Comments for Choice of Games

Comment on Vote for Our Next Game by Jack

Jack — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:46:31 +0000

I say Choice of the Dragon II, the first one was wonderful, I play it all the time, and I would love to see where it could go.

Comment on 4 Common Mistakes in Interactive Novels by Red Murray

Red Murray — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:50:12 +0000

I’m the opposite of you Simski. I do a lot of writing myself and am fairly familiar with writing short novels/stories and in spite of my fairly adequate computing skills, I can never grasp the code that makes up the choice of games series. I have tried on multiple occasions to create a piece of interactive fiction however each and every time I mess up with changing the names of chapters and stats, as well as adding more. A simple thing to be stuck on I know but it is nonetheless incredibly frustrating. I would appreciate it if someone would comment on what I am doing wrong, because I’m not entirely sure about how to:
a) add stats and change their names, where and what do I change exactly? There are a few documents which contain the statistics for the game but I don’t know how to simply change their names without introducing a huge amount of errors, and
b) adding chapters, basically for the same reason.

Comment on Getting a Mate in “Choice of the Dragon” by Haon

Haon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:40:17 +0000

I got the black dragon to the west, I had 72% cunning, and I did the chess game without cheating. Took me a long time though, since I kept trying to get the black dragon with vigilance instead of cunning (12th try). Thanks for the help.

-Haon

Comment on Announcing “Mobile Armored Marine” by Duck

Duck — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:18:24 +0000

I think there’s a bug in it- Light/Darkness is starting at 5/95, as opposed to 50/50 like it’s supposed to.

Comment on Vote for Our Next Game by Kit

Kit — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:31:57 +0000

Well, Mobster gets my vote.

Comment on Announcing “Mobile Armored Marine” by Jack

Jack — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:04:47 +0000

Really good game. I enjoyed it. Something different for a change.

Comment on Getting a Mate in “Choice of the Dragon” by Iradesca

Iradesca — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:14:26 +0000

I finally got the black dragon, but the luck dragon’s too hard to get. Anybody got an answer? Very desperate…

Comment on By the Numbers: How to Write a Long Interactive Novel That Doesn’t Suck by Lee Edward McIlmoyle

Lee Edward McIlmoyle — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:08:48 +0000

I think I can see the point of both Boolean and Arithmetic solutions to delayed results. That said, while I’ve conceived of at least one or two projects that would work better with a sophisticated set of stats to track individual progress, particularly in a modular story cycle, I think I’d probably plan out the Boolean strings in a mind mapping program before I’d rely too closely on stats alone to do all the grunt work. That said, you folks have finished games, and I haven’t yet, so you have a valid argument against.

Comment on Announcing “Mobile Armored Marine” by Alex

Alex — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:09:28 +0000

Really AWESOME GAME!!!!!!!!!!! Cant wait for the other ones

Comment on 4 Common Mistakes in Interactive Novels by Simski

Simski — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:42:58 +0000

A short but useful article. I’ll have to look into 2) for the game I’m currently writing.
Another mistake could be “Don’t get your spelling and grammar checked”. I think a lot of authors (like myself) aren’t native speakers and thus have some problems with English that could easily be fixed by a proof-reader.