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Anybody know any good organizational methods for games?  I already screwed up on organization once and I'm trying not to do so again.

Thanks, I tried organizing it on paper, and things went to hell pretty quickly.

Meh.  I actually abandoned the scripting thing.  Instead, the story is going to separate into separate paths that will converge eventually.  It will be time consuming, but I'll probably reuse material to make it go a bit faster... I'm not through a single fight and already at 22 written pages, 35 planned out for now.

*raises hand*

If scripting isn't your thing I can help with it.

:D Yeah.  I'm not even sure where to BEGIN when it comes to scripting.

I mean... it literally shows up in my brain as this:

4&*JOLLYRANCHER=78% + SQROOT$11

No matter what it is.

It was hard when I started. I eventually learned how to do it, by making a story with variables, and then items, and then finally scripting.

I think I understand items and variables for the most part, but I'm lost when it comes to scripting.

Help would be tremendously awesome.

Sure, just add me as a co-author and tell me what to do, and I'll try my best.

Well, I don't need it in my current story (previous post), but I'm sure I'll need your help in the future.

Ok, sure. Just message me whenever.

Thanks.

Yeah, like @jamescoker1226 said, I use Twine. @Malkalack posted a pic of his charting method here.

O.o that's crazy.  

Twine has a similar structure, but it's all on my laptop.   If I did it like Malk, I'd probably waste a lot of paper and need extra erasers.   :P

Lol. Don't use my method; it's madness. 

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...what the hell's wrong with you?

:( 

I use twine myself as well, actually. I recommend it too.

It's not like you ever felt the comforts of continuing to improve your stories in the middle of the desert, offline.

I separate things into chapters with a maximum of 15 pages each, most of the time a bit less. 

Example: With my story, I have 6 chapters and only 35 pages started so far. I have five in the first chapter because it's more a a prolog. It connects to the second chapter that has two main choices in it, only 13 pages. Then those two main choices go to different chapters, with a note in the name of the title of the chapter such as 'MP1S1' in addition to the regular name, signifying 'Main Path 1, Section 1'. 

Variables are unaffected by this transition from chapter to chapter, it's organized, and you can make it so people don't notice the transition from chapter to chapter when reading the story, and it doesn't rely on other sites. 

Hmmm. You could try making outlines, but I must admit that doing that with multiple branchings might be harder than it looks.