No, I don't play shit games without evil women. >b-but there's a demon and you can refuse to banish them and they said they would come back
Not enough.
it won't really be redemption, he's just got a soft spot for the naive idiot who thinks theres good in everyone (theres not)
4 months ago
Anonymous
No, absolutely not. This is how it always starts, first a soft spot, then they ask you to stop torturing captives, then to aim to wound instead of kill, then to be nicer to people and make friends, then to help them to save the world and before you know it you're using the hard earned strength you gained from devouring hundreds of souls to help unwashed peasants solve disputes about chicken ownership. The corrupting fruit of good must be torn up by the roots and the ground it spawned from salted so that nothing may rise for 9 generations.
4 months ago
Anonymous
look, the plan right now is having him act as the bregruding apprentice of a dark mage thats up to dark mage stuff. so a couple quests/missions are gonna end up with you guys running into eachother or him causing the problem. he's still going to cause those problems at high playerdesire, He's just gonna be a bit hesitant on hurting naive good squires, doubly so if they are younger, reminds him too much of the siblings he lost. So he'll just run away after setting that village alight so he doesn't have to deal with you confronting him for his actions. He's still going to be a selfish cyincal prick if you romance him as a good or good adjacent MC, he just won't invite you to the village razing and try to hide it from you. I don't want to get ahead of myself but I wouldn't be against making a more butthole manipulative squire that he could respect as a fellow butthole.
You can make a hero girl become a disillusioned villain, you can make a sweaty nerdy villain girl a murderer, you can make Honeypot worse to the point she kills herself.
Your childhood friend is already fricked up and dependent so much she would excuse you murdering children, but I guess that still kinda counts.
Evil twink is ultraevil anyway, and there's a batman-esque dude who's an incorruptible wall of stone but willing to frick evil-ness out of you.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>willing to frick evilness out of you
Based that's what I wanted heinrix to try to do in RT if you went heretic and where flirting with him
4 months ago
Anonymous
I'm not gay, but I went 100% into making a dude I, as a straight man, would want to date, so he drives a hi-tech Akira-style bike which turns into an armor suit so you can be biker bros.
Now I feel like I'm starting to feel attraction to men.
Based can you have a harem?
No, harems are weeb fantasy.
But you can romance multiple people simultaneously and have people cry/cut off your balls then they find out.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>No, harems are weeb fantasy.
I think there were people whining about that exact thing on the Auraclash thread when cultivator-anon said you could have multiple romances but it's not poly shit.
But on a side note, what the frick is CoG's obsession with poly shit? They way they talk, you'd think every single one of them was in some degenerate San-Franciso Polycule, they're obsessed with that crap and have a fit whenever a game doesn't have it.
4 months ago
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>But on a side note, what the frick is CoG's obsession with poly shit? They way they talk, you'd think every single one of them was in some degenerate San-Franciso Polycule, they're obsessed with that crap and have a fit whenever a game doesn't have it.
They don’t want to admit it but polys and all the gender bullshit is 1000% sexual for them. They get off to the idea of sharing partners and being called something that isn’t what they actually are.
4 months ago
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>I went 100% into making a dude I, as a straight man, would want to date >Now I feel like I'm starting to feel attraction to men.
you've fallen for a classic blunder, there's a reason cultivator-anon didn't write gay romance with not!jesus and nickydicky cut his tang rou homomancy before it got to a sex scene.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Based can you have a harem?
4 months ago
Anonymous
Are the romances primarily going to be making everyone worse, or can I be a dirty "hey maybe killing children is wrong" moralgay.
4 months ago
Anonymous
You can fix people. Honeypot is *the* redemption route.
Why would Honeypot kill herself? I want her worse(which actually means better but people have shit taste), not dead.
Cause on the inside she's a nice person who can't enjoy atrocities and if you push her farther she'll just hate herself.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Hmm, guess we're just incompatible then. People should stop pretending to be things they aren't.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Why would Honeypot kill herself? I want her worse(which actually means better but people have shit taste), not dead.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Cringe
4 months ago
Anonymous
>you can make Honeypot worse to the point she kills herself.
Like her name entails, I guess she was too sweet for the villain life. But when you bumble into evil doing you gotta take the stings as well.
4 months ago
Anonymous
You better let us be the cheeseiest fricking superhero in our interactions with her HoneypotAnon.
Katerina romance and money, I think. I've heard that the romance progression is scuffed or impossible if you don't agree to do the SM, and 2K (don't ransom the teenage girl, dragoon, don't be a moron) give a pretty decent headstart in Lords.
Eh, the only canonical Cazarosta pussy? I would much rather frick her brother instead, but I just bet Wang would call it a power fantasy before writing another Patreon article about Juan's hot filipino Kiam wife.
If you're a god-forsaken salt coaster, romancing Katerina means you'll be becoming both Earl of Leoniscourt and Castermaine. Some people think that'll let you eventually become a Salt Coast duke, but I doubt it.
Funny thing, Leoniscourt is in all practical effects a Duchy, but because they were the Kingdom that opposed the unification the most when they were eventually defeated by the Rendower, they turned Leoniscourt in a Earldom instead of a Duchy as a punishment
Personally, I have a mental illness where I find that kind of character attractive. Two shades too brown for me but nothing I cannot fix with "the power of my imagination".
Yeah, she reveals to you that the CIrcle wanted to have their (wo)man in the army and so they decided to have Garret join the most unremarkable of the regiments.
Except then Blogia happened and the Dragoons got big and she kinda got stuck there.
How do you get access to the infinity forums? I need to ask Wang if we can turn down Leoniscourt as a Wulframite. I don't want any part of the S**t Coast
>Not a single one of the protesters is wearing a head covering. It's obscene to see so many assembled like this, and you have to suppress the urge to look away.
mattering to fricking *royalty* if it was some common scrub who cares if they are ace,But royalty is not going to go "yeah I'm not having kids" and no one in the court objects. even If I find the Idea of ace ROs a bit weird, just let the relationship be platonic then
That's the real kicker, there's a word for "aromantic relationships", it's called a friend. And most of these ROs make awful friends. Why aren't they helping me sacrifice my enemies? Why aren't they stealing shit for me? Why aren't they trash talking my opponents to a sick rap beat before the duel?
4 months ago
Anonymous
>a real friend would be helping me sacrifice these smucks to the dark gods right now!!
though you are right, cyoas are lacking a good amount of bro characters. Damn I wasn't even thinking of a bro for my wip. I have a good idea for rival, mentor(ish), dude that has bad news written all over him, but no bro
4 months ago
Anonymous
You have the childhood friend from Aura Clash.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I can never forgive him for needing to take time for his family/career instead of finishing the update for this sunday. The west has fallen. Billions must die.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>That's the real kicker, there's a word for "aromantic relationships", it's called a friend >>No no no anon, it’s NOT friendship, it’s more then that. >so it’s a close friendship >>NO. It’s MORE then a simple friendship. >so there’s some kind of romantic component to it
Autistic screeching commences.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Hate to be that guy, but aromantic and asexual aren't the same thing. Hell, asexual doesn't even mean you don't enjoy sex, paradoxically enough. Most of these CoGgers don't know or care to acknowledge that little factoid tho.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>aromantic and asexual aren't the same thing
Kill everyone who claims to be either. Fricking zhe/zhum whatasexual morons, there was never any need to go beyond straight/bi/gay.
>boohoo but I want to be super special and unique
Why can't you just be a chuuni like a normal person? Please, stop making it about sex and start pretending you have special eye powers, there is no need for this nonsense.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>there was never any need to go beyond straight/bi/gay.
I mean, some people straight up don't have a functioning libido, but yeah I agree for the most part it's nonsensical bullshit.
4 months ago
Anonymous
that's a disorder, not a sexual orientation (and asexual doesn't mean you can't frick, just that you don't want for whatever reason)
A woman needing to get married and continue her family's bloodline is very toxic to modern day standards ergo you should make her asexual and intent on staying childless to fight back against such old fashioned ideas
The old demo was pretty good. The contrast between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang as leaders was done really well I think. Though much could've changed in all those years and I'm still curious why CoG decided against pulbishing it under their CoG brand.
>Lord Renard nods, "Which is why you didn't let any of our men join it." >You nod back. "We may share common cause with evil men, but so long as we remain righteous in our own conduct, we cannot be counted among them
oh boy that is some camus level reasoning.
good night cyoa gen, another day wasted without touching my laptop that I want to install openSuse on and another day where I didn't even Look at what little I've written while daydreaming ideas.
There are western cultivation stories written by white people. The idea originates from Chink Xianxia (basically their version of high fantasy). The basic idea is that through training and meditation mortal people can become immortal.
You're in a cult filled with sex pests, my guy. You're going to get into some shit eventually no matter how hard you try to dodge it, so better to have the biggest b***h in your corner in preparation, especially with Droznik's psycho yanhomosexual lashing out nonsense.
I also don't like that we have to tolerate Droznik, I pick the option where I don't care about him and he still keeps showing up and talking to me like we're buddies. The bug where the game always makes you bi halfway through because the dev forgot to end the scene properly still exists.
But Astoria is the biggest sex pest of all, as soon as her vampire no emotions cooldown runs down she's 100% jumping us.
Eh, if anything it's her dampened emotions debuff that's letting her act so bold, were normally she'd only be able to have short conversations with us. Barring that one time she was about to die/get vamped, while we're being involved in some scheme with the Strays.
4 months ago
Anonymous
So she's shy?
4 months ago
Anonymous
It's one way to interpret why she hasn't made any moves until the game started.
Now if only the writer would write faster so we could finally find out what's the big deal with her and everything else
I liked what I saw in the demo but I can't see how zaper will wrap everything up satisfactorily without a sequel, given that it's slated to be released this year and that the wip is already 70% of the story according to him. It seems like a pretty ambitious story considering all the plot threads and variables for your choices so far, the prologue even implies it will be years in-universe between now and the ending. I am already expecting massive time skips which is grim but the most realistic option at this point.
I really didn't want it to be another sequel bait, but shit I can't talk about happened and I had to make some adjustments. Pic-related is the planned final chapter, and then there's a big epilogue that ties into the prologue.
>rattlebag (if alive)
hahaha nah I killed that dude, too risky to keep him alive. Made sure to keep it clean too, went along with flit's plan until I was alone with him and dusted him.
Just to clarify, the image is about the new planned ending. Not sure if I made that clear in the original post. The first game will have that + the lengthy epilogue. What I had to cut from it were some parts before that, and some parts after. Put together, those are enough for a new game or, at least, a free DLC down the line.
>nowriters can't even finish their plot in a single game
lol
uhh but how am I supposed to finish my medieval fantasy game without dedicating a whole game to ayyliens
Well thanks for warning us at least kek, I'll calibrate my expectations accordingly. Personally I'd still rather wait for a sequel than see a rushed story considering the scope of the game. Even if it will be literal years between this and the wftw sequel.
>At this point, I'm almost prepared to love ATOH just because I see the way people talk about it. (...)As if they can't understand why their comments won't make the authors change their mind instead of doubling down even more. I mean... who wouldn't? I would, if I faced this kind of criticism. Who would want to change their story to suit that kind of comments? I would probably go on to write the greatest cucking simulator known to man just to spite them...
Uhhh...Malinsisters?
I haven't heard of it and haven't seen people around here talking about it. Just which group of people is this author mad at, I just naturally assumed it was us again.
It was brought up here a few times mostly in relation to the MC being basically a side-character sidelined by the author's OC and the said OC even having a fake RO that will always end up going for him in the end
A Tale of Heroes, Juan's capeshit game.
Apparently there's some drama surrounding it at the moment because redditors out of all people decided they hate it and have to bully Juan with endless shitposting about it.
That moron is talking about A Tale of Heroes, I think.
The moron in question is the Fallen Hero author FYI
>defending Juan’s selfinsert cuck fantasies >if everybody HATES what you’re doing, just DOUBLE DOWN
Is Sidestep confirmed to just be Malin at this point?
everyone hates on atoh for the cuck stuff (rightly so) but theres a lot of other issues plaguing it >boring story >mechanically bare-bones >no interesting powers, just general enhancements of human physique and shooting lasers from fingers >no variation at all, both in the overall plot and the little things, might as well be reading a book >characters are forgettable at best and insufferable at worst
it just not good
>boring story
That's its biggest sin tbh, I had to downright force myself to play it till the end of the demo just to see if the ROs might be cute enough to make up for things (as I wasn't yet aware about the cuckening issue and was intrigued over it having so much art) and just found the plot and especially the MC boring as hell.
The cucking stuff is just the easiest to shitpost about.
How primitive the game is rather funny when the author called Tally Ho/Jolly Good bad mechanically because, uhhhhhh, you can't see everything on one playthrough in your CYOA game
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than writing a female RO in a text game. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are writing a girl for at least a year solely so she can go and get ravaged by another player. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little girl - coming up with her backstory, her dialogue, making sure she had a nice personality, fleshing her out, describing her. All of it has one simple result: the character is more enjoyable for the players that will eventually frick her in every hole.
Made the perfect RO? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random player who had nothing to do with the way she was written, who at least paid for the game. He gets to frick her tight pussy every night. He gets the benefits of her kind and sweet personality that came from the way you wrote her.
As a man who writes a female RO, you are LITERALLY dedicating sometimes years of your life simply to raise a girl for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
in the game I'm making there will be unavoidable ntr, your RO will get stolen by my self insert and there's nothing you'll be able to do about it
not saying the name of my wip so now you'll have to live in fear of getting cucked for every wip you'll read
>if Classical is your favorite genre, MC calls Droznik out for confessing to them by singing Zu Hilfe, when Papageno & Papagena from the same opera would've been vastly superior >PAPAGENO: Are you now completely loyal to me? >PAPAGENA: Now I am completely loyal to you! >PAPAGENO: So now be my dear little wife! >PAPAGENA: So now be the little dove of my heart! >PAPAGENO & PAPAGENA: >What joy would it be >If the gods think of us >Bestow children to our love >Such dear little children! >PAPAGENO: First a little Papageno! >PAPAGENA: Then a little Papagena! >PAPAGENO: Then another Papageno! >PAPAGENA: Then another Papagena! >PAPAGENO: Papageno! >PAPAGENA: Papagena!
Man, he really fricked that up. Also Church girls are lewd
Who? Never heard of him, wasn't he the guy who tripped and fell down the stairs into a knife in the middle of the road and then got run over by a car? I also heard he was a revolutionary, you know how those types are.
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Anonymous
marmaduke and I are pals and It'll be easy as pie to convince him to hand the title over, he's just not built for that kind of role in life, poor chap should just retire with my sloppy seconds
Just because aura clash won't pander to my yuri femdom fetish doesn't mean that I won't buy it, assuming it does comes out for purchase. It's already shaping up to be one of the best cyoas ever made, I'd have to be a moron to drop the game just because of no yuri. Besides, it still panders to my ruthless athletic women beating up and killing their enemies fetish so whatever.
how are you going to squeeze that pateron money if you actually do things in a timely fashion??? don't tell me your actually passionate and want to write a story for the sake of telling a story!
Making something takes a lot of time and effort.
Saying “I can read quicker then you can write” is moronic, of course you can. If you couldn’t, then I’d be deeply concerned.
>The main reason to involve MC in the main plot is supposed to be figuring out a way to free your deadbeat brother from prison >Players complain that they don't see why they should care about freeing the brother >The author adds an option to go "uhhh I actually don't really want to save him" every time that plot point is brought up >Which impacts absolutely nothing >Nothing else is changed
bro couldn't even detect the bomb 0/10 government agent should be fired Immediately. I forgot but was nick out of range of the MC when they got highjacked? or did that just happen under his nose
Choices that just do not fit with the story being told should never be added, no matter how much readers may clamor for it, it would be like the Dragoon saying he wants to drop everything and run off to Kian, or ITFO MC going on about how he should've abandoned his family to get b***hes in the countryside when that will never actually be an option that comes up in story
That was actually supposed to be one of the possible routes in Lords before Wang actually got to making it and downsized the thing. It's kinda funny how there's still left-over foreshadowing for it in Guns, same as the Gentleman Inventor path.
>Players complain that they don't see why they should care about freeing the brother >The author adds an option to go "uhhh I actually don't really want to save him" every time that plot point is brought up >Which impacts absolutely nothing
Wouldn't the correct answer be to give the MC more reasons as to why they should save your deadbeat brother. Or if you are deadset on keeping things as is give the player an in universe reason as to why this is something they HAVE to do? Adding meaningless choices seems to just tell the player that your choices and decisions don't matter even if other choices do.
All the 2 sliders I've seen are just a single variable.displayed as opposed_pair. In the text itself you can define a middle ground, but as far as the stat page goes the opposed_pair can't do that. You can kinda do something as a workaround like making a 1-way slider that changes the text conditionally, though.
It's fine? Characters shouldn't be forced to stay stay quiet and reserved when their character development is about them getting over that, just because they were like that when the player first waifued them
>he doesn't romance autistic nerdy girl who barely speaks but becomes overly talkative once she's comfortable with you also during sex
That right there seems like actions of a homosexual gay man.
Personalities don't do 180s precisely because people are not two dimensional anime stereotypes.
>ROs exists only to be ROs, and not characters who grow as the plot goes on
Miss me with that shit
Then give me the option to dump them, if I pick the shy useless RO and she suddenly turns into a girlboss halfway through or the emotionless character suddenly starts acting like a hormonal teenager I'm no longer interested. Why would I continue to be invested in a character if the things I liked about them got reversed in the name of "character development"? If I pick the whiny b***h it's because I want the whiny b***h, if I pick the murderprostitute it's because I want the murderprostitute, if I pick the bawd then I want the bawd, if I pick the teacher's pet then I want the teacher's pet.
>Personalities don't do 180s precisely because people are not two dimensional anime stereotypes.
Different people act differently depending on who they are interacting with. >Then give me the option to dump them
That is fair.
Based. Now the real question is if you will request it anonymously or not.
I will publish it on the patreon for all to see.
I'm stubborn and would like to use Gvim instead of Notepad++, and I'm even lucky enough that some cogers wrote a .vim file for syntax highlighting, but I dunno how to implement it with Gvim. I might just use wine with notepad++ because vim's file autism gives me a headache sometimes.
Just use vscode, linuxbro, there's an extension for choicescript which has everything needed.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>publish it for all to see
ludo kino
4 months ago
Anonymous
alright yeah,I probably will use vscode,thanks for letting me know. It's a bit heavy of an IDE but its not like I use my linux machine for anything else, I've got a separate windows PC for games and the like.
I'm stubborn and would like to use Gvim instead of Notepad++, and I'm even lucky enough that some cogers wrote a .vim file for syntax highlighting, but I dunno how to implement it with Gvim. I might just use wine with notepad++ because vim's file autism gives me a headache sometimes.
the plot kinda falls apart in my opinion because only the most zealous of hunters wouldn't side with the thinbloods and outnumber the bad vampire like 7 to 1. Only the stupidest of characters wouldn't realize they are being played by the normal vamp.
5e is notoriois effeminate. Old WoD was 90s leftwing which is to the right of Trump, new WoD decided that meant it should be modern leftwing so it's about gay muslim immigrants fighting white supremacy to such a moronic degree that they deleted the sabbat because you can't have actual bad guys when the game needs to be about tearing down traditions instead. Also, they just ignored/forgot/retconned that most methuselah are brown not white so its a brown supremacy issue. On top of that, they think 150 is an elder because they erased the Fledgeling->Neonate->Ancillae->Elder->Methuselah hierarchy terms. 150 is a neonate in most of europe and the middle east, not even the stage below an elder.
Everything else coming off as odd is a symptom of the writer's continued lunacy.
inbued are also just plain cooler and feel more interesting than "its the inquisition again". I like it when hunters feel sparse and seperated from eachother, eaching having their own view on the hunt and what they should do to contribute
>I wouldn't frick the figure of power I rely on
Of course YOU wouldn't, you're a man, but for women that's the default state in every society throughout all of time.
What would Honeypots reaction to the puns Bee? I can imagine her reaction being dependent on if we are saying it with actual Venom and mockery or we are just cracking wise as Heroes tend to do. Would how we say it be tied to a stat, or a choice that basically asks us what we think of Honeypot.
I would love it if honeypot is trying to be some cute aspiring villian trying to prove "I can be a big bad guy too" but we just never take her seriously as a threat and go easy on her,which causes her to want to prove herself even more.
I would say a choice personally because in stat based games I often end up as the opposite of what I wanted to be
I played Creme de la Creme recently and I was failing all my nerd checks while I could bash anyone but I was intending to be a Hermione knockoff basically
The sucky thing about writing IF with a lot of choices is that you can write a frickton of words, but at the same time barely move a scene because most of what you've written is choice specific. It's gonna be painful if I'll cut away a lot of stuff once I'm on the editing phase.
Honeypot's whole thing is, she's trying to be serious and cool, but is actually a complete moron.
She'll be offended by jokes, but eventually'll open up and become more corny herself. >Would how we say it be tied to a stat, or a choice that basically asks us what we think of Honeypot
I don't wanna spoil, but there's a specific trait interaction which will instantly get a lot of positive relationship with Honeypot and some other characters, and it is indeed tied to a pun. It's one of those things you pick kinda randomly and then it comes back in a satisfying (I hope) way.
>first point
yeah thats why my schizo stories are never going to be published unless against my will by children >second point
listen i will stalk you and beat you if i cant play the way i want to, okay bastard? i don't want to but you're the one that said i'm a brute in my seething about creme de la creme okay
stat based cyoa's are almost always shit
if you reckon you're the fella that can do it you can try but i'm a stalker and will beat you if i don't like it, and i can't think of any stat based cyoa i've liked
I fricking love those kind of characters. I tried to play a neutral evil young necromancer in a game of dnd with my friends who's whole shtick was that he wanted to be the coolest and evilest necromancer but he's softer/more childish than he likes to admit. He named all of his 3 zombies larry barry and garry or something similar to that with a rhyming scheme. I didn't get to do much with him before he got killed off by the dm though, haven't really played with those guys after that. Laharl from disgaea is also a great example of a character that puts on a big show and acts more evil than he really is. can we give honeypot a nickname and refuse to call her by her actual name?
basically one of the druids- the one that was ok with me being a necromancer as long as he got to put plants and shit in my zombies/skeletons has a pet hermit crab or some other small crustacean that could eat magical Items and gems and gain their powers. So one night while camping in a tower my guy decided that the crab had too much potential to become a big threat in the future, and tried to assassinate it with his skeletons. It did not go well, the crab summoned hounds that alerted the rest of the party, He fled with haste and would have gotten away too if the dm didn't decide that all the commotion woke up the giant skelton god lich thing that previously gave me a magical Item and was sleeping in the graveyard nearby. He used his dm powers to grab my character and the others and proceeded to kill my character and another players character who stuck up for my character iirc.
>So one night while camping in a tower my guy decided that the crab had too much potential to become a big threat in the future, and tried to assassinate it with his skeletons.
Dick move but holy shit your DM was worse by a wide margin. >He used his dm powers to grab my character and the others and proceeded to kill my character and another players character who stuck up for my character
Not only did he intervene when he didn't need to in order to frick you over. He fricked over the other players who had your back. The DM should of just let you run and deal with the consequences of your actions.
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Anonymous
yeah in retrospect i shouldn't have escalated to killing the crab. My character was already on thin ice with the party because they found some starved/expirmented on hounds in the towers basement, and at the time it was just him and the druid that didnt like him. He tried to convince the druid to put the hounds out of their misery, with the ulterior motive of turning their corpses into his own pack. Unfortunately for him the druid can talk with animals and the hounds did NOT want to be put down. He then tried to knock out the druid before they could free the hounds and send them to the druids domain. It didn't go great iirc. I haven't played with those guys in a while because I want to try different systems and they very much like to stick to 5e
4 months ago
Anonymous
You actually sound terrible and I wouldn't want to play with you.
>they very much like to stick to 5e
Nevermind, I would die fighting by your side to keep them out of this world.
4 months ago
Anonymous
He was neutral evil, but regardless I've learned my lesson on fighting the party. Recently I've gotten a physical copy of hunter the reckoning 1E and am trying to organize some (unrelated)friends to play
4 months ago
Anonymous
>He then tried to knock out the druid >Also used force to try and kill another players pet
I deem you as bad player. Hopefully you learnt not to attack other players or their pets unless it's agreed upon beforehand OOC
>coolest and evilest necromancer but he's softer/more childish than he likes to admit
That's an unironically cool character concept. Honeypot is more of Zuko type of character, who got gaslighted by herself and her environment into thinking she's edgy. >can we give honeypot a nickname and refuse to call her by her actual name?
Bro I don't know I've started writing the thing last week...
no i've got slavic blood instead of mexican blood
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stat based cyoa's are almost always shit
if you reckon you're the fella that can do it you can try but i'm a stalker and will beat you if i don't like it, and i can't think of any stat based cyoa i've liked
My cyoa is stat heavy, but it's not stat based. Most checks have multiple different pass conditions/success levels, so you don't have to max the same thing at every point and expected to jack-of-all-trades it.
Stats are mostly for flavours anyway, alternate content is unlocked by actual story decisions, not by having arbitrary charm value.
How much do you intend to charge for the game anyways?
It's going to be free forever.
I might consider patreon for the porn comissions money down the line.
>I might consider patreon for the porn comissions money down the line.
KoFi might be better, I hear you get more money that way and don't have to worry about patron randomly deciding to kill you.
how can you expect people to trust you if you dont accept payment Black person
I haven't failed you, anon.
Also due to the nature of some content in my game selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license.
>It's going to be free forever.
Just so you know, I am going to check and find the crypto miner you are bundling in with the CYOA.
But wouldn't it be more funny to have a honeypot in a game with Honeypot?
>It's going to be free forever.
On one hand, I fricking kneel.
On the other, I have to wonder if you’ll be motivated to finish it without the guaranteed incentive that is charging a price for it. You have a decent pace going, but I can’t help but be skeptical.
Don't worry, I'll finish it, promise 2 more books in the series and then fricking disappear from the face of the earth.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Also due to the nature of some content in my game selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license
Banging jailbait honeypot CONFIRMED
4 months ago
Anonymous
>it turns out honey pot was a fed plant the entire time, there to lure out "heroes" such as this anon that would do unscrupulous things to young villians
4 months ago
Anonymous
>hags >young
4 months ago
Anonymous
yeah well i'm sure you can accept donations on an unrelated patreon account
dont get me wrong, i'm not gonna give you my fricking shekels
unless i actually really like it
but i shan't trust you if you won't accept my shekels at all
4 months ago
Anonymous
>selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license.
Have you considered Twine?
>It's going to be free forever.
On one hand, I fricking kneel.
On the other, I have to wonder if you’ll be motivated to finish it without the guaranteed incentive that is charging a price for it. You have a decent pace going, but I can’t help but be skeptical.
>The pandering is really obtuse
It is anon, but this is a WoD game published by CoG, there was no chance it would be anything but the most moronic ham-fisted pandering ever.
>sex positive feminist friendly porn studio
that part is even worse
i fricking hate dumb fricks pretending the sex industry is anything but human trafficking and rape of drugged up poors
A crown of sorcery and steel is far more bearable when your gaslighting everyone into thinking your doing your best and helping, when in reality you've been making the party fail at every turn while romancing both the elf and the queen
The PC has the highest potential in this entire realm of existence, thus he will be useful to her forever. By the time she decides to betray him, if she ever does, it will be too late. >Arsenic in the tea again, honey? You know that doesn't do anything to me >Another bomb in the food? Please stop, you know those give me a light stomachache
You're right since dicky is a homosexual but also I don't think there's any other way to slowly gouge your way inside Mei Mei's heart at this point. You have to appear to be useful enough to be able to help her with her problems and your relationship good enough she won't think it's too moronic letting you keep living despite being terrified of you. If you started Aizening things up visibly she'd do the smart thing and try to remove a future problem. We must slowly over the course of many years wear down her defenses and build a sense of trust until we can finally strike and compromise her beliefs.
>If you started Aizening things up visibly she'd do the smart thing and try to remove a future problem.
I bet this will happen at some point. Somebody will find out about your "condition" and try to have you whacked before you eat them.
>all those qa entries
Write the fricking game you homosexual, holy shit. What makes you think that instead of putting this information inside the game it'd be better in a separate place?
>AI is already at the level of an average CoGger author.
I disagree, it doesn't matter how good they right when they don't have enough tokens to keep track of the story. Hallucinations will also have to be completely solved as well, as you don't want an AI to hallucinate a choice you didn't make or an event that never happened. The token bit might eventually be solved with integration with MAMBA but I haven't heard anything about a surefire way to prevent hallucinations.
You can't have your AI failing to tell a good story in a purely story driven experience. For personal preference, I would also prefer to support a human to AI for no other reason that storytelling being something humans have done since the dawn of time and I would like humans to continue that tradition.
>Broken Fable was actually kinda fun during the flashback section to the chosen hero's backstory >becomes incredibly eh the moment it came to the common route
welp
also Ishtar best origin
I've been thinking about it, and I know some anon's would really like it, but uhh what do you guys think of the possibility of being an evil bastard and slowly breaking down sir galahad? Thinking of having a scenario where you stumble upon a young innocent(enough) monster/demon, with the option to alert him about it and push him to slay it, as a means to guilt him about it later and break his chivalrous spirit.
Sir galahad is meant to be the beloved incompetent moron right? I don't think that breaking him down through guilt and emotional manipulation should be what breaks his chivalrous spirit if that is going to be an option. What should break him down is trickery. Pair him with unscrupulous individuals that take advantage of his nature naïve nature. Put him in positions that quite frankly he shouldn't be in and if you need a fall guy simply have the player work it out where all the blame falls upon galahad. For example, have him be the quartermaster. Lets say we want more gold and sell some of the stock, and when the commanders come a knockin and there is not enough equipment to arm the troops you could blame it on galahad for
1. Not keeping it safe
2. Giving it to troops he thought needed the equipment when he wasn't suppose to
3. Frame him for selling it instead of you
4. [Free space]
Basically, I don't think guilt should be what breaks him. It should be related to his own incompetence, letting others down and being a failure should be what breaks him.
Thats an intersting idea, I want galahad to also be somewhat a remnant of a bygone era of chivalry, sure he's a bit of a dumbass but he's a well intentioned dumbass in a world where knights are becoming more and more selfserving. Extending to his daughter acting like a haughty noble, but specifically as a hauhgty Idealized version of what a noble should be due to growing up on her fathers stories.And I would like to allow the player to view and interact with this chivalry in different ways, either coming to believe in it, using it for their own ends or out right opposing it.
>incompetent
Nah, he's the only one who actually succeeds at obtaining the grail, it's just that either he's so morally pure he can be played off as the oblivious good hearted knight in shining armor (forma real)
Or is so pure and just that he's downright robotic and inhuman in his lack of human flaws
I didn't get much work today, but I'm on flashback childhood sequence of MCs fricked up trauma which left them mentally and emotionally crippled, but not in edgy ITFO-way, more of "nothing fricking fazes them no matter what" way. Right now specifically I'm coding the teddy bear customization bit.
I'm jotting down ideas and trying to write an outline mostly,who the central characters will be, what the overarching plot should look like, how player/npc stats will work.feels a bit daunting to actually start coding, but I do want to produce something.
Trying to get the soft fail state for the first murder case to flow correctly. After that I just need the act 1-2 bridging scenes, which are hangouts mostly, then I can finally maybe put this thing up.
Sir Galahad is a paragon of virtue and the very model of what a Knight should be and I will not accept this Slander >Other knights are behaving unchivalrously. >SIR: Why, I shall simply have to become more chivalrous to counteract them. God shall show them the light in due time. >Innocent serfs are are being accosted by brigands yet the local militia is not up to the task of defending against them >SIR: Why, it is simply up to me to teach these people the error of their sinful lifestyle! (He will either actually attempt to outright convince the brigands to give up their lifestyle and slay them if they refuse or the Squire can help get the militia to back him up on this suicidal endeavor) How religious is Sir Galahad going to be anyways?
Thats a good question. I think I will put him within a religous order, allowing for one of the reasons for the squire to be a squire to be due to their parent's postion in the church and their parents wanting to instill "good faith" into them. However I would say galahad by himself is a moderate, he uses his faith to aid others but isn't zealous, partially leading to his unpopularity in the order, sure he's oldgaurd but he isn't as charismatic or "faithful/faithdriven" as the current figureheads of the order, using their faith to justify their selfish actions. The player can decide if they are religous or not, and wether or not they subscribe to the upcoming more radical slaying rather than salvation ideals.
>If you started Aizening things up visibly she'd do the smart thing and try to remove a future problem.
I bet this will happen at some point. Somebody will find out about your "condition" and try to have you whacked before you eat them.
True, but that's why you need to take things slow. It's a game of how much you can push people's expectations before they freak out and try to kill you like cute little Mei Mei. You must play the pig to eat the tiger.
>PoMA >Mandatory jobbing, horrible heroines, only one fighting style
>AC >Anon writes winning scenarios even when he wanted you to lose and already had a whole section done for that >Autistic wolf girl, insane sword girl, big titty goth gf >Wanna wield swords? Here you go. Wanna be an Uchiha? Here you go. Wanna be a Dragon Ball character? Here you go.
I am once again asking for the shrine maiden to become a main love interest
>b-but anon she already banged you, there's nowhere to go!
Wrong. Now you get to actually interact with her and discover her personality and story. There's no reason why you can't do any of the stuff the other ROs do at the same time you're dating.
The old stat system in PoMA was absolute dogshit that only a krokodil-addled brain could imagine as a good idea. Apparently it got changed again recently but I don't play shit games to verify if it got any better.
Aura Clash is simple but it actually works.
it had like 3 different incorrect stat comparisons at the start and I don't remember if that gay fixed them after I pointed them out
stats with low numbers tend to make devs fall back to = comparisons instead of >= for some reason
>make the mistake of playing new PoMA update on 4x instead of God mode >new fight is literally unwinnable >restart on God mode for auto-success and pump vit for maximum health, also waste a ton of Qi while fighting instead of picking the free options >still only barely get by
What the frick. Cute Mei Mei, though.
>decide to write in the most shonen of shonen genres >make it so the player never fricking wins on even the "busted" difficutlies
why is NickyDicky like this
I'll give him credit where it's due, at least you can kill the fricking guy this time instead of it being another Long Chen scenario. It's an improvement.
Honestly being able to kill someone who is clearly antagonistic against you is a huge fricking plus. Some CoG games make it so that no matter what you can kill someone even if you threaten to do it your character refuses to go through with it.
Looking at you T-Rex time machine.
>now we just need to find a way to combine them together
Simple, have a high medical stat and capture both RO's. Make sure they are in a sterile environment. Open up their heads with your high medical stat and stat removing parts of the brain from each one and swapping it to the other. !!IMPORTANT!! Make sure the final product is in the body that you like the most, when you are done with the brain mixing you can simply discard the old body. Once you are done seal up the head again. Make sure to keep them cognitively active after the proceeded. Since it is two different DNA in there the host body will slowly get rid of the new neurons as happened when tested in lab mice. However, if those parts of the brain is exercised then new neurons with the hosts DNA will form and those ones will not be destroyed and mirror the implanted tissue.
There you have it, a combination of two ROs traits into one.
I'd say at its best its less wacky slice of life and more montey python esque absurdity compounding on itself and being played completely straight. Which I personally greatly enjoy.
Of course it is, every time a villain RO is added floods of redemptiongays, mostly women but men exist too, rush the forums to scream about how they can fix them and turn them to the light and beg the author to make the violent psychopath that wants to dismember you secretly a kind soul who likes puppies. Then there's also the dommy mommy gays who are somehow even more insufferable.
Why don’t you post on their gay forums and tell them that you want an option to make her worse instead of whining about muh redemptiongays then?
I'll concede on the mommyshit though, fricking hell they’re annoying and somehow EVERYWHERE.
I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
Mommybros... why must they persecute us like this?
Because you are the furries/mlp of current year, and won't shut the frick up. Every character that isn't a shy waif that barely talks is quickly flanderized into your weird bdsm-wannabe fantasy that you then spam everywhere.
>mlp
Literally nothing wrong with em. Though I will admit making the containment board was the best thing that could have happened to them. >furries of the current year
Furries have been around for decades at this point, every year is a furry year.
>I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
Being a single voice is still so much louder than no voice at all. Thoughts are nothing more then vapor until spoken aloud.
>rush the forums to scream about how they can fix them and turn them to the light and beg the author to make the violent psychopath that wants to dismember you secretly a kind soul who likes puppies.
Blame the creators who bend to the whims of outside voices. Stick to your vision and do not bend, those who demand your game change to fit their sensibilities were never going to buy your game and would always find something wrong with it. With that being said. >every time a villain RO is added floods of redemptiongays
Is it really that wrong to want to believe in second chances? If the author wanted them to be evil no matter what then the author should never have given the option to redeem them. I am just waiting for the day when "redeeming" someone ends up being the worse choice. Like alienating your former allies by bringing a psycho murderer into the fold. Cutting you off from their assistance and having the Psycho be your primary source of assistance. Imagine accidently becoming the baddie on the evil path because you attempted to redeem an evil person and now cannot return to the Good Guys™ because of your affiliation.
>Is it really that wrong to want to believe in second chances?
Ah, but that's implying that villain characters failed along the way of being a hero and settled on being a villain, so they need a second chance to do it right. As Mei said, there's freedom in being a monster. A properly written villain would have no desires for a "second chance" at playing good guy since there's nothing to gain from that, and they were villains from the core instead of the currently popular jerk with a heart of gold trope. I am fundamentally against all forms of redemption, as there's no point to writing a character X with their entire quest being to stop being X. >spoiler
That should be what happens in most cases.
>mlp
Literally nothing wrong with em. Though I will admit making the containment board was the best thing that could have happened to them. >furries of the current year
Furries have been around for decades at this point, every year is a furry year.
You are ignoring the essence of my post. I could open a random thread on the forum now and easily find one of you posting about how RO x, who happens to be a female that is somewhat cold and ignores you or a woman above 22, "is such a dommy mommy(despite being a brat) won't the author add scenes where she bullies us?"
>I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
Being a single voice is still so much louder than no voice at all. Thoughts are nothing more then vapor until spoken aloud.
Yes, but there's a lot of other voices. At this point I've had to stop visiting certain places entirely since they're every other post.
>That should be what happens in most cases.
But it's not, and I can't wait until there is a CYOA that actually does this. To many games bend over backwards to accommodate the player and attempt to maintain group cohesion. The most recent example I can recall is Rogue trader, where you can recruit a fricking Drukari (Dark Eldar) of all things and while the group complains none of them leave or do anything about it. Even the Inquisitor and normal Elder does jack shit about it and just calls you are moron for inviting them and leaves it at that.
Mount and Blade warband actually did this pretty well. Where certain companions that you could pick up had certain values and you could recruit other companions that had opposing values. This doesn't matter until you reach a certain condition at which point it becomes a problem and they will actually leave you if you trigger that condition to much. Some are fine with robbing villages and others are not.
Basically, games tend to coddle the player to much when it comes to companions. They should have firmer beliefs and act against the player if the player opposes their values.
I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
[...]
Because you are the furries/mlp of current year, and won't shut the frick up. Every character that isn't a shy waif that barely talks is quickly flanderized into your weird bdsm-wannabe fantasy that you then spam everywhere.
Redemption stories are fun, but it's stupid to force it in cases like Meimei were she know she's a bad b***h, revels in it, and has no real reason or motivation to become otherwise besides X asked her to.
I'm all for CYOAs with voices in your head. Don't care if they're cute girls from another dimension, shattered aspects of your psyche, or inexplicable schizo voices. A character living in your head is more fun than an impartial narrator above it all.
>another superhero cyoa >it's dumbfrick secret government agent shit again
Those people will never learn what makes actually good superhero story. I am once again convinced the God himself has called upon me to cleanse this sinful planet by way of writing an actually good superhero CYOA, and I'm filled with determination to heed his will.
I'm planning on having one of my characters be a descendent of fae, maybe that can be a player background too. though the fae are etched in myth and legend,Some think they are just a faery tale.
So thinking about stats, How would you guys feel about having more of a trait reliant system than a purely statistical one? So the player would choose a couple traits at the beginning of the game, and throughout the game they would have the opportunity to earn different traits. And these traits give you new options that wouldn't be avaliable otherwise. and some could have tradeoffs/negative effects; Eg you start running away more often or hiding behind others you may gain the cowardly trait, causing you to frighten easily, but you also know the best ways of getting out of situations.
I do both. Completely removing stats results in there not being a state of uncertainty. Are my stats high enough to pull this off? Which stats will this choice check? Are there partial success?
With traits, you either have one, or you don't. And, most of the time, you must let player succeed with trait-based choices, or there's no reason in having one at all. It just turns into mindless choosing of the relevant options.
With both stats and traits you can have hybrid checks, with having a trait reducing stat requirement, but not removing it outright.
Anyway just do whatever feels better.
much better than collecting dozens of +1 melee points imo
hell, drop stats entirely and give some traits a couple of different tiers if need be
Thank you for the input, I think I will do something of a hybrid system, Personality traits/mindsets will remain static, while skills and what you are capable of doing will be tiered, on a scale of adept -> competent -> proficent -> highly proficent ->master, and I'll try to make it so that checks can be passed with combinations of skills, so a proficent swordsman could still pass a master check if they are proficent in underhanded tactics as well.
As a coding cheat, keep the tiers as a number behind the scenes and have the character sheet display the tier name based on the number. That way you can use >= for checks. Not that I would know, I'm not late on an update or anything.
>, How would you guys feel about having more of a trait reliant system than a purely statistical one? So the player would choose a couple traits at the beginning of the game
Have you played Pentiment? They did something like this where you picked what you did and it influenced what you can say to others throughout the game.
I haven't, My decision is partially influenced by scarlet hollow of all things but I would want it to be far more than just picking 2 at the start and thats your lot. is pentiment any good?
I think its pretty alright, It's set in medieval times and seems relatively grounded in actual history. You would probably like it I think considering the setting of the game you are making.
>So Arthur gave laws and made changes that don't see women as beneath men. That allow people to be themselves and make the changes they need. That place marriages like my dads' on equal footing with the union between Arthur and Guinevere.
Ah, so that's why I need to overthrow Arthur
The princess is a scheming pragmatist that puts her own survival in the courts first and foremost. A wise and cunning squire may be able to recognize her duplicity and challenge her in a game of wits, while a more oblivous squire might become a pawn in her schemes.
that heir? your rival
But of course, Telephia is the only sane option for the next in line to rule. or so she thinks...
A cute tool, but a tool nonetheless. She's used to the plotting and lying in the courts, so a himbo squire could impress her a bit with his dedications to his ideals, actually believing in the chivalrous things he says. But If she can't hold a good debate or plot a sly scheme with you she'll never be able to see you as a true equal.
Sure, you start out as a squire, but depending on how well you perform you could rise through the ranks of the order. She is definitely a character that comes into play later in the story though, once you've gained some acclaim. Sir galahad taking on an apprentice is a curious thing, but irrelevant to her plans. it would help to take the minor noble background
>That spoiler
In my opinion, that should be a mandatory choice you make if you want the option to get with her. That isn't to say that she can't enjoy your company and that she won't use you as a tool as you say in previous posts, but she won't marry you without the noble background.
hm I'll take that in consideration, Though I do think there should be a way for players that didn't pick that background to pique her interest. maybe by the squire awakening his latent fae blood as a (hard to get) special trait Also the squire will be judged based on their appearances. A GingerUrchin is dante must die mode. Nobles are typically raven haired and grey eyed, the royal bloodline is a rare blonde blue eyes, the peasant class often has different shades of brown hair and varying eye colors. While the poor are often Gingers.
My primary objection was the marriage, not the RO potential. I have no objection to her having a bastard child with you due to special fae blood, but she would have to pass it off as her actual husbands kid (which would be extremely difficult if not impossible if noble traits are blonde/blue eyes and the child comes out a frickin ginger). Hell, who knows. The kid might even become a legitimized bastard and his odd appearance could be blamed on the Fae and he would become of noble blood. But without the Noble background, you would always be on the outside looking in.
Sure, you start out as a squire, but depending on how well you perform you could rise through the ranks of the order. She is definitely a character that comes into play later in the story though, once you've gained some acclaim. Sir galahad taking on an apprentice is a curious thing, but irrelevant to her plans. it would help to take the minor noble background
I haven't, My decision is partially influenced by scarlet hollow of all things but I would want it to be far more than just picking 2 at the start and thats your lot. is pentiment any good?
SquireAnon I like you so I will give you the wisdom some boomer once gave me: talking about your project gives the same dopamine hit as finishing your project. Right now it's good to talk about it a bit to get feedback and fan desires (cultivatoranon added white people to fake asia just because someone asked for a hot goth gf, honeypot-anon is slowly having their honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat everyone memes about), but after a while talking about your project is a poison to your own mind.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat
And thats a good thing
4 months ago
SquireAnon
You're right, I'm not gonna trip again until I have something to show for it, Don't want to get peoples hopes up and never deliver
4 months ago
Anonymous
>honeypot-anon is slowly having their honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat everyone memes about
She's not tsundere you stupid baka.
Also seconded. Oversharing your project is the first step to not finishing it. Every second you post your ideas is a second you could've been writing your book.
you guys scream about princess or nobles who don't want kids because it's unrealistic, but the moment we add cuckoldry (which is very much realistic) you have fits of pure rage
>meet cute muscle knight waifu who's reluctantly being married off to my half brother >she chopped her breasts off though and doesn't want to be called a lady, but still goes by female pronouns at least
Welp, guess I'm sticking with the childhood crush waifu after all, even if that's going to make all this simmering romantic tension of unconfessed feelings feel very funny in light of the upcoming U-turn
>she chopped her breasts off though and doesn't want to be called a lady
Treat her like a man and add her tl the unnamed list of minions you don't talk to.
I'm writing a short Cultivator game even though I never played anything from that genre and I'm not using Chinese mythology. Wish me luck!
>destroying your future kingdom
anonpls, why go through all that trouble instead of just convincing Arthur to make you his heir?
It's not like he's got any other relatives to pass the throne to
I'm making a mecha WIP where you'll be able to romance you're mech's integrated AI that you can personalise (on top of romancing your rival ace of course) I'm joking, the genre is dead you'll never have another mech IF ever again, enjoy your hundredth super hero slop instead
I'm also planning to have a junior priest in the mix, She'll probably be more relevant to the priest parents background than the other ones. Help her reinforce her faith, turn her into a vengeful zealot or maybe even leave the faith entirely, for something far more insidious... Yes corruptionAnon Im looking at you
Try it out, it was pretty fun the last time I played it. However, I never felt the need to replay it like I do with other games in the mainline/hosted section.
That's actually an improvement, I thought she was having sex with the old guy while I slept on the floor like a cuck when in fact she was just killing him
>find out in ng+ that the best girl I've been lusting after is some kind of skinwalker vampire troon >can't have sex with it even though it's in love with you >you can only have sex with your trashy bawd gf or the single mom (and get a happy end at the massage parlor I guess)
That's pretty low
Don't play broken fable. It's boring, the dialogue is choppy and unnatural and it simultaneously railroads you while also not giving your character any personality whatsoever.
I could forgive the prose if the game itself wasn't so bland and railroaded.
Tick tock 3 more days. You know who, for you know what.
Junior better not dissapoint this venerable council of elders. The karmic misfortune brought upon him should he break his vow twice will be grave indeed.
I hope it gets ported to Hosted Games someday, the Storyloom UI and art are horrible.
>paying to read teenage girls fanfiction
It's functionally free. They even tried to get known IF authors like the Zombie Exodus guy and Sergi on board, but seems like it imploded due to the shitty design anyways.
got my framework for stats done and started writing the first scene.Think I'm getting the hang of how choicescript works. Now I just need to write... a lot.
Saying this right now before you write more of this shit, meta bad. Don't add meta or fourth wall breaking content. It's not "funny and quirky", it's crap. Humor bad in general, you're not funny.
I don't want it to be meta really, I Just like the idea of it being a story told, and having the story teller working with the player to construct the narrative. but if thats cringe I'll try to rethink my writting style
Yeah I'm gonna how it starts. I just don't want to write itfo, I don't want to the story to take itself super seriously and how actually living in a medival setting kinda sucks. I want it to be a fun adventure; but I also don't want try hard "don't worry I'm in on the joke too" type writing
Some people think it's obvious, but many people don't get it until someone tells them. It's hard to gauge, it seems like a 50/50 split from the feedback I had so far.
>blair has cancer
I guess that would make sense, having a terminal illness would definitely make it an easier decision to take the super drug. But holy shit does that paint the MC as an butthole who didn't even know that their childhood friend is dying.
>Trismegistus and Thaumaturge are the same person
I actually believe this one. The fricking weird dream you have after the docks makes me super suspicious. >You hear footsteps. Mr. Lloyd and Ms. Humphrey step outside. >The woman smiles. She is kind. >The man is not. He is whatever he needs to be to reach his goal. Scientist. Wizard. Hero. Villain. Creator. Destroyer. >"The people here will take care of you from now on, ${name}," he says. It is the first time you hear your own name. >Timothy--or Trismegistus, you can't tell who he is to you--crouches, gives you a hug, and whispers, >"A conscience is that still, small voice that people won't listen to." >Dreams have their own logic. Somehow, you know that these words are not only words. They are a command. >And it makes you forget what little you knew.
And if you're a time manipulator, and you choose to keep thinking about the dreams when you first meet Thelma, this happens >#I'm not entirely here. I'm still thinking about the dream.
*set pragmatic - v1
The details elude you, but there was a hug in it too.
*if (timeManipulation)
*set precogDreams true
Are you having precognitive dreams now? Chronomancer once said that time works differently in dreams, especially for those who can manipulate it.
*else
Why does it feel important?
Despite the narration it doesn't really make sense as a precog dream, you get it regardless of your powers. It's more likely that the dream is just a repressed memory from your past.
Trismegistus likely performed some weird experiments on the MC as a child, when Mr Twinkletusk tells you about Gepetto's Ice house or whatever the frick it's called and suppressed the MC's memories of it all, that happens regardless of your powers iirc. I don't really know how it all factors together, but I'd bet Trismegistus is the Adversary from Blair's weird comment about her new mentor knowing their way around all of Thaumaturge's defences. If you frick up at the Docks as a Time Manipulator and get killed by the sniper, you can hear Chronomancer talking with Thaumaturge, and they're joking around and Thaumaturge calls Chronomancer his friend and mentions shit about sacrificing himself and time loops. I'm betting Thaumaturge isn't as evil as he's presented and Trismegistus is much more evil.
I know, I have already seen those scenes. Thaumaturge even says this at some point during the Vera City fight: "Let me put this in a way that even you might understand. If we were to reduce our complex psychological patterns to a more accessible categorization, my brother would fall into the "pragmatic superhero" category, whereas I am more of an "idealistic supervillain." Still, there were certain lines Timothy wouldn't cross. I, on the other hand, will do anything to achieve my goals, because I know they are righteous." Their agendas are likely both more complicated than initially assumed, and it remains to be seen which one is "more right". Either way, I expect that Zaper will subvert our expectations somehow.
You know something small that I don't like about unsupervised? What the heck am I supposed to call the Superman Mentor when I'm discussing it? I set the name, so people who didn't choose that won't know what you mean. And calling him superman mentor feels dumb.
>What the heck am I supposed to call the Superman Mentor when I'm discussing it?
SuperiorMan (He is superior to the average man)
SpaceMan (He is in space)
SuperModel (He is the perfect role model)
SSM (Super Man Mentor)
>What the heck am I supposed to call the Superman Mentor when I'm discussing it?
SuperiorMan (He is superior to the average man)
SpaceMan (He is in space)
SuperModel (He is the perfect role model)
SSM (Super Man Mentor)
I like Supermentor and Batmentor. But yeah, I've been thinking about setting a fixed name for them instead of letting the player choose.
>I've been thinking about setting a fixed name for them
Superhero name or their god given name? This is very important, I need to know if I am going to be calling them Mr. SuperDuper the Superman hero or Dave.
Superhero name. I usually like letting players customize shit as much as they want to, but I'm not sure what is better for the game here. No one seems to mind Chronomancer and Quintecensse being set names, either.
>but I'm not sure what is better for the game here.
Set names is the best course of action.
There is an argument to letting the player customize shit but defined names make online discussion much easier. Not only that, but I feel that it grounds the setting much more when there is set in stone people that you cannot simply customize to your whims and improves immersion. Imagine if Elson was subject to player customization, or if the Star mom in Stars Arisen could be changed into being star daddy or even having both a star mom and star dad. The story itself would be have focus, and it would have impacted the story being written. After all, its hard to have a former lover in the city helping your child retake it and reveal that it is their father when there is a choice at the start that can retroactively add a dad.
I think this reasoning can apply to games outside of CYOA as well, take Skyrim for example. You can customize how your player looks to a massive extent, even changing species. But the people you meet are always the same and not subject to player choice. Would Ulfric be as iconic and instantly recognizable if the player was given the chance to customize him because of "Player choice"? I don't think he would.
TLDR: There is nothing wrong with not letting the player customize other people who are not the player.
I'm also accepting suggestions for new names as long as they fit the theme.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Cimmerian and Olympian sound best for non copyright infringing bat(wo)man and super(wo)man. Both have the greek origin and lean into the whole mythic superhero reputation that the Omega Responders are supposed to have. The other batmentor names sound too edgy and Overseer honestly fits a villain more than some utopian figure of hope and idealism.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks. I think I'll go with those two and let players change the mentor's name on the Cheats menu if they want to.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Why not just leave all the names as options for players to choose?
4 months ago
Anonymous
That's how it currently is, but it's been bothering me for a while now because: >a lot of people don't know what to call those two mentors when discussing them >there are four mentors in total, and two already have fixed names >all mentors have predetermined civilian names already
4 months ago
Anonymous
You know what would be a fun bit of interactivity that wouldn't change much? Some manner of reaction should you choose the same name as your mentor. Like, what happens if a physical strength protag decides to be 'Olympian' too? People like it when that kind of stuff happens.
It's been years since I played it but as I recalled My vampire was of the blood wizard variety, and near the end of the game there is some sort of syringe full of special blood that basically ups you by a generation. If you are a gen9 vampire you go up to gen 8 and so on. Naturally, other factions want that blood for themselves but you can use it on yourself instead. It happens near the end of the game.
Been a while since I played so I'm not too sure, but based the description I would guess it's from accepting that dubious vaccine your flamboyant friend offers you in the end game.
That lowers you generation by one, you can also lower it another level by diablerizing that guy you fight together with him and the prince.
I like night road because is has a nosferatu gf that actually looks like a nosferatu. She just happens to have breasts instead of being a sewer dweller.
>Aura Clash update on Sunday
Anon... Didn't you hear? Cultivator-anon was arrested and executed by the Patriots but left the files to his best friend NickyDicky who immediately replaced every scene with links to his Patreon. Aura Clash is dead.
>I apologise, but I am a bit wary after I was called N*zi one too many times on the internet for similar things when talking about skin colour…
This doesn't come as much of a surprise after the snowBlack person incident tbh
All in all, and thanks in part to the low entry bar, in part because genuine dedication and motivation, this thread is possibly the most productive one in the board right now.
It brings me joy to see anons making their own CYOAs outside the dreaded californian standards of CoG
Yeah, for me at least its inspiring to see cultivatoranon and unsupervisedanon work on their projects and have Wips to show for it.And honeypot seems like he knows what he's doing and I'm looking foward to his work.Makes me feel like I could try to write my own adventure.
I mean, the coggers will see it that way, but what I see is one of the most epic conflicts and unlikely victories in medieval history, carried out by a half-starved army running on nothing but sheer determination, ambition and zeal. That the medieval chroniclers lated compared the event to legends like the Illiad, the Song of Roland and other epics wasn't an exaggeration at all.
based, I say go for it. Squire is moreso about a small party/group questing around a low magic sword and sorcery esq realm, and the possible outcomes of those quests. Just remember to make your token princess asexual!
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah dude go make the princess asexual, that'll really sell the game
4 months ago
Anonymous
>the princess is asexual >the demon possessing her isn't and finds you very cute
>the princess is asexual
More like a sexual, if you know what I mean
4 months ago
Anonymous
>spoiler
I am not actually sure if I will have romance: The event lasted 4 years more or less during which most of what the crusaders did was march around hostile land raiding and plundering for survival.
Mind you, given that Baldwin of Boulogne became the head of a crusader state by marrying an amernian princess, I should probably include political marriages with cute greeks. armenian and maybe even muslim ladies. Maybe you can get ahead of him and snatch Edessa for yourself by marrying the princess.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>I am not actually sure if I will have romance: The event lasted 4 years more or less during which most of what the crusaders did was march around hostile land raiding and plundering for survival.
Based. How historically accurate are you going to make this story? I assume its going to be over the course of the 4 years of the crusade. How closely is the story going to follow the overall path of it's real life counterpart.
You know this whole idea reminds me of A Legionary's Life, which kind of had the same premise but with the Second Punic War. Though that one was not a CYOA.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I am currently considering two approaches to the story, one considerably more complex than the other:
1-The player is a mere knight in the host of one of the historical princes, probably Godfrey for the sake of including the beginning of the crusade (the southern normans only joined some time after this). It would be basically Sabres of Infinity but medieval: You try to survive and thrive in all the chaos of the event, and in the end you can end up as either a landless, miserable pilgrim with no hope of either thriving in the Holy Land or returning back home, or as a rich landholder and direct vassal of Godfrey.
2-You are a new, non-canonical crusader leader and prince of (insert random euro region you like). In this case the story would begin already in Constantinople, but in exchange for this "shorter" crusade you can influence the course of events and become head not only of a crusader state, but also king of Jerusalem. Maybe even betray your comrades and make the whole affair fail by joining the muslims or the turks.
I was thinkering and outlining around some sort of origin system in which depending on the region you choose, you get a different introduction that allows you to see the historical and cultural context of the event, but in practice it seems a little too complex and unnecesary for what amounts to an intro.
4 months ago
Anonymous
2nd one seems more interesting but feels like a lot more work
4 months ago
Anonymous
I think number one would be the best choice.
4 months ago
Anonymous
2 is better
4 months ago
Anonymous
>but in exchange for this "shorter" crusade >Become head not only of a crusader state, but also king of Jerusalem. Maybe even betray your comrades and make the whole affair fail by joining the muslims or the turks.
Stick with the first choice, what is the point of making a crusader cyoa when it's main point is no longer even about to crusade and the crusade is now window dressing to be coming top israelite or a muslim or turk.
4 months ago
Anonymous
In the historical narrative, the 1st crusade was driven by a constant back and forth between the leading princes, with some of them (such as Baldwin, Bohemond and Tancred) pretty much wanderng around doing their own thing and carving fiefdoms for themselves. The idea is to allow the player to roleplay as that.
But just to be clear: Betraying the crusade, becoming count of Edessa, capturing Antioch for the Byzantines or accepting bribes from the Fatimids wouldn't be "routes". Because the "final objective" in this option would be becoming a lord in the Holy Land, as soon as the player achieves that the story is done. All of those options are early game overs, and the reward for sticking with the main contingent and following the "canon" route is the option of taking the throne of Jerusalem... Or making sure your favorite candidate gets it.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Which one do you want to write more? Option one or option two
4 months ago
Anonymous
I would like to write option 2, but option 1 would be far easier to do. I have been GMing a Pendragon game for years now (ttrpg in which you are a knight during Arthur's reign with tons of research behind), so it shouldn't be too difficult to outline.
4 months ago
Anonymous
In that case my advice would simply to be to write the story you want to write.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Go for 2, anon. It'll attract the most players. Trust me. And start writing that shit right away. Do a character creation/prologue. 10k words is enough. You can write 10k words, can't you?
Fricking do it. Stop talking about the project and do it. I'll be there to help you every step of the way, but you need to do it.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I will anon.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Wait a second I just remembered. Are you planning on using choice script or twine?
4 months ago
Anonymous
I will be using choice script due its simplicity for now.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>saracen warbrides
Based
4 months ago
Anonymous
You jest, but that's actually historical: The Council of Nablus in 1120 had to forbid christians from not only raping, but in general having sex with muslim women under thread of castration.
It should tell you how big of a problem it was for the church and the princes.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Is there any recorded instance of that castration penalty actually being used? Or was it one of those laws that was never actually enforced
4 months ago
Anonymous
Hard to say, but I gather that castration was actually used given that every single sexual crime adressed during the Council of Nablus was punished with castration.
Raping a woman? Castration. Two gays going at it? Castration to both the active and the passive. Adultery? The man needs to be castrated and exiled and the woman's nose cut off.
You get the idea
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Castration to both the active and the passive.
Well that hardly seems fair, it's not gay if you're the active one after all.
4 months ago
Anonymous
just accept you're bi bro
4 months ago
Anonymous
The only circumstance in which the passive was spared involved rape, with the added (and sensible) assumption that if the act involved either minors or the elderly, then it was by default rape. However, if the victim tried to hide the crime it could be punished anyway.
that would have been cool yeah, reinforce how different the suit can make sidestep feel/act
4 months ago
Anonymous
Argent having some Black Cat like romance where she's in love with your villain persona but doesn't like your true identity was way more fitting
Sidestep removing his mask in front of her feels completely out of character no matter how you play him and make Argent's romance much less interesting
Do what I'm doing. Write your game in twine and then port it to choicescript once you've finished all the content and can focus on the technical aspects of choicescript.
>to make space for more Ortega poly romances
That's not true, the reason why you were forced to do that stuff is so that your puppet is able to wake up.
>Birbrain >New Male Villain RO is a blonde-haired blue-eyed theatrical cyborg pirate dude who enjoys what he does >New Female Villain RO is a mullato whose powers are to turn into a pigeon and can be thwarted by eating too much
Even as a joke that isn't funny, but Malin is so moronic and deep into fujoshit that she's genuinely making pigeon lady a character.
I pick male birdbrain over female birdbrain. Not as a RO but as a villain. I'm a sucker for theatrics, and I don't see how the female version of birdbrain can compete. How was pigeon powers that useful anyways, it seems like natural predators would kill her off eventually and how is it thwarted by eating too much?
top villian might be up your alley, it's a pretty hammy superhero parody thing. It's also CoG comedy so I can get why you might not like it
4 months ago
Anonymous
Ah yes, I played the demo for that one but it didn't really catch my interest. I remember enjoying diabolical though, have you played that one? It's a CoG game where you play as an outright no strings attached villain. The game even lets you blow up Earth if you so choose.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I'll check it out, sounds like it could be fun. my favorite type of evil characters are the ones that have some hammy idealized version of evil, and at the end of the day aren't really *evil* and when pushed to commit true evil they hesitate. Mao and laharl from disgaea are good examples of that
>how is it thwarted by eating too much?
If I remember right, Malin said she can't transform into a pigeon if she's eaten too much food. That's not a joke. A half mexican-half-lebanese mullato whose only powers are pigeon related is supposed to be a villain in FH, a universe which takes itself pretty seriously.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Keep in mind Villains can have no powers and still shoot a Hero's sibling in the head at a tacobell line or bomb substations of an upstanding congressman's constituents during a freezing blizzard to such an extent that enough people die for his seat to no longer exists. Villainy just requires a willingness to ruin the life of a hero and the public.
The solution is just not to let her fix her body. Hell, she might not even like you after that. She might just like you due to the influence of the neurovores and once that's gone she'll blab to the world that your sidestep
Probably not: Nablus is 20 years after the conquest of Jerusalem, which would mark the end of the game. You could, however, choose to either spare or punish known sodomites and rapists within your army using the methods mentioned before.
>You could, however, choose to either spare or punish known sodomites and rapists within your army using the methods mentioned before.
I was primarily joking, actually adding that stuff to the game would probably piss off the CoGers. Still though, I wouldn't mind it being part of the game since it was a part of history at the time. It's educational in that respect.
The problem with dealing with the First Crusade is that from the get go you are in a no-win situation: If you avoid most of the brutality and the massacres you piss off the average cogger because you are "whitewashing" le horrible evil christian crimes. If you include it then they moan because "OMG evil plundering christian simulator"
I can't pretend to be fully objective, no one is, but I will try to give a fair portrayal of the time period and the event without either sanitizing it or gallowing in morbid brutality too much.
Try to lean into the historical context, if you do it might be seen as educational. You can get away with a lot of fricked up shit as long as it's educational and has historical context to it.
For example, at elementary school when we were learning about native Americans the teacher passed around traditional native American food. The teacher didn't tell us what it was, it was only after we ate it did the teacher reveal that it was testicles the entire time and that the native Americans used every part of the Buffalo. I think it's a bit fricked up that you're allowed to trick students into eating testicles but hey that's what you can get away with as long as it's educational.
4 months ago
Anonymous
4 months ago
Anonymous
I'm thankful I grew up in a heavily armed town in Maine where the teacher would be shot by the cops without trial for pedophilia and bestiality.
if honeypotanon and squrieanon every finish their game, please use those names when making a forum account. seeing that place shit itself when more 'anon' usernames migrate from the racist 4chins general will be very funny
>seeing that place shit itself when more 'anon' usernames migrate from the racist 4chins general will be very funny >Getting your jollies off by drama
Yep, got to agree with the other Anons. Woman moment, this is of course wrong to begin with. Most of the people on the form supported Cultivator Anon and didn't care that he came to this site. You are thinking of the discord users.
I might use the same name because I'm not the best at coming up with usernames. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, which shouldn't be for a while.
I already coded the character creation and the skeleton of the combat system. Most people won't like it initially because it plays like a Slay the Spire text game with narrative.
I would like to point out that part of the reason for why the discord's attempt to cancel cultivator anon failed is because many of the current active AC fandom there are in fact people from here.
Played turncoat chronical. I thought it had potential with essentially grooming an FE lord to put you on the throne, and having to deal with their Jagen not trusting you, possibly seducing/falling for them ect. But there wasn't much characterization to anyone, so it felt underdeveloped.
Nothing stops you from continuing the war. I did so because I believe that couple that kills together stays together, and especially so if they're piloting mechas and have a special connection.
>Both of you teaming up and dying together in an impossible battle.
That's actually possible to achieve. The impossible battle is the endgame one, and it's possible to waffle enough to die in the fire together. Romantikku-des!
Do you think Hawkins would want something like that?
4 months ago
Anonymous
He accepts his death on romance pretty willingly and seems surprised if he survives. MC could have probably convinced him to march together into the impossible, but it would require to tear out the ground under his feet. Thus, Lightbearer needs to fail.
>super sentai cyoa let me date and make out with the blatant actually a rival ranger character
Well that was neat, shame the story went to shit at the end when it went full trippy
You don't get disqualified from being a proper female for having fun hobbies and a pixie cut. Men still want that. You DO get disqualified from being male for being a feminine twink (outside of Korea).
All a tomboy is is a woman who displays more masculine traits
All a femboy is a man who displays more feminine traits
If a man is disqualified from being a man if they are feminine then a woman is disqualified from being a woman because they are masculine.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Incorrect. Men decide whether women are disqualified as mates and women decide if men are disqualified as mates. Men (in majority) want tomboys, women (in majority) don't want femboys. Cavemen tactics cured this for men but femboys won't do that, they're femboys.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Tomboys aren't masculine, they're chill. Masculine would be butch lesbians who ARE disqualified.
fallen hero would be 100% better if someone on the super hero team was actually just an butthole that doesn't like sidestep and would object to sidestep hanging out with them. argent can kind of do that but you have to frickup enough for her to become antagonistic,but it should be someone on the original team, Someone to validate sidestep's perception of the team. As is hanging out with the team just goes "turns out they aren't as bad of people as sidestep thought they where" and it just makes taking things out on them feel hollow.
There's also the thing with how so much of the content is about hanging out with them. Apparently even what little there is outside of Rangers interaction was mostly added after people brought this up to Malin.
In unsupervised, the supercomputer. Despite being a supercomputer, is probably pretty outdated considering how technology improves with time. Do you think now that it is active again it might get a virus or villain's might try and hack into it?
The AI is said to be intelligent enough to develop its own security protocols, so that only it could hack itself. Whether that is true or not, who knows.
Total Junko Love.
No, I don't play shit games without evil women.
>b-but there's a demon and you can refuse to banish them and they said they would come back
Not enough.
just be the evil woman
No, but an evil twink would also suffice in place of an evil woman.
what about an evil twink that finds himself inexplicably attracted to cute moron moralgays?
No, kill all moralgays and destroy all attempts to corrupt pure evil people by redemptiongays.
it won't really be redemption, he's just got a soft spot for the naive idiot who thinks theres good in everyone (theres not)
No, absolutely not. This is how it always starts, first a soft spot, then they ask you to stop torturing captives, then to aim to wound instead of kill, then to be nicer to people and make friends, then to help them to save the world and before you know it you're using the hard earned strength you gained from devouring hundreds of souls to help unwashed peasants solve disputes about chicken ownership. The corrupting fruit of good must be torn up by the roots and the ground it spawned from salted so that nothing may rise for 9 generations.
look, the plan right now is having him act as the bregruding apprentice of a dark mage thats up to dark mage stuff. so a couple quests/missions are gonna end up with you guys running into eachother or him causing the problem. he's still going to cause those problems at high playerdesire, He's just gonna be a bit hesitant on hurting naive good squires, doubly so if they are younger, reminds him too much of the siblings he lost. So he'll just run away after setting that village alight so he doesn't have to deal with you confronting him for his actions. He's still going to be a selfish cyincal prick if you romance him as a good or good adjacent MC, he just won't invite you to the village razing and try to hide it from you. I don't want to get ahead of myself but I wouldn't be against making a more butthole manipulative squire that he could respect as a fellow butthole.
What about turning good women evil, forcing them to commit more and more atrocious acts as you slowly corrupt them?
NTA but I like that. CYOAs for this feel?
My CYOA. WIP next sunday.
Which woman can you corrupt?
You can make a hero girl become a disillusioned villain, you can make a sweaty nerdy villain girl a murderer, you can make Honeypot worse to the point she kills herself.
Your childhood friend is already fricked up and dependent so much she would excuse you murdering children, but I guess that still kinda counts.
Evil twink is ultraevil anyway, and there's a batman-esque dude who's an incorruptible wall of stone but willing to frick evil-ness out of you.
>willing to frick evilness out of you
Based that's what I wanted heinrix to try to do in RT if you went heretic and where flirting with him
I'm not gay, but I went 100% into making a dude I, as a straight man, would want to date, so he drives a hi-tech Akira-style bike which turns into an armor suit so you can be biker bros.
Now I feel like I'm starting to feel attraction to men.
No, harems are weeb fantasy.
But you can romance multiple people simultaneously and have people cry/cut off your balls then they find out.
>No, harems are weeb fantasy.
I think there were people whining about that exact thing on the Auraclash thread when cultivator-anon said you could have multiple romances but it's not poly shit.
But on a side note, what the frick is CoG's obsession with poly shit? They way they talk, you'd think every single one of them was in some degenerate San-Franciso Polycule, they're obsessed with that crap and have a fit whenever a game doesn't have it.
>But on a side note, what the frick is CoG's obsession with poly shit? They way they talk, you'd think every single one of them was in some degenerate San-Franciso Polycule, they're obsessed with that crap and have a fit whenever a game doesn't have it.
They don’t want to admit it but polys and all the gender bullshit is 1000% sexual for them. They get off to the idea of sharing partners and being called something that isn’t what they actually are.
>I went 100% into making a dude I, as a straight man, would want to date
>Now I feel like I'm starting to feel attraction to men.
you've fallen for a classic blunder, there's a reason cultivator-anon didn't write gay romance with not!jesus and nickydicky cut his tang rou homomancy before it got to a sex scene.
Based can you have a harem?
Are the romances primarily going to be making everyone worse, or can I be a dirty "hey maybe killing children is wrong" moralgay.
You can fix people. Honeypot is *the* redemption route.
Cause on the inside she's a nice person who can't enjoy atrocities and if you push her farther she'll just hate herself.
Hmm, guess we're just incompatible then. People should stop pretending to be things they aren't.
Why would Honeypot kill herself? I want her worse(which actually means better but people have shit taste), not dead.
Cringe
>you can make Honeypot worse to the point she kills herself.
Like her name entails, I guess she was too sweet for the villain life. But when you bumble into evil doing you gotta take the stings as well.
You better let us be the cheeseiest fricking superhero in our interactions with her HoneypotAnon.
Oh and there's also a top-3 Superhero woman who you can't romance, but can mindbreak into doing some shit and becoming public enemy number 1.
zaper a cuck
I don't play game made by cishet breeders
>t. transgay breeder
>everyone but Marcus dies in 2K
>Marcus' _rel isn't high enough to have gay sex in Lords
>reset to a nearest checkpoint
>this time he bites it
Nothing personal, Marcus, but if you're not gay enough for me, you aren't good enough to live.
>everyone dies in 2K
Sis... what the frick?
I have no idea why, but even with a guide people kept constantly dying. Granted, my commander had 13% Charisma, but still!
Speaking of, what's even the point in keeping everyone alive by doing SM if you need to do 2K just to have high relationship with them anyway?
You can have very high relationship with Lewes/Reyes and Hartigan without going to 2K. Marcus is hard to do without 2K yeah.
Katerina romance and money, I think. I've heard that the romance progression is scuffed or impossible if you don't agree to do the SM, and 2K (don't ransom the teenage girl, dragoon, don't be a moron) give a pretty decent headstart in Lords.
Why would anyone want to romance Katerina?
Eh, the only canonical Cazarosta pussy? I would much rather frick her brother instead, but I just bet Wang would call it a power fantasy before writing another Patreon article about Juan's hot filipino Kiam wife.
If you're a god-forsaken salt coaster, romancing Katerina means you'll be becoming both Earl of Leoniscourt and Castermaine. Some people think that'll let you eventually become a Salt Coast duke, but I doubt it.
Funny thing, Leoniscourt is in all practical effects a Duchy, but because they were the Kingdom that opposed the unification the most when they were eventually defeated by the Rendower, they turned Leoniscourt in a Earldom instead of a Duchy as a punishment
Personally, I have a mental illness where I find that kind of character attractive. Two shades too brown for me but nothing I cannot fix with "the power of my imagination".
He's a homosexual
No shit, Sherlock. Him not being gay enough for my Dragoon is why I've ended up killing him.
>Torn between doing SM for that glowie reputation boost or doing 2K to kill that homosexual Marcus
Cultivator-san can I start a playthrough now or will my saves get borked?
>evilposting hours
*yawn*
>pronouns: oun/esh
why
>two shades too brown
fitzie kick this man out of the club, post haste.
Fitzie is canonically a porcelain skinned red-head but the powers of being British Aristocracy make you see the Irish as Swarthy.
Katarina is mogged so hard at her own game by Garret it's hilarious
Garret's not a glowie. It's Warburton that mogs her.
Garret is an actual spy however
Is she? I've never done a royalist playthrough.
Yeah, she reveals to you that the CIrcle wanted to have their (wo)man in the army and so they decided to have Garret join the most unremarkable of the regiments.
Except then Blogia happened and the Dragoons got big and she kinda got stuck there.
How do you get access to the infinity forums? I need to ask Wang if we can turn down Leoniscourt as a Wulframite. I don't want any part of the S**t Coast
You need to get more good boy points by posting until you get your level updated or something.
Ew. I don't like talking to people.
>cazarosta goes to the commisar school of inspiring troops
Charisma really is the most important stat huh?
eh? I thought we were friends, My dragoon refered to him as one when we talked in sabre
You obviously didn't actually treat him as such earlier in the game/in Sabres
>Not a single one of the protesters is wearing a head covering. It's obscene to see so many assembled like this, and you have to suppress the urge to look away.
If Tale of Two Cranes isn’t at the very least decent I’m going to be sad
>asexual princess RO
Oh…..
Oh no…..
What's up with princesses not wanting to have children in cyoas now?
Californians refusing to contemplate the very concept of lineage mattering to people.
mattering to fricking *royalty* if it was some common scrub who cares if they are ace,But royalty is not going to go "yeah I'm not having kids" and no one in the court objects. even If I find the Idea of ace ROs a bit weird, just let the relationship be platonic then
That's the real kicker, there's a word for "aromantic relationships", it's called a friend. And most of these ROs make awful friends. Why aren't they helping me sacrifice my enemies? Why aren't they stealing shit for me? Why aren't they trash talking my opponents to a sick rap beat before the duel?
>a real friend would be helping me sacrifice these smucks to the dark gods right now!!
though you are right, cyoas are lacking a good amount of bro characters. Damn I wasn't even thinking of a bro for my wip. I have a good idea for rival, mentor(ish), dude that has bad news written all over him, but no bro
You have the childhood friend from Aura Clash.
I can never forgive him for needing to take time for his family/career instead of finishing the update for this sunday. The west has fallen. Billions must die.
>That's the real kicker, there's a word for "aromantic relationships", it's called a friend
>>No no no anon, it’s NOT friendship, it’s more then that.
>so it’s a close friendship
>>NO. It’s MORE then a simple friendship.
>so there’s some kind of romantic component to it
Autistic screeching commences.
Hate to be that guy, but aromantic and asexual aren't the same thing. Hell, asexual doesn't even mean you don't enjoy sex, paradoxically enough. Most of these CoGgers don't know or care to acknowledge that little factoid tho.
>aromantic and asexual aren't the same thing
Kill everyone who claims to be either. Fricking zhe/zhum whatasexual morons, there was never any need to go beyond straight/bi/gay.
>boohoo but I want to be super special and unique
Why can't you just be a chuuni like a normal person? Please, stop making it about sex and start pretending you have special eye powers, there is no need for this nonsense.
>there was never any need to go beyond straight/bi/gay.
I mean, some people straight up don't have a functioning libido, but yeah I agree for the most part it's nonsensical bullshit.
that's a disorder, not a sexual orientation (and asexual doesn't mean you can't frick, just that you don't want for whatever reason)
A woman needing to get married and continue her family's bloodline is very toxic to modern day standards ergo you should make her asexual and intent on staying childless to fight back against such old fashioned ideas
I'm pretty excited to play another eastern fantasy after rebooting Jade Empire, especially one that's actually done and 700k words.
Nevermind.
The old demo was pretty good. The contrast between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang as leaders was done really well I think. Though much could've changed in all those years and I'm still curious why CoG decided against pulbishing it under their CoG brand.
Yeah but is the warfare simulation interesting or is it just some boring "Choose the highest skill you have to win"?
It's been several years since I last played it, but the one siege you got in the demo was pretty good with several approaches to it IIRC.
>Lord Renard nods, "Which is why you didn't let any of our men join it."
>You nod back. "We may share common cause with evil men, but so long as we remain righteous in our own conduct, we cannot be counted among them
oh boy that is some camus level reasoning.
>I lost fenton
FRICK IM SORRY I'm naming the daughter after Him
Fenton gave his life to save my ass, I hope his mother doesn't think less of me.
>which will release sometime around the 28th?
Back in my day it was suppose to release last year
good night cyoa gen, another day wasted without touching my laptop that I want to install openSuse on and another day where I didn't even Look at what little I've written while daydreaming ideas.
Nice blog, keep us posted lil man.
How the FRICK am I going to last another week now knowing that a Aura Clash update is on the horizon?
Play some regular games about cultivation? I've been enjoying Hero's Adventure lately.
Or go read Reverend Insanity.
Can someone explain to me what is cultivation, and what's the appeal of it?
Chink power fantasy.
Basically the process of removing impurities from your bodies by doing chink shit which eventually turns you into a white person.
Are all those popular games in that genre happening in chink-like settings? Or it can be done in a different one?
There are western cultivation stories written by white people. The idea originates from Chink Xianxia (basically their version of high fantasy). The basic idea is that through training and meditation mortal people can become immortal.
you think really hard until you can kill people by thinking at them
DBZ with some elemental magic and alchemy added in.
dumb vampire
Just relax and enjoy the benefits of having a vampire sugar momma
she doesn't even get the chance to do anything if you don't make moronic choices
You're in a cult filled with sex pests, my guy. You're going to get into some shit eventually no matter how hard you try to dodge it, so better to have the biggest b***h in your corner in preparation, especially with Droznik's psycho yanhomosexual lashing out nonsense.
I also don't like that we have to tolerate Droznik, I pick the option where I don't care about him and he still keeps showing up and talking to me like we're buddies. The bug where the game always makes you bi halfway through because the dev forgot to end the scene properly still exists.
But Astoria is the biggest sex pest of all, as soon as her vampire no emotions cooldown runs down she's 100% jumping us.
Eh, if anything it's her dampened emotions debuff that's letting her act so bold, were normally she'd only be able to have short conversations with us. Barring that one time she was about to die/get vamped, while we're being involved in some scheme with the Strays.
So she's shy?
It's one way to interpret why she hasn't made any moves until the game started.
Now if only the writer would write faster so we could finally find out what's the big deal with her and everything else
>need my brother to make sure my estate doesn't go to my fate mandated daughter
>thinking uncles ever inherit over daughters
lmao
Update Grey Swan reee
>author updates grey swan
>it's one of the other two wips of that name that gets the update, and not the one that people actually care about
Unsupervisedsisters... how much more shall we wait?
Let him cook
I liked what I saw in the demo but I can't see how zaper will wrap everything up satisfactorily without a sequel, given that it's slated to be released this year and that the wip is already 70% of the story according to him. It seems like a pretty ambitious story considering all the plot threads and variables for your choices so far, the prologue even implies it will be years in-universe between now and the ending. I am already expecting massive time skips which is grim but the most realistic option at this point.
I really didn't want it to be another sequel bait, but shit I can't talk about happened and I had to make some adjustments. Pic-related is the planned final chapter, and then there's a big epilogue that ties into the prologue.
>rattlebag (if alive)
hahaha nah I killed that dude, too risky to keep him alive. Made sure to keep it clean too, went along with flit's plan until I was alone with him and dusted him.
Just to clarify, the image is about the new planned ending. Not sure if I made that clear in the original post. The first game will have that + the lengthy epilogue. What I had to cut from it were some parts before that, and some parts after. Put together, those are enough for a new game or, at least, a free DLC down the line.
I will gladly play whatever game you guys write.
Well thanks for warning us at least kek, I'll calibrate my expectations accordingly. Personally I'd still rather wait for a sequel than see a rushed story considering the scope of the game. Even if it will be literal years between this and the wftw sequel.
If Unsuperkino doesn't get a sequel like WftW and gets abandoned, I'm killing myself and directly citing you in the note Zaper
I always wanted to be a hero. I'll do everything in my power to save you.
>At this point, I'm almost prepared to love ATOH just because I see the way people talk about it. (...)As if they can't understand why their comments won't make the authors change their mind instead of doubling down even more. I mean... who wouldn't? I would, if I faced this kind of criticism. Who would want to change their story to suit that kind of comments? I would probably go on to write the greatest cucking simulator known to man just to spite them...
Uhhh...Malinsisters?
the frick is atoh
That moron is talking about A Tale of Heroes, I think.
I haven't heard of it and haven't seen people around here talking about it. Just which group of people is this author mad at, I just naturally assumed it was us again.
People from the HG Reddit. They bandwagoned on the dude.
It was brought up here a few times mostly in relation to the MC being basically a side-character sidelined by the author's OC and the said OC even having a fake RO that will always end up going for him in the end
A Tale of Heroes, Juan's capeshit game.
Apparently there's some drama surrounding it at the moment because redditors out of all people decided they hate it and have to bully Juan with endless shitposting about it.
The moron in question is the Fallen Hero author FYI
A moron is a moron, moron.
>cuckoldry is good let's show the chuds!!!
>WTF CHAD CHEATED ON ME NOOOO!!!!!!!!
Only someone as mentally ill as Sidestep could write FH
>If you point out my game is bad, I'll just make it worse!
And this is why emotional people shouldn't write games.
>defending Juan’s selfinsert cuck fantasies
>if everybody HATES what you’re doing, just DOUBLE DOWN
Is Sidestep confirmed to just be Malin at this point?
I'm gonna write a trilogy just to milk them patreon bucks for longer. Frick the players btw.
Anyone played Roadwarden? Is it good?
>nowriters can't even finish their plot in a single game
lol
uhh but how am I supposed to finish my medieval fantasy game without dedicating a whole game to ayyliens
>daily cuck hate threads on reddit and the forum
Selfinsertspics lost. Bigly.
crying and shakin rn gonna send 100$ to my wife's author for moral support
>my wife's author
>he didn't write his own wife
but who's going to be the author's self-insert cucking my character if I'm the author????
>not cucking yourself with yourself
everyone hates on atoh for the cuck stuff (rightly so) but theres a lot of other issues plaguing it
>boring story
>mechanically bare-bones
>no interesting powers, just general enhancements of human physique and shooting lasers from fingers
>no variation at all, both in the overall plot and the little things, might as well be reading a book
>characters are forgettable at best and insufferable at worst
it just not good
>boring story
That's its biggest sin tbh, I had to downright force myself to play it till the end of the demo just to see if the ROs might be cute enough to make up for things (as I wasn't yet aware about the cuckening issue and was intrigued over it having so much art) and just found the plot and especially the MC boring as hell.
The cucking stuff is just the easiest to shitpost about.
How primitive the game is rather funny when the author called Tally Ho/Jolly Good bad mechanically because, uhhhhhh, you can't see everything on one playthrough in your CYOA game
The only cuck we allow around these parts is ava
Which is why the LT route and ignoring Ava entirely is the true Wayhaven experience.
I like to cuck Junko with Masami
*hits pipe*
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than writing a female RO in a text game. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are writing a girl for at least a year solely so she can go and get ravaged by another player. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little girl - coming up with her backstory, her dialogue, making sure she had a nice personality, fleshing her out, describing her. All of it has one simple result: the character is more enjoyable for the players that will eventually frick her in every hole.
Made the perfect RO? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random player who had nothing to do with the way she was written, who at least paid for the game. He gets to frick her tight pussy every night. He gets the benefits of her kind and sweet personality that came from the way you wrote her.
As a man who writes a female RO, you are LITERALLY dedicating sometimes years of your life simply to raise a girl for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
I only make games for myself though
no you dont
I fap to other people's waifus
you fap to AI dungeon
we are not the same
I've never used AI dungeon though
in the game I'm making there will be unavoidable ntr, your RO will get stolen by my self insert and there's nothing you'll be able to do about it
not saying the name of my wip so now you'll have to live in fear of getting cucked for every wip you'll read
>if Classical is your favorite genre, MC calls Droznik out for confessing to them by singing Zu Hilfe, when Papageno & Papagena from the same opera would've been vastly superior
>PAPAGENO: Are you now completely loyal to me?
>PAPAGENA: Now I am completely loyal to you!
>PAPAGENO: So now be my dear little wife!
>PAPAGENA: So now be the little dove of my heart!
>PAPAGENO & PAPAGENA:
>What joy would it be
>If the gods think of us
>Bestow children to our love
>Such dear little children!
>PAPAGENO: First a little Papageno!
>PAPAGENA: Then a little Papagena!
>PAPAGENO: Then another Papageno!
>PAPAGENA: Then another Papagena!
>PAPAGENO: Papageno!
>PAPAGENA: Papagena!
Man, he really fricked that up. Also Church girls are lewd
Uhh...slavbros???
>darker than tanned
Unless she's only met gypsies which are Indians I don't know what to tell you.
is this similar to how fitize is light-skinned but we perceive her as dark?
cope, our children will be mixed.
I'm so sorry about that anon.
This, and I'll spoil the little brats so they'll become splendid nobles.
>half Irish
>nobles
lol
lmao even
But I'm the future Duke however?
You will never overtake Marmaduke
Who? Never heard of him, wasn't he the guy who tripped and fell down the stairs into a knife in the middle of the road and then got run over by a car? I also heard he was a revolutionary, you know how those types are.
marmaduke and I are pals and It'll be easy as pie to convince him to hand the title over, he's just not built for that kind of role in life, poor chap should just retire with my sloppy seconds
>not using his wife's postion as the head of the cardbury club to make him the most powerful noble
ngmi
>the author is german
One denazification wasn't enough
I LOVE MY AUTISTIC WOLF GIRL
Literally who
I will tame Fang with my penis
I hate that my power obsessed wolf girl can't romance her.
I can’t wait to train with my sword autist wife next week.
I will make up for the (alleged) nohomosexual sales debuff to Aura Clash by buying it multiple times
Just because aura clash won't pander to my yuri femdom fetish doesn't mean that I won't buy it, assuming it does comes out for purchase. It's already shaping up to be one of the best cyoas ever made, I'd have to be a moron to drop the game just because of no yuri. Besides, it still panders to my ruthless athletic women beating up and killing their enemies fetish so whatever.
you are so disgusting you should go back to the forums
Cry about it
>buying
>not supporting a fellow anon
Couldn't be me.
75% of the money goes to the company
25% goes to that Anon.
no it doesnt, thats before tax
>buying
oh no no no no no
>Trainia academy
>book 1 out of 4(four)!
>started in 2019
I'm so glad my children will have a complete series to read in 2054
>2054 is 30 years away
>1994 was 30 years ago
>>book 1 out of 4(four)
lmao never even noticed that, kind of makes sense with how fricking slow the story's pace is though
I doubt book 1 will even be finished honestly, way too many romances slows the writing down to a crawl.
It’s simple.
You buy four copies of Aura Clash.
>1200 more words this evening
God, being productive sure feels nice.
how are you going to squeeze that pateron money if you actually do things in a timely fashion??? don't tell me your actually passionate and want to write a story for the sake of telling a story!
It's fine, I can bloat it with unneeded fluff filler and fetish shit, and then rewrite it 20 times afterwards.
Good job anon!
2 pages a day, even if it’s a rough draft, isn’t a bad pace at all.
I can read in a minute what you take an entire day to write lol why are writers so slow
Making something takes a lot of time and effort.
Saying “I can read quicker then you can write” is moronic, of course you can. If you couldn’t, then I’d be deeply concerned.
Just double space it then. Problem solved.
>The MC of One Knight Stand can directly namedrop FGO
A brilliant way to incentivize going through all the bad ends
Strange hoe there's no furry cog where you can personalise your fursona, that could make a lot of money
>The main reason to involve MC in the main plot is supposed to be figuring out a way to free your deadbeat brother from prison
>Players complain that they don't see why they should care about freeing the brother
>The author adds an option to go "uhhh I actually don't really want to save him" every time that plot point is brought up
>Which impacts absolutely nothing
>Nothing else is changed
why make a cog if you don't like choices
choices are the entire point
>why make a cog if you don't like choices
but enough about samurai of hyuga
Should've just added the choice once at the begining and put in an early ending
well atleast we will be able to frick over the deadbeat brother in mindblind
>Nick
>deadbeat
lol
lmao even
he has many flaws, but that at least isn't one of them
bro couldn't even detect the bomb 0/10 government agent should be fired Immediately. I forgot but was nick out of range of the MC when they got highjacked? or did that just happen under his nose
Choices that just do not fit with the story being told should never be added, no matter how much readers may clamor for it, it would be like the Dragoon saying he wants to drop everything and run off to Kian, or ITFO MC going on about how he should've abandoned his family to get b***hes in the countryside when that will never actually be an option that comes up in story
Why can't my dragoon run of to be with caius in the army >:(
That was actually supposed to be one of the possible routes in Lords before Wang actually got to making it and downsized the thing. It's kinda funny how there's still left-over foreshadowing for it in Guns, same as the Gentleman Inventor path.
Because Lords is no fun allowed, and dodging politics and our tenants to hang out with the bros would be fun
>Players complain that they don't see why they should care about freeing the brother
>The author adds an option to go "uhhh I actually don't really want to save him" every time that plot point is brought up
>Which impacts absolutely nothing
Wouldn't the correct answer be to give the MC more reasons as to why they should save your deadbeat brother. Or if you are deadset on keeping things as is give the player an in universe reason as to why this is something they HAVE to do? Adding meaningless choices seems to just tell the player that your choices and decisions don't matter even if other choices do.
hey for 2 way sliders is there a way to segment it more? as in theres a defined middle ground between one extreme and the other?
All the 2 sliders I've seen are just a single variable.displayed as opposed_pair. In the text itself you can define a middle ground, but as far as the stat page goes the opposed_pair can't do that. You can kinda do something as a workaround like making a 1-way slider that changes the text conditionally, though.
What do you guys think about a quiet and reserved RO becoming somewhat more out going throughout the course of the story? picrel
>Reserved RO
>Dresses like a bawd
I aint fallin for it.
she got tidus'ed
It's fine? Characters shouldn't be forced to stay stay quiet and reserved when their character development is about them getting over that, just because they were like that when the player first waifued them
If I pick the quiet and reserved RO it's because I like them quiet and reserved
>he doesn't romance autistic nerdy girl who barely speaks but becomes overly talkative once she's comfortable with you also during sex
That right there seems like actions of a homosexual gay man.
changing RO personalities halfway through is shit
>personality is when you're a twodimensional anime stereotype
Personalities don't do 180s precisely because people are not two dimensional anime stereotypes.
Then give me the option to dump them, if I pick the shy useless RO and she suddenly turns into a girlboss halfway through or the emotionless character suddenly starts acting like a hormonal teenager I'm no longer interested. Why would I continue to be invested in a character if the things I liked about them got reversed in the name of "character development"? If I pick the whiny b***h it's because I want the whiny b***h, if I pick the murderprostitute it's because I want the murderprostitute, if I pick the bawd then I want the bawd, if I pick the teacher's pet then I want the teacher's pet.
>Personalities don't do 180s precisely because people are not two dimensional anime stereotypes.
Different people act differently depending on who they are interacting with.
>Then give me the option to dump them
That is fair.
I will publish it on the patreon for all to see.
Just use vscode, linuxbro, there's an extension for choicescript which has everything needed.
>publish it for all to see
ludo kino
alright yeah,I probably will use vscode,thanks for letting me know. It's a bit heavy of an IDE but its not like I use my linux machine for anything else, I've got a separate windows PC for games and the like.
>ROs exists only to be ROs, and not characters who grow as the plot goes on
Miss me with that shit
Based, frick those other morons not blindly agreeing with you.
I'm gonna get patreon going just to constantly commission pornographic imagery with my characters.
Based. Now the real question is if you will request it anonymously or not.
kissing and licking tian fangs pits as she wieners her head at me and calls me a "weird human" for being so turned on by it
I'm stubborn and would like to use Gvim instead of Notepad++, and I'm even lucky enough that some cogers wrote a .vim file for syntax highlighting, but I dunno how to implement it with Gvim. I might just use wine with notepad++ because vim's file autism gives me a headache sometimes.
>can choose to have MC be groomed at age 12 by a vampire
kinky
Why is every character so overly sensitive in this game?
They are humans and not kindred. except for the thinbloods but they're thinbloods its to be expected.
I guess the vampires did nothing wrong then.
the plot kinda falls apart in my opinion because only the most zealous of hunters wouldn't side with the thinbloods and outnumber the bad vampire like 7 to 1. Only the stupidest of characters wouldn't realize they are being played by the normal vamp.
Kindred are the biggest drama queens though
5e is notoriois effeminate. Old WoD was 90s leftwing which is to the right of Trump, new WoD decided that meant it should be modern leftwing so it's about gay muslim immigrants fighting white supremacy to such a moronic degree that they deleted the sabbat because you can't have actual bad guys when the game needs to be about tearing down traditions instead. Also, they just ignored/forgot/retconned that most methuselah are brown not white so its a brown supremacy issue. On top of that, they think 150 is an elder because they erased the Fledgeling->Neonate->Ancillae->Elder->Methuselah hierarchy terms. 150 is a neonate in most of europe and the middle east, not even the stage below an elder.
Everything else coming off as odd is a symptom of the writer's continued lunacy.
inbued are also just plain cooler and feel more interesting than "its the inquisition again". I like it when hunters feel sparse and seperated from eachother, eaching having their own view on the hunt and what they should do to contribute
>Sabbat
>Bad guys
East coast status, kindred?
i still dont understand how the frick modern left wing defends fricking muslims for any reason other than suicidal spite
>invite the girl to live at your apartment
>later on ask her out
>erm I think that might be problematic dating my landlord
are you kidding me
as a former renthog i hate landlords but that shits fricking moronic
>you helped me?
>ew that's like, a toxic power manipulation.
>this gives me the ick.
Don't shit were you eat
what do you go out to a public toilet whenever you need to shit? or do you instead always go out to eat? i'm not sure which would be worse honestly
nta, but I wouldn't date my landlord. If I ever broke up with her I'd need to move.
>I wouldn't frick the figure of power I rely on
Of course YOU wouldn't, you're a man, but for women that's the default state in every society throughout all of time.
What would Honeypots reaction to the puns Bee? I can imagine her reaction being dependent on if we are saying it with actual Venom and mockery or we are just cracking wise as Heroes tend to do. Would how we say it be tied to a stat, or a choice that basically asks us what we think of Honeypot.
I would love it if honeypot is trying to be some cute aspiring villian trying to prove "I can be a big bad guy too" but we just never take her seriously as a threat and go easy on her,which causes her to want to prove herself even more.
I would say a choice personally because in stat based games I often end up as the opposite of what I wanted to be
I played Creme de la Creme recently and I was failing all my nerd checks while I could bash anyone but I was intending to be a Hermione knockoff basically
Yeah, that one has some weird stats because it made me unable to be manipulative if I was confrontational.
The sucky thing about writing IF with a lot of choices is that you can write a frickton of words, but at the same time barely move a scene because most of what you've written is choice specific. It's gonna be painful if I'll cut away a lot of stuff once I'm on the editing phase.
Honeypot's whole thing is, she's trying to be serious and cool, but is actually a complete moron.
She'll be offended by jokes, but eventually'll open up and become more corny herself.
>Would how we say it be tied to a stat, or a choice that basically asks us what we think of Honeypot
I don't wanna spoil, but there's a specific trait interaction which will instantly get a lot of positive relationship with Honeypot and some other characters, and it is indeed tied to a pun. It's one of those things you pick kinda randomly and then it comes back in a satisfying (I hope) way.
>first point
yeah thats why my schizo stories are never going to be published unless against my will by children
>second point
listen i will stalk you and beat you if i cant play the way i want to, okay bastard? i don't want to but you're the one that said i'm a brute in my seething about creme de la creme okay
Is that you, Juan?
no i've got slavic blood instead of mexican blood
stat based cyoa's are almost always shit
if you reckon you're the fella that can do it you can try but i'm a stalker and will beat you if i don't like it, and i can't think of any stat based cyoa i've liked
The whole “I’m going to stalk you and beat you up” thing makes you come across as underage and moronic.
i'm moronic but i'm overaged
I literally cannot decipher what you just said.
I fricking love those kind of characters. I tried to play a neutral evil young necromancer in a game of dnd with my friends who's whole shtick was that he wanted to be the coolest and evilest necromancer but he's softer/more childish than he likes to admit. He named all of his 3 zombies larry barry and garry or something similar to that with a rhyming scheme. I didn't get to do much with him before he got killed off by the dm though, haven't really played with those guys after that. Laharl from disgaea is also a great example of a character that puts on a big show and acts more evil than he really is. can we give honeypot a nickname and refuse to call her by her actual name?
>I didn't get to do much with him before he got killed off by the dm though
Care to share with the class what happened?
basically one of the druids- the one that was ok with me being a necromancer as long as he got to put plants and shit in my zombies/skeletons has a pet hermit crab or some other small crustacean that could eat magical Items and gems and gain their powers. So one night while camping in a tower my guy decided that the crab had too much potential to become a big threat in the future, and tried to assassinate it with his skeletons. It did not go well, the crab summoned hounds that alerted the rest of the party, He fled with haste and would have gotten away too if the dm didn't decide that all the commotion woke up the giant skelton god lich thing that previously gave me a magical Item and was sleeping in the graveyard nearby. He used his dm powers to grab my character and the others and proceeded to kill my character and another players character who stuck up for my character iirc.
>So one night while camping in a tower my guy decided that the crab had too much potential to become a big threat in the future, and tried to assassinate it with his skeletons.
Dick move but holy shit your DM was worse by a wide margin.
>He used his dm powers to grab my character and the others and proceeded to kill my character and another players character who stuck up for my character
Not only did he intervene when he didn't need to in order to frick you over. He fricked over the other players who had your back. The DM should of just let you run and deal with the consequences of your actions.
yeah in retrospect i shouldn't have escalated to killing the crab. My character was already on thin ice with the party because they found some starved/expirmented on hounds in the towers basement, and at the time it was just him and the druid that didnt like him. He tried to convince the druid to put the hounds out of their misery, with the ulterior motive of turning their corpses into his own pack. Unfortunately for him the druid can talk with animals and the hounds did NOT want to be put down. He then tried to knock out the druid before they could free the hounds and send them to the druids domain. It didn't go great iirc. I haven't played with those guys in a while because I want to try different systems and they very much like to stick to 5e
You actually sound terrible and I wouldn't want to play with you.
>they very much like to stick to 5e
Nevermind, I would die fighting by your side to keep them out of this world.
He was neutral evil, but regardless I've learned my lesson on fighting the party. Recently I've gotten a physical copy of hunter the reckoning 1E and am trying to organize some (unrelated)friends to play
>He then tried to knock out the druid
>Also used force to try and kill another players pet
I deem you as bad player. Hopefully you learnt not to attack other players or their pets unless it's agreed upon beforehand OOC
>fricking with a fellow party member's shit
You got what you deserved, DM's have to nip that shit in the bud
>coolest and evilest necromancer but he's softer/more childish than he likes to admit
That's an unironically cool character concept. Honeypot is more of Zuko type of character, who got gaslighted by herself and her environment into thinking she's edgy.
>can we give honeypot a nickname and refuse to call her by her actual name?
Bro I don't know I've started writing the thing last week...
My cyoa is stat heavy, but it's not stat based. Most checks have multiple different pass conditions/success levels, so you don't have to max the same thing at every point and expected to jack-of-all-trades it.
Stats are mostly for flavours anyway, alternate content is unlocked by actual story decisions, not by having arbitrary charm value.
It's going to be free forever.
I might consider patreon for the porn comissions money down the line.
Pre-heartbreak sidestep loses, edgystep wins easily.
>I might consider patreon for the porn comissions money down the line.
KoFi might be better, I hear you get more money that way and don't have to worry about patron randomly deciding to kill you.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I haven't failed you, anon.
Also due to the nature of some content in my game selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license.
But wouldn't it be more funny to have a honeypot in a game with Honeypot?
Don't worry, I'll finish it, promise 2 more books in the series and then fricking disappear from the face of the earth.
>Also due to the nature of some content in my game selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license
Banging jailbait honeypot CONFIRMED
>it turns out honey pot was a fed plant the entire time, there to lure out "heroes" such as this anon that would do unscrupulous things to young villians
>hags
>young
yeah well i'm sure you can accept donations on an unrelated patreon account
dont get me wrong, i'm not gonna give you my fricking shekels
unless i actually really like it
but i shan't trust you if you won't accept my shekels at all
>selling it is both illegal and against ChoiceScript license.
Have you considered Twine?
how can you expect people to trust you if you dont accept payment Black person
>It's going to be free forever.
Just so you know, I am going to check and find the crypto miner you are bundling in with the CYOA.
>It's going to be free forever.
On one hand, I fricking kneel.
On the other, I have to wonder if you’ll be motivated to finish it without the guaranteed incentive that is charging a price for it. You have a decent pace going, but I can’t help but be skeptical.
>free forever
based hobbyist. Best of luck to not get burnt-out If I ever make decent headway on my project I want it to be free too
How much do you intend to charge for the game anyways?
Who would win in a fight, Sidestep or Honeypot?
Seeker
sidestep is already trying to subconsciously himself so honeypot easy win
What if sidestep named their alter ego Honeypot instead of Heartbreak or Sidestep?
but sidestep named his alter ego anathema?
What if Sidestep and Honeypot kissed while Ortega seethed in the corner?
ava is already in the cuck corner, please come back later also sidestep is kissing lady argent
should i take a photo of my arm and send it to the german swan author
slavs aren't dark 🙁
Yes you are the teutonic genius sees the very essence of your soul
t.. slav
aaahh, wonderful, i shall
Slavs will never be white
>paying for/supporting games
morons.
>reading cyoas
morons
Your right, I only look at the pretty picture on the cyoa images on /tg/
Is Parliament of Knives trying to tell us something?
She's saying this about a rabbi....
doesn't matter, kill all bloodsuckers. or redeem them
>this is a noss
huh?
5e is a mess
He looks kinda like a chinaman. Maybe that's his nosferatu curse. Before turning, he was blonde-haired and blue eyed and was made swarthy by Cain.
>hey our vampires supported gay rights!
really? the pandering is really obtuse.
The Sire seems pretty based since she doesn't want shitskins in her domain.
>The pandering is really obtuse
It is anon, but this is a WoD game published by CoG, there was no chance it would be anything but the most moronic ham-fisted pandering ever.
I just want a good hunter horror campaign/cyoa is that too much to ask?
This writing is so horrible I'm not sure whether to be sad or amused
>sex positive feminist friendly porn studio
that part is even worse
i fricking hate dumb fricks pretending the sex industry is anything but human trafficking and rape of drugged up poors
um chuddy, that's a conspiracy theory sweaty. The real pedos are men who like attractive fictional female characters below the age of 30.
CUT HIS MIC
CUT HIS FRICKING MIC
I mean sure vampires are damned soulless parasites, but that doesnt mean they're bigots
It also makes a reference to andrenochrome?
Holy shit yeah the second inquisition sucks, gimme my scrappy squishy underdogs back
A crown of sorcery and steel is far more bearable when your gaslighting everyone into thinking your doing your best and helping, when in reality you've been making the party fail at every turn while romancing both the elf and the queen
>cheating on your queenfu
I decided to try that but made the mistake of turning on portraits, and now I'm too disgusted by everyone to even think of romance
MeiMeiGODS... is this worth it?
wow, she's literally me
also what are the chances this is a shit test
My wife is so funny when she jokes around.
femdomdicky does it again, this is why we can't have nice things like evil women
This is fine, just let us do the same to her then goddamnit, stop making us have to be her unwitting pawn
The PC has the highest potential in this entire realm of existence, thus he will be useful to her forever. By the time she decides to betray him, if she ever does, it will be too late.
>Arsenic in the tea again, honey? You know that doesn't do anything to me
>Another bomb in the food? Please stop, you know those give me a light stomachache
That would be actually interesting, but dicky is a homosexual, so the option is being a pathetic simp
You're right since dicky is a homosexual but also I don't think there's any other way to slowly gouge your way inside Mei Mei's heart at this point. You have to appear to be useful enough to be able to help her with her problems and your relationship good enough she won't think it's too moronic letting you keep living despite being terrified of you. If you started Aizening things up visibly she'd do the smart thing and try to remove a future problem. We must slowly over the course of many years wear down her defenses and build a sense of trust until we can finally strike and compromise her beliefs.
>If you started Aizening things up visibly she'd do the smart thing and try to remove a future problem.
I bet this will happen at some point. Somebody will find out about your "condition" and try to have you whacked before you eat them.
lmao yeah imagine the relationship
>yeah she's evil and keeps trying to kill me but really its like how a cat tries to claw you sometimes
>its cute!
Post link homosexual.
>https://nickydicky.itch.io/poma-premium
>password: apple
>spoiler
oh nononono samsung sisters our response?
>all those qa entries
Write the fricking game you homosexual, holy shit. What makes you think that instead of putting this information inside the game it'd be better in a separate place?
>Taking a look at that fanart tab
Fujos stay seething at FemRuo supremacy.
>has a harem full of hunky body cultivators to frick her to preserve the bloodline
:^)
>caring about the line's continuation
lmao, what are you some loser who leaves reaching the top to your descendants?
Saying all those mean things!!
Damn brat, needs correction!!
AI is getting better at writing, huh
reminder that hyuga dev is using ai art and ai voices to make shitty videos to promote hyuga lmao
To be fair, AI is already at the level of an average CoGger author.
What model are you using?
My man Claude 2.1.
>AI is already at the level of an average CoGger author.
I disagree, it doesn't matter how good they right when they don't have enough tokens to keep track of the story. Hallucinations will also have to be completely solved as well, as you don't want an AI to hallucinate a choice you didn't make or an event that never happened. The token bit might eventually be solved with integration with MAMBA but I haven't heard anything about a surefire way to prevent hallucinations.
You can't have your AI failing to tell a good story in a purely story driven experience. For personal preference, I would also prefer to support a human to AI for no other reason that storytelling being something humans have done since the dawn of time and I would like humans to continue that tradition.
"level of an average CoGger author" wasn't meant as praise, Anon.
I'am making a Palworld CYOA
the lamball-industrial complex will dominate the land
go back
Wrong board
Sorry, I'm already making it.
It's to late, I already made it but I will never release it.
>Broken Fable was actually kinda fun during the flashback section to the chosen hero's backstory
>becomes incredibly eh the moment it came to the common route
welp
also Ishtar best origin
>playing as a woman
It's the other origins fault for not stepping up their game
I've been thinking about it, and I know some anon's would really like it, but uhh what do you guys think of the possibility of being an evil bastard and slowly breaking down sir galahad? Thinking of having a scenario where you stumble upon a young innocent(enough) monster/demon, with the option to alert him about it and push him to slay it, as a means to guilt him about it later and break his chivalrous spirit.
I only utterly break the psyche of women, it's too sensual to do it to a man.
Not really feeling it, I like him better unbreakable
yeah, I'm thinking I'll going to keep galahad constant, He'll be the unshakeable oblivous moral backbone of any given situation.
Sir galahad is meant to be the beloved incompetent moron right? I don't think that breaking him down through guilt and emotional manipulation should be what breaks his chivalrous spirit if that is going to be an option. What should break him down is trickery. Pair him with unscrupulous individuals that take advantage of his nature naïve nature. Put him in positions that quite frankly he shouldn't be in and if you need a fall guy simply have the player work it out where all the blame falls upon galahad. For example, have him be the quartermaster. Lets say we want more gold and sell some of the stock, and when the commanders come a knockin and there is not enough equipment to arm the troops you could blame it on galahad for
1. Not keeping it safe
2. Giving it to troops he thought needed the equipment when he wasn't suppose to
3. Frame him for selling it instead of you
4. [Free space]
Basically, I don't think guilt should be what breaks him. It should be related to his own incompetence, letting others down and being a failure should be what breaks him.
Thats an intersting idea, I want galahad to also be somewhat a remnant of a bygone era of chivalry, sure he's a bit of a dumbass but he's a well intentioned dumbass in a world where knights are becoming more and more selfserving. Extending to his daughter acting like a haughty noble, but specifically as a hauhgty Idealized version of what a noble should be due to growing up on her fathers stories.And I would like to allow the player to view and interact with this chivalry in different ways, either coming to believe in it, using it for their own ends or out right opposing it.
>incompetent
Nah, he's the only one who actually succeeds at obtaining the grail, it's just that either he's so morally pure he can be played off as the oblivious good hearted knight in shining armor (forma real)
Or is so pure and just that he's downright robotic and inhuman in his lack of human flaws
what are all IF writer anons working on right now? I don't mean the projects, I mean the specific passages
I didn't get much work today, but I'm on flashback childhood sequence of MCs fricked up trauma which left them mentally and emotionally crippled, but not in edgy ITFO-way, more of "nothing fricking fazes them no matter what" way. Right now specifically I'm coding the teddy bear customization bit.
I hope you Chekhov's gun the shit out of that teddy bear.
I'm jotting down ideas and trying to write an outline mostly,who the central characters will be, what the overarching plot should look like, how player/npc stats will work.feels a bit daunting to actually start coding, but I do want to produce something.
Also I dunno how to trip
Type a # after your name then put the password after the #, no spaces
Trying to get the soft fail state for the first murder case to flow correctly. After that I just need the act 1-2 bridging scenes, which are hangouts mostly, then I can finally maybe put this thing up.
No deadlines.
codium doesn't have choicescript as an extension for some reason. Frick it I'm using twine.
Sir Galahad is a paragon of virtue and the very model of what a Knight should be and I will not accept this Slander
>Other knights are behaving unchivalrously.
>SIR: Why, I shall simply have to become more chivalrous to counteract them. God shall show them the light in due time.
>Innocent serfs are are being accosted by brigands yet the local militia is not up to the task of defending against them
>SIR: Why, it is simply up to me to teach these people the error of their sinful lifestyle! (He will either actually attempt to outright convince the brigands to give up their lifestyle and slay them if they refuse or the Squire can help get the militia to back him up on this suicidal endeavor)
How religious is Sir Galahad going to be anyways?
Thats a good question. I think I will put him within a religous order, allowing for one of the reasons for the squire to be a squire to be due to their parent's postion in the church and their parents wanting to instill "good faith" into them. However I would say galahad by himself is a moderate, he uses his faith to aid others but isn't zealous, partially leading to his unpopularity in the order, sure he's oldgaurd but he isn't as charismatic or "faithful/faithdriven" as the current figureheads of the order, using their faith to justify their selfish actions. The player can decide if they are religous or not, and wether or not they subscribe to the upcoming more radical slaying rather than salvation ideals.
Give me something good to read that I didn't already read before
List everything you have already read before.
The Bible
What have you read already?
Vampire the Masqurade: Night Road or Life of a Wizard
War for the West
Finish writing Unsupervised D:<
I'm doing it right now
>nahIdWin
Lol'd, I'm doing the same thing. Cheers.
Mecha Ace.
>tfw still no gay Hawkins drawing
It's not gonna happen, you will simply have to commission it or draw it yourself.
That's because no one truly gives a shit about Mecha Ace
We care about it.
She promised to draw me one. I believe in her, we have a newtype connection!
>tfw still no straight wantanabe drawing
best mei
why is mei mei poisoning orphans?
Why aren't you?
too busy cultivating to get ahead of my (nowfem!) rival ruo
the quickest way to a woman's heart is through the poisoning of orphans
Heh, knew it was just her bluster. With the previous scenes in context it's an obvious shit test.
if I'm dating a red flag woman, it's because I know she's a red flag and accept that
I mean the other option leads to the death route so that's the only correct choice. Redemptiongays btfo.
any cog where I can go full schizo? one knight stand gave me the itch
>any cog where I can go full schizo?
No.
Highlands, Deep Waters if you want to be a literal one
He's too powerful...
Nicky try to not make protagonist submit to other characters challenge: impossible
Lol, he already lost.
True, but that's why you need to take things slow. It's a game of how much you can push people's expectations before they freak out and try to kill you like cute little Mei Mei. You must play the pig to eat the tiger.
nickydicky isn't smart enough for that
Who cares about dicky, the moment his writing becomes too irritating I will simply continue the story myself.
Can Nicky go a single chapter without making the MC job to somebody
>literally have max stats and on story mode
>still job
I don't think he know what story mode means
It's not even a chapter, it's a QnA section.
What's better Path of Martial Arts or Aura Clash? And why?
Aura Clash doesn't force you to be a pathetic sniveling simp who gets trod upon by everyone and whose romance consists entirelt of femdom
>what's better piss or shit
would rather get pissed on than shat on tbqh
for me it's the opposite
Aura Clash.
>PoMA
>Mandatory jobbing, horrible heroines, only one fighting style
>AC
>Anon writes winning scenarios even when he wanted you to lose and already had a whole section done for that
>Autistic wolf girl, insane sword girl, big titty goth gf
>Wanna wield swords? Here you go. Wanna be an Uchiha? Here you go. Wanna be a Dragon Ball character? Here you go.
>Autistic wolf girl, insane sword girl, big titty goth gf
Yes but where are the evil women? I rest my case.
Thanks, is there anything stopping it from being a best seller when it comes out?
Considering the CoG audience, maybe the lack of homogays.
Being a CYOA text game, which is very niche audience in general.
I am once again asking for the shrine maiden to become a main love interest
>b-but anon she already banged you, there's nowhere to go!
Wrong. Now you get to actually interact with her and discover her personality and story. There's no reason why you can't do any of the stuff the other ROs do at the same time you're dating.
What about stats? Do you guys prefer the stats in Aura or PoMA?
Aura clash easily
The old stat system in PoMA was absolute dogshit that only a krokodil-addled brain could imagine as a good idea. Apparently it got changed again recently but I don't play shit games to verify if it got any better.
Aura Clash is simple but it actually works.
it had like 3 different incorrect stat comparisons at the start and I don't remember if that gay fixed them after I pointed them out
stats with low numbers tend to make devs fall back to = comparisons instead of >= for some reason
Aura’s stats are intuitive.
The last time I read PoMA it was an absolute clusterfrick of menus.
>make the mistake of playing new PoMA update on 4x instead of God mode
>new fight is literally unwinnable
>restart on God mode for auto-success and pump vit for maximum health, also waste a ton of Qi while fighting instead of picking the free options
>still only barely get by
What the frick. Cute Mei Mei, though.
>decide to write in the most shonen of shonen genres
>make it so the player never fricking wins on even the "busted" difficutlies
why is NickyDicky like this
I'll give him credit where it's due, at least you can kill the fricking guy this time instead of it being another Long Chen scenario. It's an improvement.
Honestly being able to kill someone who is clearly antagonistic against you is a huge fricking plus. Some CoG games make it so that no matter what you can kill someone even if you threaten to do it your character refuses to go through with it.
Looking at you T-Rex time machine.
Only talented evil young masters like us stand a chance to get Mei Mei. Someone who picked Mortal should be satisfied with Ai.
Rivals and cutes are the best ROs. now we just need to find a way to combine them together
>now we just need to find a way to combine them together
Simple, have a high medical stat and capture both RO's. Make sure they are in a sterile environment. Open up their heads with your high medical stat and stat removing parts of the brain from each one and swapping it to the other. !!IMPORTANT!! Make sure the final product is in the body that you like the most, when you are done with the brain mixing you can simply discard the old body. Once you are done seal up the head again. Make sure to keep them cognitively active after the proceeded. Since it is two different DNA in there the host body will slowly get rid of the new neurons as happened when tested in lab mice. However, if those parts of the brain is exercised then new neurons with the hosts DNA will form and those ones will not be destroyed and mirror the implanted tissue.
There you have it, a combination of two ROs traits into one.
Fitzie, take this man to the Penis Explosion Chamber and have his penis exploded immediately.
fitzie stop giving haze death glares and help me figure out how we are going to get marmaduke a wife, you into cardbury and me a glass of wine.
Do you think Jolly 2 will release this year? and why can't more CoG writers be like gower?
>Do you think Jolly 2 will release this year?
No, Jolly 2 is on wang schedule. So more like 3 or 4.
End of the year perhaps, they still have 2 chapters to go and god knows how much editing and CoG's typical long ass release window
>chapters five and six are each bigger than most finished games
How is he this powerful?
Passion is a powerful motivator.
Now if only it was spent on something other than WaCky slice of life
I'd say at its best its less wacky slice of life and more montey python esque absurdity compounding on itself and being played completely straight. Which I personally greatly enjoy.
How dare he write something unique among Cyoas! He should be writing about a royal succession crisis!
>royal succession
>not superheros
anonpls
Man it's hard to pick who dies in 2K without future knowledge. I guess I'll kill Lewes.
2k?>
there better be atleast 100k words dedicated to the mischief my maid wife and I get up to
2nd Kharangia
What’s with the autistic fake hatred for redemptiongays? It’s not their fault the author’s are too lazy to write an evil girl that stays evil.
Of course it is, every time a villain RO is added floods of redemptiongays, mostly women but men exist too, rush the forums to scream about how they can fix them and turn them to the light and beg the author to make the violent psychopath that wants to dismember you secretly a kind soul who likes puppies. Then there's also the dommy mommy gays who are somehow even more insufferable.
Why don’t you post on their gay forums and tell them that you want an option to make her worse instead of whining about muh redemptiongays then?
I'll concede on the mommyshit though, fricking hell they’re annoying and somehow EVERYWHERE.
I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
Because you are the furries/mlp of current year, and won't shut the frick up. Every character that isn't a shy waif that barely talks is quickly flanderized into your weird bdsm-wannabe fantasy that you then spam everywhere.
>mlp
Literally nothing wrong with em. Though I will admit making the containment board was the best thing that could have happened to them.
>furries of the current year
Furries have been around for decades at this point, every year is a furry year.
Anon you’re missing the point of his post entirely.
>I am but a single voice in a chorus of gaylords, there's only so much I can affect.
Being a single voice is still so much louder than no voice at all. Thoughts are nothing more then vapor until spoken aloud.
>rush the forums to scream about how they can fix them and turn them to the light and beg the author to make the violent psychopath that wants to dismember you secretly a kind soul who likes puppies.
Blame the creators who bend to the whims of outside voices. Stick to your vision and do not bend, those who demand your game change to fit their sensibilities were never going to buy your game and would always find something wrong with it. With that being said.
>every time a villain RO is added floods of redemptiongays
Is it really that wrong to want to believe in second chances? If the author wanted them to be evil no matter what then the author should never have given the option to redeem them. I am just waiting for the day when "redeeming" someone ends up being the worse choice. Like alienating your former allies by bringing a psycho murderer into the fold. Cutting you off from their assistance and having the Psycho be your primary source of assistance. Imagine accidently becoming the baddie on the evil path because you attempted to redeem an evil person and now cannot return to the Good Guys™ because of your affiliation.
>Is it really that wrong to want to believe in second chances?
Ah, but that's implying that villain characters failed along the way of being a hero and settled on being a villain, so they need a second chance to do it right. As Mei said, there's freedom in being a monster. A properly written villain would have no desires for a "second chance" at playing good guy since there's nothing to gain from that, and they were villains from the core instead of the currently popular jerk with a heart of gold trope. I am fundamentally against all forms of redemption, as there's no point to writing a character X with their entire quest being to stop being X.
>spoiler
That should be what happens in most cases.
You are ignoring the essence of my post. I could open a random thread on the forum now and easily find one of you posting about how RO x, who happens to be a female that is somewhat cold and ignores you or a woman above 22, "is such a dommy mommy(despite being a brat) won't the author add scenes where she bullies us?"
Yes, but there's a lot of other voices. At this point I've had to stop visiting certain places entirely since they're every other post.
>That should be what happens in most cases.
But it's not, and I can't wait until there is a CYOA that actually does this. To many games bend over backwards to accommodate the player and attempt to maintain group cohesion. The most recent example I can recall is Rogue trader, where you can recruit a fricking Drukari (Dark Eldar) of all things and while the group complains none of them leave or do anything about it. Even the Inquisitor and normal Elder does jack shit about it and just calls you are moron for inviting them and leaves it at that.
Mount and Blade warband actually did this pretty well. Where certain companions that you could pick up had certain values and you could recruit other companions that had opposing values. This doesn't matter until you reach a certain condition at which point it becomes a problem and they will actually leave you if you trigger that condition to much. Some are fine with robbing villages and others are not.
Basically, games tend to coddle the player to much when it comes to companions. They should have firmer beliefs and act against the player if the player opposes their values.
Mommybros... why must they persecute us like this?
Call her a hag or a milf, hell call her a cake. Just quit it with the mommy googoo gaga baby talk garbage. It’s pathetic.
Oh and the dominatrix shit too like
said, frick that.
Googoo gaga (No).
I like when a character compromises their morals, whatever they are, for a good MC dicking.
Redemption stories are fun, but it's stupid to force it in cases like Meimei were she know she's a bad b***h, revels in it, and has no real reason or motivation to become otherwise besides X asked her to.
I can change her
*dies*
Nuh-uh, Mei is my irredeemable psycho-wife. Go try to make Ruo-chan care about the struggles of the peasantry or whatever.
Evil women are made for killing, not romancing or redeeming.
Evil women are made for tender, murderous love.
This is what I'm talking about. Wonder why there isn't a CYOA with this game's plot, it'd work pretty well.
I'm all for CYOAs with voices in your head. Don't care if they're cute girls from another dimension, shattered aspects of your psyche, or inexplicable schizo voices. A character living in your head is more fun than an impartial narrator above it all.
True, but I was kinda miffed we couldn't make a move on our schizo delusion in ZESH. What's the point of a voice in your head if you can't seduce it?
Couldn't you have a brojob with it?
You can never go wrong with voices in your head.
Ruo got mogged by the dragon girl.
This, she cute and strong and not a b***h.
Bro, did you even play the game?
And she actually lives with you.
bros...i need new cyoas/updates...it's too dead
Nothing this year, maybe there'll be something new in 2025
(try to) write your own. I believe in you anon
Two more weeks for the update.
Don't worry anon, I'll post a wip soon.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2603210/On_the_Run_Rogue_Heroes/
Unsupersisters... Are we getting Sidestepped™?
>another superhero cyoa
>it's dumbfrick secret government agent shit again
Those people will never learn what makes actually good superhero story. I am once again convinced the God himself has called upon me to cleanse this sinful planet by way of writing an actually good superhero CYOA, and I'm filled with determination to heed his will.
>only 175,000 words
capeshit cyoas are dime a dozen as is, and this one seems no where as ambitious as unsupervised or fallen hero
The only CoG game I actually wait for is the magical girl one.
Same, it seems fun
Are there any cyoas that will let me fulfill my fantasies of being a dickish Fae?
I'm planning on having one of my characters be a descendent of fae, maybe that can be a player background too. though the fae are etched in myth and legend,Some think they are just a faery tale.
So thinking about stats, How would you guys feel about having more of a trait reliant system than a purely statistical one? So the player would choose a couple traits at the beginning of the game, and throughout the game they would have the opportunity to earn different traits. And these traits give you new options that wouldn't be avaliable otherwise. and some could have tradeoffs/negative effects; Eg you start running away more often or hiding behind others you may gain the cowardly trait, causing you to frighten easily, but you also know the best ways of getting out of situations.
much better than collecting dozens of +1 melee points imo
hell, drop stats entirely and give some traits a couple of different tiers if need be
I do both. Completely removing stats results in there not being a state of uncertainty. Are my stats high enough to pull this off? Which stats will this choice check? Are there partial success?
With traits, you either have one, or you don't. And, most of the time, you must let player succeed with trait-based choices, or there's no reason in having one at all. It just turns into mindless choosing of the relevant options.
With both stats and traits you can have hybrid checks, with having a trait reducing stat requirement, but not removing it outright.
Anyway just do whatever feels better.
Thank you for the input, I think I will do something of a hybrid system, Personality traits/mindsets will remain static, while skills and what you are capable of doing will be tiered, on a scale of adept -> competent -> proficent -> highly proficent ->master, and I'll try to make it so that checks can be passed with combinations of skills, so a proficent swordsman could still pass a master check if they are proficent in underhanded tactics as well.
As a coding cheat, keep the tiers as a number behind the scenes and have the character sheet display the tier name based on the number. That way you can use >= for checks. Not that I would know, I'm not late on an update or anything.
>, How would you guys feel about having more of a trait reliant system than a purely statistical one? So the player would choose a couple traits at the beginning of the game
Have you played Pentiment? They did something like this where you picked what you did and it influenced what you can say to others throughout the game.
I haven't, My decision is partially influenced by scarlet hollow of all things but I would want it to be far more than just picking 2 at the start and thats your lot. is pentiment any good?
I think its pretty alright, It's set in medieval times and seems relatively grounded in actual history. You would probably like it I think considering the setting of the game you are making.
Neat, I'll check it out. Thanks for bringing it up.
>So Arthur gave laws and made changes that don't see women as beneath men. That allow people to be themselves and make the changes they need. That place marriages like my dads' on equal footing with the union between Arthur and Guinevere.
Ah, so that's why I need to overthrow Arthur
the only thing you'll overthrow is your heterosexuality by reading this
It's not gay to love your half brother
>That place marriages like my dads' on equal footing with the union between Arthur and Guinevere.
A sham of cuckoldry and treason?
That's Lot's and Morgana's marriage you're thinking of
The squire WILL be able to marry a princess.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THE PRINCESS ASEXUAL!!!
Sorry she's not an ace but she's skoliosexual
You can romance your ace nb noble rival though
>nonbinary
Cringe
what better target to defeat and humiliate than a homosexual
Hmmm yes yes I see now.
The princess is a scheming pragmatist that puts her own survival in the courts first and foremost. A wise and cunning squire may be able to recognize her duplicity and challenge her in a game of wits, while a more oblivous squire might become a pawn in her schemes.
But of course, Telephia is the only sane option for the next in line to rule. or so she thinks...
Does she at least find the himbo squire cute, or are we just a useful tool?
A cute tool, but a tool nonetheless. She's used to the plotting and lying in the courts, so a himbo squire could impress her a bit with his dedications to his ideals, actually believing in the chivalrous things he says. But If she can't hold a good debate or plot a sly scheme with you she'll never be able to see you as a true equal.
Why? Wouldn't literal royalty try and marry someone of much higher standing then a mere squire?
We should be able to forge a claim to nobility or something, all the cool kids do it.
Sure, you start out as a squire, but depending on how well you perform you could rise through the ranks of the order. She is definitely a character that comes into play later in the story though, once you've gained some acclaim. Sir galahad taking on an apprentice is a curious thing, but irrelevant to her plans. it would help to take the minor noble background
>That spoiler
In my opinion, that should be a mandatory choice you make if you want the option to get with her. That isn't to say that she can't enjoy your company and that she won't use you as a tool as you say in previous posts, but she won't marry you without the noble background.
hm I'll take that in consideration, Though I do think there should be a way for players that didn't pick that background to pique her interest. maybe by the squire awakening his latent fae blood as a (hard to get) special trait Also the squire will be judged based on their appearances. A GingerUrchin is dante must die mode. Nobles are typically raven haired and grey eyed, the royal bloodline is a rare blonde blue eyes, the peasant class often has different shades of brown hair and varying eye colors. While the poor are often Gingers.
>the royal bloodline is a rare blonde blue eyes
unironically disgusting, I'm not tainting my hot black hair genes with some moronic blonde
one of the noble background optional specifications is a bastard ginger, your entire life's one big scandal
sounds fun but I'll never play a souless ginger
I'm never playing a ginger or picking a blonde as a RO
You're game's rapidly dropping in quality, tsk tsk
My primary objection was the marriage, not the RO potential. I have no objection to her having a bastard child with you due to special fae blood, but she would have to pass it off as her actual husbands kid (which would be extremely difficult if not impossible if noble traits are blonde/blue eyes and the child comes out a frickin ginger). Hell, who knows. The kid might even become a legitimized bastard and his odd appearance could be blamed on the Fae and he would become of noble blood. But without the Noble background, you would always be on the outside looking in.
SquireAnon I like you so I will give you the wisdom some boomer once gave me: talking about your project gives the same dopamine hit as finishing your project. Right now it's good to talk about it a bit to get feedback and fan desires (cultivatoranon added white people to fake asia just because someone asked for a hot goth gf, honeypot-anon is slowly having their honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat everyone memes about), but after a while talking about your project is a poison to your own mind.
>honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat
And thats a good thing
You're right, I'm not gonna trip again until I have something to show for it, Don't want to get peoples hopes up and never deliver
>honeypot-anon is slowly having their honeypot concept warped into the tsundere pun brat everyone memes about
She's not tsundere you stupid baka.
Also seconded. Oversharing your project is the first step to not finishing it. Every second you post your ideas is a second you could've been writing your book.
The princess will NOT want children.
She WILL just declare some random c**t her heir.
Get over it.
that heir? your rival
I'm writing a short Cultivator game even though I never played anything from that genre and I'm not using Chinese mythology. Wish me luck!
you guys scream about princess or nobles who don't want kids because it's unrealistic, but the moment we add cuckoldry (which is very much realistic) you have fits of pure rage
>we
Who the hell is WE?
the cog collective
>meet cute muscle knight waifu who's reluctantly being married off to my half brother
>she chopped her breasts off though and doesn't want to be called a lady, but still goes by female pronouns at least
Welp, guess I'm sticking with the childhood crush waifu after all, even if that's going to make all this simmering romantic tension of unconfessed feelings feel very funny in light of the upcoming U-turn
>she chopped her breasts off though and doesn't want to be called a lady
Treat her like a man and add her tl the unnamed list of minions you don't talk to.
Hell yeah
>I will DESTROY Camelot!
>Also I like you btw
>destroying your future kingdom
anonpls, why go through all that trouble instead of just convincing Arthur to make you his heir?
It's not like he's got any other relatives to pass the throne to
I don't like him since he's a wuss and since mom wants the kingdom gone the kingdom is going to get gone
I'm making a mecha WIP where you'll be able to romance you're mech's integrated AI that you can personalise (on top of romancing your rival ace of course)
I'm joking, the genre is dead you'll never have another mech IF ever again, enjoy your hundredth super hero slop instead
Man I'd even take shitty Eva style Romance mecha just please give us more mecha
I'm also planning to have a junior priest in the mix, She'll probably be more relevant to the priest parents background than the other ones. Help her reinforce her faith, turn her into a vengeful zealot or maybe even leave the faith entirely, for something far more insidious... Yes corruptionAnon Im looking at you
Yessssss
>female priest
The proper term is priestess, moron.
No problem, hope you enjoy it Anon.
Noooo, don't let her get away
why is she allowing that demon to openly lust after the young master?
If you stop any demons from lusting after me I'll exsanguinate you with a rusty spoon
Wrong board
>>>/vg/
>>>/b/
Has anyone tried Unnatural? I've never heard of it but it looks interesting enough for one of the games from 8 years ago.
I haven’t.
Try it out, it was pretty fun the last time I played it. However, I never felt the need to replay it like I do with other games in the mainline/hosted section.
>find out in ng+ that the best girl I've been lusting after is some kind of skinwalker vampire troon
That's pretty low
What gayme?
the gay painter
>written by the guy that wrote that shitty time loop game
threadly reminder that unless you give me an unambiguous happy ending your game is shit
what are you like this
because "deep" endings are shit
the only good deep endings are the ones where I'm deep in my chosen RO
That's actually an improvement, I thought she was having sex with the old guy while I slept on the floor like a cuck when in fact she was just killing him
how wholesome!
I really like how the entire story can easily be interpreted as a troon getting outed as the monstrosity it really is
nonhumans > humans
>find out in ng+ that the best girl I've been lusting after is some kind of skinwalker vampire troon
>can't have sex with it even though it's in love with you
>you can only have sex with your trashy bawd gf or the single mom (and get a happy end at the massage parlor I guess)
That's pretty low
Why won't coggers let us frick skinwalkers?
words words words words WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
I feel that I did really good, is there something I've missed? First time playing it.
Why ask if you used a guide?
I can tell because you did all of the optional stuff instead of seeking a promotion immediately
>seeking a promotion when you're a nobody that did nothing
>Awarded a Gryphon of Rendower
>Nothing
But please, tell me how covering for some guys that shot peasants changes things
Killing innocents is based and redpilled.
tsmt
Don't play broken fable. It's boring, the dialogue is choppy and unnatural and it simultaneously railroads you while also not giving your character any personality whatsoever.
But it's ESL-core, it's supposed to be like that.
I could forgive the prose if the game itself wasn't so bland and railroaded.
Junior better not dissapoint this venerable council of elders. The karmic misfortune brought upon him should he break his vow twice will be grave indeed.
ESL authors make the best games
Tick tock 3 more days. You know who, for you know what.
I know it can't be Aura clash, that will be Two more weeks™ from now.
Not if I kill you before
If anybody cares about that one Zombie Exodus spin-off, better play it now. Storyloom is going to be buried next month.
>100 words per update
>soulless ai pictures
No wonder they failed. Storyloom was such a shithole with bad writing.
>Storyloom
This shit sucks, and you suck by extension.
>paying to read teenage girls fanfiction
I hope it gets ported to Hosted Games someday, the Storyloom UI and art are horrible.
It's functionally free. They even tried to get known IF authors like the Zombie Exodus guy and Sergi on board, but seems like it imploded due to the shitty design anyways.
got my framework for stats done and started writing the first scene.Think I'm getting the hang of how choicescript works. Now I just need to write... a lot.
>directly talking to the narrator to the point of calling him "my good man"
You know what, I can dig it
>get dumped
>narrator continuously describes how sad you are
>#"Not NOW, sir! Good day!"
>Yes, thats right, Many
>Be that As it may,
Stop that.
Saying this right now before you write more of this shit, meta bad. Don't add meta or fourth wall breaking content. It's not "funny and quirky", it's crap. Humor bad in general, you're not funny.
I don't want it to be meta really, I Just like the idea of it being a story told, and having the story teller working with the player to construct the narrative. but if thats cringe I'll try to rethink my writting style
Yeah I'm gonna how it starts. I just don't want to write itfo, I don't want to the story to take itself super seriously and how actually living in a medival setting kinda sucks. I want it to be a fun adventure; but I also don't want try hard "don't worry I'm in on the joke too" type writing
*revise
Is this guy having a back in fourth with his conscience? If so, depending on how you act in the story will your conscience say different things?
I do think that could be interesting, having a part of the narration judging what you do, but in the end is powerless to interfere if it wanted to
imagine if the narrator fell in love with (you) the player aha
>Your own thoughts being a RO option
I don't know if this is peak narcissism or peak Schizo, but it's peak something
>Himbo squire's chivalry and nobility makes nearly everyone fall for him, even the fricking narrator
how much of this you guys think is true?
my boy twinkletusk doesn't deserve this slander
Chronomancer and time MC=Same person should be more at the tip of the iceberg
Some people think it's obvious, but many people don't get it until someone tells them. It's hard to gauge, it seems like a 50/50 split from the feedback I had so far.
>blair has cancer
I guess that would make sense, having a terminal illness would definitely make it an easier decision to take the super drug. But holy shit does that paint the MC as an butthole who didn't even know that their childhood friend is dying.
How is the MC supposed to know?
You can smell when someone has cancer
Enhanced Senses MC should be able to detect it, at least.
I hate it when games force me to have previous friends or relationships, they're almost always insufferable.
>Trismegistus and Thaumaturge are the same person
I actually believe this one. The fricking weird dream you have after the docks makes me super suspicious.
>You hear footsteps. Mr. Lloyd and Ms. Humphrey step outside.
>The woman smiles. She is kind.
>The man is not. He is whatever he needs to be to reach his goal. Scientist. Wizard. Hero. Villain. Creator. Destroyer.
>"The people here will take care of you from now on, ${name}," he says. It is the first time you hear your own name.
>Timothy--or Trismegistus, you can't tell who he is to you--crouches, gives you a hug, and whispers,
>"A conscience is that still, small voice that people won't listen to."
>Dreams have their own logic. Somehow, you know that these words are not only words. They are a command.
>And it makes you forget what little you knew.
And if you're a time manipulator, and you choose to keep thinking about the dreams when you first meet Thelma, this happens
>#I'm not entirely here. I'm still thinking about the dream.
*set pragmatic - v1
The details elude you, but there was a hug in it too.
*if (timeManipulation)
*set precogDreams true
Are you having precognitive dreams now? Chronomancer once said that time works differently in dreams, especially for those who can manipulate it.
*else
Why does it feel important?
Despite the narration it doesn't really make sense as a precog dream, you get it regardless of your powers. It's more likely that the dream is just a repressed memory from your past.
Trismegistus likely performed some weird experiments on the MC as a child, when Mr Twinkletusk tells you about Gepetto's Ice house or whatever the frick it's called and suppressed the MC's memories of it all, that happens regardless of your powers iirc. I don't really know how it all factors together, but I'd bet Trismegistus is the Adversary from Blair's weird comment about her new mentor knowing their way around all of Thaumaturge's defences. If you frick up at the Docks as a Time Manipulator and get killed by the sniper, you can hear Chronomancer talking with Thaumaturge, and they're joking around and Thaumaturge calls Chronomancer his friend and mentions shit about sacrificing himself and time loops. I'm betting Thaumaturge isn't as evil as he's presented and Trismegistus is much more evil.
I know, I have already seen those scenes. Thaumaturge even says this at some point during the Vera City fight: "Let me put this in a way that even you might understand. If we were to reduce our complex psychological patterns to a more accessible categorization, my brother would fall into the "pragmatic superhero" category, whereas I am more of an "idealistic supervillain." Still, there were certain lines Timothy wouldn't cross. I, on the other hand, will do anything to achieve my goals, because I know they are righteous." Their agendas are likely both more complicated than initially assumed, and it remains to be seen which one is "more right". Either way, I expect that Zaper will subvert our expectations somehow.
If my cyoa doesn't have a childhood best friend is it doomed?
I don't think it matters that much. The important thing is to have romance, because that's what most people want.
No, nobody cares about childhood friends.
No one actually had childhood friends, it's all fantasy. Which is why it is so popular in fantasy works.
I had many. They are all still my friends.
Why is the greed option in one knight stand always grayed out?
It's one of the deadly sins.
Yeah I want to pick it but it doesn't let me...
its poorly coded
Quads of truth.
Still waiting on that hawkins porn.
Nobody cares you raging homosexual
Based.
I am not fond of this ritual posting.
You know something small that I don't like about unsupervised? What the heck am I supposed to call the Superman Mentor when I'm discussing it? I set the name, so people who didn't choose that won't know what you mean. And calling him superman mentor feels dumb.
>What the heck am I supposed to call the Superman Mentor when I'm discussing it?
SuperiorMan (He is superior to the average man)
SpaceMan (He is in space)
SuperModel (He is the perfect role model)
SSM (Super Man Mentor)
I like Supermentor and Batmentor. But yeah, I've been thinking about setting a fixed name for them instead of letting the player choose.
>I've been thinking about setting a fixed name for them
Superhero name or their god given name? This is very important, I need to know if I am going to be calling them Mr. SuperDuper the Superman hero or Dave.
Superhero name. I usually like letting players customize shit as much as they want to, but I'm not sure what is better for the game here. No one seems to mind Chronomancer and Quintecensse being set names, either.
>but I'm not sure what is better for the game here.
Set names is the best course of action.
There is an argument to letting the player customize shit but defined names make online discussion much easier. Not only that, but I feel that it grounds the setting much more when there is set in stone people that you cannot simply customize to your whims and improves immersion. Imagine if Elson was subject to player customization, or if the Star mom in Stars Arisen could be changed into being star daddy or even having both a star mom and star dad. The story itself would be have focus, and it would have impacted the story being written. After all, its hard to have a former lover in the city helping your child retake it and reveal that it is their father when there is a choice at the start that can retroactively add a dad.
I think this reasoning can apply to games outside of CYOA as well, take Skyrim for example. You can customize how your player looks to a massive extent, even changing species. But the people you meet are always the same and not subject to player choice. Would Ulfric be as iconic and instantly recognizable if the player was given the chance to customize him because of "Player choice"? I don't think he would.
TLDR: There is nothing wrong with not letting the player customize other people who are not the player.
Any preferences? These are my favorites.
Batmentor:
>Cimmerian
>Stygian
>Nightfall
>Crepuscular
Supermentor:
>Overseer
>Olympian
>Utopian
I'm also accepting suggestions for new names as long as they fit the theme.
Cimmerian and Olympian sound best for non copyright infringing bat(wo)man and super(wo)man. Both have the greek origin and lean into the whole mythic superhero reputation that the Omega Responders are supposed to have. The other batmentor names sound too edgy and Overseer honestly fits a villain more than some utopian figure of hope and idealism.
Thanks. I think I'll go with those two and let players change the mentor's name on the Cheats menu if they want to.
Why not just leave all the names as options for players to choose?
That's how it currently is, but it's been bothering me for a while now because:
>a lot of people don't know what to call those two mentors when discussing them
>there are four mentors in total, and two already have fixed names
>all mentors have predetermined civilian names already
You know what would be a fun bit of interactivity that wouldn't change much? Some manner of reaction should you choose the same name as your mentor. Like, what happens if a physical strength protag decides to be 'Olympian' too? People like it when that kind of stuff happens.
Is VtM: Night Road the best CYOA so far?
I'm loving this little CYOA like you wouldn't believe
Night Road was my favorite one so far.
How do you get this?
It's been years since I played it but as I recalled
My vampire was of the blood wizard variety, and near the end of the game there is some sort of syringe full of special blood that basically ups you by a generation. If you are a gen9 vampire you go up to gen 8 and so on. Naturally, other factions want that blood for themselves but you can use it on yourself instead. It happens near the end of the game.
Been a while since I played so I'm not too sure, but based the description I would guess it's from accepting that dubious vaccine your flamboyant friend offers you in the end game.
That lowers you generation by one, you can also lower it another level by diablerizing that guy you fight together with him and the prince.
I like night road because is has a nosferatu gf that actually looks like a nosferatu. She just happens to have breasts instead of being a sewer dweller.
It's the bridge that got me into CYOA
WIP is coming.
>Is VtM: Night Road the best CYOA so far?
That would be Jolly Good. Night Road is fricking shit.
>WIP is coming
>Aura Clash update on Sunday
THINGS ARE HAPPENING
HOLY SHIT
>Aura Clash update on Sunday
Anon... Didn't you hear? Cultivator-anon was arrested and executed by the Patriots but left the files to his best friend NickyDicky who immediately replaced every scene with links to his Patreon. Aura Clash is dead.
>I apologise, but I am a bit wary after I was called N*zi one too many times on the internet for similar things when talking about skin colour…
This doesn't come as much of a surprise after the snowBlack person incident tbh
All in all, and thanks in part to the low entry bar, in part because genuine dedication and motivation, this thread is possibly the most productive one in the board right now.
It brings me joy to see anons making their own CYOAs outside the dreaded californian standards of CoG
I agree. I'm particularly happy for the Aura Clash anon. He'll go far.
Yeah, for me at least its inspiring to see cultivatoranon and unsupervisedanon work on their projects and have Wips to show for it.And honeypot seems like he knows what he's doing and I'm looking foward to his work.Makes me feel like I could try to write my own adventure.
You can, and you should.
Personally I am considering the option of making a First Crusade game more and more seriously.
About how the h*cking chr*stians killed innocent pocs?
Choice of Chuds
I mean, the coggers will see it that way, but what I see is one of the most epic conflicts and unlikely victories in medieval history, carried out by a half-starved army running on nothing but sheer determination, ambition and zeal. That the medieval chroniclers lated compared the event to legends like the Illiad, the Song of Roland and other epics wasn't an exaggeration at all.
based, I say go for it. Squire is moreso about a small party/group questing around a low magic sword and sorcery esq realm, and the possible outcomes of those quests. Just remember to make your token princess asexual!
Yeah dude go make the princess asexual, that'll really sell the game
>the princess is asexual
More like a sexual, if you know what I mean
>spoiler
I am not actually sure if I will have romance: The event lasted 4 years more or less during which most of what the crusaders did was march around hostile land raiding and plundering for survival.
Mind you, given that Baldwin of Boulogne became the head of a crusader state by marrying an amernian princess, I should probably include political marriages with cute greeks. armenian and maybe even muslim ladies. Maybe you can get ahead of him and snatch Edessa for yourself by marrying the princess.
>I am not actually sure if I will have romance: The event lasted 4 years more or less during which most of what the crusaders did was march around hostile land raiding and plundering for survival.
Based. How historically accurate are you going to make this story? I assume its going to be over the course of the 4 years of the crusade. How closely is the story going to follow the overall path of it's real life counterpart.
You know this whole idea reminds me of A Legionary's Life, which kind of had the same premise but with the Second Punic War. Though that one was not a CYOA.
I am currently considering two approaches to the story, one considerably more complex than the other:
1-The player is a mere knight in the host of one of the historical princes, probably Godfrey for the sake of including the beginning of the crusade (the southern normans only joined some time after this). It would be basically Sabres of Infinity but medieval: You try to survive and thrive in all the chaos of the event, and in the end you can end up as either a landless, miserable pilgrim with no hope of either thriving in the Holy Land or returning back home, or as a rich landholder and direct vassal of Godfrey.
2-You are a new, non-canonical crusader leader and prince of (insert random euro region you like). In this case the story would begin already in Constantinople, but in exchange for this "shorter" crusade you can influence the course of events and become head not only of a crusader state, but also king of Jerusalem. Maybe even betray your comrades and make the whole affair fail by joining the muslims or the turks.
I was thinkering and outlining around some sort of origin system in which depending on the region you choose, you get a different introduction that allows you to see the historical and cultural context of the event, but in practice it seems a little too complex and unnecesary for what amounts to an intro.
2nd one seems more interesting but feels like a lot more work
I think number one would be the best choice.
2 is better
>but in exchange for this "shorter" crusade
>Become head not only of a crusader state, but also king of Jerusalem. Maybe even betray your comrades and make the whole affair fail by joining the muslims or the turks.
Stick with the first choice, what is the point of making a crusader cyoa when it's main point is no longer even about to crusade and the crusade is now window dressing to be coming top israelite or a muslim or turk.
In the historical narrative, the 1st crusade was driven by a constant back and forth between the leading princes, with some of them (such as Baldwin, Bohemond and Tancred) pretty much wanderng around doing their own thing and carving fiefdoms for themselves. The idea is to allow the player to roleplay as that.
But just to be clear: Betraying the crusade, becoming count of Edessa, capturing Antioch for the Byzantines or accepting bribes from the Fatimids wouldn't be "routes". Because the "final objective" in this option would be becoming a lord in the Holy Land, as soon as the player achieves that the story is done. All of those options are early game overs, and the reward for sticking with the main contingent and following the "canon" route is the option of taking the throne of Jerusalem... Or making sure your favorite candidate gets it.
Which one do you want to write more? Option one or option two
I would like to write option 2, but option 1 would be far easier to do. I have been GMing a Pendragon game for years now (ttrpg in which you are a knight during Arthur's reign with tons of research behind), so it shouldn't be too difficult to outline.
In that case my advice would simply to be to write the story you want to write.
Go for 2, anon. It'll attract the most players. Trust me. And start writing that shit right away. Do a character creation/prologue. 10k words is enough. You can write 10k words, can't you?
Fricking do it. Stop talking about the project and do it. I'll be there to help you every step of the way, but you need to do it.
I will anon.
Wait a second I just remembered. Are you planning on using choice script or twine?
I will be using choice script due its simplicity for now.
>saracen warbrides
Based
You jest, but that's actually historical: The Council of Nablus in 1120 had to forbid christians from not only raping, but in general having sex with muslim women under thread of castration.
It should tell you how big of a problem it was for the church and the princes.
Is there any recorded instance of that castration penalty actually being used? Or was it one of those laws that was never actually enforced
Hard to say, but I gather that castration was actually used given that every single sexual crime adressed during the Council of Nablus was punished with castration.
Raping a woman? Castration. Two gays going at it? Castration to both the active and the passive. Adultery? The man needs to be castrated and exiled and the woman's nose cut off.
You get the idea
>Castration to both the active and the passive.
Well that hardly seems fair, it's not gay if you're the active one after all.
just accept you're bi bro
The only circumstance in which the passive was spared involved rape, with the added (and sensible) assumption that if the act involved either minors or the elderly, then it was by default rape. However, if the victim tried to hide the crime it could be punished anyway.
>the princess is asexual
>the demon possessing her isn't and finds you very cute
>she stops being asexual after we had sex with the demon
Who cares, her soul is getting sacrificed to keep our demonfu here anyways
Ok, these two posts have convinced me to try to write a demonfu that is hell bent on trying to seduce (you) infront of the cute priestess ro
Stop stealing my copyrighted ideas that I will put in my cog in 5 years.
I know Jack's dad tried to enslave us, but honestly I kind of like him. Despite being a raging prideful butthole he's sort of chill.
How's the orc cyoa? Is it good?
Yes, very.
it's pretty good but I ended up doing the demon/dark forces path which was complete crap
WTF TRANSXISTERS... I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE LIKE US!
>ever playing as f*male
>Male sidestep
Enjoy your poorly written twinksub.
I will play as male sidestep and nobody is going to stop me
shit games will always be shit, I couldn't care less for fallen trans projections
I will enjoy my chokesex with argent while leading ortega on thank you very much
I wish you could romance Argent as your villain persona and Ortega as a civilian separately without polyamory shit
Wouldn't that just be cheating on them, after all it's not like they are different people they are both you just in separate bodies.
yeah what's the point of having multiple identities if you don't use them to have cheating sex
that would have been cool yeah, reinforce how different the suit can make sidestep feel/act
Argent having some Black Cat like romance where she's in love with your villain persona but doesn't like your true identity was way more fitting
Sidestep removing his mask in front of her feels completely out of character no matter how you play him and make Argent's romance much less interesting
Okay, forget it: I will use twine.
Do what I'm doing. Write your game in twine and then port it to choicescript once you've finished all the content and can focus on the technical aspects of choicescript.
Damn that was a fast turnaround, what made you decide to switch so quickly?
Okay, forget it: I will use scratch.
Okay, forget it: I will use notepad+
Okay, forget it: I will use imagination.
Okay, forget it
Ok, forget it: I shall carve it into an emerald tablet and pass it down to my progeny.
I forgot, wasn't I supposed to be doing something?
Ok forget it: I'm just gonna go back to fantasizing about junko
I can't wait for the Junko pop merch. I'm going to fill my walls with all of the Junko pops I can afford.
Reminder that Malin cut the option to just ignore Hollow Ground and avoid the whole car crash moronation to make space for more Ortega poly romances
>to make space for more Ortega poly romances
That's not true, the reason why you were forced to do that stuff is so that your puppet is able to wake up.
why would my condom need to wake up?
That's just an excuse to make you meet Sky Raider and Birbrain and add them to Ortega's harem
>Birbrain
>New Male Villain RO is a blonde-haired blue-eyed theatrical cyborg pirate dude who enjoys what he does
>New Female Villain RO is a mullato whose powers are to turn into a pigeon and can be thwarted by eating too much
Even as a joke that isn't funny, but Malin is so moronic and deep into fujoshit that she's genuinely making pigeon lady a character.
I pick male birdbrain over female birdbrain. Not as a RO but as a villain. I'm a sucker for theatrics, and I don't see how the female version of birdbrain can compete. How was pigeon powers that useful anyways, it seems like natural predators would kill her off eventually and how is it thwarted by eating too much?
top villian might be up your alley, it's a pretty hammy superhero parody thing. It's also CoG comedy so I can get why you might not like it
Ah yes, I played the demo for that one but it didn't really catch my interest. I remember enjoying diabolical though, have you played that one? It's a CoG game where you play as an outright no strings attached villain. The game even lets you blow up Earth if you so choose.
I'll check it out, sounds like it could be fun. my favorite type of evil characters are the ones that have some hammy idealized version of evil, and at the end of the day aren't really *evil* and when pushed to commit true evil they hesitate. Mao and laharl from disgaea are good examples of that
>how is it thwarted by eating too much?
If I remember right, Malin said she can't transform into a pigeon if she's eaten too much food. That's not a joke. A half mexican-half-lebanese mullato whose only powers are pigeon related is supposed to be a villain in FH, a universe which takes itself pretty seriously.
Keep in mind Villains can have no powers and still shoot a Hero's sibling in the head at a tacobell line or bomb substations of an upstanding congressman's constituents during a freezing blizzard to such an extent that enough people die for his seat to no longer exists. Villainy just requires a willingness to ruin the life of a hero and the public.
>tfw argent will also turn into an ugly Hispanic once her body is fixed
Why must Malin be like this
The solution is just not to let her fix her body. Hell, she might not even like you after that. She might just like you due to the influence of the neurovores and once that's gone she'll blab to the world that your sidestep
neurovores best girl
>Male RO Options
>2 Blonde White guys, 1 Asian guy, 1 Mexican and 1 Haitian troony
>Female RO Options
>3 Mexicans and a Haitian troony
Whites for me but mutts for thee.
you DID send your puppet to the meeting, and you DID stay in your own body right anon?
Nta but who wouldn't? The puppets entire purpose is to do that sort of stuff in order to make sure your identity doesn't get revealed.
very anti-female post
>anti-female post
In what way is me using my puppet for its intended purpose anti-woman?
Oh wait I got it wrong: gays going at it are burned alive according to Nablus, not castrated.
Will this be accurately represented in the crusader game? I need to know if my gays are punished to historically accurate standards or not.
Probably not: Nablus is 20 years after the conquest of Jerusalem, which would mark the end of the game. You could, however, choose to either spare or punish known sodomites and rapists within your army using the methods mentioned before.
>You could, however, choose to either spare or punish known sodomites and rapists within your army using the methods mentioned before.
I was primarily joking, actually adding that stuff to the game would probably piss off the CoGers. Still though, I wouldn't mind it being part of the game since it was a part of history at the time. It's educational in that respect.
The problem with dealing with the First Crusade is that from the get go you are in a no-win situation: If you avoid most of the brutality and the massacres you piss off the average cogger because you are "whitewashing" le horrible evil christian crimes. If you include it then they moan because "OMG evil plundering christian simulator"
I can't pretend to be fully objective, no one is, but I will try to give a fair portrayal of the time period and the event without either sanitizing it or gallowing in morbid brutality too much.
Try to lean into the historical context, if you do it might be seen as educational. You can get away with a lot of fricked up shit as long as it's educational and has historical context to it.
For example, at elementary school when we were learning about native Americans the teacher passed around traditional native American food. The teacher didn't tell us what it was, it was only after we ate it did the teacher reveal that it was testicles the entire time and that the native Americans used every part of the Buffalo. I think it's a bit fricked up that you're allowed to trick students into eating testicles but hey that's what you can get away with as long as it's educational.
I'm thankful I grew up in a heavily armed town in Maine where the teacher would be shot by the cops without trial for pedophilia and bestiality.
if honeypotanon and squrieanon every finish their game, please use those names when making a forum account. seeing that place shit itself when more 'anon' usernames migrate from the racist 4chins general will be very funny
>wanting drama, instead of people focusing on the game
What are you, a woman?
yes, most posters in this nu-website are proto-women
You realized no one cared when cultivator anon did it right? When some discordgay pointed it out he got promptly cancelled by the rest of the forum.
>seeing that place shit itself when more 'anon' usernames migrate from the racist 4chins general will be very funny
>Getting your jollies off by drama
Yep, got to agree with the other Anons. Woman moment, this is of course wrong to begin with. Most of the people on the form supported Cultivator Anon and didn't care that he came to this site. You are thinking of the discord users.
I might use the same name because I'm not the best at coming up with usernames. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, which shouldn't be for a while.
>I'm not the best at coming up with username
How about CultivatorAnon2. Just take his name but ad a 2 after it so it's unique.
No no someone else said they're working on a small cultivation game already, they'd be cultivator-anon2, or lil-cult
Would biggie-cult and lil-cult team up and release an album together, or would they be rivals instead?
Like any good shounen their teamup depends on how powerful nickydicky becomes.
I already coded the character creation and the skeleton of the combat system. Most people won't like it initially because it plays like a Slay the Spire text game with narrative.
2 days remain
Ominous
I would like to point out that part of the reason for why the discord's attempt to cancel cultivator anon failed is because many of the current active AC fandom there are in fact people from here.
literally nobody asked
literally nobody cares
Played turncoat chronical. I thought it had potential with essentially grooming an FE lord to put you on the throne, and having to deal with their Jagen not trusting you, possibly seducing/falling for them ect. But there wasn't much characterization to anyone, so it felt underdeveloped.
I may check it out, does it have a sequel? I only checked out unnatural like
said because it's close to finishing the sequel so I can wait ~1 year instead of 7.
It does not have a sequel and as far as I am aware it's a fully self-contained story
>all of these cultivation games
So China won, uh?
war
huh
yeah
what is it good for?
Money and social climbing
>Wang meet Juan in the flesh
Technological advancement
I like how you think
let's fight and frick in whatever order
nothing
wang btw
>forgetting the "absolutely" part
I'll allow it.
>the only good ending you can have with Hawkins is to """fix""" them and turn them into a housewife/husband
what a hack
>Beating your wife until she goes back to the kitchen is the objectively right thing to do
what did he mean by this
something something betrothed
Nothing stops you from continuing the war. I did so because I believe that couple that kills together stays together, and especially so if they're piloting mechas and have a special connection.
What other "good" ending should there have been?
Both of you teaming up and dying together in an impossible battle.
>Both of you teaming up and dying together in an impossible battle.
That's actually possible to achieve. The impossible battle is the endgame one, and it's possible to waffle enough to die in the fire together. Romantikku-des!
Do you think Hawkins would want something like that?
He accepts his death on romance pretty willingly and seems surprised if he survives. MC could have probably convinced him to march together into the impossible, but it would require to tear out the ground under his feet. Thus, Lightbearer needs to fail.
warsex
>super sentai cyoa let me date and make out with the blatant actually a rival ranger character
Well that was neat, shame the story went to shit at the end when it went full trippy
Nickydicky can't be as powerful as he was before: He lost the homosexual audience after purging their romances.
He still has a cute femboy in the game which is more than most of these games can say
>fem
>boy
Ain't no such thing.
>Feminine
>Boy
Next you're going to tell me Tomboys don't exist
You don't get disqualified from being a proper female for having fun hobbies and a pixie cut. Men still want that. You DO get disqualified from being male for being a feminine twink (outside of Korea).
All a tomboy is is a woman who displays more masculine traits
All a femboy is a man who displays more feminine traits
If a man is disqualified from being a man if they are feminine then a woman is disqualified from being a woman because they are masculine.
Incorrect. Men decide whether women are disqualified as mates and women decide if men are disqualified as mates. Men (in majority) want tomboys, women (in majority) don't want femboys. Cavemen tactics cured this for men but femboys won't do that, they're femboys.
Tomboys aren't masculine, they're chill. Masculine would be butch lesbians who ARE disqualified.
can you guys check out my friend's porn game
https://gothgirlgames.itch.io/family-trouble
it has lots of potential
Is it a cyoa?
its more like a visual novel. it's made with renpy
can't belive this message was my first quads
newbie
I've been using this site for at least fifteen years
>post 2008
newbie
I think there's a different place for visual novels, this thread is primarily meant for choose your own adventure games
you choose your own sexual adventure yes
>sims visual novel
have a nice day.
There is a distict lack of griffith type ROs
What like the lion bird?
like the man
I want a griffith RO that cuck you for another man if you try to romance him, and rape your lover if you go for another RO
There is a distict lack of hitler type ROs
>Tian Fang invokes the final solution against cat girls
wolf girls > cat girls
Stalin would force you to share your RO with the common man
sorry, but my love is vanguard ONLY
Man I just wanted to hatefrick ortega. Is that too much to ask for?
>evil
fallen hero would be 100% better if someone on the super hero team was actually just an butthole that doesn't like sidestep and would object to sidestep hanging out with them. argent can kind of do that but you have to frickup enough for her to become antagonistic,but it should be someone on the original team, Someone to validate sidestep's perception of the team. As is hanging out with the team just goes "turns out they aren't as bad of people as sidestep thought they where" and it just makes taking things out on them feel hollow.
There's also the thing with how so much of the content is about hanging out with them. Apparently even what little there is outside of Rangers interaction was mostly added after people brought this up to Malin.
>but you have to frickup enough for her to become antagonistic
Listen I control minds, it's what I do. It's Hardy my fault that she hates it so much.
Now I know why Unsupervised is taking so long. Zaper is busy with another game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141550/KEKOLD_SIMULATOR_Life_as_a_Beta_Male_Cuck/
Hearty chuckle
With the name like that I was half expecting it to lead to chooseyourstory
In unsupervised, the supercomputer. Despite being a supercomputer, is probably pretty outdated considering how technology improves with time. Do you think now that it is active again it might get a virus or villain's might try and hack into it?
The Omega Responders haven't been missing that long. The reason why Nexus has been slow is going to make sense before the end of the game.
>The reason why Nexus has been slow is
>Spoiler
I can't believe Nexus has been mining Crypto this whole time. They must be rich by now.
The AI is said to be intelligent enough to develop its own security protocols, so that only it could hack itself. Whether that is true or not, who knows.