What are EXP Points?
A lot of them are wildly out of date. Or give objectively bad advice, or just generally poor quality. There's a reason I don't recommend newbies read through the article section anymore.
e: Hahaha, that one is bad though. Yes newbies, tag everyone on that list.
For an article that includes "Have proper grammar!", it has quite a few grammar mistakes...xD
People just do not listen to the one about not posting demos >~<
Yes, I agree with this.
Also add that series should generally not be made unless they're either
1. More than 5(maybe) in length
or/and
2. Can be a standalone storygame.
Haha. But yeah, some of the current articles should really be condensed into one.
Many of them do repeat some of the same stuff over and over.
I don't think End's should be lumped in with the rest though.
I haven't looked at articles in awhile, but I'll go take a look and see which ones should probably just be one big article.
Ah. No wonder so many newbies don't read articles.
It's a huge mess there...some stuff aren't in the right category..
Exactly! It's supposed to go in scripting, right?
Edit: Anyways, switching back to phone now.
Will be unable to reply until later tonight, so. :P
To be honest, the "How to Create a Name in Your Game" seems to describe making a name better than the one on "On-Page Variable Tricks" and would be easier for newbs to learn.
Or the one Berka wrote can be edited so there could be less articles to confuse people.
No, I mean, edit the article so it includes all the info about "How to Create a Name in Your Game", but everything else will still be there.
That way, there would be less articles, and the info would still be there.
How did I try to trick you? o.o
I guess I did word that a bit strangely. Meh.
Sorry.
But anyways, you get what I'm saying now.
Anyways, most of the articles about "How to Write A Story" and such basically repeat the same things, just with different wording and writing styles.
10 ways to making better games
Capitalization and grammar issues aside, this article has good tips, but could be re-formatted to relay this information to the reader better. I've also noticed that the tips could be more specific on why/how exactly they help, and could provide examples. Some of the tips could also be merged with other articles.
Off to bed now but stick me on whatever list we're making, I have people randomly PMing me for feedback pretty often anyhow.
I don't think any of those people are even active anymore. At least the one's on the "Users" list :P I can see why it needs updating.
This article as well
http://chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=15
I'd feel better if it was updated with some...more recent games :P
Anyways, on the list, some must haves would be people like End, Killa, 3J(though he seems to have dropped off again?), Flesh(still goes on, I've seen him around), Mizal, Will, Steve, Bucky, Thara, Ogre, IAP, Ironpanther(?), Raven(?), SindriV(?), BradinDvorak(obviously for any scripting problem, he's probably the first person you should ask), and maybe Axiom? I can't really think of anyone else, really.
OH! Berka. Sorry, Berks ;-;
I did not forget you, I promise. Just in the list >~<
And besides, you are really quiet.
I mean, we only had like...one conversation?
You should add yourself to that list of what I assume to be notable members? I mean, you certainly contributed plenty to the Draw My Attention threads, and you're pretty helpful when it comes to story advice for some of the new members that join.
I'm still pretty new though. I haven't even been here a year, and besides that, it would feel a bit.. strange for me to suggest myself being added. At least to me. I'm a bit strange.
If adding newbies is ok, I think BigRonn77 has given some pretty good reviews on storygames and should probably be added to the list.
I'm pretty new myself, but being somewhat new shouldn't disqualify you from something like this. You already read like all of the stories here, and you have basically made well more than enough contributions to be considered one of the helpful ones around here.
In my humble opinion, of course :P
And me, then. >////<
And you've been here 3 years! Even if you were somewhat inactive during that time.
Somewhat inactive? Pfft
I was completely inactive, actually. I'm very glad to have 'returned' however :D
Just saying, the join date will make people take you more seriously :P
I see...
But then again, I joined young :)
I most likely wouldn't have been able to last a year here back then. Thankfully, I did take those three years off, right? xD
It's almost like reading Read's posts...
I remember seeing this when I was looking through people's profiles :D
The article on trophies, barring the fact that it's kinda unnecessary given there's already a trophy dialog, could use some work. More pressing than the couple of typos, it doesn't even show the picture of each trophy, which would be a heck of a lot more helpful than a text description.
...should probably be gotten rid of.
No way to remove them at all? Yeesh, alexp may not have thought that one through...
Modifying the articles is going to be difficult, they're all attached to their authors - removing one for not meeting quality standards is completely different from just going in an editing someone else's work.
That whole section is so bad though, I'm conflicted.
:(
@alexp I summon thee from the darkness behind the stars, arise from your slumber and fix your site!
Can you move articles to different sections? RPG 101 should be under Advanced Editor.
Suggesting a minor edit to an article:
Remove how you will eventually be able to turn in points for merchandise, seeing how that is not going to actually happen. You could also add that alex and march don't log on much anymore in the FWW section. Also, in the duels section, it says it's the only way to lose points, but earlier in the article it said you could lose points by getting your storygame unpublished.
Regarding Zikara's Creative Title Page, the information within doesn't really match up with what we tell those who ask in the forums. Because of this, I've started a revision that uses a more CSS-oriented approach. These are some of the big changes I've made so far:
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Here's a bit of a simpler one. In Random Encounters/Events, a couple lines of code are invalid.
In the first block of the Basic section, at one point the := and = operators are switched (and the first line is outside the <pre>). Correction:
%RAND := 1D6 # using a six sided dice to gain a random variable IF %RAND := 3 THEN # if the random variable is 3, 3 being the random encounter %LASTPAGEID = $PAGEID # then remember the current page for future use $DEST := @P30 # the destination is altered to go to the random encounter page, in this case P30
In the first block of the Advanced section, BEGIN and END are missing, and the variable needs to be repeated after AND. Correction:
IF $CHAPTERID = 2 THEN BEGIN %RAND := 2D50 IF $ITEMSTATE01 = 0 THEN IF %RAND > 0 AND %RAND < 10 THEN $DEST := @C3 IF $ITEMSTATE01 = 1 THEN IF %RAND > 0 AND %RAND < 5 THEN $DEST := @C3 END
