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1. new world exploration achievements

   I have two ideas for new achievements based on world exploration and it will encourage players to play in worlds or explore.

   The first of these is the world explorer achievement.

   You get this one in steps, much like other achievements for playing in a wide variety of worlds. It would have names like

   traveler: 3 worlds
   explorer: 10 worlds
   wanderer: 25 worlds
   trailblazer: 40 worlds
   pathfinder: 60 worlds

   and so on, though of course those names might need adjustment.

   the second kind of world achievement is a mastery achievement, which a player earns for playing multiple games in the same world. These would not require much to name it would just be "X Y" where X is the title of the world and Y is the level reached on that world

   for example

   Cyberpunk novice 92 times)
   Cyberpunk initiate (4 times)
   cyberpunk adept (7 times)
   Cyberpunk master (10 times)
   cyberpunk grandmaster (15 times)

   (numbers might need adjustment, as would names., though to make things simple and not put a strain on the team, the Y names would not change between worlds.

   I have two ideas for new achievements based on world exploration and it will encourage players to play in worlds or explore.

   The first of these is the world explorer achievement.

   You get this one in steps, much like other achievements for playing in a wide variety of worlds. It would have names like

   traveler: 3 worlds
   explorer: 10 worlds
   wanderer: 25 worlds
   trailblazer: 40 worlds
   pathfinder: 60 worlds

   and so on, though of course those names might need adjustment.

   the second kind of world achievement is a mastery achievement, which a player earns for playing multiple games in the… more

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2. Add an Episodic "medium" for stories with a TV Series feel

   Storium currently refers to structural narrative units in terms of "Acts" and "Scenes," which works wonderfully to give most games their dramatic structure, but that terminlology seems to break down in games that don't fit neatly within the arc.

   The Episodic medium would differ in three major ways from a traditional Storium game:

   1. Focus and Writing Style. The Episodic medium is much more plot- and action-driven. It focuses on vignettes rather than robust literary scenes; there may be a few scene changes within an Episode unit that would be cumbersome with what Storium now refers to as a "scene". Moves are shorter, recommended word limits are lower, and the overall sense of time investment is much lower for players.
   2. New Formats for a new medium. Miniseries (one season only, e.g. Angels in America), Serial (multiple seasons, continuous plot, e.g. Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural), and Standalone (self-contained episodes with unique settings and characters, e.g. Twilight Zone, Black Mirror).
   3. New Storytelling tips oriented around medium-appropriate dramatic arcs. Specifically, recommendations for Series/Season Premier, Midseason Event, and Series/Season Finale episodes.

   In terms of its benefit to the community, The Episodic medium would allow for lighter games in which players can take on temporary roles that are less demanding in a series or play short, one-off games that have a culture of ending promptly and demanding less time from everyone involved. On the player's end, a medium option at game creation would be the only major change necessary.

   While this certainly wouldn't the format for everyone and many of us really love our rich, robust narratives, it would provide more options and draw in players who may otherwise be intimidated by the type of investment an average Storium game requires.

   Storium currently refers to structural narrative units in terms of "Acts" and "Scenes," which works wonderfully to give most games their dramatic structure, but that terminlology seems to break down in games that don't fit neatly within the arc.

   The Episodic medium would differ in three major ways from a traditional Storium game:

   1. Focus and Writing Style. The Episodic medium is much more plot- and action-driven. It focuses on vignettes rather than robust literary scenes; there may be a few scene changes within an Episode unit that would be cumbersome with what Storium now refers to as a "scene". Moves… more
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3. develop a quick game (mobile app)

   I think that storium could benefit from faster mobile first stories(turbo fate), that work with apps...

   I am not sure, but I think they might be different in their gameplay, adding to the options. Being primarily mobile, I think reaction times will be shorter in these games, texts shorter and in general faster. Stories could be cached, offline writing and pushing enabled and so on. This might also make it easier to offer more open games.

   Wanted to put it out there to get some ideas on that. Would it be useful or what do you all think?!

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4. Allow centre and right alignment (justification) of paragraphs

   In general, I find that the formatting allowed for moves is sufficient. However, I like the idea of using standard screenplay formatting for a game, and that requires centre and right alignment of paragraphs. This doesn't seem to be a feature of most markdown formats however.

   If it is possible, please say how.

   If it isn't, how difficult would it be to implement, and is there any demand for it?

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5. Can we please add the "minor edits" button to characters?

   Like it says on the tin. Sometimes it'd be nice to have people be able to keep tinkering during the intro stages of a game or while it's in play and their character develops without having a notifiaction every single time.

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6. New Player Engagement

   In my experience, new player engagement has been awfully difficult, My relatively short Storium career has gone. Join site. Browse for game. Look for beginner game. No beginner games accepting new players. Look for regular game. No regular games accepting new players. Check Looking for Group forum. New game starting that needs players. Create character. Character Rejected. ...Are we having fun yet??

   There has to be an easier way to get a game going, am I missing something?

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   AdminStephen Hood (Co-founder, Storium) responded

   Sorry for the trouble you’ve had getting into a game! We’re going to recruit more Mentors soon to run more beginner games. But truly, the best way to get playing is to bring your friends to Storium. You can start a game and invite friends via Facebook or via email. Once they’ve joined-up you can use the Green Room to decide what you want to play, and you can hand-off the host and narrator roles to someone else, if you want!

7. Historical Fiction?

   I teach world history and would love a way for students to "play through" historical settings. Could we look for authors to add historical fiction modules?

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8. narrator created description tabs

   I am mostly interested in fantasy. That being said, I am in the process of creating my Ideal World. The problem is, short of a gigantic wall of text, there is really no way for me to post a description of my world or general Geographic layout, religion and God structure, or even better detailed description of different species and races inhabiting areas.

   I would like to be able to create different tabs and sub-tabs to describe different aspects of my world. Preferably user-created tabs. For example God's, Elves, Humans, Description of kingdom x, y, z... And so on.

   So that I could describe the general history of the Gods for example. And then a sub tab for each God and a general description.

   I am mostly interested in fantasy. That being said, I am in the process of creating my Ideal World. The problem is, short of a gigantic wall of text, there is really no way for me to post a description of my world or general Geographic layout, religion and God structure, or even better detailed description of different species and races inhabiting areas.

   I would like to be able to create different tabs and sub-tabs to describe different aspects of my world. Preferably user-created tabs. For example God's, Elves, Humans, Description of kingdom x, y, z... And so on.

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9. Offer Email Alerts for Open Games for Beginners

   On the Games for Beginners page, if no games are currently available, there should be an option for an email alert to notify when a game is available.

   I am a new member, and currently no games are available. I will continue to check, but after several attempts, I may stop out of frustration or forgetting. Having this option will likely retain new members who may otherwise find it difficult to join a beginner game.

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10. Fullblown HTML for posts please?

    Can we please have access to the full range of HTML coding for writing in games? The handicapped markup is just not enough!

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11. Consider Branches, Sub-Areas, and Setting Decks

    This mechanic would address situations normally approached by creating multiple games to contain private, individual, or side action. (If what I'm typing sounds convoluted, I've visualized the larger ideas with my extremely pedestrian MS Paint/GIMP abilities for clarification).

    The feature would add a "Create Branch" option to the narrator's game interface that effectively splits a single scene into two or more smaller, contemporaneous scenes with individual settings.

    The narrator would have UI controls allowing them to:
    (A) Assign/move characters to sub-scenes and control whether or not the players can move themselves freely between scenes (e.g., the difference between moving between rooms of a house vs. locations in a city)
    (B) Control the visibility of the branches (e.g., "Players can only view branch activity that took place while their character was present" / "The following characters can view this scene" / "Players whose characters are not present for this branch may only view it after the scene is complete") for the sake of private conversations between characters and character prologues

    Challenges and Branch Decks
    This feature would also allow the narrator to add Sub-Areas to a Place card and have the option of opening all areas of the Place to players from the get-go so their characters could move freely between them.

    For example, the hypothetical Dive Bar used in the attached image might be introduced as a single setting or have sub-areas like Patio, Restroom, Interior, etc., from the beginning of the scene, between which the characters could move freely.

    On the issue of challenges, the narrator's UI would allow them, at branch creation, to select which branches would include challenges (e.g., a branch created for private dialogue between two characters may not require challenges). During the scene, the narrator would divide their allotment of challenge points among its challenge-enabled Branches.

    This mechanic would address situations normally approached by creating multiple games to contain private, individual, or side action. (If what I'm typing sounds convoluted, I've visualized the larger ideas with my extremely pedestrian MS Paint/GIMP abilities for clarification).

    The feature would add a "Create Branch" option to the narrator's game interface that effectively splits a single scene into two or more smaller, contemporaneous scenes with individual settings.

    The narrator would have UI controls allowing them to:
    (A) Assign/move characters to sub-scenes and control whether or not the players can move themselves freely between scenes (e.g., the difference between moving between… more

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12. Multiple Improvements to Favorites Implementation

    There are a number of ways that we could improve our currently handling of Favorites (Stars) to make them more useful for the community. Right now, the problem is that Favoriting a story also means 'following' it for update purposes, which can make it problematic to have more than a couple if you pay attention to your Favorites feed. Part of the trouble there is also that you can't just see a list of your favorites to track one story, and then move to another that's been updating when you're ready. You're locked into chronological view-everything (and even see comments updates for games you can't see comments in!)

    There are 3 changes I'd recommend to improve the Favoriting system:

    1. Separate Favorites from 'Following' (or 'Subscribed'). This allows readers to star a game, essentially 'liking' it as a signal that it's a good story, a nod of approval for the narrator and the players, but without adding it to the things they receive updates for. Following would be separate, and purely for that particular member's use.

    2. Provide each member a page to view a listing of games they're Following, and also a list of Favorites. This gives even more utility to the 'starring' process, since you can say 'this is interesting but I don't want to read it right now; I'll come back to it later.' A list of Followed stories allows a user to quickly catch up on one specific story without muddling through a chronological feed of updates for anything related to that one. It's an ease-of-life feature, but a very important one for encouraging readership (bonus: a list of Favorites would be incredibly useful to those volunteers who are picking Featured games; they'd have a list they can keep going back to for nominations and selections, check in on their progress over time, etc.)

    3. Allow us a way to toggle email notifications for Followed stories! Ideally, there would be two options (well, three including 'no email notifications,' as usual): an immediate notification, as is sent to a player; and a daily digest sort of email that summarizes activity in all Followed stories the member has.

    There are a number of ways that we could improve our currently handling of Favorites (Stars) to make them more useful for the community. Right now, the problem is that Favoriting a story also means 'following' it for update purposes, which can make it problematic to have more than a couple if you pay attention to your Favorites feed. Part of the trouble there is also that you can't just see a list of your favorites to track one story, and then move to another that's been updating when you're ready. You're locked into chronological view-everything (and even see comments… more

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13. include narrator's moves in email notifications

    I'm actually amazed this isn't already a change request, but better late than never! :-)

    Right now, player moves text (though not card play details but that's less important) are sent out in full in email notifications for those of us who receive them. Narrator moves however are not - we only receive a message saying "The Narrator has continued the scene". If I had to guess as to why this descrepancy exists I'd say it's to spur users to log into the site and actually look at the scene in full?

    However, the effect is to not only hamper the usefulness of email notifications generally but also to impact on the usefulness of the player move emails.

    How? Well, say I'm on the move (or at work and unable to be on Storium) and I'm keeping up with my games via email only. I'm reading along with players' moves. But as soon as the narrator moves the scene on, I lose all context, and I can no longer follow the scene.

    Every player move email I receive after that is now useless to me until I've logged into the site. Am I due to post? WHO KNOWS? This hampers my ability to make an informed choice about whether I need to, say, crank up and navigate Storium on my phone (always an exercise in frustration) to make a move, or whether I can feel reassured that I'm not needed yet and wait 'til I'm home. Perhaps more importantly it hampers my ability to keep up with reading the game so that when I DO log in I already have a post written in my head.

    I'm sure there is some rationale behind things working as they do but I'd say there's reason to consider changing to sending move text for narrators as well as players' moves.

    I'm actually amazed this isn't already a change request, but better late than never! :-)

    Right now, player moves text (though not card play details but that's less important) are sent out in full in email notifications for those of us who receive them. Narrator moves however are not - we only receive a message saying "The Narrator has continued the scene". If I had to guess as to why this descrepancy exists I'd say it's to spur users to log into the site and actually look at the scene in full?

    However, the effect is to not only hamper… more

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14. Fix you email notification

    1. Provide a valid reply address.
    2. Stop emailing a new user until a beginner story is available.
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15. Indents.

    I would like to be able to indent. Currently, I don't believe it's possible to as a player. Though I suppose it works just as well, or possibly better, to just have it on a new paragraph, indentation still feels like a rather important option for a site based around writing.

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16. Green Room link, bottom of the screen as well

    Please include a Green Room link at the bottom of the screen as well as the top, so that while following the new posts in a story, near the bottom of the screen, we can also see new Green Room posts.

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17. Normalize "blockquote" to HTML standards

    In HTML, "blockquote" is used to pre-format text without using more advanced formatting and styles. It preserves and passes on everything you type within the container, including blank lines, which your blockquote does not, it deletes them, even if you put ">" at the beginning of a blank line. Also, it preserves extra spaces within the line, so that you can move text to the right using spaces. Your current blockquote does little more than apply a vertical line to the left of what you type, and remove blank lines that ordinary text would preserve.

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18. How about personal word-count statistics?

    I'd be interested in knowing my personal word count in games, over time, etc.

    For example, if I could learn that I have written 12,500 words in a particular game over a span of 20 scenes, or something like that.

    A total word count for all games? Just some sort of personal writing stats I could review. It would be helpful for people who have writing goals.

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19. add more photo storage.

    Our characters are from an MMO that allows an almost infinite number of character costumes and appearances. It'd be great fun to be able to add multiple "looks" for our characters: work, play, and so on. AND to be able to see more than the tiny avatars.

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20. Friendlist

    Hey,
    I would apreciate it, if you could add people to a friendlist to stay in touch with people you like to play with and to make it more comfortable to invite your friends to a story you re hosting.
    ~Stein

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