You got me there. Sign me right upš
There is nothing called ātoo muchā or ātoo littleā here, I believe. You should put up WIP threads whenever you wish or think your project is presentable. You could also probably get away with not putting up an WIP thread at all; although you must conduct a beta test on the forum if your game is going to be published by CoG.
Buuuuuuut, having more content means we can give better feedback and potentially help you improve the gameš
TL;DR Your wish
Great, thanks very much for the advice.
I think Iāll stick with my target of getting the first four chapters ready to go, as that should be a substantial enough chunk to give people an accurate first impression.
1920s? Balls, dinner parties? Oooh, count me in. 
I donāt know anything about polo though 
(I guess you have to, to understand the story? 
) but I do like the idea, a lot of comedic potential there, like if the team were just awful. XD
Fortunately the rules of polo are surprisingly simple, and I may simplify things further if needs be to make it accessible.
And yes the team will be absolutely awful! (a t least at first)
Thanks for the advice. The rules are very simple, but I will be careful to explain them anyway.
At present the MC does not have their own car, but a major NPC does it shows up quite regularly. I am sure I can find a way for the MC to get their own motor at some point though.
My plan for the matches themselves is not to go into too much detail in the mechanics of the sport, as Iām aware its pretty niche. A lot of the in match decisions will be based more around your team mates and how well you know their strengths/weaknesses
I would definetely be interested in the games, but Iām wondering if itās going to be gender locked? I donāt exectly mind if it is, but I, as many people, prefer games that give you the choice.
Also, would the MC be a manager or a player? I as because you said we āmanage the tean to victoryā and āfind new and better playersā but we also ābecome a great polo playerā. Iām not entirely sure if this means we are a manager or a player or both. I, for one, would much prefer just being a player, as being a manager can mean the game just turns into a resource management sim. Having the MC be a player can also lead to some interesting conflicts, such as the manager is not giving us enough playing time and we want more. It wull also likely make the part where the MC actually plays in games more interesting, since, if MC plays their cards right, it is possible for them to singlehandedly turn a match around.
There is no specific time for when people do this honestly. Some people wait until they have a good chunk of the game done, some people release as soon as they finish the first chapter. My advice would be to release the demo as soon as you have finished the coding for the first match. This lets players test the match engine, without you having to scrap too much if it turns out they donāt like it.
It wonāt be gender-locked. While mixed gender polo teams may not have been a thing in the 1920s, they are nowadays, and its a case where I donāt mind being a little anachronistic.
Both technically, but being a player will have the heavier focus, I do not want to write a full on management sim. The team owner/funder will still be a separate character, so there will be some conflict if the MCās performance is not good enough.
Hello everyone! Iāve been a reader of CoGs for years, and after dragging my friend into the same boat weāve both decided to start writing our own based on an idea of mine that is currently being fleshed out. Itās cooking themed!
We were wondering if anyone else would also be interested.
Low fantasy setting, a little action-y (in a Chopped kind of way), plenty of roleplay elements, and tons of descriptions of delicious food.
Epulatia is a supercontinent divided into 6 countries, unified by a central capital city. It is also a culinocracy, a place where how well you can cook is directly linked to how well you can lead.
Every ten years a continent-wide cooking tournament is held, wherein talented chefs from all over the world compete in a cross-country battle to cook their ways into seats of political power. The best of the best are offered a unique position as the true head of the table: acting ruler of the capital of Epulatia.
The tournament is upon you, and youāve finally scraped up enough money to travel and register as an official competitor. Your dreams can be as humble as wanting to start your own restaurant to as grand as wanting to revolutionize the way the world eats, but to do either youāll have to put your cooking skills to the test and impress judges around the world, each with their own unique tastes and preferred cuisines.
Planned Features
Travel around the continent of Epulatia, discovering the sights and smells of 6 different countries all with distinct foods.
Play as a talented male, female, or non-binary chef
Compete in several tournament matches where you try to cook the most outstanding dish
Meet 6 love interests, romance your rival, or just focus on winning the competition (no romance)
Balance the different qualities of your cooking to become a well-rounded chef, or pour your all into one talent to impress the judges
Open up a successful (or not) restaurant, and lead the world to a delicious future or into an era of food enlightenment
Comments, suggestions, and questions are super appreciated! And will probably be a huge motivator to get this done.
Canāt wait to find all legendary cooking artifacts.
Speaking of which, will there be some actual cooking terms, methods, preps, etc. for the nerds, or does the story approach the cooking aspect more loosely?
Behold! The Cookie Cutter of the Golden Princeš
Yes there will be actual cooking terms and methods! Itāll be semi-technical, with the process of making each dish acting like a mini recipe, including basic descriptions on how characters make dishes, etc.
Sounds interesting. How are you planning to balance all of these though? Point 5 looks a lot more serious threat than the others combined. Is there a reason your MC would care about student politics/sporting events when there are dangerous monsters running around?
Obviously these things can be balanced, and doing so would be part of the fun/challenge of the game (e.g. Do you skip football practice to research the monster) but I was just wondering how you were planning to implement this?
Hello! I have lurked about for an age and have even throw out a few ideas in the past (which I took nowhere ;_;), but I find myself yet again motivated to start down the dark and treacherous path to complete a CoG of my own. I would love to see what interest others might have my newest idea as it would go a long way in getting me hyped to put word to page (so to speak.)
The idea is a science-fiction survival-horror adventure that takes place in the not to distant future. You are a student attending classās in a clean, modern, and prosperous city that overlooks a great bay where the future of your country is being built. A massive Arcology meant to house millions and serve as a symbol of human achievement and technological progress. It would be many years before the structure even admitted its first resident, but when it did you and your fellow students would be ready. After all, your countries entire education system had been retooled specificity to train the specialists and service personnel that would one day inhabit and manage the Archaeology and its millions of future residence. For now though you simply enjoyed peaceful days living within a modern utopian society sustained by renewable energy and other ecological technology. But all of that was about to change.
It started with a dimming of the sky, the sun being blocked out, not by cloudsā¦ but by something else. An eclipse? Impossibleā¦ the moon was nowhere near the right orbit. You and everyone you knew looked up in confusion, leaving your classrooms and building to observe the unexpected phenomenon. The impossible moon slowly covering the sun stealing away the light until only the suns corona remained which turning red bathing everything in a bloody color until all, even the stars, faded to complete and utter black. That is when the earth shook, your friends screamed, and the ground beneath you gave way, falling to strike your head and lose consciousness in the dark.
When you awake, its to the bright hot sun and a the city devoured by forest of green. As if a rainforest had been uprooted and thrown down atop the city, growing out of every building, and every windowā¦ and there out in the great bay stood the Archaeologyā¦ construction 100% completed floating in a sea of algae. Somehow in the blink of an eye you (and your fellow students) have fallen into the futureā¦ a future absent of human life and now ruled over by āThe Greenā.
The story takes a lot of inspiration from a number of sources, but its entirely unique and will have a strong focus on survival horror, adventure, and mystery. Would this story interest anyone?
Iām very interested in this. Getting some nice vibes of Zanki Zero (I highly recommend it if you havenāt played) meets Dr.Stone with a pinch of lovecraft, with itās own unique twist on itās setting. Iām a sucker for survival horror and the mental image you gave me really left me intrigued, really looking forward to your story.
Also, nice profile pic, Ergo Proxy is criminally underrated.
Hello! As my first story heads into beta (shameless plug), Iāve started work on a second one and would love to get an interest check before thingsā¦ get off the ground (space joke, ha ha!)
Somewhere between a blurb and a first chapter, hereās my elevator pitch (any political undertones are imagined by the reader, wink.)
Untitled Space Crime Story
In 1967āthe midst of the Cold Warāmore than sixty nations signed an agreement. They signed it in Washington, they signed it in Moscow, and they signed it in Londonāthe capital cities of the worldās superpowers.
Although the communist tyrants and the capitalist devils (as they saw each other) remained at odds on everything else, they managed to agree that no nation should use the sky above as a weapon.
So from 1967 on, at least in space, humanity was at peace.
Thanks to theā¦(big breath in)ā¦ āTreaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodiesā, fifty years went by without interstellar incident.
Then, one man decided that a declining empire should take to the skies and establish their dominance there.
While millions of impoverished citizens struggled to find their next meal, the country quickly allocated funding for the āStellar Forceā and plans were established to build a base on the moon.
After two years and hefty budget allocations, an anti-war activist challenged the moon base on the grounds that it violated the 1967 treaty. Despite years of bending the courts to his whim, the Presidentās plans were defeated.
With billions of dollars invested in space infrastructure and nothing to do with it, the nation turned to another pressing issue. For decades, they had propped up a failing economy with slave labor. The prison-industrial complex had more bodies than ever, but nowhere to put the men and women they deprived of their freedom in pursuit of bumping the Dow a quarter-point.
Stellar Force ships were repurposed for prison transport, and orbiting satellites configured to mine asteroids. Fatalities were high among the initial groups of forced laborers, but years of propaganda took the average citizenās mind off it. Eventually, space was the destination for all criminals that fell into two groups: those āToo Dangerousā to remain in prison alongside other workhorses, and those āToo Skilled at Escapeā who would jeopardize the stateās investment if they remained in Terra cells.
But the remnants of Stellar Force found a second purpose: one that wasnāt trumpeted as a miracle of capitalism, or even mentioned publicly at all.
Data.
A country that spends trillions of man-hours spying on its own citizens has to do something with zettabytes of data.
The most sensitive, the most crucial, the most valuable informationāit became too much to keep on hand. Hacking attempts grew exponentially as personal data became a black market currency.
Too valuable to destroy, too volatile to hold: secrets that could start wars and topple empires were stored on servers by a select few with Top Secret security clearance. And those servers?
Houston, we have liftoff.
In the years since, rumors spread among those in the know. The valueāfrom both a monetary and power standpointācouldnāt be overstated. But the servers were securely in orbit around Earth, and governments kept any attempts at private spaceflight tightly under their thumb.
Only two groups of people travel to space now: the āToo Dangerousā inmates and those āToo Skilled at Escapeā. And unluckily for you, youāve found yourself in one of those groups.
ā¦but this is simply step two of your plan.
The potential to get unfathomably rich, turn the world into a utopia, or rule it with an iron fist? Itās flying around the planet at five miles a second. And soon, you will be too. Have you bitten off more than you can chew? Or will your plans to shape Earthās future come to fruition?
Well, I am so thankful about the current position of my first thread which is my first story Humanity Extinction but right now, I am talking about my new ideas of my new story and I just want to check if your eyes got interested to it. 
Who loves Anime! Well, I guess some members here loves Anime. I just want to say that I am Anime Lover. So, because of that, I just want to add some spices of Anime in my work and also, new (I donāt know if this is new but I think it is new 
) Astrology: Constellation Zodiac Signs. 
I was thinking that the MC can choose his/her/their zodiac sign to represent. Letās call Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn persons to check this story.
The story beginsā¦
After 300 years, the world peace is coming to an end. The darkness escapes the dark void where it was imprisoned. Land corruption, bloodshed, and the dark skies appears on our world. The Imperial Palace summons their Astral Messengers to deliver a summoning messages to the TWELVE Zodiac Patrons but there is a problem, all of them are in danger!
As MC, you will have a right to customize your physical appearance and skill attributes. You can choose freely your zodiac sign. You will save the other ELEVEN Zodiac Patrons and after that, you will fight and end the darkness once and for all. As the MC unravels the story, MC will discover that the darkness is caused by the 13TH ZODIAC PATRON! WHO IS IT! How could be possible that there is 13th Zodiac Patron? They and we all know that there is only 12! Letās grab your weapon and face our fate until our dream peace will be ours.
Thatās all! I hope my ideas got some interests, somehow.
Have a nice day! 
The story sounds interesting. The zodiac signs will be attached to their personality archetypes, strengths, weakness, compatibility, etc? (you know: charismatic Leo, bold Aries, brainy Virgoā¦?) 
This sounds interesting. Iām looking forward to the demo & eventual game
So, itās kind of a science-fiction survival horror game, with the main antagonist being something of a love child of an eldritch abomination and The Swamp Thing? Sign me up rn 
@S_O_V_R_A_T_O Me! I love anime! And your idea looks quite interesting! And if Iām not wrong, there IS truly a 13th zodiac sign! It is called Ophiuchus, I think.
@Vashnik Thank you!
Yes, each zodiac sign has unique talent, strength, weakness, personality, and skill advantage. Iāll make them high compatibility with others (equal). More skills,talents, and attitudes and etc.
@moonfungus glad to know and to hear those words from you, Anime Lover! Yeah, but unfortunately for that sign, it is not Astrological Sign, but it belongs in zodiac belt. And it is the forgotten one sign which is the Archenemy of the MC 
hahaha