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

[senbonzakura]

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.

[Bee]

That could be fun but yeah, it needs people to join in

[katrani]

I think I'd be interested!!! Sounds like fun.

[Wysteria]

Almost definitely interested, pending hearing the premise.

[senbonzakura]

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.

[Wysteria]

Yes, I will chime in to help them be the best runners of shadows they can be.

[Jake]

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.

[senbonzakura]

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. >.> )

[LynKit]

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.

[senbonzakura]

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.