Definitely, that’s why I had this idea. What is your one like?
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https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/rokusuppo-w-i-p-may-26-2018/39340
I think it’s easier to just link it, than try to cover everything about it. And I don’t really just wanna constantly talk about my own work on different threads all the time, but it’s bound to happen from time to time.
While both seem to in someway involve fighting tournaments, they’re obviously distinctly different in the concept and execution. Yours seems mainly revolved around adult people in a western hemisphere type culture. Mine is mainly focused on delinquent high school youth in a Japanese styled culture.
Keep in mind, no idea is really original and some are bound to be similar to each other.
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You could almost have it cover a bunch of different genres in like… parody, each one being a different episode, or have an “outside world” like Roger Rabbit. Either way sounds like an awesome idea!
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Very interesting, I like it. i hope you’ll like mine too.
And yeah, yours is a lot more rough and swearing school style than my bloody and gunny adult streets style. Don’t worry, we’re completely different.
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Closet Conquest
Synopsis: You play as an LGBT teen, who is only just starting to figure out themselves. You’ve got school, family, and the general plan for what to do after High School to juggle with. This is your oppurtunity to really figure out who you are or help show the world see who you really are. You try to figure out your sexual orientation, gender identity, and who you can really trust in your small town. Maybe you might even form lasting relationships or friendships with other people.
Plan: This will honestly be one of the shorter HGs out there. The stat blocks will probably be mainly relationship stats. The relationship stats will probably dictate what will happen if you do things like try to come out, or flirting, or whatever. Other than that though, I feel like confidence and Masc/Fem will be bar stats. The confidence stat will be your mental strength more or less and your will to go through with what might be a really scary or hard action. The Masc/Fem will probably be there just to show how Masc/Fem you are according to traditional western ideals, and are there just to help gauge which way you may be leaning, but it’s only for reflection. In the end you decide what you feel like is the most true for yourself.
I guess I really wanted to try making a HG like this because, in the media and other portrayals there’s some represantation of what it is to be LGBT. But not in a lot of those portrayals in media, is there a chance to step into the shoes of someone who identifies with the LGBT community and experience what it is like or what could it be like for some.
Sample:
It was second year of High School, and everything feels different to me. I don’t see myself in the mirror as the same person that I’ve been for most of my life, it’s as if something awakened within me. I feel different, I feel scared?, I feel angsty and hungry. Maybe it’s a teen only disease that my parents never told me about.
The hallways were clear of people, and the classroom doors were wide open with their teachers right beside them. It’s almost time to get to class. But first.
You feel a sudden chillness run through your body. A huge cold flood of pressure washing over you. You realize one important thing. You have to pee.
That single thought rushes forth and replaces your contemplation with the legs of a gold medal sprinter. You find the bathrooms soon but which one do you use?
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I’m already playing a game where I play as a human and I gotta say, it’s not going great for me.
I debated a little, because being surrounded by paranormals might mean more opportunities to learn about the inhuman cultures. But ultimately, given the choice to be anything but human, I will take it.
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Interest Check for: Make a Wish: Kingdom
The story starts with the protagonist as a university student in modern day times. Despite multiple warnings not to, the protagonist begins to experiment with magic, releasing a spirit who agrees to grant them one wish. Our smartass protagonist of course, says what many of us would.
“I want all my wishes to come true”
Hence the protagonist is transported to an alternate reality where they are the ruler of their own kingdom, with their closest friends and love interests from their past life making appearances as character in other roles.
The player will make choices that will affect the prosperity of the kingdom and must fight to find their way back to reality by summoning the spirit again. But will the protagonist want to leave? Will they want to instead stay in their kingdom where they are loved, hated or even feared?
Magic, kingdoms and a lot of romance.
Players will be able to choose to be male, female or non binary. Sexuality will be completely fluid and unmentioned. All characters will remain the swim gender throughout the replays, with an equal number of male and female characters available to romance.
Will try to make the first part of the game skipabble in order to increase replay quality.
Would anyone be interested in this kind of story?
I have great ideas for romances but am still working on the conflict. I want the focus to be on living in a world where the protagonist is living in their dream world, free to do whatever they want.
Leaving it open to a sequel where you okay as a Deity rather than a ruler.
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Were it up to me, my first wish with a genie type spirit would be along these lines:
“I wish that you would fully explain the consequences of my wishes before making them and always grant them in the most benevolent way, while paying attention more to the context and intent that I want in rather than the literal translation and that should I not be satisfied with the outcome of a wish, I am able to undo all the changes caused by the wish.”
That would just save a whole lot of trouble with your classic genie kind of story.
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Ah but that would defeat the whole purpose of the story because the MC gets only one wish.
I could do the classic three wishes and have one of them be something like ‘I wish I lived in a perfect world’, which would take our MC to their kingdom
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Soooo, i was planning to do a supernaturl game but with a real life mood. like, you re a vampire? grea, but how you willpay the rent or where yougonna work ? things like that… someone interested ?
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I would play it tbh sounds fun
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Thanks person, but the problem is: I don’t know a damn thing about choice script
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Futuristic, psuedo-cyberpunk high fantasy RPG. Inspired by Hero of Kendrickstone (the first book), set in a huge city where adventurers and mercenaries are commonplace and magic is widely used. The MC is a mercenary/adventurer, whichever term you prefer, recently accepted into a party, hired to combat a necromantic mafia.
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Sounds really interesting, sounds pretty fun and would have a lot of potential. Though in my own opinion, I would most likely join that necromantic mafia instead of combating it 
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Thanks! I’m planning to add an option to defect to the mafia, if it doesn’t end up being too much work.
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I don’t know if this is the place I should be posting since I do have a demo for some of these (kinda anyways), but since I had many ideas for a choice game(and i’m planning on only writing one). I decided to ask the community what idea they like best or if you had any ideas you’ll like me to write or something.(you can ignore this post if you want to.)
Warning:long post ahead
Coding: i’m pretty good at it and i’m also a fast learner so I should able to complete a game in the estimated time i give it (maybe).
Writing:I’d admit my writing isn’t the best, but i do know how to create the right scene at the right time so hopefully it won’t be terrible.
But anyways here’s my ideas if anyone like one of them then you can reply to me the one like or if you hate my ideas and give some criticism or your own suggestion, that’s fine too.
•This is not how the story ends.
Summary
This was actually the first story i was going to write but more ideas came to my head and i kinda abandoned this one?(though if many other people like it i’ll bring it back.)
In this work of fiction you take control of an teenage boy/girl who have just been sent to a disciplinary school, for what? Well that’s up to you figure out.You will use your reputation, strength, words or maybe your relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend to help cope with teachers, get you out of trouble(or in trouble) or to help you make friends and not get killed. Will you be a good teenager and leave early or will you find out that it’s better to stay?
There will only be one book to this.
Warnings:
This IF would probably feature more real life situations that might make some people uncomfortable(since i wanted to create a game that would speak a message about problem kids.)(i’ll take all the things i write with a serious mindset and if someone finds it offensive i’ll remove it)I’ll put the situations that is going to be in the choice game.
Murder(they’ll be murder in this game whether you get the bad endings or not)
Implied Abuse (psychology, physical, sexually, verbal, emotionally)(in one part of the story you can choose to say that your parents are abusive.)
Dark humor
Drug abuse
Mental illness
Teacher abuse
Implied assault
Homophobia
Sexism
Torture
•Not that kind of hero (definitely got to change this title.)
Summary
You start out in the story as a teenage girl/boy(16) who lives in a world full of superpowers(the reason why will be explained in the story). Eventually you have to leave the school you go to and go to a low powered superhero school(yes, you do get powers in this game and yes, you get to pick them.) after they see potential in you.Follow this story as you befriend, romance or become enemies with your classmates while trying to become the greatest hero or maybe the greatest villain or neither. There will be two books to this, one where you are teen and another where your a adult.
Warnings
This series is way more lighthearted than the first one.
Implied sex scenes(but nothing explicit i don’t like writing that stuff about teens)
•Party till your dead.
Summary
In this story you’ll able to choose between a number of species(werewolves, vampires, zombies etc.)(or be human) and you’ll have 30 days in order to prepare for the biggest party in your college’s history(yes, your a college student in this game.) This mean you will have to balance out work, relationships and clubs in order to join. (You can also romance other monsters or humans.) (Short story)
Warnings
Dirty humour
•Maya and Carlos
Summary
In this story you take the role of two thirteen year old twins who just arrived to a mysterious hotel in El Paso, Texas. While your parents don’t believe that anything’s wrong with the hotel, the twins know something up. Take the control of Maya or Carlos to find out the secrets of the hotel and why there’s red paint on that wall.
(There will be multiple books to this)
Warnings(its going to be a mostly kid friendly series.)
Lots of Spanish
That’s all i have, if you have any other suggestions then you can reply to me it.
Finally it worked.
(You can post polls on here right?)
- This not how the story ends.
- Not that kind of hero.
- Party till your dead.
- Maya and Carlos.
- Other
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(I hope you understand them, i know my grammar not great.)
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I know that Maya and Carlos is the least voted, but I think it’s by far the most interesting and unique out of all of your examples. It’s not even a contest.
Why Maya and Carlos is a great idea that you should definitely explore in more detail and expand upon at great length
- It’s set in a unique location we haven’t seen before. There’s something uniquely fascinating about the contrast between the empty, arid, unforgiving landscapes of Texas and the communal, transient life of a hotel that packs so many different people together for such a short time. It’s a refuge against a hostile world.
- The characters speak Spanish, which we haven’t seen a lot of, and could incorporate a lot of really cool ideas and myths that are otherwise overlooked.
- The dynamic of two twins could lend itself to really interesting uses of the choicescript mechanics and would reward replaying the game.
- It reminds me of Nan Quest. I’ll have to check out if that was ever finished.
Why the other ideas are not as good ideas as Maya and Carlos
- This is not how the story ends: doesn’t seem to present itself as offering anything from the perspective of a teenager that we haven’t seen before. The focus on abuse, violence, and (presumably) mental health, while relevant, is something we’ve seen a million times in a million different forms. You would have to be able to demonstrate your own personal take on it and also justify what new perspectives you bring to the table.
- Not that kind of hero: I guarantee there are at least half a dozen “you’re a superhero in a high school” games in the CoG or HG lines (plus WIPs) right now. That specific sub-genre is so beyond oversaturated it’s not even really an amusing observation to make anymore.
- Party till your dead: This one has a similar problem to the previous one: the subgenre of mashing a standard American school setting with supernatural elements has been overwhelmingly mainstream since the 80s, perhaps even earlier. You’re literally competing with Buffy the Vampire Slayer … as well as numerous games on this very forum that have the same premise.
If you can bring something to the table that is uniquely you that we can’t get anywhere else, any of the previous ideas would be amazing … but it looks like you already have that spark in Maya and Carlos. I’m just interested in reading something I’ve never seen before.
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You’d be wrong. There are no published games which are about superheroes at high school (to my knowledge). You can only reach half-a-dozen by counting CCH (superheroes at college), Grand Academy for Future Villains (villains, not genre-specific, and I’m not sure if they’re at high school or older), and things like Psy High (not superheroes) and Waywalkers (not superheroes, and while they’re the right age, it’s not really a high school). And even then, 6/179 is hardly “oversaturation”.
The only WiP I can think of (that’s still being worked on) is my own and that’s more “superheroes who happen to go to high school” (and even then it’s more based on Power Rangers and anime stories than traditional superheroes); @Alexis’s idea sounds more like “high school for superheroes”, which is a pretty different concept. (I have got a brief, on-hiatus WiP which is closer to the idea, but even then, I feel that they’d be different enough to not be a problem.)
And if you mean “oversaturation in the media in general”, well, “teen brother and sister who solve mysteries” isn’t that more unique, really. Which is not to say that there’s anything wrong with that concept, either. Both of them could be great.
@Alexis: I voted “Other” mainly because I think you should choose whichever one you want to write more. Although I would advise against This is not how the Story Ends, as issues like abuse, homophobia, and sexism can be hard to write about in a way that doesn’t trivialise them. Good luck, whichever you choose. 
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Interest Check for: A ‘Regular’ Life in New York
Premise: Ah New York, the ‘Big Apple’ (commonly named by people who never lived in New York) filled with hopes and dreams. From Manhattan to New York City itself, the state is littered with tourists in wonderment; New Yorkians in running their usual businesses; gang members battling each other in shady alleyways; corrupt detectives taking bribes from low-life criminals; mad scientists running around causing all sorts of havoc; and the Statue of Liberty in its glory. Come over to New York for friends! Life-changing experiences! And maybe even… love.
In ‘A ‘Regular’ Life in New York’ (placeholder for now), you will be playing as a biological creation made by a mad Dragon Scientist living life in the state of New York. Throughout your journey you will meet countless curious characters from around the land, from detectives to assassins, the possibility is endless! (I’m just kidding, only about 16 characters). Evolve your personality throughout the game: will you be a shy observer or will you be a outrageous Casanova? Will you train to become a intelligent detective, a mastermind criminal or even a insane lab-companion? Will you be a regular human? Or will you become a lycanthrope-type creature? Will you make friends and even find the possibility of true love? Hey, don’t look at me, this is your life!
Potential Features: With that jumbled mess of a plot out of the way, what might be in this game?
- Of course you can choose what gender you may want to be, you can be Male/Female/Non-Binary.
- I do plan to have at least 16 characters, with 8 romances and 8 regular friendships, however, you can continue the game without romancing anyone at all.
- You can choose your sexual orientation, but every romance option is fluid in sexuality, no gender locks.
- You will be able to play as a human, quarter-animal, quarter-human and a lycanthrope-type of creature. These will be explained if I decide to create a full demo thread.
- I will try to have a variety of job and hobby routes for the character, but I will have to limit it to my ability.
- I will also try to have multiple explorable areas, but note the fact that I don’t live in New York (Australian) so I might butcher the land (sorry!)
- The story isn’t romance orientated, but romance may play a large part in the storyline (if the player decides to date).
- I do want to make the game replayable, with every potential route leading to multiple endings.
And that’s all I can come up with now, I’m currently creating the demo with most of the customisations done already (which kinda ruins the point of an interest post but whatever ).
I’m not sure if anyone has done this before but would anyone be interested in this type of slice-of-life, romance, actionish and modern hybrid of a story?
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Seems very promising,I wish you all the luck!
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