Community time! Alright, so here's how this is going to work. You can go to any storygame and list any comment that you think is feature worthy. If there are already three featured comments, then that comment must be better than one of the featured ones. If I agree with you, you get 2 EXP points. This can build up incredibly quickly, since in the end there should be something like 1500 comments featured. That's 3000 possible points! You are also permitted to write a comment on a storygame and then nominate it for featuring.

Requirements for a featured comment

- Grammatically decent (doesn't have to be perfect but has to be well written)
- Accurately portrays the storygame
- Is one of the best three comments present!!! Don't just send me back the first good one you see.

And that's it.

Requirements for getting your points

- You must list the exact username that the commentor used (so I can use ctrl+F to quickly find it)
- I must agree with you!

Are you going to be awarding those who have their comments featured?

Anyways, I'm going through the comments in my story and I'll post the 3 I feel are best.

Just got the idea to look up an online adventure game, I was playing Skyrim and found a choose your own adventure style book. This one was highly rated, and I see why. Nicely done. Thanks for the early-morning entertainment.
- Mike

Big Mike (No Account)

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Due to technical reasons, I couldn't proceed past the area in chapter two where there's a zombie in the room after you decide to take Bob with you, so I restarted and got the ending for chapter1 so I could end the game in a halfway dignified state lol. That is the greatest zombie game I've played on the site, even if I have only made it to chapter two, Bo approves.

ThisisBo

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It was very entertaining. Sure there were a few errors here and there but it was fun to play and that constitutes a good rating. I got the Best Ending with the achievements "Best Friend Ever" and "Saviour of Mankind".
Actually didn't have to use the back button once throughout this, a refreshing change to the norm for zombie stories, where if you pick the wrong choice you die instantly.

October

God, back when I was in my "bo approves" stage :/

I think you should get back into that phase lol.

Playa approves

On a side note, i did actually go back and play the whole thing later. Still loved it.

I'll recommend some comments from my story.

I loved the style of this at the beginning but it really tapered off in quality by the end. It felt like you totally ran out of steam. Also, I wouldn't call it an RPG. Still worthy of a 5/8 and it was a phenomenal first game but if you pace yourself, you can do much better :)

JJJ-thebanisher

Well, it had potential. Some things that can be improved are the randomness of the choices, the endings not being available, and more details, like background information on the characters/settings/zombies, weapons, maps, and pictures. It could have been a good storygame with all those things because your writing is good.

urnam0

Those were the only two comments I thought were feature worthy.

Re: Killa, yeah I've been giving out points for getting your comments featured.

I've just went and featured the comments I agreed with :)

Looks like Bo didn't make the cut lol.

Here's 2 I'd like featured -

That was pretty good.

Tons of choices, weird but unique and interesting story, and an impressive battle system. Though it is very strange it's also very fun to play and keeps the player entertained for a long time.

The only I would suggest is to have a little more hints for the player to choose from so he/she is not just picking moves at random. Also, when the crabs battle it wouldn't to put a little commentary in just to keep things fresh.(Like in sports with announcers.)

Nice job.

6/8

This was absolutely amazing! While some of the pictures and power-ups could have used some tweaking and re-placing, this was all-in-all a very enjoyable storygame!

Seriously, the creativity and use of variables and scripting is remarkable! 8/8 for sure!

Crab Arena featuring done

I'm going to make a list for featured games of each category. I'll post what I think deserves to be featured sometime tonight.

Here are the comments I liked the most from mine. 

I'm not going to rate you on lack of a story or plot because you already said that this is just a test. 

What really held this story back was the battle options. There were only a three attacks and in the end they were all very similiar. After awhile, I just got bored and just randomly picked. Also, descriptions for what is happening when you attack is very necessary seeing as it helps with the story.

You do have a good understanding of variables though and for that I give you credit.

4/8

Done

Okay, so here's what I have so far.

?FANTASY

?Death Song

Dear god, that final "good" ending was lovely. I really enjoyed this, as it was a far more thoughtful take (in my opinion) on Necromancer's events. Well written, often amusing, and heart-rendingly sad at the very end. Bravo.

As much as I liked Necromancer, I must say that this one takes me to a much deeper place. The story is far more captivating, especially when following a specific path. 

Eternal

Dunno if you're allowed to do this, but this would be an updated comment from my old one, after I decided to cheat death several times in order to see the conclusion to this amazing story. After staying up all night simply reading this, it ended up being much more than just a simple game, instead turning into an actual fully fleshed out story. With every betrayal, death, or reunion, I would actually feel myself connect more and more into this immersive story. All in all, I would definitely give this an 8/8.

MODERN

?Cryptode

Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?

Wow. I'm sorry I waited so long to play this game (didn't think it would be a good idea to play at work) because it's really impressive and complex. Love the statistics and the use of the character sheet to track them and your accomplishments; it's a big turn-off when I start a game and discover I have to keep track of a lot of stats by hand. 

Absolutely incredible. This is a must-play! 

Even though I couldn't find the correct ending, I still managed to have a good time with this. The storyline, and characters, everything. They are all done so well. I can't believe how well this story was done. It takes in so many mathematical formulas and creative writing traits, that if he took an IQ test, he'd have 150 or something like that. This has to be the best piece of work I've ever seen for choosing your own fate.

?Tales From the Basement

I won! YESS! Best ending! Now I'm very proud of myself. 

?The Wal*Mart Game

A fun and funny game! 

This was the most clever, complex game I have played on this site. It took me an hour and a half and I still only got the "good" ending, not the Uber. The writing is well done and I love the ability to pick up items and then use them, like old Zork. A lot of items went unused, but perhaps that's because I couldn't find the other ending. I would love to know what I was supposed to do after setting off the pipebomb to get the Uber-ending. The only complaint I have is that once in a while, if stuck, I was forced to run to each location and try using almost every object I had. That may be my fault, however. Oh! I love the fact that the writer knows every detail about every object, every specification and all. Heheheh! Great job..more!!! And thanks for playing mine! :)

Hey thatguy! WOW! THIS GAME ROCKS! When finished it has potential definately to be the best game on the site. I think i tried every possible alternative but only got the "lame" ending. so im not sure if i missed something or not! Hopefully the game is finished in time for the contest cause you're a definate competitor!! Thanks for a GREAT game!

Vengeance

That's all I have for now. I'll try to go through the other categories tonight.

Done

May the 28th: A New Beginning

I'm tempted to delete that comment of mine from 2006. "A very good congratulations by me." Wtf haha.

Done

Fan Fic

Done!

School

Fairview Highschool Game

Done

Edutainment

A Jung Hero's Adventure

Think I am going to take a break now.

Haha, DieDaily is my dad! Nice find, that comment really is excellent.

Just in regards to the recent nominations - I'd rather not have any of my pre-2009 comments featured if that's okay. I don't think they reflect accurately on how I'd rate storygames now (and they're not feature-worthy comments to begin with).

Mystery / Puzzle

Done

Everything Else

Big Time

Aaaaand, Done

Everyone go check out madglee's recent point history.

I will get 500 points today

Horror

Danny phantom's adventure

I just had to smile when I noticed that you nominated your own comment, from today, lol.

Anything for points.

Done all of them

Sci-Fi Adventure

Ground Zero

Done

I put together a list for the five newest storygames. 

?Distortion

?This has been said before, but the idea is interesting. But, for one thing, you never used capitals and that literally made me fight not to pull my hair out throughout the entire game. 

?Survive Order 66

Ok there are some major issues with this story game. 

Open Your Eyes

Hunter

It was a good story. It didn't really have much plot but you already stated it was more of a game. The battle descriptions were pretty cool but I was irritated at how hard it seemed to be to kill the demons at times. Either way though, the mechanics were made pretty well and I'd say it was a job well done.

My advice would be that if you know that you're not good at writing combat, then don't write it. Do only what you're good at. 

Thanks! Combat is actually the least interesting part of RPGs for me, both as a player and as a creator... which is why I wanted to isolate it and try to do it as well as possible. So yeah, as a storygame, this is kind of missing its story. :P 

Hobo Life

It was funny at times but definitely not enough for a story this short. A lot of the things that happened to you didn't seem realistic either and it was all over the place but not in a way that would be called random. 

The idea certainly is interesting. But, it was way too random. The idea of an insane homeless man could really be interesting though. Putting the play in the shoes of the mentally unstable allows for some randomness, but I think you need to back off the random a little and focus on a little more quality story perhaps? Hope you continue to build on it! :)

Done

Playa, Morgan wrote Hunter, why would you nominate one of her comments to be featured on her own game lol.

You're Fired!

Done

Hey, I really like this Featured Comments idea. It really encourages taking the time to post a thoughtful and/or constructive comment.

I thought this comment was rather insightful : (for The White One story)

I loved it. The slender man has always been super creepy in my opinion and he is a fantastic villain. Your use of items was excellent and I really enjoyed having to figure out what to use and when to get what was needed. I give it a 7/8 and I hope you make a sequel or build more on this one. I'd love to know why slender man took you and what he will do next :)

Agreed!

Another one of simplesabley that I feel is pretty good. It's on the Hello World *yawn* game by Yellow_avenger:

Creative, but very linear and it was mostly looping. I just kept hitting the links in the order you had put the "to do list". Then I randomly came to a link about a cat? The writing wasn't bad and the game itself wasn't boring. But, the fact that all it did was loop then end felt so half-hearted. Perhaps if you tried giving a little more plot? Like, perhaps add a potential nightmare about going to work or dreaming about a promotion only to wake up and realize it wasn't real?

Agreed!

For Project Origin:Atrophy(part 2)

For Project Origin:Unraveling

Done

Here's two decent ones:

Ragna in wonderland

This story's decent; its grammar needs work and clumped-together paragraphs make it tough to read, but the plot's fair and your love for the BlazBlue characters shines through, especially in your use of Alice in Wonderland archetypes for some characters, and character relationships. Besides what I already mentioned, I think this story could have been improved by adding more pictures. I'm a bit of a BlazBlue fan, insofar as I know most of the characters on sight, and I had no idea who the Mad Hatter was until I got to the king's castle, and even then, I'm...still not sure. Besides, Carl's the one with the nicest hat, so it SO should've been him. I also think that you should make some of the pictures smaller so that they look better on the story window, and that you should give the player more paths to choose from in Wonderland, rather than just a couple of main routes, one of which just leads to the other route.

-- Trish, 8/30/2012 5:04:45 PM

INVASION!!!

It's a good idea. At the very least it isn't completely boring. I do wish that the pages had more than five sentences at their longest. Also, I would suggest not putting warnings on your links(for example when you say 'warning this link ends the game, click the other if you don't want to end'). Half the fun of giving the player options is to surprise them with different paths. If they don't want it to end, they can always use the back button :). Hope you continue to build on the story.

-- simplesabley, 8/27/2012 8:26:49 AM

xD You're a cruel bastard, but this amused me. I think some of the people who hated it didn't get the concept, but even when you realize, it's actually more interesting than it first appears? ... It's still basically you trolling everyone who plays it, lol. Still, as far as trolling goes, like I said, I was amused.

I'd like to recommend these comments to be featured on my game, The Secret of Daphne :)

Just stopped by the site to have a look again. Nice to see it's still gaining new features, and the community's still going strong. I love the idea of having 'featured comments'!

Nice to see you remember us!

Miss you!

If you like this, come bye when alex has the new skin operational. 

This site has come so far since the original site back in 2010. I guess that was original.... But yea alexp has done alot of work

This comment was very helpful on my first game:

Featured this one. I'll PM JJJ about rewarding you and Ugi with points.

Is this still going on?

Yep! If you think a comment deserves to be featured, post in this thread. For the most part JJJ will handle this sort of stuff, but any of the mods can feature comments.

I've just started playing through all of the storygames on the site again (in order to make up for a 4-5 year period of hardly playing anything!) so I figured I'd check on this thread.

Ah, okay.  Cool.  I was actually about to ask how to get comments featured, but then I saw this and that saved me from making myself look dumb for asking about something already addressed. :)  I'll have to keep my eye out for good comments.  (And also cross my fingers that any of my comments will be seen as helpful!  After all, gold stars are purdy!)

Well, many storygames still don't have any comments featured due to there being so many of them (hence this thread). I'm planning on going through and featuring comments as I read through storygames (I obviously don't get points for this), so if I see any of your comments and they're good enough they'll be featured! If you want to jump the queue a bit you can always nominate your own comments in this thread if you think they're good enough.

That would be too hard for me to do.  I have self-esteem issues.  It would seem too arrogant of me to promote myself like that.

This is from Katju Domination: Episode 1- Godzilla

The mechanics of it where static, which is bad for fighting stories more so than others. The plot was hair thin. Static fighting is only okay if the telling of the story is more important than the fight itself. You have no story whatsoever so I have to compare this to a poorly executed fighting style game. Give the readers to want to be the best, and reward them properly when they do. I felt no drive to better myself, or a plot to carry me along. I gave you points for effort though.

-- alienalpha on 10/4/2012 8:57:28 PM

This comment's not bad but I'm not sure what "Give the readers to want to be the best" means. Unfortunately, if a sentence doesn't make sense in the comment, I usually can't feature it.

Here’s 3 Comments from the Kill Aman’s Mustache Game for feature consideration  :)

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This game is the greatest random game in history. Nearly every joke can be found in the forums (except the pulp fiction ones, and a few select jokes that evolved from PM between each other), and every one has it's purpose.
Kill Aman's Mustache is a glorious joke, portraying a man's fierce melancholy from not having a glorious mustache, and wishing to destroy it. Oh, YOU (the player) may of come up with excuses, but we all know the truth. My mustache is glorious, and everyone is so blatantly jealous of it. Heck a game was made about how much BZ (BerkaZerka) wishes he had my mustache, and in desperation had to kill it. But I digress, let me return to discussing the game.

As I mentioned before, this game is the greatest random game on this site. The jokes are hilarious, and the mustaches that are shown in certain items are amaizing. Each scene has a plethora of humorous lines, and whenever you see Briar_Rose or my minions, I would suggest to press the back button. It's dangerous to see them, and you might get an early ending.

However, I have some complaints. In this game, it is possible to kill my mustache, which is complete nonesense. This game can be random, but I refuse to believe that it can be so illogical. It's crazy to think that I could be defeated. But, I understand BZ's frustration and thus I accept his game with an 8/8.

As a last note, please understand that my mustache is amaizing, and that if you do succeed, I expect to see your dedication to the mustache. My mustache is glorious, and it is truly a godly 'stache. The 'stache is forever, and it is great.

If you play this game, be warned. The mustache is eternal, and this game is incredibly difficult. Don't think you can defeat me without trying. You will fail often.

-- Aman on 1/29/2013 9:29:26 PM with a score of -21560

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Clever and fun. I particularly like how you incorporate certain links to move the story forward in ways they wouldn't normally be used. Nice use of multimedia. I have a feeling I missed some secrets as I was left with a few items I didn't use. I wish I could revisit rooms, but that may very well be the point.

-- madglee on 2/2/2013 12:30:27 PM with a score of 13080

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You're not much of a man by the light of day, but by night you're one hell of an author.

-- Loon on 1/29/2013 8:51:54 PM with a score of 8690

Just featured madglee's comment from your suggestions.

Also, thanks for your featured comment on Kill Aman's Mustache  =)

Here’s some submissions for my Chuck Norris Quiz Game:

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I'm not really a fan of quiz games, but as far as quiz games go, this is definitely one of the best!

-- Doodled on 4/28/2012 12:49:52 AM with a score of 25

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Quiz was amusing, and you put a good deal of effort into the ending.

I gave it a 6, because it needed more chuck norris.

-- Killa_Robot on 4/28/2012 2:32:32 AM with a score of 21

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When chuck Norris did this quiz the questions answered themselves.

-- divinekingsteve on 1/3/2013 10:13:01 AM with a score of 20

Featured Bo's comment, my own comment and Killa's comment.

Here’s 3 for my King’s Logic Game.

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Loved it! Took me a couple of goes to work out the logic behind it, but I had fun figuring it out. Really fun puzzle ^_^

-- Briar_Rose on 11/29/2012 5:47:26 PM with a score of 5000

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Very fun game. You're going to need a lot of logic and some luck to get it right.

-- Illogical on 9/6/2012 11:20:34 AM with a score of 5000

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I love it! It would be much better if it were part of a larger story. If you could build an entire story with miny games like these it would be fantastic.

-- ugilick on 2/5/2012 10:20:53 PM with a score of 5000

I found the top five comments for Love SICK.

First impressions: dick in ass....For anyone who likes to drill his own ass with his own dick, this is TheBeST story. It gave me some ideas on killing., anyway. A better way to rape someone is to poke out her eyes and skull fuck her, hahahah. Endmaster, seriously. Do you even have a relation with any female human? How come are you here writing for kiddies? You should be out their killing motherfuckers right now!! Bitch out. This story entertains like gangbang, and while it's fucking short you(the random asshole reading this) shouldn't consider it bad. L=Q. God pick me up!!? Hell, am i even alive. Is this story even real or is it just a pick of my imagination. Why should i believe that you aren't a tenticlatic alien, who fucks 100 whores a day? Are you even human? Review score:8/8.

Endrew

Dude... I always thought I was fucked in the head and no one could ever match my level of insanity. You not only disproved that idea, you strangled it and fucked it in the ass with your dick wrapped in barbwire. Well played EndMaster. Well played.

PaleWhiteShadow

I think I'm gonna throw up. You are one sick puppy. I love reading your stories, but please don't move into my neighborhood.

urnam0

WTF I'm a Mormon retard. Usualy I like your stories but this one is all crazy and screwed up. I'm a little worried about your mental health...

Notorious streaker

You know, it wasn't really necessary to say "I'm a Mormon retard." The retard part was obvious when you said you were a Mormon. Lol.

EndMaster

Ummm, on second thought maybe you shouldn't feature these. Ha ha.

If there was a category for Sarcastic Featured Comments, I’d shamelessly nominate this one:

This throbbing tale of robust dramatic timing was like a cascading explosion of literary ecstasy in my mind. Saturating the deepest recesses of the psyche in white hot creativity! It changed my life forever!
-- BerkaZerka on 12/23/2012 6:01:31 PM

Of course it was a totally sarcastic comment (in response to an overinflated game) and should NEVER be featured 

Featured ugilick's comment, and another one by a guest.

8 goals, 28 rollsby tsmpaul

I enjoyed this very much! I guess its because i know how much scripting went into this, the game is really good in terms of scripting features and its a creative idea! I'm going to play it again ;)

--solostrike on 1/3/2007 7:08:32 PM with a score of 69

A most amazing game! Very thoughtful and creative, it gives the player an enjoyable experience. Very well done, tsmpaul!

--Cake on 1/11/2007 6:04:39 PM with a score of 100

Featured solostrike's comment (your suggestion) and Killa_Robot's comment.

Star Wars: A Padawan's Journey Part 6: FugitiveaFan Fictionby JMgskills

It was awesome ending so suspensefull best one yet i wish it could be published as an actual book so i could read it over and over anywhere you are great at writing these i thank you.

--Hutchinsont12 on 7/10/2012 12:15:51 AM with a score of 0

very well written. I expect alot of great things in the next one. Also going from hero to zero is something i didn't see for this series. Well done skills.

--Killer999 on 4/19/12 12:56:55 PM with a score of 0

WolfPack-

Thanks for the suggestion! I've featured Briar_Rose's comment along with mahuesz's and my own.

Don't forget the 2 points haha  ;)

Folks who get a Comment Featured get 2 XP (as well as the person that suggests the Comment)  ^-^

Yep! I don't have the power to award points to members so whenever I feature comments I send a PM to JJJ detailing which comments I've featured (and if someone suggested the comment then that user's name too). Your points should show up next time JJJ reads his PMs.

No problem, That's cool that you can set Featured Comments though  :)

Wow I thought we had stopped doing this. I still remember going through game after game and trying to find decent comments. 

Never knew about this, welp.. You learn something new everyday.

Thought I would ask about this one on my game Rising Flames from Silver as I think its a pretty good comment and seems balanced:

Ok, I don't want to blow my own horn here, but... I'm totally blowing my own horn. Basically, I wrote this comment for Jack and Jill Live On:

Just a heads up, I only feature comments on storygames that I have read (which is why some of the above suggestions have no reply by me). Having said that, the next storygames I will be reading are the ones with featured comment suggestions, so chances are I'll get to the ones here pretty soon.

My nominations:

Been reading stories on this site for awhile but this is my first comment left. At first I didn't think too much of this when on my first playthrough I got an ending and two people had died because I went home but after another crack at it I have to say this is a very expansive and challenging read and I find it hard to believe it's your first storygame. Into my 3rd attempt at actually beating this after finding out there was an item I needed that I'd missed way back in the beginning and looking forward to finally finding the "winning" ending (assuming there is one lol)
-- Psychotic Dragon on 5/27/2013 7:10:25 PM


I like this comment because I think that my story will be viewed like this quite a bit, that it (deceptively) doesn't look like much at first. It's my first try, too, so some people may expect a flop. I actually grew to despise the first page for a while because I just could not seem to find a good way to kick-start this adventure.

It's not a bad intro, it's kinda funny (to me, anyway, and my friends got a few chuckles out of it,) and it explains your character's initial mood, what kind of day they're having, what their normal problems look like, so on. So, it gets the ball rolling, just not very fast. Once you get a little deeper into the story, though, the world is... well, as he said, "expansive." It's also more complex than you may expect from a horror story because it's got puzzles and riddles and item combinations that... some people found pretty odd, but so far, odd in a good way.

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(I guess the bug must of been a site error. Odd.)
Anyways, this game was fantastic. It had an odd way of going about things, and it allows for a large amount of freedom for the user (though it has a very specific path in order to get the best ending). The descriptions for the pages were correctly done, in certain cases incredibley grotesque, in certain cases simply creepy, and, oddly enough, quite amusing when intended. Definatley one of the better horror games on the site.
-- Aman on 5/27/2013 6:19:34 PM


I like this comment because... well, yeah, I'll best honest: it's quite flattering. However, more importantly, it sums up what I was trying to do with my story. Grotesque, creepy, odd, but funny. Giving you freedom, but still challenging you to make an extra effort for a bigger reward...so, yeah, it fits.

Comments for http://chooseyourstory.com/story/a-game-of-life-and-death I presume?

xD Ah... I guess I forgot to mention that part. Yes. It -is- my only storygame. I mainly wanted to show my appreciation for the feedback.

Here are the best for this storygame.

Well it started off kind of funny but then it just went... I don't know what the hell was going on. Personally, if you're going to write a game about the Simpsons, I don't think you should randomly include characters from other shows. I had no idea who any of them were.

-- Briar_Rose on 1/17/2013 7:21:36 AM

Eh, this didn't do it for me. It could've been good, but the story was scattered and wasn't really coherent. You automatically assume people know which characters you're talking about (we don't), and anyone who doesn't know the Simpsons is gunna be S.O.L. Surely Outta Luck. 4/8 for the effort, but next time put some thought into your story, please. I've read one way stories that were fantastic. This wasn't.

-- ChaiHai

There wasn't any game- it was just click through pages of Simpsons pictures. Why was Dale from King of the Hill in the Simpsons' car at Lion Safari? It's a neat idea, but very poorly written.

-- Sethaniel

For my game, http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-make~2dbelieve-sandbox

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