General
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Have a list of games/marker on games where you weren't the last to respond
Simply put, I'd love a location/mark where I can see all of my games where I wasn't the last to respond. I keep managing to forget whether I've responded to a game or not, and having a small note or list could help out tremendously
10 votes -
have an active players count on the homepage
The game banners on your homepage should have a small box in one corner indicating the number of players viewing that game at the moment, perhaps along with an icon indicating if anyone is working on a move.
3 votes -
Fill in challenges with different colors based on the cards
Currently, challenges show empty squares until someone plays a card them, and then they fill in with green. I would like the colors to correspond to the cards--perhaps green for strong, red for weak, and grey for neutral--so players don't have to keep scrolling up to check what the balance is before they play their own cards.
10 votes -
degree of separation between differently located characters
The narrator should be able to blank out any submitted text by any players to other players whose character are in no position to know said situation submitted, the blank out scenes become cleared after the scene ends and all players have submitted their text. having the option to do this would add some consistency in the story.
6 votes -
Sweetening the membership pot!
Why not give those who purchased a membership a monthly or even weekly stipend/currency, that they can freely distribute to any non-member, that would give any non-member who accumulated
enough of said points, to have a temporary membership minus the stipend a normal member would gain. Various reasons could be accrued as to why members would give said opportunity to non-members, perhaps they liked the game they ran or game
they played etc..9 votes -
Add functionality buttons to the mobile site
Hi! Because of my work schedule, I often find myself using my phone to play Storium rather than a computer. I've noticed that when using a mobile, long scenes can become quite frustrating to scroll through. It would be extremely convenient if there were two buttons at the top, middle, and bottom of the page. At the top of the page, one would take you to the most recent move while the other takes you to the most recent comment. Similar buttons for the middle and bottom of the page, except the appropriate button is swapped with one that takes…
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Allow different picture dimensions.
Right now, the only pictures that work well with Storium is landscape view. The picture places itself over the text. It would be nice, we had the option to align the picture vertically next to the text.
26 votes -
limit how often a game can appear on the 'Looking for Players' page.
Some games seem to reappear on the Looking for Players page with monotonous regularity--usually the ones with essays for descriptions. There are several that I seem to scroll past (and past, and past) on a daily basis.
48 votes -
Open Submissions by slot/number/type
Currently the only way to have character submissions available is all open. It would be nice to have the ability to open X number of slots, and when the narrator accepts a character, decriment the number of open slots. It would be even nicer if you could open X number of slots of type Y, so a narrator can specify 1 magic user, 2 detectives, etc so both potential applicants see what's open and the narrator isn't flooded with ten apps when they want to have three slots.
3 votes -
more customizable pre-made characters
I love the idea of the Pre-Made characters, largely because, for instance, a noire game needs a femme-fatale, a engenue and a hard-boiled detective (or reporter), however, i don't feel the need to tell the player what weaknesses and strengths should be chosen.
I tried creating a game with pre-made characters and my player was able to edit the name and description, but was stuck with the strengths and weaknesses that i chose.
I'm sure this isn't a high priority, but i'd love to be able to set a customizability level. Something like: lock nature only; lock nature, strengths, weaknesses;…
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Request a do-over of a scene
Sometimes a scene stalls because of a bad write-up of a beginning and then several boring challenges afterwards. It would be nice if there was a "redo scene" button, of course with all the players consent because it's also their writing that will be reverted.
This would help reinvigorate old games, ones that got off to a good start and then ends with a sub-par scene which would have been better off just scrapping and starting the scene-that-messed-things-up over again.
5 votes -
question on natures
I'm customizing one of the original worlds and i'm using most of the natures but had to create two more to take it from steampunk to noire style. Thing is, even though i duplicated existing cards to create the new one; the suggested strength and weakness aren't being applied when the nature is chosen.
Is there a trick?
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Remove former players from the Green Room
When a player leaves a game, it often isn't under amicable circumstances. Allowing former players continued access to the Green Room seems like a very obvious oversight. Please limit the Green Room only to active players.
78 votes -
Allow players and narrators to add tags to moves
It can be difficult to keep track of everything that's happened in a longer running game. One solution might be to create a game "wiki" or reference document, but that takes sustained effort and extra time to keep up to date.
A simpler solution might be to add a place where participants can quickly jot down a few tags as they write, such as characters & NPCs involved, challenges addressed, or whatever else they might feel is relevant. Then, later on, if anyone needs to reference something that character did, they could search the tag and pull up all posts…
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create a filing or tagging system for cards.
I'm running a pretty detailed story, and I'm finding that even though I've only set up for the first two scenes, I have more cards than is easy to keep track of. Right now I'm maintaining them in a spreadsheet, but it would be nice to have some kind of filing or tagging system where, when I'm setting a scene, I can search for all the cards that belong to that "group" rather than having to manually figure it out from the pile in my narrator screen.
4 votes -
Keep a list of recently viewed stories
Basically like how Amazon shows the list of items that you have previously looked at, Storium should keep a list of the stories you have previously clicked on/looked at.
This would definitely help people like me who have accidentally left the page of a story they were interested in (and don't remember the title of the story...) but forgot to favorite it.
3 votes -
green room
In any game you are a narrator or player in when someone else posts in the green room, put a link to the green room instead of the game page in the notification.
1 vote -
Allow players to create a 'Will Not Play With' List
Sometimes people don't get along. Letting people say whom they don't get along with, and information a narrator if they're about to add someone to a game with a foe might be helpful.
10 votes -
Keep challenge outcomes if you remove a challenge from a scene
I often struggle with when/how to implement certain challenges I have planned, which means I sometimes add then remove challenges (on occasion multiple times) from scenes. It's frustrating to write two separate outcomes, only to have to re-write (or copy text, delete the challenge, then paste and edit) challenges. I would like to see an option to "Remove with outcomes intact" option for challenges, so if I decide to use the challenge later I can simply choose "Challenge 1 w/outcomes" from my cards.
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Authorize the Developers to Delete dead games (those that have been inactive for almost a year, but the narrator didn't bother to Suspend.
I have several games on my Profile that I retired from because the narrators went missing, or got so involved in creating new games that they abandoned their existing games (and their players.) A couple of these games haven't even been Suspended by the narrators, and while it won't make my profile look MUCH prettier, at least I'd have the satisfaction of not having games that have had no activity for over 6 months (closer to 10 months!) "count against me" when narrators (or anyone else) is reviewing my profile and sees that I've retired from over a dozen games.…
89 votes
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