Have you ever written an interactive story?

[BlackKnightX]

You know, the story that the readers can choose the action the protagonist gonna take, just like the visual novels. What I’ve found on this site is more like a vote though.

Have you ever written one? How did it go? Did you have fun? Did you come across any problem? Please share your experience~

 

[Chaos_Sinner777]

Haven't written it, but I have one in mind. The basic idea is a soul eating rock, but once it builds up some souls, it would start thinking about what else it could be, then the voting or even suggestions from readers would come in. So, it could go from a rock to an egg, crystal, seed, dungeon core, etc. After that it could evolve again, and so on. There'd probably be other things, like power development without evolutions sometimes, since just evolving to the next stage repeatedly would get old. Though I doubt the story would last particularly long either way.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Haven't written it, but I have one in mind. The basic idea is a soul eating rock, but once it builds up some souls, it would start thinking about what else it could be, then the voting or even suggestions from readers would come in. So, it could go from a rock to an egg, crystal, seed, dungeon core, etc. After that it could evolve again, and so on. There'd probably be other things, like power development without evolutions sometimes, since just evolving to the next stage repeatedly would get old. Though I doubt the story would last particularly long either way.

Though generic, it’s still a pretty fun idea! For me, what’s so fun about evolution is the choices and the skills. Especially if the mc get a unique races, it’d be so cool!

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I was hoping some people would write some alternative plots to my story here, but no luck so far:

Kaiba's Prostitute

When CEO Seto Kaiba propositions Joan, she expects a one-night stand, but he and his brother keep coming back for more. Now the Kaiba brothers want an heir from her and will pay any price to get it. How do Joan’s husband and boyfriend feel about he

chyoa.com

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

Yes I have, it was an interactive smut story, though I never got to the smut part. Interactive smut is the only text-based smut I'm interested in reading, but it turns out I'm still not interested in writing. If you know twine 2.0 that's where I tried to make it. There is also the votes, but I find that works better when you're on a forum cause people are used to interacting more, like spacebattles or questionable questing. I'm not sure it would work out if you put one on the main site.

 

[KoyukiMegumi]

This sounds too complicated for this kitty cat.

 

[Ai-chan]

You know, the story that the readers can choose the action the protagonist gonna take, just like the visual novels. What I’ve found on this site is more like a vote though.

Have you ever written one? How did it go? Did you have fun? Did you come across any problem? Please share your experience~

Yes, Ai-chan used to write them a lot. These days, not so much. But Ai-chan did write an incest interactive story, which isn't finished yet. Ai-chan only managed to complete half of it.

The problem with writing such stories is that it takes so much effort to write them, but the readers will not be reading them all, only some of the routes you write. So it's like you give 100%, but your readers only bother to read like 20% of it, which means you've wasted your effort on that 80%.

 

[greyblob]

This hasn't left my head since yesterday. Goddammit, this is your fault.

 

[BlackKnightX]

This hasn't left my head since yesterday. Goddammit, this is your fault.

Put it in motion!

 

[greyblob]

Put it in motion!

Alright.

 

[FeverDream]

I'm actually writing the first drafts of one

The whole plot of it would be around the MC having the power to decide his own destiny (with the help from the readers) even if it goes against what the creator (me, the author) had planned for him. There's more to it, but that was the general idea. I was planning on launching it in a few weeks, though. First I want to have more chapters ready for the one I'm currently writing, so there's no risk of me having to rush things to have it ready on time

 

[greyblob]

I'm actually writing the first drafts of one

The whole plot of it would be around the MC having the power to decide his own destiny (with the help from the readers) even if it goes against what the creator (me, the author) had planned for him. There's more to it, but that was the general idea. I was planning on launching it in a few weeks, though. First I want to have more chapters ready for the one I'm currently writing, so there's no risk of me having to rush things to have it ready on time

I beat you to it, but I'm mostly just fucking around. And the premise is also different.

 

[AriaJane]

Yonks ago there was a fad of "Who would you fall for?" stories on some site and I tried my hand at those. I had no clue what I was doing but they were similar to otome games so I liked making them. I'd love to make my own otome game one day, so while not a "choose your own adventure" novel I am interested in trying my hand at something similar eventually.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Yonks ago there was a fad of "Who would you fall for?" stories on some site and I tried my hand at those. I had no clue what I was doing but they were similar to otome games so I liked making them. I'd love to make my own otome game one day, so while not a "choose your own adventure" novel I am interested in trying my hand at something similar eventually.

That’s the point of it. It’s fun that I can read a story and be able to decide the mc’s action and personality.
There’s actually such a mobile game called “Choices: Stories You Play”. But most of the time, you have to pay the money to choose the most interesting choice.