Saftkeur wrote:Myconid32 wrote:Iyeru wrote:
This also means that a choose your own adventure styled story (with pre-written endings for each choice) is not the same as an interactive story.
Are we allowed to write Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories on this site, or do we have to leave some threads open for others to contribute?
I'd like to second this question, since there doesn't seem to be any particular set of rules for the Interactive Story portion of the site. I've had a bit of interest in creating a (relatively simple) Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story, but finding a venue to write it on is tricky! deviantART can work, if you put the choices in the deviation description below the story (and upload each chapter separately). I haven't used Writing.com before, but as far as I'm aware, that has all the tools you'd need. Both of them have rules regarding story content, though, if I'm not mistaken.
Writing things up right here on Eka's seems like it could be the best choice (minus the inability to have comments or favorites on your story), but is there an option to prevent others from adding to your story? Can you just go and delete additions you don't like? And what's the etiquette on doing so? I wouldn't want to use the Interactive section to write a not-so-interactive story unless that's something that's absolutely okay, it feels like abuse otherwise.
Just do it. The tools allow you to do certain things and don't allow you to do other things. Find out what you can and can't do, and that should determine what you are allowed and disallowed to do. If nothing else, your Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story would be an artistic deviation from the medium designed to produce Interactive Stories, and might stand up on those merits alone. You might inspire a slew of other CYOA stories and they eventually take equal space, and the tools would be modified by Leshana or whomever to allow for greater control over the interactive section so you can make CYOA instead of true interactives.
Don't ask for permission unless it has a strong potential to hurt or upset someone.