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PAGE LIMITATIONS

8 years ago

Just a few questions about making a storygame...

How many pages can fit in a chapter? Is there any limit? The storygame I plan will need quite a number of pages to fit (mostly for game-playing purposes more so than story-telling).

Also, how many words can fit in a page, and how many chapters can a game have?

PAGE LIMITATIONS

8 years ago

As far as I know there's no limitation on any of it.

PAGE LIMITATIONS

8 years ago

Good to know. Thanks.

 

PAGE LIMITATIONS

8 years ago

There are no limitations to any of things. Or, at least not any practical limitations. Technically, you could put so many words onto a page, or so mny pages in a chapter, or so many chapters in a game, that you would drain the site's memory capabilities. But you will never be able to do that to any noticeable effect. To try doing that would be like trying to make a snail run cross-country. It takes the entire script of an episode of Zero punctuation to take up the space of an NES game, a server is an entire computer, and an entire computer can hold the entire Library of Congress, as well as a Zero-punctuation-sized commentary on every NES game ever made. Letters are like grains of sand, memory-wise. You're asking if there's any chance you'll cause our beach to turn the surrounding island into a desert.

PAGE LIMITATIONS

8 years ago

(Well I guess my plans for World Web domination are bust.)

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

I'm just gonna go ahead and necro this.

What are the short descriptions used for? From what I've seen, they don't show up on any storygame.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

AFAIK, they appear when you mouse-over the link to your storygame.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago
Yeah that sounds about right.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

Doesn't work for me. Is it because I'm using Chrome?

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

I don't think it works on unpublished stories, or straight links to the story. It does show up on the my storygames page, though.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

Tried that. It only shows the full description. Oh well.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

Well, it's not like it matters much :)

SHORT DESCRIPTION

8 years ago

It works for me, but I'm on firefox.