Waiting for it. It doesn’t matter how long it takes lol
Hi guys! I’m still fairly new to this community. I read Choice of Magics at the beginning of the week and started/finished Drag Star! Tonight, I did notice however that the author of Drag Star! is planning a sequel so I’m curious, how does a sequel work in this setting? A normal book has a set plot that you follow, but the Choice of books have many different plots, so would a second book remember the choices you made? Like say I’m so-and-so’s enemy, but in book 2 they treat me like a friend, I’m worried about reading some series’ on here because of continuity errors like that. Anybody whose read a series on here know how most authors treat it?
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Welcome in our community, I hope you have a lot fun. 
Some authors implement the stats from the first part, some let you decide on key events, a bit like the keep from Dragon age inquisition. Sometimes the sequel is just set in the same universe and only mildly related.
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There’s quite a few CoG/HG series, the way they generally work is you save at the end of each book and load it into the next one, keeping all the variables and whatnot. Alternatively you can usually start a new game and manually input major decisions from previous books, or it might have a more generic start
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some games have a save at the end of book 1, so you can import your playtrough in a sequel . Wayhaven, Fallen Hero, Hero rise…etc all have that . Once you finish a game, it tell you to save your game *Input a name for your save * .
Some others game weren’t planning on a sequel, and those had an added save recently to their previous games . And they are written often more like…they could stand alone if you never played the 1st book .
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It’s honestly not an issue. As everyone has noted, the easiest solution to this is when you save a walkthrough of one game and carries it over to the next game. Granted, not all games allows you to do it for every walkthrough, for example, the formerly named Choice of Romance sequel only continued if you imported an MC who was romancing the monarch or in Psy High 2, where two of the endings actually allowed you to imported your MC.
As @E_RedMark noted, the sequel may actually be considered a standalone and just set in the same universe, Choice of Deathless’s sequel, Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven and Heroes Rise: Hero Project are examples. Alternatively, you may use the same MC from a previous game but a new cast of characters may appear in the sequel (I might be wrong here, but I believe Superlative’s sequel is an example of that).
Even so, not all COG and HG actually give multiple endings in their first game if they are planning an series ahead of time and they will ensure it’s somewhat linear (Community College Hero, Zombie Exodus, Way Walker, Wayhaven, etc…) which in this case, while the ending remains roughly the same, it’s key events, relationships and stats that may influence it and hence are the ones more observed. As others are noted, assuming you don’t import, authors allow you to either replay your MC to pick what event, relationship or stats you won’t or alternatively, you select a premade character in their sequels.
And it has to be noted, all games, COG and HG, are continuing play tested by us, whether they are in alpha or beta stage, to make sure all these factors work properly and in accordance with the MC we choose to have and if not, we note them to the authors and they will fixed them accordingly before they are released to the public.
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One way to do it could be like this. In the beginning…
When I last met $character, we were…
- rivals for the throne
- working together to save the republic
- not on speaking terms, due to his support for the monarchy and mine for the republic
Based on the results of this, variables can be set to create the appropriate relationship parameters for each character. This has the added benefit of letting you redefine the relationship if things didn’t turn out the way you wanted in the first book.
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Unfortunately there isn’t going to be a Drag Star sequel—I think you misread or the author may have posted something overly hopeful himself. Sorry!
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That’s just the theory of relativity at work. All good stories end too soon 
it’s a great compliment to anyone for anyone to say their book is too short. This means they will definitely get the sequel lol
Evan made a comment about romances in the sequel iirc, which could be what they’re referencing
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Sure. It’s unfortunate, but a sequel isn’t going to happen.
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So it’s true? Versus: Elite Trials is going to have a sequel? 
I honestly hope that’s not true. The series itself is just… ugh. I don’t have the proper words to describe it, only that I hated it.
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It will have a sequel, and not just that, but the author plans to follow the notion of creating his own ‘cinematic universe’ in which all his works are connected.
Oh, also he will apparently hold the beta on his patreon and you can only join betatesting if you pay, I think, at least 10 bucks or 20
(There. I edited it. Bloody hell)
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This is in violation of the COG terms of use. Someone should probably report that.
Exactly no where on his Patreon does Zach sell access to content that COG is publishing. @MeltingPenguins I know you don’t care for his work but you need to check yourself before posting comments like this.
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When asked before if this means beta testing he said Yes, and that he doesn’t want to work with the people on the forum.
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’ll talk with it when it’s not a holiday weekend.
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The Star Wars games … unlike the movies, the Star Wars games should have (in my opinion) been stand-alone titles.
(sorry for the long delay to the response – I did not see the alert that I normally do.)