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Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

The following question just came into my head - if you could choose six CYS members to co-author the best CYS storygame of all time, which six would you pick? 

My six would be the following (in no particular order): SindriV, Kiel_Farren, Endmaster, BerkaZerka, Briar_Rose, and finally myself (who wouldn't want to be part of such a group?)

PS For what's it worth, I think a co-authoring competition could be fun. Imagine if you had four writing 'teams' with one 'big gun' in each trying to help their teammates write to their potential - it would be a very interesting twist if there was the interest.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Six CYS members to co-author a game? Hm. Close to your list.  

Quiller, Endmaster, Sethaniel, Briar, me, and Bradindvorak. Quiller for the aesthetics, style, and character design, Brad for the other scripting mechanics (though Berka or Killa would also be great to have), Briar and Me for game play (I'd add 'me for fantasy, but I think everyone would chip in for that,) End for the humor / darker elements, Sethaniel for the romance / emotional moments. (Because Snow wrecked you people.)

Either this would be a total disaster or it would be the best looking, smoothest playing, most interesting, disturbing, and touching story game in the history of IF...!

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
Sounds awesome.... would love to read a story by all my fav members, lol... :)

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I would love to see this story be made.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

There should be a contest where players would have to group up into teams of four and work on a storygame. The best voted storygame would win.....

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Hmmm... I'll get back to you on that.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

^ This.

Make it happen mods.

2016 will be the year of contests.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Uh... Me, Chris, Malk, Brad, I hope Ford, and maybe Swift, Kiel or Sent, if they were up to it.

The only problem would be that we would all procrastinate and the story wouldn't get finished, or it would take months, maybe years.

It'd be pretty fuckin' funny, though.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

We should do this, I don't even fucking care how long it would take. It'd probably make people piss their pants laughing.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

TSR, coins (original), playa (original), IAP (original), so nobody else gets in the way of my writing.

EDIT: Not claiming that I'm the best writer on the site, or even that I'm a better writer than most on here. It's just that too many cooks will most likely spoil the broth. My ideas are my ideas and I feel like trying to get somebody else to pitch in would only dilute the story. I will admit that it's a pride thing as well and I just want to feel like making a storygame is something I can do alone. Too many people with no ideas or too lazy to learn scripting expect a co-author to do everything for them. Even if they manage to find someone like that, it's in their best interest not to rely on them too much in case they quit/disappear.

That's not to say that storygames with co-authors can't work, just maybe five people is too many.

EDIT EDIT: Just re-read and saw that the question is more about picking a team that you would like to see work on a storygame rather than a team to work with yourself. I still stand by what I said and think that five authors (yes five, not six, because storygames only allow for one main author and up to four co-authors) is too many. All the top authors can write excellent storygames themselves by themselves, but I'm not so sure about such a big collaboration. Each of them would probably want to take the story in a different direction.

That said, I would love to see a smaller team of just EndMaster and BerkaZerka work together, just to see if EndMaster's storytelling and characterisation would work with some crazy scripting by Berka. Both of them have worked on storygames that are huge in scope too, so it could potentially end up quite a big storygame.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

xD But... but it's which six members, not five...

I kind of figured the thread was working off the assumption that this could be a viable, not disastrous thing.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Okay then. Kiel_Farren, EndMaster, BerkaZerka, insanebutvain, madglee, Briar_Rose. I've picked these people because I have faith that, together, they could take a storygame in a really macabre and twisted direction. There are other good authors on this site as well but these guys sprung to mind when it comes to having the potential to write some pretty dark stuff.

Happy?

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Scary...

No! I'M NEVER HAPPY! crying ...Never...! (jk, I'm good, if exhausted and possibly more out of my mind than usual.)

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
I'm not a huge fan of joint projects, but I would be very open to working with the following group of members. Will has some featured stories, but I think they are all highly underrated writers.

@insanebutvain
@Ogre11
@Will11
@mizal

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Aww, I'm touched. 

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
And I'm still waiting on that next story of yours too!

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

No sixth member?

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
We're a Five Bad Band.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Lol.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
Though I really want fox boy to write a freaking story already. He has plenty of talent, but he insists on being a no good, dirty, disease ridden, non-writing vulpine forest critter. Writing a story will clear up his rabies, tapeworm and mange! It's a cure all.

@jamescoker1226

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Maybe some day, lol.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

James did have a story at one point.  It was good.  

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I missed out on James finally posting a game while I was gone?!

;_; So many regrets.

Can anyone at least tell me what it was about?

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

He had one up before you were here, that was called the Sun Tsu Quiz. He deleted it.

Then he released another story, I don't even remember what about that he deleted.

Then he released a remake of his friend's troll story, he deleted it.

And I forgot what the most recent one was. I don't even remember it coming out.

So that's actually four stories that you missed. Poor Quills, wasn't ever able to see James' stories.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I'm pretty sure it was before you ever came.

It was about a ghost.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
^In which Chris's post makes me want to curl up in a corner and cry, and Seth's post, which would otherwise make me feel better, only makes it worse coming right after that. (HE HAD FIVE STORIES AND I MISSED OUT ON THEM ALL. #verymuchsadness)

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I'm trying my best to get something out, I'm just a lazy sack of shit :)

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Please do, you're such a talented writer.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Human's perpetual battle against laziness. I think we can all understand. 

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago
I'm trying my best to try my best but I'm a lazy sack of shit as well :P

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Aww that's really sweet. :3

Can I be the 'ideas' person?

I'm also willing to supervise.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Six is 5 too many. You just need one. Quiller. Art, story writing, and scripting all rolled into one.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I do want that game, yes.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Haha, I'm a prime example of 'jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none'. And I write at the pace of a snail. A dead snail.

That being said, I can be the best cheerleader for the rest of the team :D

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Haha. More like Master Of Jack-Of-All-Trades. Besides, a good story game always takes time to write. 

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

SimplySabely, Steve221, Seth. Probably could make the best horror game ever. 

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

Is that me? Oh, I hope he means me. That would be a serious bonus to the old ego, though if he does mean me, he's #numberracist. All numbers don't the same, we're not some big mathematic stereotype.

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

You are actually number racist because you say some numbers are better than others (although it is true).

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I'm sure there's a math theory we can regurgitate to argue that. Changing from base 10 to base whatever to make 221 = 24833, or hijinks with limits and infinity XD

(Like how people in the old days used to justify racism with science. White people > everyone else, it's just empirically true. Science is biased just like any other human creation, this has been a PSA.)

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

I'm glad to add another racism to my repertoire. 

Which five members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

~Myself to make sure everyone plays nice together and stays motivated, maybe toss in some tips and a little proofreading, even if I don't do any of the writing/scripting. Sort of like the glue that puts all the beautiful pieces together.
~The_Quiller for art, putting in a few ethereal scenes (like the beginning of the Alex path on Halcyon Days - it still brings little hints of tears to my eyes, read it again.), minor scripting/html to help lift the load a little, and a good ol' mood uplift where I may fail. 
~Kiel_Farren for his speed, dedication, complex plot and puzzles.
~Nmelssx purely for scripting - you've all seen those games of his which must take unholy amounts of that devilish stuff. Adding a good dosage of gaming to an otherwise large block of text after large block of text. 
~BradinDvorak for html coding and all that stuff, making everything look fan-freakin'-tastic and looking more complex then it already is. 

 

Nmelssx is a bit of a wild card, but the rest, if I'm not mistaken, are good friends all around. Or at least positive acquaintances, which should make for easy working together.

 

Which six members to co-author a storygame?

9 years ago

You're really just asking which writers we'd like to put together in a Frankenstein mash to create the ultimate storygame writer. I doubt any of us have any idea how much or how well any of us would work together, especially when they haven't actually worked with any of these people.