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Hey Everybody.

Wondering if you would mind sharing your favorite story on the site.  Not so much favorite story-game, but actual story-story.  Hoping to catch up on a few but feeling a little overwhelmed with new material.

thanks,

march

My favorite story-story is the creepypasta Deven uploaded after coming back and abruptly dissappearing again. My favorite Story-game is the finished Eternal.

Oops.  Sorry zach Johnson but I accidentally deleted your reply when Deleting another comment.  Could you repost?  Thanks For the mention of finals week (That's more game than story though, but it is what it is for one of the first stories on the site).  Looking for stuff like Endmaster, Sethaniel, TsmPaul etc.  Story driven.  BTW doing this On mobile is a painful experiECe.  I wll talk to Alexp.

Ok here's the list again:

1. Ground Zero
2. Dungeon Stompidge
3. Dead Man Walking
4. Order of the Midnight Son
5. Finals week

Well hello there, it's always nice to see a Founder on the site. :)

Hmm... Favorites that don't include Endmaster. In no particular order.

1. Kill Aman's Mustache (I can't find the "History Thread" about why the game was made, I think BerkaZerka would know where it is.)

2. Farewell, My Childhood Self

3. Splitting Souls

4. Vengeance

5. Go ask Killa for this one.

6.  Eternal (Endmaster, because the game is to awesome not to be on this list.)

7. Dead Man Walking (Zombie game by BerkaZerka.)

8. Dangerous Memories

9. The Object

10. The Free Hand

11. The Secret of Daphne

Can't think of any other good ones that don't go to far back, sorry if I missed someone's story. lol

KAM was made after BZ and I had a pic and poem off, and BZ had to try and out do me. :p

Woah, welcome back March.

My favorite storygame on the site is, The Secret of Daphne. First game I played too.

Oh... wait, you said story-story... so no game elements?

... *shrug* sorry, I prefer the games.

Hi March - nice to see you guys around here once in a while!

My favorite Story on the site has to be EndMaster's Necromancer.  ^v^

Still has to be Necromancer. :-) 

Uhh... I'm confused. What's the difference between story-game and story-story? 

Well... Games tend to have elements of games. They have items, statistics, random chance, etc.

Endmaster makes stories not games, as his stories don't have any of the above elements.

Dungeon Stompage or Dead Man Walking are games.
Eternal or Ground Zero are strictly stories.

Oh, okay.

Well Kill Aman's Mustache is the greatest story game of all time ever, of course. Other than that I'd say my favorite story-stories I've read so far are Death Song and Dead Man Walking. (Plus I still have a soft spot for Snow ^_^)

Ground Zero, for me.

Same. Ground Zero was a great story.

I loved Farewell, my childhood self.

Read this one last night. Really enjoyed it. Too bad the author doesn't appear to be active anymore.

OMS is my favriote

Haunted.

I loved that one too! So many good ones!

Yup, there are loads of good stories, and many bad ones too.

Story-wise?.. At the moment, it'd probably be Ground Zero, with Death Song, Snow, Tower of Riddles, Farewell, My Childhood Self, and The Blackwood Chronicles following close behind. The Court and a couple of others might have made it up there too, but they're incomplete. Or perhaps I forgot about a few of them...

The Court was transfered to ChoiceOfGames I believe. He has not come back since.

Ah. :c Just did a quick check and I guess he didn't finish the game over there either. I really liked it though, and for what it is, its still a pretty good read.

Dangerous Memories is one of my favorites.

The Homo Perfectus Series contends with Eternal.

Eh, if you need an entire series to battle against just one long story I'd personally say the story wins.

Eternal could well have been a series, to be fair. 

thanks everybody for your thoughtful responses!

Your welcome.

How polite of you. :-) 

Tower of riddles has to be my favorite so far.

Uhh... Isn't it the only game you've played so far? 

No, I also played dead island. Its not a game on here but its still a game lol.

Still Tower of Riddles was an impressive game.

Yippie ^_^

I still say it should be Featured Damn it!

Speaking of puzzle stories how did 7 get in the top listing on that section? I thought the limit was 6.

Yeah, me too... To be fair though, that new Lighthouse game definitely deserves to be featured... Just can't seem to finish it 

How do games get featured, anyway?

If they're the best in their genre/category and multiple members notice it and bring it up to an admin, who'd then decide whether it deserves it or not. Suffice to say, it's really hard to haha.

Though on the new-look on the site things will be featured based on being the best of their 'tag', so that'll make it slightly easier, perhaps.

Well the easy part is writing a really good story that everyone likes... The hard part is getting an admin to read it 

Is that so?

Awhh look, an admin! 

But actually, please do reply with a list of stories that are better than currently featured stories in the same category! Please be specific with which featured stories are worse than the unfeatured stories in the same category.

... Okey dokey!

In Fantasy: Dungeon Stompage is better than Innkeeper (No offense EndMaster, your stories are awesome, but Innkeeper's not quite as awesome as some of your other games.)

In Mystery/Puzzle: Avery M: Dead Man's Journal is better than Creature 2 (Again, Creature 2 was a really awesome game, I just thought Dead Man's Journal deserved brownie points for uniqueness.)

In Love and Dating: The Ocean's Daughter was better than Desperate Heart. (Desperate Heart also awesome.)

In Everything Else: A Dog's Life doesn't need to be better than anything, there's a space free.

'Course this is all just my personal opinion but... You did ask 

I definitely support Avery M: DMJ for  featured 

Thanks for the response!

I have read both of those Fantasy stories. Dungeon Stompage is a really cool game but I think Innkeeper is a better reflection of the Fantasy category, personally. Dungeon Stompage is really fun interactive fiction, but it's overwhelmingly gamey and its lack of an involved, well-thought-out plot pretty much disqualifies it from featuring in our strongest category (Fantasy).

I haven't read Avery M, I will read that soon.

I have read both Desparate Heart and The Ocean's Daughter. Unlike the Dungeon Stompage case (Dungeon Stompage is a feature-worthy game sitting in a category with stronger games), I don't believe that The Ocean's Daughter is strong enough to be featured, even if there was an open spot. I felt that The Ocean's Daughter felt forced and contrived and I felt that the author's young age really showed in the writing. It's not that it's a poor storygame (and I think that Fergie did an excellent job, considering her age when she wrote it) but I didn't feel that it was an immersive experience. The dialogue was really off-putting. Also, it draws very heavily on Sethaniel's Snow. Again, it's not that the storygame was bad, it would never, ever be considered for unpublishing or not meeting minimum site standards, but I don't think that it's good enough for featuring, personally.

I haven't read A Dog's Life, I will read that soon.

Thank you!

Welcome!

Hopefully Dungeon Stompage 2 will make the cut. ^_^

Honestly, I'd say replace Death Song with Dungeon Stompage. Not because I think Dungeon Stompage is better, but because Death Song is similar enough to Necromancer that I think featuring the two of them is redundant, and that the Fantasy category could have more breadth by featuring something else.

(Personally preferred Death Song to Necromancer, but that's just me.) 

Really I keep telling them to just make a completely new section for me and that would free up space everywhere else.

I think Geek or Tales will get replaced before Innkeeper though I imagine that story would be the first fantasy one to get replaced.

Eternal shall remain Eternally.

Seriously though, you have 14 stories and half of them are featured. You wouldn't even be able to fit all of your featured stories into your very own category XD

Lol, well just the top 6 in that section then.

At one time Paradise Violated, Alpha Wolf and TRASH were featured too so I figure at some point another one of mine is going to be replaced eventually.

Hate geek. I utterly loath it. XD 

(love innkeeper)

Would like to clarify that I also love Innkeeper and the only reason I nominated it is 'cos Endmaster already has 4 games featured in the Fantasy section... That and I haven't read Magnus: Betrayal yet, so I can't give an opinion on it. 

It's rather short (magus), shouldn't take you longer than 10-15 minutes

Number of featured stories by a user shouldn't play in to which stories get featured.

I dunno. Obviously, the amount of story games a writer already has featured doesn't effect the quality of any other games they write, but it's also nice to have variety. That said, there definitely shouldn't be a "one featured story game per player, per category" rule or anything since, like in Endmaster's case, some writers have a lot of stories that are exceptional, and they shouldn't be replaced by stories that aren't as good.

In the case of Innkeeper and Dungeon Stompage though, it's difficult to say which is the better story game, since Innkeeper is mostly story, whereas Dungeon Stompage is mostly game. 

It's not really to-do with the number of storygames from Endmaster though, as Endmaster writes a variety of fiction. For instance, Eternal, Geek and Necromancer are all extremely varied.

We don't want 5 copies of the same story but it's okay if we have 5 different stories from the same author.

I see what you're saying, Killa. I think I can get behind that notion. Are we positive that Dungeon Stomper is the best non-featured fantasy story? I'm really hesitant to feature something with such a weak story (no offense to you, BZ, obviously.)

Well I'd have to read every single story in the fantasy section to be positive, so... Nope. Not positive. 

Probably. Looking at the other ones I don't see any that match up with it. You could ask around further if you're unsure about it though.

Oh definitely Eternal, particularly the struggle path.

I really, really need to read Eternal. Will do that once I've finished making the Spring Thing game I haven't even started 

Briar, Eternal will inspire you. xD