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10 years ago
http://chooseyourstory.com/story/four

How do the graphics line up for you? Does it run slow on your browser?

Screenshots are heavily appreciated, but a description of "everything looks fine to me" would suffice.

[How it should look.]

It's not done yet, I still have to add graphics for comments and polish it up more - so I'm not looking for criticism. I'm just wondering if it lines up properly on most browsers / devices. I've tested a few and they all work except iPad - which doesn't seem to want to load the background and I'm not about to figure out why because iPad sucks anyways.

PSA: If you use an iPad to play storygames, don't play this one on an iPad. I will literally spend hours on code just to block iPads if I find out you've been looking at this game on an iPad; because I didn't spend days on graphics for someone with an iPad to come along and say "this looks like shit."

P.S. Optional: anyone want to give me a story to go with the graphics? xD Going for sci-fi...but moslty just playing around with aesthetics. Whatever the story is, it'll look good.

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10 years ago

Actually, when I was first using an IPad, it looked fine on it. The lights were blinking on it and everything 

However when I was using Firefox on the laptop, I couldn't click the "start game" button and the lights weren't blinking at all.

Anyway nice job with the title page.

EDIT: Nevermind, works fine on Firefox. I had not clicked the other link.

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10 years ago

Niiice. Working for me on Chrome 46, Firefox 26, Firefox 40, Internet Explorer 11, iOS 8.3, and Safari 5 (for Windows).

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10 years ago
Nice

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10 years ago

 

I'm on iPad and it looks fine to me.

#1: wait really? You have absolutely no story in mind at all? You just wanted to make it look shiny? I mean, just my opinion, but I'm thoroughly confused as to why anyone would waste days coding graphics for a non-existent story.

i know, it matters to other people.  I've never understood the bells & whistles thing though.  

#2:  seriously?  Hard coded character limits in the comments?  You don't want anyone to actually be able to review the game so that your title page stays looking nice?  

I think Trying to code in such a way as to prevent anyone from leaving comments if they can't correctly appreciate your graphics might be overstepping your bounds.

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You put a bunch of effort into forcing the editor to do something it wasn't meant to do.  That, personally for me, adds absolutely nothing to a cyoa. 

There's no level of cool graphics that's going to make me uprate a game with a mediocre story.   In fact, I'm more likely to be harsh to a game where it seems like all the author cared about was impressing people with his design/art skills.

#3 also just me but: that title page is insanely difficult to read.

 

 

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10 years ago

Don't see it as wasting time. Maybe there's no story now, but there's certainly foundation for one. Personally, I find fiddling around with design a fun thing to do; plus, I've learned a few things along the way. Yes; aesthetic isn't everything, but I don't think one can really go wrong making things look a little nicer.

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10 years ago

Really, I've never gotten the whole bells and whistles thing either. I'd rather see someone just put the time into writing something worthwhile.

That being said, I'm being slightly encouraging with Ford since with his natural ability to just lie and tell outlandish tales on the forums alone, I have to believe he's probably got at least a half way decent story in him somewhere if he actually focused.

(And it probably involves a magic whistle)

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10 years ago
I will bet you Ford's left nut he never finishes any story of significant substance. Having a cool idea is pointless if you have no place for it to go.

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10 years ago

I've got a hammer; I'll take that bet!   XD

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10 years ago
Yeah no story yet. I have a few ideas but nothing has been expanded upon.

It ain't done! It's not even supposed to look nice yet xD I just wanted to know if things lined up properly.

I'll write a good story with it, but yeah I was just testing things and started going far and not stopping so it'll end up looking great xD

#2 - well it WILL look nice... I was joking about hard coded character limits...that's too much work for something useless.

Wasn't trying to "add" to cyoa - I was just having fun :P

#3 - It'll be fixed to look nice. BiD gave me some CSS tip to help make things look nicer and run smoother.

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10 years ago

Doesn't work on my Chromebook.

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10 years ago

Works fine for me on Firefox but I can't right click on the PC. Is that supposed to happen?

EDIT: Pressing shift + F10 works so I guess it's not a big deal.

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10 years ago

Looks fucking awesome. Though the story could use quite a bit of detail, like "why number 5?"