Hello everyone. I'm a long time role player, writer, graphic designer, and coder. I've worked with many development companies that focus on books, apps, board games, card games, and video games. I'm here to hopefully grab some ideas off you community members who spend countless of hours writing stories, and optimizing builds to no end.
I'm currently working on a project that involves similar mechanics to the Inklewriter, from inkle. inkle Ltd is the development company of the Sorcery! saga, and 80 Days, that are published in the Android and iOS app marketplace. Their idea is derived from the famous 'Choose Your Own Adventure' gamebook series that I'm sure most of you are familiar with.
I came here to ask: If you could create any type of writing game, what would it be?
Bump.
Define what you intend the abstract concept 'writing game' to mean, in the common language. It might help those posters who don't have any particular insight into what the jargon and trade-terms of your self-professed industries translate as.
I really don't like writing games. One person adding on to another person's piece of text isn't fun to me. At first I thought your program was a kind of tool for game creation like the one I have used off and on call "A novel Idea" at the App Store. But then it is not Gamer oriented.
Hello everyone. I'm a long time role player, writer, graphic designer, and coder. I've worked with many development companies that focus on books, apps, board games, card games, and video games. I'm here to hopefully grab some ideas off you community members who spend countless of hours writing stories, and optimizing builds to no end.
I'm currently working on a project that involves similar mechanics to the Inklewriter, from inkle. inkle Ltd is the development company of the Sorcery! saga, and 80 Days, that are published in the Android and iOS app marketplace. Their idea is derived from the famous 'Choose Your Own Adventure' gamebook series that I'm sure most of you are familiar with.
I came here to ask: If you could create any type of writing game, what would it be?
If you are serious about getting some community input you should do a few things:
1) Complete your paizo forums profile. Give us a sense of who you are, some links to previous projects, etc. when people ask for professional input on these boards the first place I look is their post count (ie, are they *really* community members in an active sense) and then I look at their profile.
2) Be more specific about what you are seeking. Many people won't understand what that means, and very few will look it up. A quick google search for the term "writing game," reveals a page full of childhood development games, and youth focused games. They seem closer to idea starters for adolescent writer's block. Even adding the term "for adults" didn't tell me much, as I got results like "madlibs," and poetry rearranging magnets.
3) As a continuation of 2, share some games with us that you like the experience of playing, and that got you excited about recreating.
4) Sell us on your input on the project. Are we doing this roots up for you? Tell us about the work you have already done, the framework of the game, and your vision of where it's headed. I understand incorporating ideas into a work-in-progress is more difficult than doing it from the beginning, but great things are made inside constraints not without them. Give us a frame to work with.