Player Comments on The Snake Fiasco
I don't really see the point of any of this. What's the point of the story? Why did you write it? A good story needs something to keep the reader being exactly that: a reader (even if only for the 3000 words you wrote).
What I'd suggest you need is some conflict! A tragic death, an epidemic of savage werewolves, a horrible bully... something other than a snake. There needs to be either a plot or an idea or a character to grip the reader and make them think 'yeah! I need to find out what's going to happen' or 'right, I really need to think about what choice I'm going to make'. I'm not a fan of the whole school thing, though if you're deadset on writing about school (though I'd have thought this site would be an escape for most kids), then maybe try to mix it up with some strange premise or character. I don't know, a school in a completely different culture of aliens, or perhaps something a little more conventional like a school with a big antagonist the MC hates.
You're writing style needs a little work, though there was some decent description of the snake. It's a little 'You do this... You do that'. An excerpt:
"You its dark black head and ivory green eyes. You jump and bolt without even a second look. You see their is a door to..." It's pretty evident once you read it out loud, so try doing that when you proof read. Also, there's an incorrect use of 'their'; you need the once I just used as your one implies possession.
Talking of proofreading, there were a few mistakes. Nothing too bad, but I wouldn't expect anything below 10000 words that's had any real effort put into it to have any spelling mistakes, if not syntax and grammatical ones. For example:
"You are running while yelling no at the top of your lungs." You need to put 'no' in speech marks, or preferably have it separate from the description because it sounds a little eugh running in the middle of the sentence.
I also thought there was some weird wording. For example:
- "You see it sharing its venom with you." What, like some lunch? What a thoughtful snake! Maybe something along the lines of this would be better: 'As the snake's fangs puncture deep into your forearm, your scream rings out sharply. Thrashing, you dislodge the creature as the venom works deep into your veins.' Sure, that's probably a bit more graphic than what you were going for, but you need something a bit more exciting here.
"...seeing the snake prancing." I don't think snakes really... prance?
"He hold of a odd contraction..." I'm not really sure what this actually means, but it's almost certainly bad wording seeing as I can't actually understand the words.
Still, keep working at it! I just think the whole school genre is a little dull personally. It's certainly not the worst I've seen and there's always time to improve so don't worry about it, even if my criticism might sound a bit harsh!
2/8
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AzBaz
on 6/19/2017 1:05:00 PM with a score of 0
It is an alright story though snakes were largely absent from it, some foreboding signs and hints of what is to come would have added tension (Snakes on a Plane has good ideas for this). My favourite part is your blurb in which you told a community of people who are here because they enjoy reading and writing story games exactly what a story game was :) Even among the general public I suspect it's not such a novel idea now but it's good to see your level of enthusiasm :D Overall I quite enjoyed this and the writing was good.
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Will11
on 11/9/2014 11:37:13 PM with a score of 0
I played through the whole game and found that the endings were all slightly altered versions of three or so basic endings. Which made it quite boring after a while.
The sentences were monotonous, much lie the story, and there were some grammar and spelling errors throughout.
Still, there is effort put into this; so if the author is still around, I encourage him to keep practicing.
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Cricket
on 2/25/2019 2:39:22 PM with a score of 0
its...okay...i guess... what were you smoking when you got the idea for it? I gave it a four because i did it instead of homework and it was literally only slightly mor fun. it was too short. A long complex tale with a backstory would have upgraded this significantly.
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— TheSensei on 2/22/2019 5:43:58 PM with a score of 0
I love this story
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— Edan on 2/22/2019 10:14:48 AM with a score of 0
Nothing much to say. It was really typical and nothing out of the ordinary. But other than that, it was good work!
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Anastasia
on 2/22/2019 9:25:46 AM with a score of 0
what.... get in trouble with u mom???? Snakes and cook out?? i know murderers that eat there. God thats so disrespectful i mean like a girl died after her boyfriend ate cookout sauce and shot her. IT MAKES U CRAZY. OMG NEVER GET IN SOMEONES TRUNK. U ARE LEGIT ENCOURAGING PPL TO GET THEMSELVES KIDNAPPED. BOOM. DROP THE MIC.
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— bootygurl69 on 2/20/2019 5:57:34 AM with a score of 0
1/8 I feel a little more autistic after reading this.
Obviously this writer really likes the word, "water."
You had so many errors I started making a comedy out of it.
To summarize this "story" can be broken down into three main themes.
1:I'm afraid of Snakes < (All the character development)
2:"School" if you could even call it that.
3:I like painting with water.
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Multiverse
on 2/19/2019 2:12:23 AM with a score of 0
no point in this story kind of easy to
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Davefaster
on 2/18/2019 12:50:16 PM with a score of 0
meh
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Geordie
on 2/15/2019 4:05:56 AM with a score of 0
This story was okay but very short. There were a few typos but that was it.
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Faervel
on 2/7/2019 9:34:07 PM with a score of 0
On the nomnom scale you receive a meh! I like the many different outcomes, and it was fun to see what happened to yourself each time. The only problem was that for me at least it was a little short and I wish there could have been some dialogue? Well, beggars can't be choosers... Keep up the good work!
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Cake_Oi
on 1/29/2019 9:23:35 PM with a score of 0
OK. Kind of humdrum.
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Quorrah
on 12/24/2016 6:09:03 PM with a score of 0
Boring.
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madmax
on 6/23/2016 3:56:04 PM with a score of 0
I suppose I should be happy it's a school-based story is that's not linear.
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AllThatIsGold
on 1/10/2016 5:37:17 PM with a score of 0
Many grammatical errors
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atmosbolt
on 11/10/2015 4:34:20 PM with a score of 0
Boring. I could've fallen asleep after the first page. Please improve or unpublish this.
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Creature
on 4/17/2015 3:39:29 AM with a score of 0
Good gamr liked that there was a storyline along with it and you told us a little bit about the character so we could kinda act as if we were them. Thanks!
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kylebucnner
on 4/16/2015 7:32:35 PM with a score of 0
I'm surprised that, after being published for almost a year, this game has only three comments.
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jamescoker1226
on 4/4/2015 11:14:02 PM with a score of 0
I played through all the possible choices. It was a really good game. I don't see why you get paralyzed in a body part sometimes though. I like some of the endings though. Overall it was a really good story.
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warriorcats64
on 2/10/2015 9:56:54 PM with a score of 0
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