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16641723 No.16641723 [Reply] [Original]

This is a /tg/ genre called CYOA.

>>>/tg/75574285

The format has potential, but the content is lacking. There's barely any plot, no meaningful character. It's just spergy wish fulfilment without resolution. /lit/, how would you make this good?

>> No.16641734

>>16641723
What was the name of this guy again?

>> No.16641743

>>16641734
Brandon Sanderson. King soulless sperg writing fantasy with mechnical magic systems.

>> No.16641758

>>16641723
I already have by running a good quest on >>/qst/ .

>> No.16641761

>>16641723
Isn't that most modern writing?

>> No.16641770

Cool. desu I really would love to try writing CYOA. Maybe I’ll submit something. I would need a QRD on the gestalt I guess tho. I can’t into what’s happening there.

>> No.16641781

>>16641723
>>16641734
Rubyquest. Fuck that.

>> No.16641795

>>16641770
Read Chuck Tingle's CYOA

>> No.16641801

>>16641758
Gib advice pls

>> No.16641805

>>16641723
So is CYOA a thing again? I remeber it in 1995, it was alright, but then there was video games when we weren't in school so... Should writers just start making video games? I mean . . . you know the thing

>> No.16641826
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16641826

>>16641801
Don't be afraid to wing things. Find a careful medium on your response time (neither too long nor too short). Focus more on dialogue than prose (no one is really reading your prose). Use a 3d6 system for a long running quest or a 1d100 system for an improvisational quest or no dice at all for a one-shot.

Here is a one shot I ran:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/44671546/
Here is the longer quest that I ran:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=exterminator+quest

I originally modeled my quest structurally on banished quest but this obviously changed with time.

>> No.16641831
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16641831

>>16641805
Honestly you should steal this idea:
/lit/ pioneers a new genre of highminded literary fiction, a brilliantly reimagined Choose Your Own Adventure series founded in themes of philosophy and literature. It would be metareferential, pseudointellectual, experimental interactive prose written in the 2nd person.

>> No.16641857

>>16641831
CYOA burgerpunk

>> No.16641866

>>16641857
O shi—

>turn to page 69 to 69
>turn to page 420 to 420

>> No.16641879

>>16641826
and the blog of lore, which might be of interest to
>>16641857
>>16641866
as it is cyberpunk with some burgerpunk influences before that was a thing

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>>16641879
https://simmonsqm.tumblr.com/tagged/lore
shit forgot to link it

>> No.16641893

>>16641831
>metareferential, pseudointellectual
So I'm guessing this is a 'do it for the money' idea rather than a 'do it for the art' idea?