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Just finished updating my WIP about superheroes and cosmic horror ^_^

The game currently contains the first Episode and the first Interlude.

While working on the game I shifted through the COG documentation, watched GDC talks on branching narratives, read postmortems and played a lot of IFs.

I haven't been able to apply everything I learned to the first chapter of my IF, but I'll keep them in mind for the next one :)

So here is what I learned:

-shocker, people play IFs for the choices (appearantly data shows that one choice or interaction every 250-500words is preferred)

-games which focus on story tend to do better

-major branching should be done towards the end of a game not the beginning

-scope creep is a thing

-false endings, dead ends and fail states should be avoided, since they make for an unsatisfying story

-most games which claim to be 100k words on their first chapter actually have way less if one excludes repeated passages. Often (but not always) it's just a sign of bad coding rather than actual content.

-the majority of WIPs would really benefit from being short focused stories instead of stretching out a 10k word plotline to be 100k

-the vast majority of people only play through an IF once, meaning that if one has to choose between focusing on a good story with flavor choices and extensive branching, the former is preferable. (Although this highly depends on the type of project you are making)

-worldbuilding is cool, but it should not hurt the story's pacing. If the plot stops and an NPC just lore dumps 20 pages of history, players tend to get mad

-most coding questions can be solved by reading the relevant documentation (sometimes you will find what you are searching for in HTML5 documentations/tutorials; not sugarcube/twine)

-new vegas style stat checks (stats unlock optional branches) instead of automatic failure and success based on a number seems to be better for telling a narrative

-aggressively merging branches is the way to go

Some of the stuff here are guidelines at best, but I think that I am still going to try to follow them as best as I can.

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NieR Replicant 10+1 Years Vinyl LP special artworks by Miwa Shirow -

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Tiny moorhen chick having its first little swim! 

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Clinging

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house study

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家主はどうやってJさんと出会ったの？というご質問をいただきましたので、おさらいです。 Jさんは、2015年の2月末の日曜午後、家主が庭の掃除をしておりました時、縁の下からひょっこり顔を出した元野良であります。 当時はも少し白く、しょぼ目でした。 その後ニボシなどで餌付けをし、寝場所をおき、いっしょに遊び…を経て、Jさんは我が家に住むようになったのであります。 I have received the question how I met Mr J, so I’m going to introduce its episode. It was the last Sunday afternoon , February 2015, he suddenly appeared from under the floor of my house, while I was caring my garden. He was a stray cat having whiter fur and smaller eyes than now. I started to give him some food such as his favorite dried anchovies, cardboard boxes and sleeping spaces and tried to play with him. After all, he decided to settle my house.

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タカハシショウテイさんの　

ねこコスに　ごコウヒョウいただいてるですが

オハラコソンさんのねこコスにも

ちょうせんしてみたです

I sometimes wear a collar like a cat like a picture by Shotei Takahashi, then I try the new version, the cat by Koson Ohara

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Oliver Clegg (British, b. 1980)

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on 2chan.net [ExRare]

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step son saw my candy

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reblogging this. i still get comments on the original video. many being "omg they gay" and "wheres part 2??" and i hope when i revisit this project itll be seen as more than that. but in the end it will mostly be seen as a tf2 fan project. which is alright but idk. i like making other things too

i am doing better at the moment, my mood gets dragged down by normal, simpler things again (<<this is good)

about Medics Melding Madness. cuz thats the only thing people write asks about.

i wont promise anything on wether or not ill continue it. it just depends on how motivated i get.

i made that video all on my own. and i already started working on the second (and final) part, got halfway through animating it. but then fell into a deep depression hole that i struggle to recover from. rn i am sick for the third time since october, which is also dragging me down a lot. and i really lost interest in tf2 since honestly.

and after all this i look at the story of MMM and gotta say: it sucks! i still like my original idea (a lot!) but not how i presented it. so maybe ill just redo the whole thing someday. just not now.

if you only follow me for tf2 related things. i dont care, feel free to unfollow. ill make whatever i like. my things

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i just found 12 bricks

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