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Don't need help with my first game, just saying hi.

How about a poll?
Do you prefer serious or silly narrators? explain if possible.

Halfway through my story I decided to rewrite my pages in a silly tone because it i more me, but personally I dont like playing silly stories on this site.

EndMaster is a kinda silly narrator in his own way.  His rating for Love SICK tells volumes of how funny it really is.

Lovely to meet you, and good luck.

Honestly, I think dark humor is the way to go.

Welcome to this site!

While I don't have a actual favorite, I am writing a story with a silly narrator now.

Check my first game. :P If you do, you'll see that I believe a good story has a mix of both. Giving the player a few fun, comical scenes keeps things from getting too heavy and causing people to lose interest, but you can't be silly all the time, or people won't get invested. It's not easy to strike a balance, but I try, unless a story is meant to be a straight up tragedy or comedy.

I saw that. 0.o I thought you were trying to beat T.O.W, but cool. That reminds me, though. I meant to address your comment: 

You read way too much into the Coyote god's character. He, as an entity, is not strictly a benevolent god. Sure, he'll help people that please him, but I never said that he only helps good people. I also never called him a devourer of evil spirits. If you'll notice, he helps directly in a battle precisely once, and that was because he "hates cats." (As far as you know.) He gives you an amulet that contains a kind of benevolent power once you've passed his tests and lets you do whatever you want with it. Truthfully, though, he could go either way, and he likes individual people, not causes. (For instance: He does precisely nothing to help Jace / Kyra, or Layne.) 

Also, I never said who put it there or why, but it's entirely possible she intended to harness its power. @jamescoker1226

Eh, the coyote is usually a god of chaos or a trickster god, but in GOLAD, he's referred to as the god of the game. :P The game itself doesn't ... really favor good or evil, does it? ... Ah. Um. I'm confused, then. What ending -did- you get? o.0

Yeah, that's what I meant ... wait ... gay? xD Really? Do you mean lesbian or were you both dudes? Not judging, just curious and mildly surprised.

(I like being fair to whatever potential readers are / are into, which is why I shoot for diversity when I can, but I'm always curious as to who on the site that ability appeals to, I guess. Not really sure who I would expect to pick it or anything, I just find it surprising when people actually do.)

xD ... "Nikki" can either be "Nicholas" or "Nicole", man. That's why I picked a gender neutral nickname. It all depends on how you respond to Darren / Selene in Satorius. If you show interest in one of them, Nikki's gender will match theirs. Alternatively, if you choose to be platonic with one of them, Nikki takes on the opposite gender instead. I was going to just make Nikki's gender opposite of yours, but after making multiple pairings possible in GOLAD, it felt a tad lazy of me.

:P I thought about adding scripting in the game to say "Nikki's heritage AND your gender" but at the time, it was way too much trouble and I was in a pretty big hurry. "Going so far as"? Hm. I thought I implied that it was the only thing you guys tried. Besides, haven't you ever played "Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court"? They totally do that. Except it works.   

(I actually lazily added in the bit about magic just to try and justify the fact that you two even thought of kids if you picked a same-sex pairing, but evidently, in your case at least, it backfired. Alas.)

I knew it was a gender neutral name, which is why I specified that it was "Nicholas". So, if I choose to save Darren because he was at least putting up a fight (meaning that he wasn't as useless to me as the cowering girl), I get stuck in a relationship with a male vampire? Edit: I'm not implying there is anything wrong with that, though.

No, I haven't played that game. Back to TOW, I find it odd that anyone in the guild would know magic.

Ah. ... No. If you hug Darren, the game is scripted to take that as a "no homo bro" que and make Nikki a girl. =\

:P Why is that odd? And the only one who knows magic there is Fang, actually. The vampire in GOLAD was able to wield magic, too, so it was a nod to the first game.

*hums* ... Well, you also should've only had the option to stay with Nikki if you decided you felt something deeper for him than friendship, so ... xD you can't pin your gay vampire love solely on my scripting.
 

I realize that, I'm joking. =\ Actually, now that I think about it, I -may- have scripted Nikki's gender to match who you save, but ... I don't think I did. -_- It's frustrating as hell having to wait to fix / investigate these bugs.

As for your previous comment: I never said Fang's father disowned him or anything. His father taught him magic. It's just that, as Fang grew older, things got ... really awkward, due to the war and politics and such.

Anyway, I mentioned the huge library of books in his quarters, yes? He's studied it pretty intensely. >_> You do realize his goal in life, other than protecting Nikki, is to destroy a 1000+ year old sorceress, yes? xD Of course he knows about magic.

xD Throw your sickle...

It took me a couple run-throughs to figure that out.  :)

No. If you throw your sickle, you won't get an error. Don't attack him normally, just throw your weapon.

Mind you, you winning in that scenario is left purely to chance, but it's about 50/50.

Ah. Sorry, I  (unintentionally) lied to you. I DID make Nikki match the gender of whoever you chose to save in Satorius. So no. It's actually not an error, but it was further proof that I didn't get to refine the game as much as I wanted. During the development, I think I considered that a bit too arbitrary and I was planning on changing it, but I forgot.

@jamescoker1226

Hmm? For learning purposes or for beta-reading purposes?

It would be kind of a cool feature, I suppose.

Or for cheatin'?

...jus' kid'n...  :)

Welcome.

Ah. Oops. xD I meant to say this earlier ... before I hijacked your thread ... Welcome!