Include Recruiting Method
I like your gaming concept and your site looks good. As I have a regular tabletop RPG group and your game is similar to the cooperative storytelling we do, I'm not sure if I want to do this for the long term, and my fellow players, who would be my most likely invitees for your game might not be interested, though I know one who might be. What you provide does seem to scratch a similar itch.
Anyway, i could see joining a story on your site if I could find players on-line. Maybe you should have a forum for doing this? People could advertise the type of game, discuss, and go from there.
Some prospective players for your game may live in isolated places and not have likely friends to recruit. Such recruiting features exist in RPG related forums and I have found players this way in the past.
Marco
Marco Subias
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Update: narrators now have the option to enable “open invitations”. This causes a game to be listed on our new “open games” page. From this page, any Storium user can apply to join an open game by submitting a character. As narrator, you’ll be able to review and approve (or decline) these characters just like any other.
If you’re interested in trying this, please go to the Manage page for your game(s) and turn on “open invitations”!
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AdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
commented
Thanks Diana, that is a great suggestion. I suspect we will do something similar to what your described...
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Diana Sousa
commented
If I may add some thoughts to this: you could have the option to create an open game, so anyone could join. As a player you would have the option to create your own game, or join one that is already open, and meet people you otherwise would not know.
There could be a new page with a list of these open games, so a player could browse and choose the one they liked best. The narrator could specify what they were looking for in terms of plot, characters, ideas, etc, or just leave it as it is and welcome everyone.
But a forum or something of the sort could work in the meanwhile, like you said, Stephen.
Hope this helps,
Diana