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Handle assets as a class for narrators, create instances when giving
The way assets are handled makes giving multiple assets of the same kind to different people extremely tedious. The UX is create copies that come with an edited name and to give out the asset literally.
Rather, why not treat assets as a narrator creating a class, and narrators can give instances of those classes out when hitting give? Then, provide a check mark option to either keep or delete the class after giving.
You'd have the same UX as you do now, but people that need to give multiple instances of an asset wouldn't need to go through such…
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I would like for the Narrator to be able to insert scene continuation after any player move.
We just concluded a scene which was largely informational with the players interviewing my NPC character for information. I told them that they could wait to ask their next question until they saw the answer to the previous one, but they didn't always choose to do that. I ended up writing answers to several different questions in a series of scene continuations. I wanted to insert my continutation answers right after each player's move, but couldn't do it. More flexibility for the narrator in writing into the chronology of the story would be great. The scene would read a lot…
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Calling dibs on a scene…
I have one player (player A) who posts very frequently. He also has the most free time. It would be nice one of my other players to flag the scene to call dibs.
That way if Player B really wants to contribute, but doesn't have time to knock something out - he can pause things until he does have time.
I've asked my players to do it in the side commentary.. but a button that forced the pause would be nice.
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Opt out of receiving canceled character notifications
Have an option for when you cancel a character before submitting it that opts out of receiving the character's sheet as an email.
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Card forum
I think I'll be writing a lot of location and character cards... is there any way I can make them public for others to use? Seems a shame not to.
Maybe a forum where submitted cards can be voted on by story tellers to make them available for public use (or not).
5 votesYes indeed, one of the major upcoming changes to Storium is the creation of “worlds”, which will allow you to share your cards (as well as other world-building content) with the rest of the Storium community.
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Option to save other users
I don't if i just haven't found it yet, but it would be nice to have some sort of option to save other players you've played with that you've enjoyed playing with. It would encourage people to play nice so they would be invited back to play other stories
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AdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
responded
You can “favorite” a user by clicking on their user name, going to their profile page, and clicking the “star” in the upper corner.
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Saving drafts of story summaries in real time
The implementation for auto-saving drafts in real time works great, but the UX for story summaries is horrible. If you click off of the in-focus window without saving, you lose any work you've done. Twice now I've lost summaries due to this poor UX. Please add the functionality of auto-saving drafts in real time across everything a player/narrator can write in. Thanks.
2 votesThanks for the feedback, and sorry — we’ll fix this, in the very least by preventing the modal from auto-closing when you click outside of it!
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Unread and collapsable reader style view
A lengthy scene quickly becomes unwieldy when there are a lot of posts and comments. I would like to have a way to view a story in a manner such as email or an RSS reader where each post is collapsable, and Storium keeps track of unread posts.
Something similar with comments would be nice as well. At least, something which bookmarks where you're at.
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Notification when starting the game not in scene 1
When a player enters the game after scene 1, s/he should get a clear notification that this is not scene 1 and get a link to scene 1, so that they can immediately start to read up on past events. Even so on the top of the side the current scene-number is mentioned it is not enough. From the handful of people I know personally who play Storium, two (incl. me) started a game in scene 2 or 3 of chapter 1 and we both didn't notice until much later that we didn't start in the first scene.
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Make favorited moves/characters/stories even more useful
So we know that you're planning to add a more robust favorite system, being able to star more than just stories. I have some thoughts about expanding the mechanic.
First, I think a clever but rewarding UI addition would be a minimalist star-score in a writer's header (see attached), as well as on their profile page. Perhaps consider separating the categories, so that players can have their personal work 'galleries' that displays their public contributions on their own profiles.
Starring posts can also be a tool for quality regulation, while introducing another way to involve cards with storytelling. Not only…
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Allow for some graphical customization.
At the very least changing the backround colours of the cards and the game's pages would be very welcome. :) For private games, it would also be very cool to be able to set a (sufficiently high-res) image as a page background, instead of a solid colour. A starfield for SF games, for example.
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Let me edit a card that I previously played
As narrator I just realised that I created a challenge card with the strong/weak suggestions reversed. I've made a comment to that effect, but there's still likely to be some confusion. I'd like to edit the card, but I can't see any way to. Possibly this is because a player has already responded to the card (their response is consistent with either interpretation, I think).
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Narrator pre-preparation
I realise you have plans for this based around the "Narrator Intel" box in the "Edit Game" settings, but it would be really useful now if you could open up a big freeform text box (presumably under that tab, or perhaps just under a new "Notes" tab. As per other feedback I've given, I think it's really important for the narrator to try to predict ahead where the story is going and create content in advance to keep it flowing. We can do that for characters and objects but it'd be really useful to have somewhere on this system (rather…
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Can you suggest a story?
I have tried two. One disbanded before the first step and the other did not allow me to join.
1 voteAdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
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Sorry you’re having trouble getting into an active game! Our current “open invitation” system isn’t doing a good enough job of matching people up and fostering good games, so we are going to overhaul or replace it shortly.
Until then, you might try recruiting people you know via social media (twitter, facebook, G+, etc) — basically ask around among friends and see if you an find a group of people who are interested in playing. You can then invite them to join you on Storium!
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Give us a way to vote the current narrator out
I'm in more than one game that was going along pretty well but has suddenly fizzled as the narrator has found himself lacking either the time or the desire to continue. This has left players who had been in the middle of telling a great story with no creative outlet. It's already been mentioned there are plans for switching narrators voluntarily. I'd also I'd like for there to be a way for the players to vote someone else into the narrator slot to carry on in such a situation.
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Visibility on closed games
At least allow backers to see the range of games played, even if anonymized, including descriptions and basic stats of play, such as start date, avg postings, # players. What I see so far, is a poor sampling of a much larger picture (4 games going), the remainder remain unseen by the rest of us, just registering with the beta, or am I missing something? I get it, closed is closed, and I don't expect to contact the GM or players but a notion of the scope of games out there would be helpful.
1 voteAdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
responded
Are you maybe missing the links at the top of the “Browse games” page? The default view only shows the currently “featured” games, but many many more are visible if you jump to the other views…
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Get activity notifications via Twitter
I'd like to be able to get notifications of player's moves in games I'm narrating or playing in via Twitter. It would make sense since Storium already has my Twitter handle in my profile.
I don't want these notifications for "Favorite" games that I'm simply watching.
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Story and Character Downloads
Hi Storium,
LOVE THE GAME! I have one request. I would find it very helpful to be able to download a text file of the story so far and character descriptions of those who are playing. That would help a lot for players to maintain continuity without having to go back through all the online scene screens to review who has which object; what that little plot twist was and who made it; even details like what the setting is.
Thank you,
Dawn Cromwell
The Story Seeker8 votes -
change definition of 'laggard'
It appears "Laggard" is defined as "a person who has not yet posted in a scene." Can we change this to "a person who hasn't played all 3 cards in a scene?" Sometimes that's what we're waiting for.
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allow people working on iPads to post comments.
I don't know why, but when I press return on my iPad, the comment window doesn't push my comment into the Commentary stream.
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