I’m very interested in this game! If you could mention me (basically just @ me) once you’ve uploaded it that would be much appreciated. I’d hate to miss out on what sounds like an amazing WiP.
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Hello! I’ve been lurking around for a while trying to decide on what story to focus on first and have finally decided to bite the bullet and ask you which one you’d be more interested in. As of right now, these are the WIPs I’ve been working on, which I’d love to know if anyone around here would be interested in reading.
Annihilation
For millenia, you and your siblings have fought a senseless war based on mutual hatred and the wish to rule the universe that leads to nothing but heartbreak and loss. Tired of watching by the sidelines, your Creator draws the line: they’re not standing by idly anymore, and one of you will have to step up and take the throne.
The catch? Your worth is now bound to mortality ― the clock’s ticking, your time is running out and the challenge’s just begun. Alliances might be born and grudges might be held, but, ultimately, the goal stays the same: survival.
In this game of annihilation, where does your heart truly lies?
Genre: adventure, drama and fantasy.
Planned romanceable characters: 4 (four).
Halloweentown
Four months ago, Sirius Dasvur was considered missing by the police station of Siegeverd. Four months ago, an imaginary dent cracked the very foundation of your standing within the city, changing life as you knew it. Struggling to put the broken pieces back together ― while perhaps admitting, if only to yourself, that there might not be a chance to fix everything ―, you and your group of friends tag along together to find out the truth about your best friend’s disappearance.
What was supposed to be a harmless night out turns into something more, and it might be the time to bring to light a knowledge you carry ever since all of this started: that there’s something lurking in the shadows of Siegeverd, and, in given time, it’ll take away all you hold dear.
Sirius was just the first.
Sirius won’t be the last.
Genre: teen horror story, supernatural fantasy and adventure.
Planned romanceable characters: 4 (four).
Jackal
The year is 4902.
The downfall of humanity comes not from the Plague or the changes, but from humans’ inability to accept differences amongst people ― money and weapons serve little purpose when the world itself seems to have turned upside down, empires falling and, with them, everything else as well.
After centuries of biowarfare and battles, the world has grown into a resemblance of peace, held together by fragile threads of political matter and societal struggle. Considered half-human sentient beings known as gargoyles are the result of mutations caused by the toxins released throughout all those years, provoking changes in DNA matter and making the atmosphere unfit for breathing without suitable gadgets ― unless you’re part of it, that is, which isn’t a mutation common enough to make people’s lives easier.
Saagar isn’t the most well-structured city amongst the many that have risen upon the Plague’s ending, not the biggest nor the brightest, but it’s the place you’ve known as ‘home’ for the past three months, and that seems unlikely to change.
Death is the only thing that keeps Saagar under at least the minimal pretense of control ― the government is not afraid to put down any gargoyle who ‘refuses’ to cooperate, and the threat of being blasted away to smithereens of non-existence is more than enough to make up for inefficient laws and rules. Most gargoyles are at least uneasy with the prospect of facing such thing.
Except for you, that is.
Death is not a threat to you.
Genre: post-apocalyptic adventure and sci-fi with cyberpunk elements.
Planned romanceable characters: 14 (fourteen).
Poltergeist
Callidora Graves is the heiress of an empire built on bloodshed and the prayers of an entire nation ― untouchable and the closest thing to a god the citizens of Norgomery have ever seen, she’s the image of all that’s holy and the favorite runner-up for Mayor of the season.
Callidora is also the only and major suspect of the murdering of her late father and the consequent haunting of the Graves mansion.
You’re a senser of nondescript category who somehow got roped into all of this, with a life debt that’s not your own to pay for and a team of misfits that would rather be anywhere but here. Do you have what it takes to survive this entire deal or were you doomed to fail from the start?
There’s only one way to find out.
Genre: adventure and suspense.
Planned romanceable characters: 4 (four).
The Phantom Project
A lifetime ago you were part of a government’s elite team born under the Phantom Project label ― called Unit Rogue by your superiors and bearing numbers for names, you and eight other children had worked under the government’s shady schemes to bring peace to a world that had yet to know about the inner workings of itself.
Ten years ago you reached your breaking point ― with just the clothes on your back and no resources beyond your arguably faulty knowledge of human interactions, you fled, never to be seen again. They searched for you, you know, the same way people do for missing toys, except, in your case, it wasn’t a toy, but a weapon. Even after all this time, the sight of Sentinel raids still makes your heart go up your throat with dread. It’s been a long decade, a peaceful one ― and, as it usually goes with peaceful things, that’s about to change.
Will you fight tooth and nail for your acquired freedom or will you resign yourself for the future that’s been laid out for you? How much more are you willing to lose fighting a war that was never yours in the first place? Whatever it is that you decide, one thing is certain: you can’t outrun your past forever, and it might just be the time to start facing your ghosts.
Genre: horror and sci-fi.
Planned romanceable characters: 8 (eight).
A few observations
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English is not my mother tongue, so I’ll always be grateful if you catch a typo or too confusing sentence and decide to pull my ear, but please don’t talk to me about commas and punctuation (especially in dialogues). Please.
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I’m very particular about branching, so this is the kind of thing you may expect in any of the stories. I’ve got all of them (minus Annihilation) outlined to a fault ― that is: I know where they start, and I’ve got a lot of ideas on how they might end depending on the player’s choices. Save very few events that happen no matter what, the linearity of the story and what happens in it are entirely up to how you’ll play.
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I’m not very particular about stats. I like them, I use them, but I tend to twist my nose at stat checks. No stat in-game will be there to lock you out of a certain path or make your playthrough stat-based ― they affect the outcome of certain choices, sure, but they’re not meant to frustrate you and make you rage quit. I’m always open to talk about the outcomes of certain choices as well, so.
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There are no locked MCs, but Halloweentown and Annihilation have MCs that start on a particular setup with their relationships with other characters, and that, too, changes depending on how you’ll play them.
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None of the ROs is gender-locked. Romance is optional, but you won’t lose any content if you decide to just befriend a character instead of smooching them ― and romancing a character doesn’t mean you’ll have to smooch them, either. Also, friendships (either making or breaking them apart) are entirely optional; narratively, you’re not going to be pushed into being buddy-buddy with anyone, and breaking apart friendships or keeping people at arm’s length doesn’t lead you to a “bad” ending.
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On that topic: I really like writing character development (either in a group or on their own) and relationships (friendships, romantic, platonic!!), so.
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It’s possible that The Phantom Project might end up in the adult category. I don’t plan on writing any explicit scenes about anything nor going into explicit details about it, but the story does deal with the implications of growing up as a child soldier.
Questions? Anyone interested? A penny for your thoughts?
I’m putting up a vote to (hopefully) make it easier to decide 
- Annihilation
- Halloweentown
- Jackal
- Poltergeist
- The Phantom Project
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3 of 4 Ideas are absolutely fantastic if dungeon keeper is attached to a nice story it would get a great amount of fans like Zombie Exodus save heaven (that’s the only basebuilding game that comes to my mind)
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According to the Options I chose Poltergeist (don’t know the English word for it :/)
I assume you are the Ghost there and you can be evil or not
For example you can Spoil the food of some house owners or just eat there full food storage 
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Hello! I’m very happy to know one of my ideas got your attention! 
Poltergeist is the common word for it (as in, like, haunting?), but “ghost” would do the work just fine as well
Technically, you’re called in to deal with the ghost, but you definitely can decide to mess up everything beyond all repair, and you’ll have your own set of skills and gadgets to wreak havoc 
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had to tweak and work a lot for arranging demo version, several dynamics in motion now.
I hope to deliver a demo soon ^^
so be around in the next couple of days.
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I’m very excited to see it, can’t wait!
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Ghost is enough really… Sometimes I think to complikatet I thought there was a special word for it
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Hiya everyone, a few days ago I posted an WIP called Omniversal Sleuth, in which you play as an Interdimensional Detective, who leaps between different parallel universes solving mysteries.
At that time, Omniversal Sleuth seemed like a good title, and it was the only one I had thought of. But now there are some other names striking my mind, which could work better than Omniversal Sleuth. So I have decided to post this poll to see which title would work with the audience.
- Omniversal Sleuth
- Omniversal Detective
- Detective, Omniverse
- Parallel Detective
- Parallel Speuth
- Detective of the Omniverse
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If you can think of a title better than those mentioned above, feel free to share them.
Thanks.
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Titles aren’t easy.
Personally, I feel like that ‘Omniversal’ feel heavy to say. And ‘sleuth’ or ‘Speuth’ feel like a mouthful when you say it.
Parallel detective sound fine, but again…it feel average?
Some advices here: https://www.writing-world.com/fiction/titles.shtml
Gonna check your wip, and think some more…
Oki…
1- Tis should be in your thread since it concern your WIP.
2- Humm…ideas…ideas…
- The Omniversal chase
- Detective (Insert here some kind of nickname), think like Hercule Poirot.
- The Omniversal Dillema
- The detective, the Hunter and the Omniverse (dun dun dun, its like that cowboy movie)
- Parallel Investigator
- Sleuth of the other side
- Detective from Outer Space
- Detective, Cigars and Parallel worlds
- Lonely in the Omniverse
- Lost in the Omniverse (hey they both work!)
- Hidden mysteries in the Omniverse
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Somehow I read “omnivore sloth” when you posted your wip. I was mildly curious but not really interested in what a game about a sloth searching for food would look like.
Now I see I made a huge mistake. 
I like these two.
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@E_RedMark thanks for the suggestions, mate.
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@cup_half_empty thanks man, and yes I like Omniversal Chase too, though it wouldn’t match the storyline
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Mysteries of the Multiverse?
If you must have Omniverse in the title, feel free to ignore, but I feel it rolls off the tongue easier.
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Titles don’t need to match the story. Just because you are writing about a Pinguoin, the title doesn’t need to be ‘Choice of the Pinguins’ or ‘The Pinguin and the blue scarf’…or whatever. Titles could be about anything in your story. It could also be something that your story echo .
You could write a story about an investigator, and the story title is called ‘Malborro’ cose the detective smoke that lol
Also, if you reply directly to someone, you don’t need to use @Dudde. @Dudde is used when you make 1 reply, but wanna make it clean and answer many peoples at once in one post. Like @Dudde, @Duddette , @Doodoo!
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Seeker of mysteries?
Or Hyper-dimensional transmigrator?
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Like others have mentioned I think neither “omniversal” nor “sleuth” rolls off the tongue. Titles are hard. They have to be unique without being alienating, they have to convey genre without being generic and they have to be simple without being forgetable.
My suggestion is to take a look at how others have done it in the same genre. That’s always a good place to start.
Here is a (user submitted) list in IMDB of “The Best Detective and Mystery Thrillers”.
And here is the Tv Tropes wiki on titles.
Personally, I seek inspiration in poetry (for no good reason other than the fact that poets are masters of words). This is how I chose a working title for my current project (which I hope to post sometime soon).
So I randomly picked Shakespear’s Sonnet 18 and—what you know?!—it gave me an idea.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
[WIP] In Eternal Lines
I like the words in eternal lines or simply eternal lines. I think they make for a good, mysterious and enticing title.
“Lines” can refer to the threads of an investigation, but also to the string theory responsible for the existence of the multiverse (omniverse, I know). It can also refer to the different paths since this is an interactive work of fiction or retain the original meaning of the poem as in “the lines of the poem”, i.e. the written word, since this is a text-based game.
[WIP] As Long As Eyes Can See
This is a tougher sell, but I like it. It sounds like a James Bond flick. I like the double meaning that “eye” can have, as in the expression “private eye”.
[WIP] Under Death’s Shade
Again, this sounds like a James Bond flick. It’s a reference to the imminent danger of being stranded in an alien dimension and having to solve puzzles to get away.
You can use them as sub-titles like a real James Bond flick 
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[WIP] The Interdimensional Detective: Eternal Lines
[WIP] The Interdimensional Detective: Eyes Can See
[WIP] The Interdimensional Detective: Under Death’s Shade
Ok, I’m having too much fun with it .
Good luck and happy writing.
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Just reading these titles make me excited! 
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In Eternal Lines sounds like a cool subtitle. I MAY USE IT.
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