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1. Change the name of "Storium" to "Bananasarethebestfruit"

   I think that bananas are the best fruit, and Storium's name should be changed to "Bananasarethebestfruit" to reflect this.

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   Storium is now called Bananasarethebestfruit.

2. BUG - Can't post new moves

   Is this just me? I can't post new moves as a player or narrator in any of my games. The "Move Another Move" or "Continue Scene" bottoms just dont' work when I click on them. It's not a card refresh issue. It's all my games. I can do everything else, messages, nudge players, etc. Are others having this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks.

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   Fixed now, sorry for the trouble!

   (Sordid details: we rolled-out a new feature that caused some unexpected issues, so we temporarily rolled it back while we fix them.)

3. student

   A safer section for students. I would love for my to participate in this, but I don't want them to be stalked.

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   Good news: we are now in early alpha testing of StoriumEdu, a new and entirely separate version of Storium designed just for teachers and students! You can learn more at http://storiumedu.com. We hope to roll StoriumEdu out more widely soon!

4. offer a live tutorial on the card system

   Players I do beginning games with are too afraid of the card system to make moves other than RP moves.

   If there was a live tutorial that a player could use to learn the rules it might be more beneficial to non-visual learning styles than the video could offer. (It doesn't have to be an exhaustive video, that way new features don't render old versions of the tutorial obsolete so quickly.)

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   Users can now trial tutorials for both players and narrators here: https://storium.com/help/tutorials

   Thanks!

5. change the notifications section so I can click a player name and go to their profile

   instead of having it @username, you could have it be @username and also have it be a hyperlink to their userpage.

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   Notifications for player moves or comments in active games are now hyperlinked so that users can follow it to the player’s profile.

6. add help sections to explain retiring or handing off characters

   Please add additional sections to the help documentation to explain retiring or handing off characters

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   Characters can now be handed off if a player leaves the game and can be taken over by the narrator or another character. Thanks!

7. Guided tour would work better for such a complex game

   I think that relying on users to learn from the one page wall of text will put some users off.

   But a guided tour would more intuitively teach the system.

   http://ui-patterns.com/patterns/Tour

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   Users now have the option of taking part in a Player or Narrator tutorial (https://storium.com/help/tutorials) to help walk them through the basics of playing in a Storium game.

8. BUG: 18+ button issues.

   A bug appears to have emerged regarding the age confirmation page. As far as I can tell, as of today at least, people who have at some point in the past clicked that they are over 18 are accessing this content fine.

   However, people who have NOT previously clicked the 'yes I am 18+' button - ie who are trying to access 18+ content for the first time - are getting stuck on the confirmation page, where clicking 'Yes I'm over 18' just refreshes the confirmation page without actually taking them through. I'm finding this with both of my accounts, 'mordant' (paid) and 'marrog' (free). This is consistent across all browsers and in private/incognito browsing.

   Another user (erindubitably) checked this with her second account found the same thing.

   In the spirit of troubleshooting I've also had three other users, two in the UK and one in Israel, log in with both of my accounts, and they get the same behaviour.

   Also had numerous folk try clicking through while not logged in at all and it doesn't work for any of them, refreshing back to the confirmation page.

   To reiterate, people who have previously clicked 'yes' on this page are just being shunted through without any confirmation page, so they're being remembered. But Storium is refusing to register NEW people trying to confirm their age. No idea when this started but presumably recently since it hasn't already been logged as a problem.

   Cookie writing issue? Storium cache issue?

   A bug appears to have emerged regarding the age confirmation page. As far as I can tell, as of today at least, people who have at some point in the past clicked that they are over 18 are accessing this content fine.

   However, people who have NOT previously clicked the 'yes I am 18+' button - ie who are trying to access 18+ content for the first time - are getting stuck on the confirmation page, where clicking 'Yes I'm over 18' just refreshes the confirmation page without actually taking them through. I'm finding this with both of my accounts,… more

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   This is now fixed. It was caused by a bug that was introduced last night. Sorry for the trouble and thanks again for the report!

9. Star System: How & Why

   There is a star in the upper right hand corner of my game Orphans of Alderaan.

   One of my players ask what does it mean and why he can not click to add a star rating.

   I understand it is a favorites marker but how does it work? Why was he unable to like a game?

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   The favourites allow users to follow games through their Favourites page. As a player is already following a game through their notifications they are unable to access this functionality. Thanks!

10. Keep a list of used up cards visible as they describe character

    When a strength or weakness card gets used up it would be useful to have a record that the character possesses those characteristics. It would help make characters more consistent, and also stop players having to scroll back through the whole story to see what strengths and weaknesses they have already chosen when they come to create a new wild.

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    Players can now choose from existing narrator cards or previously played strength or weakness cards when creating a wild to play on challenges. Thanks!

11. Implement a system that prevents simultaneous moves

    Without being able to see the status of a move-in-action, and without potentially communicating with other players in real time, taking the time to write out a move only to see another player has disrupted this with his/her move...well it can throw the entire narrative on its face, or render the dialogue or actions you just posted irrelevant or confusing.

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    Games now display a notification whenever another player is working on a move. There is also a notification whenever new content is posted to the page.

12. Introduce a 'users only' game visibility option!

    With the public launch of Storium, games that were previously marked 'public' but were of course behind a login wall (because the whole site was users-only) are now public to everyone on the web.

    I understand that the Storium team want as many games as possible to be live and visible so that the site is attractive.

    However, those of us whose internet presence is on some level vulnerable - for example teachers, public figures and women - are left very exposed by this new level of visibility. This functionality makes it very difficult for us to protect ourselves without locking down our profiles, using pseudonyms, making all our games private and generally behaving in a way that is incredibly damaging to the fostering of trust, friendship and community spirit.

    I don't want to insist on all my games going private. I'm happy for people to be able to log in and see my games. But I don't want them visible to any old rando on the internet. Apart from anything else even if I'M not writing any dubious content in a game I can't control what my fellow players are doing.

    (A reasonable compromise, I think, would be making game descriptions only visible, and requiring login before they can be read (and preferably before their cast lists can be viewed). I think this would be satisfactory to those who, like myself, would like some minimum effort level before our writing can be read online.)

    With the public launch of Storium, games that were previously marked 'public' but were of course behind a login wall (because the whole site was users-only) are now public to everyone on the web.

    I understand that the Storium team want as many games as possible to be live and visible so that the site is attractive.

    However, those of us whose internet presence is on some level vulnerable - for example teachers, public figures and women - are left very exposed by this new level of visibility. This functionality makes it very difficult for us to protect ourselves without… more

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    Narrators can now set a variety of privacy settings for their games.

    Visibility: this determines who can view and read the game. By default Storium games are “public,” which means that anyone can read them. As host, you can choose for your game to instead be “private” so that only its participants can read it. You can also choose for your game to be public but for the commentary to be private. Finally, you can choose to make your game’s contents visible only to people who are logged into Storium, in which case the game’s name, banner, and description will remain publicly visible.

    Thanks!

13. location card bug?

    I've had a problem for a while playing location cards. The image is truncated and runs over the text underneath. I actually think it's a problem with adding images to the top of a new scene.

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14. Accomplishment

    I'd like to see a 'badge' reward system for accomplishments. Ranging from 'I made my first move', 'Played a card', 'used an asset', etc. to specific challenges like: 'Completed a short story in 7 days with x players.' The purpose of which is to encourage activity of players in a game. (I am stuck on the difficulty of finding and keeping active players - it has been a challenge).

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    Storium now has Achievements listed on player profiles, everything from moves made to words typed to different one-off accomplishments! Thanks for the suggestion!

15. Missing 'f'

    It's a big- the f not appearing unless you type it twice, and you then get two Fs. I'm seeing it in posts I make, in games for other players and some forum posts.

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    Thanks for the report and apologies for the trouble! We are aware of the issue but unfortunately it is out of our hands. Google just updated one of the fonts we use, and in doing so they introduced a bug that affects the letter “f”. No joke. Very frustrating. They say they will have it fixed by tomorrow (Monday), but in the meantime I would recommend using Chrome instead of Firefox, because Chromes seems to trigger the problem much less often. Sorry again for the trouble!

    UPDATE: , we’ve found a way to temporarily fix this issue for today, so you should now be good to go. (Google tells us that the permanent fix will be done tomorrow morning.)

16. Good day, Storiumians. First allow me to say that this is indeed my favorite game concept I have ever seen. I believe it is educational, an

    Good day to all,

    First allow me to say that this is indeed my favorite game concept I have ever seen. I believe it is educational, and for those who do approach it with a mindset of doing well can only see themselves improve their grasp of writing.

    I believe your vision is one of intellectual assumption, however, in that all participants will approach a game equally. They will not, and they do not.

    Before I continue further, I will apologize for the redundancy that this may bring to you - I can only imagine the mountain of feedback and 'do this, do that' mailings you go through, likely hearing the same things over and over. Hopefully, mine will have something of use in it.

    When I create a game, and accept cast members, I only expect a couple of things - post at a pace that you agreed to post at when you submitted your character, and read the story so your post makes sense. I do like people who proof read their work, but even that I can live without.

    Of the two issues 'Post at the pace you agreed to' is met less than I care to try and measure. It baffles me when I start a game that requires the completion of a scene in a week (which is Slow) and they don't even offer a single post for 4 days to begin with. Why join in the first place? The second issue is 50/50. I make moves that leaves hooks for the next writer to run with, but their posts read as if they are obvious tossing up words to get it out of the way.

    What can you do about it? That is the grand question, and also the question that will decide if Storium is even worth the effort of supporting to a public community. (I say public because in an educational setting this would be sooooo great. I can only wish it had been available to me when I was learning English all through school - who knows how it would have changed my life?).

    The first step is to stop thinking about it from the angle of an intellectual, which you undoubtedly are, and think about it from what you are trying to call it - a game. Games have consequences and rewards. From your current model, you are assuming that the people who are joining games have a concept of what it means to write a story, and are willing to draft, proof, fact check, edit, and post a thoughtful move to setup the next eager player. Unless the stars align, this will never, ever, happen, in a random setting.

    As proof of this, imagine an MMO. We'll use World of Warcraft as an example. The game itself is mindless. It is simplistic beyond comprehension to be honest. An iteration of the same thing over and over, that infuses a skill set into the player. But that in itself isn't what 'locks' the players to the game. It's the numbers. The level. The rating.

    Should a player reach a high enough rating, then they become strong enough to be considered for a 'boss' raid. And make no mistake, a Storium game IS a boss raid. A limited collection of players gear themselves to fill rolls, and attempt to reach the ultimate goal of finishing the raid.

    With that same WoW thought process in mind I propose this:

    Again: Do think as an intellectual. Think like a MMO gamer.

    New players to Storium start without points and no access to them. You have a generic game setting(s) that the new players can sharpen their first proverbial sword on. They literally should be a single scene, and this story should instill the responsibilities that a player will have in a real game upon them - posting frequency, accuracy, fact checking, proofing, collaboration - all the things that make a Storium player great. Teach a new player how to be great before they can join a game where the narrator and other players are hoping they will be!

    Likely, you could get volunteers to do this, players who have achieved a certain 'level' based on their accumulated points. These new players, having completed their first 'quest' so to speak are now free to choose a 'guild', which in this case is simply the ability to join real games. Or, the starter game could be scripted on your side and auto-create for the player and assigned to a willing 'elder'. Even if a staff member had to do this, it wouldn't be an insurmountable task.

    Once a player reaches 'real games' they get 0 points - IF THEY ELECT TO GO INTO COMPETITIVE PLAY - if they do not elect to, then they can continue playing Storium in the exact manner it is now - without consequence. In their submission, they agree to post an average of 'x' amount of times per week. If the pace suits the Narrator, then they will take on that player. As the game proceeds, the player receives points for meeting the pace, and loses points when the pace is not met. The rating is for everyone to see. A narrator gets bonus points for their successfully moving the story at the pre-agreed pace. Trust me, as a once avid MMO player, if someone begins to lag, they will be written out pretty darn quick.

    In 'competitive play' a player should also require the right to unlock larger and larger games. They get short stories first, then move up from there.

    If you are going to call it a game - then make it a game. The game isn't measured by stories began and not completed, it is measured by points. And the writer with the most points is King of The Hill!

    Regardless of how you approach the issue of narrators accepting players who have the freedom to not give a reasonable effort to a game, or to post whenever they feel like without consequence to themselves, which in my mind is as rude as leaving a flaming bag of dog-poo on your doorstep, it has to be approached. I cannot, in good faith, pay for this, nor encourage friends and family to potentially pay for it either. I do love the concept, however. It is brilliant. Unfortunately, the collective pool of those you wish to sell it to, for various reasons, do not, or cannot, embrace it as it is.

    Good luck, Storium folks. I am indeed hoping that before my free year from the Kickstarter donation runs out, you are able to invoke changes that make it worth buying it again.

    Good day to all,

    First allow me to say that this is indeed my favorite game concept I have ever seen. I believe it is educational, and for those who do approach it with a mindset of doing well can only see themselves improve their grasp of writing.

    I believe your vision is one of intellectual assumption, however, in that all participants will approach a game equally. They will not, and they do not.

    Before I continue further, I will apologize for the redundancy that this may bring to you - I can only imagine the mountain of feedback and… more

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    Storium now offers Beginner Games run by experienced Mentors to allow new players the chance to learn the Storium system and best practice in a supportive environment. Hopefully this will allow them to learn these lessons and move on to other games as successful contributors to the collaborative stories told on the site.

17. Word limit defaults appear to be broken

    I created a new game earlier today and I can't set the word limits to be unlimited. Or anything else for that matter. The page just hangs when I try to make changes. Same problem appears in both Firefox and Chrome, so it appears to be on your end. Screenshot attached.

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    This is now fixed. Thanks again for the report!

18. Seperate feedback section for bugs

    A section entirely dedicated for Storium's bugs and glitches.

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    The ‘contact support’ link on the Feedback Forum is a dedicated area for bugs and glitches.

19. Solo Play / Writer Mode

    I think a solo-narrator mode without players would be great for writers who want to use storium to flesh out characters and worlds, organize stories, and get their juices pumping.

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    Narrators are now able to create characters in their own games, meaning a narrator could run a game with only themselves.

20. Notifications

    Anything which sends out annoying emails should DEFAULT to "don't send out annoying emails."

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    Users are able to turn email notifications off completely, as well as folding them into a daily digest. They are also able to opt-out of Storium updates and announcements.