Ok I hope I’m doing this right. I’m planning a community-based game, one that will be written largely by the users of the forum. We’ll decide stuff like genre, genders (how many?) the characters and what they are like. We can decide the setting and what happens, and then it all goes into the book (I can do the coding for it).
Will anyone be up for this? and where would I start a thread for this?
No, I was trying to say like villain spouse things they are in control when in reality it’s the MC, think Italian/Spanish house wife, at first glance you think there the sub but there really the dom of the relationship
Ah, okay. That explains it. (I was trying to figure out what kind of MC you were envisioning.) The spouse isn’t actually like that, I’m afraid I enjoy creating expectation-defying characters. (You could, for example, have an antagonistic relationship, but you’d have to work for it. By default, they’ll just leave you alone. On the other hand, they would totally do anything you ask if you decide to work for a good relationship.)
That sounds like a super fun idea! I don’t know how successful we’ll be at that kind of coordination, though 
Oh, I’m all in for this hell of an idea, it’s gonna be fun.
Will it be like making a movie? With directors, scriptwriters, and thus a group that works for a common project?
MC: make me the ruler of North Korea
Villain spouse: ok
So does that mean the MC has powerful parents and in order to keep their stuff they sold the MC off? Because Marrying someone off for a non aggression treaty is something monarch’s normally do
It’s kind of a post-apocalyptic setting, and that’s one of the parts I haven’t fully settled, but they’re heads of some more or less nearby community.
So is by supervillain do you mean in terms of superpowers and superheroes cuz idk if its just me but when i think of superpowers I think of cities
Yes, I do. It’s not like a city is a requirement for superpowers, but of course that’s a place where biggest amounts of people live.
It could be a very interesting experiment.
Hey gang! I have been a huge fan of the majority of your lot’s work for quite some time (roughly 5 years. Sept 2017 era) and I have been amazed. Often times I’ve been so attached to what is ‘Choice of Games’ and everything pertaining to, that I’d read sometimes for 10-12 hours or more a day (Don’t let my read time fool you). What a true delight it is to have something so distinctly different from mainstream entertainment, and yet, so irresistible and just… cool. I’ve been wanting to do something to help the community and our ‘itch’ for more content. In normal human words, I’ve been wanting to write a game for a long time. I just never have had the software to do it. But here we are. I don’t have any demo-worthy content, and I’m nothing if not ambitious, which means that not only will it be quite some time before I publish a demo, but it will be quite, quite some time before I give you all something worth your attention. I want to write a paragraph or seven just explaining some of the concepts and settings that I have, and the general trajectory in which I intend to enrich your experience with. That being said listen here ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between…
My idea takes place in a world called Cinerae. It is a vast world of people from cultures yet to be seen, and stories yet to be heard. Your story begins not in one, but two places. You are the heir to the throne of Therania in the north, (1st son/ daughter of King Julian Cassius Lionell of the Stonemour, 2nd of his name) and also, a soon to be Therani farmer (son/daughter of no one special) in southern Therania. Two destinies, fated to intertwine, and to be thrown apart? The decision will be yours to some extent.
. You will decide the paths of two people
. You will also be subject to inescapable truths
. (Prince/princess) Will you train to your father’s standard and become a hardened monarch, or will you become a failure, a kindhearted feeble-spine, or is there another way?
. (Farmer) will you attempt to honor your dead Pa’s wishes and be a farmer, or will you follow your dreams, and travel to the Theranian capital (Loredon) and find a way to get ready for the Grand Tourney of Solace that happens once every 2 summers?
. Above all, despite the wars (pirate raids from the isles de Monkul, the Breach of Treaty by the Borge peoples of Borais, the wars of the Evergreen tribes between the Valendir and the Faer, the civil war of Escoléa, and the blood cults of Nyrland -which is just speaking for the northern-most continent of Eitor-) personal distractions, and politics, will you both look to the far south, south of the Southern Dust into the forbidden, and unspoken land of the Further, where there are multiple rumors of growing populations of slave castaways who survived the drop from the stitch?(The stitch is a mountain range that separates the furthest known civilization from the ‘desert that should not be there’, or the Southern Dust. It’s called the Stitch because it seals the inside from the outside, and is said to even resemble stitches geographically. People working in the Ufurian slave communes get dropped from the Stitch, into the Southern Dust [aprox- 2500 feet], when they are deemed worthless by the karpothi centurion)
.If the rumor is true, which would be impossible, it would mean a war that the squabbling people of Cinerae might not be ready for….
Sort of… except we’ll all decide on everything. How this will actually work will be an interesting experiment.
Anyway it’s all going as expected. I seem to have hurt myself a little by overtraining (maybe) so i apologize if I seem a little distracted.
The official game thread is here
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/community-made-game-thread/145244
Sounds really cool mate! Can’t wait to see those skills flourish!
I’m considering starting a new ChoiceScript project. Now, due to what is most likely undiagnosed ADHD, I have a bad history with these projects, I have two other WIP’s that are all but abandoned, though I still harbor hopes of finishing them one day. Now because of this I’m hesitant to even start, seeing as there’s a decent chance that even if I start to work on this project it might end up another draft buried deep in my files.
That being said, I wanted to see what people here thought about my premise.
You’d be playing as the heir to the throne of a large kingdom in a medieval fantasy setting, featuring a magic system heavily inspired by the psyenergy power of the characters from the Golden Sun game series (a must play for all retro rpg fans). Your father is a warlike king, but a good if distant father. The early part of the game would feature short to mid length chapters scattered through your formative years, featuring at least the ages of five, eight, ten, twelve and 15-17. During these times most of your day to day interactions will feature your mother, the queen, who is much more involved in your life than your father, she is a kind and warm person, exactly what you’d expect of the perfect royal mother. Possible siblings (yet to be decided upon), one or two knights of the kingdom. And most importantly you magister, or teacher/tutor, a vastly powerful elementalist recruited to be your magister by your father even before your birth, they are your teacher in your sourcerous studies, lessons in history and all things related to the world at large, and later in your life, even swordsmanship.
Later parts of the game would feature your life at court and adventures within the borders of your fathers kingdom and on occasion outside of it. This part hasn’t fully taken form yet, currently I’m picturing you forming something like an adventuring party and performing great feats across the land. Classic heroics.
Even later in the game, or perhaps a sequel if inspiration truly strikes, would feature the story of you becoming the new ruler of your fathers kingdom. Fight a war alongside your old friends from your time spent as an adventurer, balance life as ruler at court with your old adventurers identity. Even less formed than the middle part but you get the picture.
Would you be interested in reading something along these lines?
why do people like the the heir to the throne trope so much this is like the i have seen this trope so meny times in this thread this is not a hate comment but just wandaring
Why this thread exists : I need to have a space to tell everyone what’s going on, what I plan to do, post stuff from the planning stages etc. I can’t slack off from working if I see this every day.
Also putting stuff in here means everyone’s seen it, and can comment on it or whatever. A corner of the forum where all my stuff is, instead of all over the place. So that being said, here’s the planned work for er… the foreseeable future I guess ?
Community Game - Superheroes it is.
Valkyrie - concept created
Valhalla map valhalla hosted at ImgBB — ImgBB
First words valhalla hosted at ImgBB — ImgBB
Wow this thread is hard to find and update. I might post the updates somewhere else.
I think a lot of it stems from the fact that it’s a position of great power but also relative freedom, so theres a lot of room for story there. Also there’s Crushing Expectations™
Thank you for your reply! It was very informative and helpful. I just get discouraged when I attempt to throw my idea out there and it doesn’t seem to get much traction. So far it hasn’t really received much feedback. So I’m sitting here wondering is it a bad idea ? Did I say too much? Not enough? My husband said my description was too long. Because I had been feeling a bit down since I hadn’t received much feedback here or elsewhere.
But my husband said “yeah people don’t like to read a long ass post. Just make it short and sweet.” Because I told him I had only received 1 response thus far on the CoG forums (you being the 1 response) and 1 like on my Tumblr. I’m not upset with anyone about lack of feedback. It’s just disappointing when you see others receive feedback and then I question myself as to why I hadn’t received many responses. The conclusion I came too was that I’m expecting too much too soon with too little to hold people’s attention.See like here for example my answer was too long lol.
But I digress. I’m sure my story will receive more attention once I have more than just vague descriptions. Im just an anxious person and an impatient person. I talked to my cousin about it as well (she does digital art.) And she said the same thing my husband. She said “chill out. You haven’t given people much to go on and it’s an idea thread. People don’t want to read something super long unless you have something to back it up with.” She told me until I have more than I shouldn’t expect much interest. She’s right. So I’m trying to chill.