Protagonist doesn't decide what branching point will be chosen. Reader does. Yes, reminding the reader that he is not, in fact, a protagonist,...
Ok. Let me try to approach this from a different angle. What reasons writers have to choose 1st or 2nd person in a traditional, linear story?...
Why give a reader a way to determine how story goes in an INTERACTIVE story? Hmmmm. Also, why give the reader absolute power to determine...
Who said that story must have an outline? Or some kind of a charsheet for characters? It is a writing style but it is subjective to consider it...
You offer me to change protagonist's action while I want to explore different reactions to the same protagonist's action. It isn't what I want....
If you play through a game, you have a full right to expect Sally to be the same in all branches, true. You have a full right to expect that the...
It is easy. Sally doesn't exist until she is written. Same goes for her character traits. If in a different branch she is written differently than...
And in some situations, it is completely reasonable that character X can do either A or B or C. How an NPC is different to PC here? By that logic,...
I think there are three types of branching points 1) What protagonist does\decides. (will you ask Katie to have sex?) 2) What are direct...
All RPG are interactive stories but not all interactive stories are RPGs. You seem to want all interactive stories in 1st or 2nd to be RPGs, I...
It is different. If the protagonist in the first person can read everyone else's mind, then it is not really written in the first person, more...
I can't disagree more. 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person are tools, ways to tell the story. We can have a 3rd person story in which branching...
It is unnecessary. Inactive stories go down naturally. What we do need - search filter for the last activity because sortingby activity isn't enough.
I mean something like this Do you do X? Yes (5 more chapters) No (3 more chapters) Yes, eagerly (1 more chapter) It should be optional for...
They may be less likely to enjoy reading about rape written from the male POV but do they enjoy reading\writing about rape in general? Yes, Yes,...
Statistical data is bullshit only when there is no information on how it was gathered. Otherwise, it is a useful tool to observe reality. And it...
39. Warewolf story in which a female protagonist transforms into a male werewolf 40. Mind control story in which the protagonist has 24 hours of...
I wouldn't say that there are more active incest\mind control stories than enf\non-consent. Mind control stories are usually boring because there...
There is a special college that was created for rich and conservative parents, allowing them to send their homosexual sons in hopes to turn them...
Girls knew that they are in trouble when police raided their illegal brothel but they never knew what kind of trouble it is. Those five men had no...
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