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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 vote
AdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
responded
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)
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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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I want to take goal cards from players
I think goal cards are weird at the moment. Players can get rid of them by playing them on challenges and are then rewarded for doing so. But players can just dump them for the reward if they're not playing honestly.
As a narrator, I want to be the one who takes away the goal cards. So when the player does something that approaches that goal, I remove cards from them until there are none left - and then the player is rewarded for reaching that goal
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Make new player instructions more easily accessible
I don't know if this will change when the system goes live, but the New Player advice that is given when you click on a game waiting for players might be better served being listed on the home page. When I first got to the page, I wanted more information on how the game works than was given in the video. I found that, but I had to click on a game that was looking for players. I wasn't ready to commit to a game yet, because I wanted to get a bit more familiar with how the system worked.
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Outcome Progress Listing
When you click on the squares on a challenge for your post, it would be nice if next to the strong or week outcomes would show the number of cards that are contributing towards each outcome that way we can plan accordingly.
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copy and paste cards from one place to another
One more suggestion. It would be nice to be able to copy and paste cards from one place to another such as from one book to another or if a player has come up with an interesting strength or weakness, etc., it would be nice to copy and paste it into the book for others to use it.
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Character cloning
First let me say you have a great "game" here. I and my friends who are long time role players have had a blast so far. Thank you for coming up with this. I have a suggestion. Since most books of the type we read are in series, I am planning several books in this story. It would be nice if when a second book is in the series if you would have an option when players submit their characters they could choose from a character they have already made up.
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Allow narrators to delete games
It's great that we can retire games, but we should still have the ability to delete a game. Not all narrators are treated well and not all games have cooperative players. If the narrator wishes to withdraw the effort and be done with it, they should have the right to-- they're the ones doing the lion's share of the effort. How did this get taken from us with 10 votes?
20 votesWe will figure out a way to allow game deletion while also respecting players’ rights to their own content. This may take a bit because our current architecture doesn’t support editing a game’s history, extracting a specific user’s contributions, or exporting game content. All of these things are planned, though.
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oracle
related to the prompts idea, it would be great to have a build-your-own oracle system. you could pick several elements or insert them. The system can then use the element in a question or prompt when you ask it to for a post. This can help give inspiration or twists when one is stuck on a post.
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Tell the narrator the change details when a player edits their character
As the narrator I'm only told when a player edits their character. I get no details as to what those changes actually are. A 'before and after' snapshot would help me so I can better plan my next scenes.
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different revisions text color
Could you change the color of the text that shows up when you request revisions from a player? Red makes the request feel like a punative measure, no matter how gently you phrase it, instead of an opportunity to fix mistakes or improve the story.
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Let me copy cards across categories.
Weird edge case, but I made up a few goals and then decided they'd be better as subplots. No way to change or copy them makes me sad. I could also imagine usefulness in some cases being able to copy between obstacle and asset categories.
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show the character name in commentary.
We get "(narrator)" and "(You)." I'd like "(character name)" as well. It would save the trouble of checking the side bar to make sure I know which character's writer I'm talking to.
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Give the narrator the ability to reorder moves
So that you can run meetings and the like with big groups of characters and everyone can ask questions at the appropriate time.
It'd also allow the narrators to consolidate related moves and decide where you switch POV when there are scenes where two groups of characters are in different places.
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allow filtering of games looking for players based on the "starter world"
It would be easier to navigate the games available based on the starter world - particularly for those of us interested in a subset of the genres available.
3 votes
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