User talk:John Aaron Jones
From Create Your Own Story
Hi there. Thanks for the season's greetings. Since you expressed interest in Downfall: is there a scenario you'd like to appear in the story? I won't promise it actually will be implemented into the story, as some things do not hold any interest for me or do not fit the story as I imagine it, but you are welcome to make a suggestion anyway.
Best wishes for the season to you as well. -Minnie May Hopkins
Well, I didn't notice English is not your first language (maybe because mine isn't as well). That is one of the reasons why content will be added at a slow rate. As for plausability, it goes just as far as we imagine the initial situation itself as plausible (which we are fine to do, given that this isn't a testemonial site). There will be a time when the story will leave the realm of plausibility (especially when more than two of the characters might become involved), but hey: it is fiction after all.
I agree with you on pacing in these stories. The pacing in Downfall is already going very fast, mostly due to the fact that the vacation won't last forever, so there must be results within a resonable (story-)timespan (and who would care to read an adult story where nothing happens?). But yes, something's amiss when the third page already has someone becoming pregnant. -Minnie May Hopkins
Well, we don't know if Julianne is the only one with a job. When I started, I imagined the children having part-time jobs, but a bit more ambiguity might not be bad. The cruise destroyed the idea of a small budget vacation anyway, and the intro could be better. I'll have to think how it can be done. -Minnie May Hopkins
Hi again. Have you thought about starting your own story or creating a branch in an existing public story? It may help to pass time until the next updates. ;) -Minnie May Hopkins 29. April 2015
It's difficult to answer your questions. Downfall doesn't need a story arc (I assume this is what you mean with structure). Downfall is episodic. Within every episode, the player has the chance to raise the "relationship level" of the branch's main character with one of the other three main characters. Basically, it is "Do A and get X, or do B and get Y". When you know what X is, all you need to do is to invent how to get there. Everything but the ideal path is Y, which can range from a smaller increase in level over no change to game over (which is not to say that there aren't two X within the episode that can be reached via different ways).
The nature of this approach makes it possible to chain unconnected events that do not have to follow an inner logic or order (although some events are leading towards a specific event). All I need to do is to keep track of the relationship level and what event led there (for continuity reasons as well as for allowing specific events). Then I can choose the next episode freely.
For some real help, I'd need to know what your problem specifically is. -Minnie May Hopkins May 15th 2015
Don't put your story on the main page (as in the the real main page). You want to put it on the page All Adult Stories. You can put it there by editing the page via the "edit" button. You will see how the other entries are composed, just copy how the others did it. There is a function that keeps your page count updated, so you don't need to do it manually.
Into the double brackets, you place the page name of your story. This will create a red link. See How to create a page for more info. You can preview the page via preview button to see if you didn't accidentally delete all of the other content (it has happened before ;)). Don't forget to save your edit when you are done.
Use that for the first page of your story. Don't forget to add the category to the page, otherwise Platypus will warn you. All you need to do then is to create the page that collects all the pages in the category you chose. Click on the link in the category and create the page it leads you to.
A small hint: Advanced linking from your first page will save you a lot of trouble. -Minnie May Hopkins May 25th 2015
Hi. I went and created the category page for you. You'll notice the TSAP category is now blue. That's where you'll find every page categorized with 'TSAP'. The other categories you added (TSAP/The Protagonists and TSAP/Endings) probably aren't correct. If you are thinking of subcategories, you'll need to format it like this: 'Category:TSAP' 'Category:TSAP: The Protagonists', otherwise the latter will be a category of it's own. I changed that for you as well, since you can easily revert any change. I created the subcategory page, you can see the content via edit and so reproduce it later if needed for another subcategory. You'll notice that the TSAP category page now has a subcategory for TSAP: The Protagonists where every page you tag not only with TSAP but also with TSAP: The protagonist will be subcategorized.
If your story reaches an ending, you can create an ending subcategory the same way.
Finally: If you use complex linking and prefer the TSAP bit in the beginning, leave everything as it is. The wiki gives you the possibility to make the link display a different text than the page the link leads to. basically, 'TSAP/Page 1' will be displayed just like that. 'TSAP/Page 1|Start' will display 'Start' in the link while leading to Page 1. Just watch out, I think the pages are case sensitive.
Good luck and have fun writing. -Minnie May Hopkins May 25th 2015
Unfortunately, this format takes too much work to keep all the branches together. There probably won't be more content. sorry. -Minnie May Hopkins Feb 10 2017
