I'm thinking about doing a reader-driven story-game on here

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I'm thinking about doing a reader-driven story-game on here

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If you've ever been over on Sufficient Velocity in their Quests subforum, you know what this is about.

If you haven't, here's the gist of the idea:

Someone (in this case, me) starts up a story premise and then pauses it at every major decision point for a reader vote. This lets the readers decide what direction the story takes, or at least have input on it. (Often there's a character-creation bit at the beginning so readers can have input for that part, too, but not always.) I'm thinking it might be fun to do something like that, with a regular weekly update.

Sufficient Velocity has a lot of special tools in their forum code for making this as technically easy for everyone as possible, which obviously we don't have, but I think there are few enough people that it would be easy to keep track of all the votes manually so that isn't a big problem.

The question is: would anyone be interested in participating? I don't really want to go through the trouble of coming up with something and starting it if no one winds up voting.
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That could be fun but yeah, it needs people to join in
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I think I'd be interested!!! Sounds like fun.
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Almost definitely interested, pending hearing the premise.

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Wysteria wrote:
Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 11:22 am
Almost definitely interested, pending hearing the premise.
Still chewing on it, but probably something in the revamped Overdraft setting. So, fantasy cyberpunk with vampires, probably following a small team of underground specialists a la shadowrunners.
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Yes, I will chime in to help them be the best runners of shadows they can be.

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I'd be curious to see this. As usual with anything rp-ish, I may have to watch myself for time use, but still curious.

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Jake wrote:
Sun 12 Jul, 2020, 4:56 pm
I'd be curious to see this. As usual with anything rp-ish, I may have to watch myself for time use, but still curious.
It's not really RP at all, it's sort of like a cross between a web serial and a crowdsourced CYOA. Which is to say, I don't think it'd have much risk of being a time suck, since participation would be limited by how often I post new updates, and that would be a maximum of once per week. (Once per week is also my goal but I fully expect to slip on that. >.> )
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YES PLEASE

... Ooh I have like three bouncing around in my head that would be easier with a smaller/more friendly group than SV too.
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LynKit wrote:
Thu 10 Sep, 2020, 7:16 pm
YES PLEASE

... Ooh I have like three bouncing around in my head that would be easier with a smaller/more friendly group than SV too.
You probably want to start with just one, but go for it. We have a dice roller here too if you need it, although I don't think you're so much the dice-roll type for these things.
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