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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. 

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.

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

That's my ugly mug, literally :)

Ahh, visual word-play gags. Fun times.

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

Thanks Kiel_Farren

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.

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

'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.

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.

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

I move to vote.

Yes, yes it is.

Thanks everyone, nice to meet :)

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

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

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

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

Burgers.

I wonder who's gonna post it...

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.

Haha! Seriously? How long ago was this?

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

I wasn't around then. What a knob.
 

Take your meds James.

Did you take the damn meds?

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

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

I could also be a Ford alt...

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.

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.

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

Take your meds James.

Take your meds james.

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

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.

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

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 :)

Maybe these are special gender-bending cats

Thank you :)