very least remain consistent). 

*As long as you don't write idiotically like ArrowZworrA ("TE MOSTER EAT U FAC, U DED"), the story will be fine.

I want to read that, link?

All of ArrowZworrA's games were, thankfully, removed. (I believe so anyway, though ArrowZworrA got another account (ArrowZworrATwo) so expect more -_-) 

Yay!

Someone is worse than me

Don't worry to much about your first story since it's bound to get more negative attention than the later ones.

If you are planning on doing a big story I would recommend doing small ones first so your can publish them and get advice on what you need to work on.

(Totally not being a hypocrite here. >.>)

Alright, cheesecake... I know you've already received a lot of advice here, but...  here's mine:

1: Don't be pessimistic. Worrying is not going to help you write better. Besides, for all anyone knows, your first story could turn out great. It's happened before.  
2: Acknowledge that you are new, that you are making an effort, and that you will get better, so if your first story does suck... don't be too hard on yourself. Just don't give up and you can make a great one in the future.  
3: If you get criticism, relax. The people who constructively critique your work are trying to help you. The people who don't like your story are just giving their opinion. And if someone's just horribly rude to you when it's your first story game attempt... you gotta learn to ignore those kinds of people.
4: The major problems with new story games are, usually, as follows: "Too short" "Not enough of a description" "Spelling errors" "Grammar errors" and "Too linear"

... so, what solves all of these problems? Taking your time and putting real effort into your game. Put some love into it, give it depth, proof read it, play through it a couple times. If you care about what you're writing and take your time, it will show. Lastly, as always, I recommend letting someone beta read it before you post. I'm sure lots of people here would be willing, myself included.