I've written many erotic stories (and adult interactive games) and I was planning on writing my first CYOA game. After googling, I found this site, and began writing my tale. However I have a few questions. What is the difference between a private and public story? Does private mean only I can see it? Or does it just mean no one else can edit it? Does public mean everyone can see it? Or does it mean anyone can edit it? I wasn't really planning on creating a story for others to edit, but definitely wanted to share it when it was done. I apologize if this is explained somewhere, but if it was I couldn't find it. Thanks!
That answers my question perfectly thank you! One more question... when I have enough of it done that I want people to start reading it, how do I release the story? The status currently says "pending".
Just to clarify: Private means that only you can contribute to the story. Public means everyone can add threads. In both cases you stay the owner of the story and can decide which threads should be accepted or not.
Welcome! One of the reasons I'm on Chyoo/Chyoa is my enjoyment of AIF but frustration with programming. Hope you have fun!
Cool, have you played any of my games? I've also run out of steam when it comes to the programming side of AIF and had turned to non-interactive stories. However, I had been keeping my eye out for something that could still add interactivity without all the headache inducing coding. I'm enjoying working with Chyoa so far.
I do believe I've played Camp Windy Lake once upon a time. You may find SwampThing's Slut World an interesting model for CYOA as an adaptation of Apocalypse World/Dungeon World/ Monsterhearts mechanics. Linking threads may also support a CYOA game style with diverging, converging and looping flows. I wonder if Twine might be a happy medium for individual CYOA games these days.
On the page where you add a new thread, there is a field between "follow-up question" and "guidelines" called "add a tag"
They show up on the thread immediately, but a periodic background job indexes them, listing them on the story cover page and making them available for search. In the past I've had trouble locating tagged threads via search when a story lists a tag but I'm unable to find the actual threads. It also takes a couple of extra steps in Advanced Search to narrow down to the specific story. I've been thinking the link for the tag on the story cover page should search out the threads in the story that are tagged rather than do a global tag search by story.
OMG! I remember Camp Windy Lake! I loved your games chriscole! Big fan! Now I gotta look up your stories.
