# January 2025 Writer Support Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Writing and Content\ **Created:** [January 1, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431 "2025-01-01T09:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Anna\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/anna_b/32/137794_2.png) [@Anna\_B](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Anna_B)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/439 "2025-01-23T13:20:59Z")
Personally, I’d be happy with no choice or a choice that eventually brings us there anyway. But I don’t like early endings. It’s a pain to have to completely replay the game if I make the wrong choice. Why put it there if it’s a bad idea? It just feels like a waste of my time, and like the game is punishing me for doing something it let me ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/440 "2025-01-23T13:27:47Z")
> [@lliiraanna](#): > > I filled the form! hero 😭 thank you for beating my game up with a bat! I believe you were the one to suggest the thing about visual guidance on stat changes. Funnily enough, I was working on that for the next update- but quickly came to realize how I may have to add this bit of code to every single choice in the game so far. So it’s going to be eating away at my sanity, but hoping it will be worth it in the end. ---
**Author:** ![agarriberri0548](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/agarriberri0548/32/264765_2.png) [@agarriberri0548](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/agarriberri0548)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/441 "2025-01-23T13:59:19Z")
I understand, but I think this problem is easily solved now that we can implement a checkpoint system in each chapter. If the author thinks it’s too much work, he can also choose the more minimalist option and simply warn the reader that the choice will end the book abruptly with some kind of special symbol, or by simply writing at the end of the choice “_this option will unlock alternative ending #7_”. Some books already warn readers with heart symbols whether an option is flirtatious or not, for example. We can do the same for endings. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/nocturnal_stillness/32/100414_2.png) [@Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Nocturnal_Stillness)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/442 "2025-01-23T17:37:30Z")
I’ve settled on the following weapon sets for each of the possible Robin’s Noble Robin carries a Yew Bow, a Seax and a Saracen dagger. Farmer Robin carries an Elm Bow, an Arming sword and a Bollock dagger Acolyte Robin carries an Ash Bow, a Falchion and a Stiletto dagger. Each Robin will have opportunities to use or purchase other weapons, and each weapon can actually break (which has an achievement for killing an enemy with a broken weapon called “With a Rusty Spoon” in homage to Alan Rickman’s quote as the Sheriff of Nottingham. ---
**Author:** ![NMCannon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/nmcannon/32/245549_2.png) [@NMCannon](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/NMCannon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/443 "2025-01-23T17:57:29Z")
> [@Nocturnal\_Stillness](#): > > Noble Robin carries a Yew Bow, a Seax and a Saracen dagger. [war flashbacks to BBC Robin Hood] Honestly, good choice of weapon that brings in a larger medieval context and takes a steel chair to those who imagine an all-white Europe/England, which is a thing that never happened. On another note, love the kisses! Romance scenes are fun! After much internal screaming, I moved LTE’s [Chapter 1 Demo to COGDemos](https://cogdemos.ink/play/nmcannon/love-in-a-time-of-earthquakes). No big changes, besides approximately 12323432872985275982 less typos. 🤦‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/nocturnal_stillness/32/100414_2.png) [@Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Nocturnal_Stillness)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/444 "2025-01-23T18:24:59Z")
> [@NMCannon](#): > > > [@Nocturnal\_Stillness](#): > > > > Noble Robin carries a Yew Bow, a Seax and a Saracen dagger. > > [war flashbacks to BBC Robin Hood] Honestly, good choice of weapon that brings in a larger medieval context and takes a steel chair to those who imagine an all-white Europe/England, which is a thing that never happened. On another note, love the kisses! Romance scenes are fun! Thank you. I appreciate that, and I’m glad you loved the kisses. ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/445 "2025-01-23T20:23:30Z")
Didn’t quite write anything new, altough I _did_ try and create a few little visuals whenever the player makes a choice to show what changes are made to their stats. They do get the chance to turn those individual elements off. I TRIED to make it “simple”, and I may need to add a page with an entire glossary or something uh. And add this piece of code to every decision within my IF so far that changes any of those variables. I hope this is worth it 💀 > **Summary** > > ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1327983875778936956/1332081577383170190/Recording_20250123_204107-ezgif.com-crop.gif?ex=6793f524&is=6792a3a4&hm=ef910be7388593c40a2112d736256c408c8eff63c2634ee3aaab68cb277ab11d&) > > ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/original/3X/0/d/0d690e8b0fe61f8b9c898ec1f0e4dfa96dfde05c.png) ---
**Author:** ![lliiraanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/lliiraanna/32/272958_2.png) [@lliiraanna](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/lliiraanna)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/446 "2025-01-23T20:27:42Z")
Oh wow, these look so cool 😀 ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/447 "2025-01-23T20:32:18Z")
Thank you! I’m in the middle of giving my WIP a little quality of life make-over 🥹 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/nocturnal_stillness/32/100414_2.png) [@Nocturnal\_Stillness](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Nocturnal_Stillness)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/448 "2025-01-23T20:35:55Z")
These look neat. I did consider trying something like this a while back, but my idea was to use bold and italic for the choices, where italic choices would keep you in the choice selection while bold choices would move to the next scene. However, I think your idea would be more cooler. ---
**Author:** ![HarrisPS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/harrisps/32/240120_2.png) [@HarrisPS](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/HarrisPS)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/449 "2025-01-23T21:37:51Z")
I really like the animations and I think they’ll be clear to folks who’ve played games with relationship stats like that, but I’m not sure what the below pictures (while very pretty!) signify - they may be a little harder to grasp at a glance? I wrote about 2000 words today ❤️‍🔥 and went to the theatre to see An Inspector Calls which I absolutely loved. ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/450 "2025-01-23T21:59:28Z")
> [@HarrisPS](#): > > but I’m not sure what the below pictures I made a little glossary for it- yet I am still a little hesitant myself. Trying to find a pretty little way to show changes in your general stats, like compassion and boldness and stuff like that. But feel like it may still be a bit confusing if you don’t know what you’re looking at. And thank you c: > **le glossary** > > ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/original/3X/f/7/f738ecb2e61670a83e8172ff9da4c5878599c101.png) maybe should try and make it even more simple 🥹 ---
**Author:** ![apple](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/apple/32/33660_2.png) [@apple](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/apple)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/451 "2025-01-23T22:02:36Z")
Something to keep in mind is that a fair amount of people use screen-readers. Special characters and images often parse strangely to that sort of software, so its something to be aware of whenever you’re planning to use them. ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/452 "2025-01-23T22:06:15Z")
ooff, good to know. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![NMCannon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/nmcannon/32/245549_2.png) [@NMCannon](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/NMCannon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/453 "2025-01-23T22:13:20Z")
First, I ADORE the heart bottle animations: it reminds me of _Alice in the Country of Hearts_ and _Save the Villainess_, both of which I’m quite fond. The little symbols next to choices are fun too. My one thought is I’m unsure if a casual player will know what \*disable\_reuse means and/or the explicit coding language might throw them out of the story. Like maybe you’re throwing back the curtain too much? IDK, it probably depends on the player. ---
**Author:** ![HarrisPS](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/harrisps/32/240120_2.png) [@HarrisPS](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/HarrisPS)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/454 "2025-01-23T22:15:32Z")
> [@NMCannon](#): > > Like maybe you’re throwing back the curtain too much? IDK, it probably depends on the player. This is definitely something to consider - I would add that even “separating branch” may not be understandable for some players. It’s possible that some people would think “there’s no point making a choice that doesn’t have that icon on it”. ---
**Author:** ![FireFlyy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fireflyy/32/66820_2.png) [@FireFlyy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/FireFlyy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/455 "2025-01-23T22:29:49Z")
> [@NMCannon](#): > > First, I ADORE the heart bottle animations ahaw, thank you 😭 Took a few references and sat down for a good while trying to create a Iill something that’d fit my story. The other pictures after that were a bit throwaways pfhahah, and it shows… > [@NMCannon](#): > > I’m unsure if a casual player will know what \*disable\_reuse means oh yes, I already changed that bit up again! I am really just playing around right now to see what works/ if it even works. I am losing my mind a little trying to find a way for those images to pop up automatically with a \*gosub\_scene and a bit of wizard coding in there but I just can’t. I had to manually re-visit all the choices I put down in my first chapter and slam the bit of coding with the pictures underneath it, changing it up depending on what stat and value changed and it was, in fact, a bit of pain. I think I’ll just keep it at just my first chapter until I figure something easier out in the future 🥹 ---
**Author:** ![Hizkia\_30](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@Hizkia\_30](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Hizkia_30)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/456 "2025-01-24T15:26:01Z")
Hello everyone. I am new to this whole things and want to ask you guys, i’m right now working on a WIP that inspired by Choice of the Dragon. But here, the MC is human but have dragon-blood. It’s in medieval era with magic and the dragon race is already extinct. I already have powers in mind, 5 different powers particularly. The problem is, i don’t know if i can make it because now i think it’s difficult to make. I consider want to change the story into superhero style in modern world. I want an advice but don’t really know what kind. Can you give me? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![apple](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/apple/32/33660_2.png) [@apple](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/apple)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/457 "2025-01-24T15:38:22Z")
> [@Hizkia\_30](#): > > i think it’s difficult to make All stories are difficult to make, at the end of the day. Ultimately you’ll just have to pick something that you’re passionate about and that makes you happy. No genre is ‘easier’ than another, it’s up to you as a writer. ---
**Author:** ![agarriberri0548](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/agarriberri0548/32/264765_2.png) [@agarriberri0548](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/agarriberri0548)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431/458 "2025-01-24T16:31:18Z")
My advice is to focus on the basics since you’ve just started. I’d focus on learning about ChoiceScript, since it’s going to be your working tool sooner or later, and on creating at least one outline of your story with a beginning, middle and end so that you always have something to fall back on, even when you have a mental block. [Previous page](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431.md?page=21) [Next page](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/january-2025-writer-support-thread/163431.md?page=23)