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Who out there wants to help me with a choose your own adventure slasher story?
I obviously do not want to write the whole thing since I want to be able to enjoy the possible choices too.

I started a story that can be publicly edited if anyone is interested in getting it going with me.
 
fireball said:
Who out there wants to help me with a choose your own adventure slasher story?
I obviously do not want to write the whole thing since I want to be able to enjoy the possible choices too.

I started a story that can be publicly edited if anyone is interested in getting it going with me.
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Here is the link to the story if anyone wants to edit it.
http://www.infinite-story.com/story/room.php?id=100645
I think you might have to make a user login there to edit it, but its free.
Let me know if you are trying to edit it and can't.
I am also working on the story there. Please feel free to add what ever you can, I am not so good at writing.
 
Ok so I have my first death ending already worked into the story.
Make sure to explore it.
For a hint it is in the Brandon story line and involves sleeping bags.

I hope some people can add some more stuff to the story choices, and some of the other guy choices.
Lets do this :-)
 
come on! Nobody wants to help with this? I think it is a great idea!
 
Nobody has added to the story yet.
I want to let people know it is also a story you can play when it is done.
It will benefit everyone else who plays it as well as those who write it.

Has anyone seen what I have done so far?
Any feedback? I already have one death on the brandon sub plot, and have started on the jon plot.

Not all events will lead to death but alot will. That makes the choose your own adventure that much more enjoyable.
 
I really like the idea because its all written in second person narrative mode, "you do", "you are", and soon it will be like "Your blood is dripping.." and along those lines. I'm not so good at writing, but would like to see it go on! :excellent:
 
While I am glad someone liked it.
I honestly was just about to quit.

But make a login and add a good ending to one of the guy options. I have to approve it anyway so if the writing is not great I can always polish it up before hitting the publish button. I would really appreciate it alot. Type whatever you want, anything goes.
 
Sorry for leaving you hanging fireball. One thing to worry about with choose your own adventure series is the number of story lines grows exponentially, so it will take 4 times the effort to give the reader just 1 more choice. That's why choose your own adventure books typically have dozens of trap endings and at most four or five real story lines. Look at MS Paint Adventures : Jailbreak for an example of exactly this kind of project failing to live up to the author's ambition - and this is a guy who's capable of years of sustained output.

The other extreme - the celebrity snuff service thread - has similar structural problems in that tecpatl has to wait a very long time for enough community input to present worthwhile choices. Some things just don't crowdsource well, and creativity is chief among them.

The most successful form of community story writing i've seen is in "The Perils of Kellan", by Felixpath. In that format, the author writes a small to medium story segment and then faces the characters with a decision, along with four or so different possible choices. For example, if the main character comes across a man tied to a chair with a bag over his head, the options might be to free the man, hold the bag down and snuff him, ignore him and keep walking, or remove the bag but leave him tied to the chair so he can be interrogated. Then the audience votes on the provided alternatives rather than try to come up with new ones, although if anyone feels very strongly about their idea they're of course going to suggest it anyway.
 
small_dot said:
Sorry for leaving you hanging fireball. One thing to worry about with choose your own adventure series is the number of story lines grows exponentially, so it will take 4 times the effort to give the reader just 1 more choice. That's why choose your own adventure books typically have dozens of trap endings and at most four or five real story lines. Look at MS Paint Adventures : Jailbreak for an example of exactly this kind of project failing to live up to the author's ambition - and this is a guy who's capable of years of sustained output.

The other extreme - the celebrity snuff service thread - has similar structural problems in that tecpatl has to wait a very long time for enough community input to present worthwhile choices. Some things just don't crowdsource well, and creativity is chief among them.

The most successful form of community story writing i've seen is in "The Perils of Kellan", by Felixpath. In that format, the author writes a small to medium story segment and then faces the characters with a decision, along with four or so different possible choices. For example, if the main character comes across a man tied to a chair with a bag over his head, the options might be to free the man, hold the bag down and snuff him, ignore him and keep walking, or remove the bag but leave him tied to the chair so he can be interrogated. Then the audience votes on the provided alternatives rather than try to come up with new ones, although if anyone feels very strongly about their idea they're of course going to suggest it anyway.
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I agree that it is a lot of work, but I disagree with the assumption that nobody should contribute becuase it is hopeless.
Also in this case each trap ending in this is a death anyways and basically what we are after.
So pretty much every time you have sex in the story your getting killed.

I was hoping someone could write in some death scenes for the guy characters and this would make my efforts on this story a lot easier. If a few people add to the story I think it would go over well with at least the users from here. Even if just one person added one ending, it already would be another ending for everyone to enjoy. Besides face it everyone is going to go look through the possible endings. I already have one great death scene added in the Brandon path. There is only 3 guys to choose form, and with maybe only 2 possible deaths added to each guy by others it won't take long to finish. I also wrote up the John and Mike path. The John one is ready for a good killing right now in the camp office. The Mike one is pretty much set up for a nice tent peg or trapped in tent type of death.

But anyway... I don't know..... It is just that there is nothing like this or any sort of games like this for us.
I just figured I would get us something.

I already made descriptions of all the characters and attributes and got rid of the B.S, so now its just sex scenes and death that need to be added. If I write every death and sex scene then I will lose a lot of the enjoyment form it. I just really wanted to see it go off.. As far as the other options of the story for girls and guys or guys and girls I would leave that for anyone to edit, I do not really care about that, I just left it there in case one day someone else wants to add something that is not a guy into guys.
 
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Whoa there, I never said it was hopeless. And I agree with you that it's a really cool idea, and very novel. If you could pull it off it would be quite the triumph. But the problem I meant to point out was that you're trying to crowdsource a creative project, and I don't know of any examples of that working out in practice. Moreover, your target audience is a specific kind of homosexual paraphiliacs... That is an incredibly tiny demographic already, and the number of *those* who are willing or able to contribute is even smaller, and many of *those* aren't professional writers and would not be used to the editing process - they'd bridle at having someone interfere with their work before it is posted.

If you're really dedicated to this idea then i recommend exploiting psychology more effectively. Just throwing out a "hey guys please come contribute to my story" is going to run into what's known as the "diffusion of responsibility" - everyone assumes someone else will do it and so no one is at all motivated to help. What you could do instead is either write the whole thing yourself but solicit raw, rough ideas from the audience like brian2012 does for the Predator Serial Killer series, or find a small, closed group of friends to help. With a smaller group of people you know, you can leverage guilt and peer pressure - the diffusion of responsibility does not happen when you can point directly at someone and say "it is specifically your turn to contribute".

Fun fact: modern first aid classes actually teach about this effect. If you ever find yourself helping someone who's passed out and a crowd has gathered, you should never say "somebody call the paramedics". Instead, one should point to some specific person in the crowd - doesn't matter who - and say "YOU call the paramedics."
 
Went to check back on it just now and it seems to be deleted. Is it a server error or... :banghead:
 
i look into it.. maybe I had it not set to public or something..
or maybe it was too horrific, but I highly doubt that as there is far worse stuff on there.
 
Even after I signed up for the site, I get the message, "You do not have access to read this story."
 
HangTime said:
Even after I signed up for the site, I get the message, "You do not have access to read this story."
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I had it set to private.
I thought private meant unlisted, but I guess it also means nobody can see it even with the link.
I changed it to public now. If that Doesn't work ill just give my account pass.
 
Ok it is all good now!

Hey everyone sorry for the confusion. I got a few messages saying that the story was not working.
It seems it is now public and working fine on that site.
My apologies for anyone who got frustrated trying to get in.
Anyway I hope everyone can access it now. Also like I said the Brandon Sleeping bag path is the only one that leads to an end yet, but more is to come. Also anyone who adds into some of the other paths will be a great help to me.
 
Hi , I keep getting an annoying message on top of the story and can only read parts of it , shame as your idea sounds interesting and there have been some very helpful replies , I will try again later ,good luck with it and Thanks again.
 
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