Brains Needed: Let's Make A Fanfic! - 01/03/10 08:01 PM
There's a reason I'm posting this here instead of just straight-up Fanfic Related.
FoLCs, how many of you are familiar with the general concept of interactive fiction? A story unfolds, and the reader/viewer actively participates in its telling; maybe even altering the outcome. I want to make an L/C story using such a method.
Now, here's the thing; I have the means to create a Text Adventure/Game. For those of you who need a crash course on what that is, they look something like this:
...For a basic example. Anyway, I'm willing to do all the programming. What I need, though, is *ideas*. What will the story be? What are the puzzles? What major endings will be possible (aside from any standard game-over things such as "The salmon mousse was apparently tainted. You are now dead.")
First things first; basic plots anyone? Shall we have a dangerous, suspensful mystery? A light-hearted dating game? Or something else entirely?
FoLCs, how many of you are familiar with the general concept of interactive fiction? A story unfolds, and the reader/viewer actively participates in its telling; maybe even altering the outcome. I want to make an L/C story using such a method.
Now, here's the thing; I have the means to create a Text Adventure/Game. For those of you who need a crash course on what that is, they look something like this:
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You are locked in a small room. There is a door to the north. Someone has thoughtfully left a key on the floor.
>Take Key, Unlock Door
Taken.
You unlock the door.
>North
You find yourself in the livingroom of a Metropolis brownstone. Clark is here, and he's naked for some reason.
YOU HAVE WON.
>Take Key, Unlock Door
Taken.
You unlock the door.
>North
You find yourself in the livingroom of a Metropolis brownstone. Clark is here, and he's naked for some reason.
YOU HAVE WON.
First things first; basic plots anyone? Shall we have a dangerous, suspensful mystery? A light-hearted dating game? Or something else entirely?
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Project Status:
*Genre: Mystery/Romance
*Player Character: Choice of Lois/Clark
*Main Villain(s): Lex Luthor and/or Bureau 39
Current Project Goal:
*Discuss Plot Ideas.
*Genre: Mystery/Romance
*Player Character: Choice of Lois/Clark
*Main Villain(s): Lex Luthor and/or Bureau 39
Current Project Goal:
*Discuss Plot Ideas.