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tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

i honestly need some help with learning how to make story games the articles are gibberish to me and i want to learn how to make good story games so could you guys tell me how to?

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

1.) Make your own thread, in the Writing Workshop. (or in Advanced Storygames if it's scripting questions.

2.) Give details on what you're wanting to do and what exactly you're having difficulty with. We can't read your mind.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

i usually use advanced to get help from RedofPalletTown...

wel me and him are making something he called REAL super heros and its what theyed be like with out his superpowers i really don't like it that much so im gonna make a different one. i havent thought what kind of story game i want to make..

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

i havent thought what kind of story game i want to make..

......

Uh, okay then, how about figuring at least that much out first and then getting back to us? Or at least figuring out a more specific question than 'how i write good storygame'.

Figure out a subject and a plot and who the main characters will be, just like you would for a regular story. Beyond that, no one can help you if you don't even know what you need help with.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago
What is it about the articles that are "gibberish?" Many of them are very well-written, concise, and will help you with writing a story...

Me lazy. Me want good story. Dance puppets.

9 years ago
They suggest you may have to exert effort to write a good story.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Is english not you're first language? Because besides that, I can't figure out how the articles would otherwise be so confusing. Either that, or you're very young.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago
Read the ones under the subtitle "Storywriting".

If you still need help after that then all hope is lost.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

None of the articles explain what kind of storygame to make, or write it for you, maybe that is the problem.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

It seems that English isn't your native language or you're just a young person.

The articles are fine, actually. Not sure why you call them gibberish. Maybe they're not beginner-friendly enough for you?

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Step 1: Create the storygame, it's a hassle, I know, but you have start somewhere.

?Step 2: Decide on the main characters. You can ignore this rule and make a captivating storygame about a lamp choosing whether to turn on or not or maybe even about a shower deciding between that it is above washing the filth of our bodies or dutifully doing it's job.

?Step 3: Come up with a decent plot for those characters. After all, The Hero, The Dragon and the Princess can't just simply stand around doing nothing, nobody likes that(then again, the internet is a big place so maybe there are people who like that.

?Step 4: Introduce some side characters to freshen up the story, after all, the hero can't have all the spotlight. Plus, we all know that the hero needs some side characters to die to make him kill the dragon.

?Step 5: Develop the characters, even the side characters, we don't need clichéd cardboard cutout characters, we're making a storygame after all, we'll leave the cardboard to the guys doing stopmotion animation, we all know they need them.

?Step 6: Set a number of pages as a goal, not too short as to overlook the main character's clichéd backstory, but not too long either, we don't need twenty pages on Mindy the Bakers secret recipe, we just need a piece of bread from her.

?Step 7: Start writing. This is the most important part and there will be many casualties during this(like your fingers and all that coffee and your poor keyboard), but you mustn't let that discourage you, once you are done with your epic masterpiece, the children of the ones who died for this will sing praises to their parents for sacrificing themselves for the betterment of all literature.

?Step 8: End it well. Do not attempt to have a surprise ending in which the dragon says that he is the hero's father and that the princess is his daughter, you'll have the readers and the characters boo you for the rest of your life and you will have to live in shame.

?Step 9: This is optional, but you could add a few cameos here and there to make the game more enjoyable, who knows, maybe one of these characters will be worthy of their own story one day.

?Step 10: This is the most important one of all. Make sure you have fun making this, because we all know you can't force yourself to write a good story if you don't enjoy it yourself, though you could force @Steve24833 to write one if you shut him in your basement with several pens and a couple pieces of paper.

?Is this good enough for you, my friend, or is this all but gibberish as well?

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Pens and paper? There's no way in hell I could handwrite anything. Typing all the way.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Ok then, get him in a basement with a laptop and he'll make something cool(hopefully).

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

But... but I want a dragon dad... ;_;

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

You best be prepared for the angst.

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Will you be my dragon dad? ;_;  xD Life is angsty in general, at least I'd have a flying father who could breathe fire upon my enemies and smite the countryside with his terrible wrath if I asked him to. :3

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Er, sorry, Kiel, but I'm not necessarily on the lookout for more children... Likin' the optimism, though!

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Ah, so this is the angst you meant. Curses. xD (I was making a 'are you my mommy?' nod more than anything)

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago

Seems lik a hassle, though.

"Hey, Dad, can you burn down this village for me?"

"Damn it, Tim, I'm trying to file my taxes! We'll do it later!"

But we never do.

*sheds a single tear*

tell me how to make good story games

9 years ago
Apples, if you are stooping low enough for asking "how do I make good story games" Then you are either incomprehensible or trolling.

Edit: Get creative!