...call narrators narrators again, not 'hosts'. Please?
I know this may seem daft but narrators aren't just putting out cheese and crackers and I just don't like the term 'host' being used for games without actively rotating narration. It's one thing when someone is playing 'host' to a team of narrators, but games without rotating narration have narrators.
Maybe I and the other folk I've spoken to are the only people who care about this. But I thought I'd log it as feedback to see if anyone in the wider community agreed.
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Mo commented
Hi, thanks for the feedback Stephen - I didn't understand what you meant at first but later I looked at the profiles and realised that it does now say 'narrator' next to the games where the 'host' is narrating.
I'm interested in the rationale behind when they're listed as a host vs a narrator mind you. So taking Erin's profile as an example:
https://storium.com/user/erindubitably
She's listed as the 'narrator' for all her hosted games - even The Quest, which has auto-rotating narration (though I assume that when narration passes from her to another player she'll switch to being listed as 'host'?).
However, for all of her completed narrated games she's listed just as the 'host'. All of those games were single narrator. Is your back-end displaying 'narrator' only for when the user is an active narrator of a live game, and 'host' at all other times because it can't interrogate for whether someone was the narrator for a game's whole duraction vs whether narration passed around?
That means, too, presumably, that if a player has played a part in narrating a game but wasn't the host of it, they'll be credited only as a player in their profile once the game completes?
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Elzibub commented
So if someone remains the host, but is no longer narrator, what other abilities do they still have? Once the game is started, is there a point in someone being called a 'Host? If they're not the Narrator and they haven't made a Character separately that allows them to be a Player in the game, then what do they actually do?