Oh man this i huge if only the wifi on campus had NG unblocked!
Reviews for "StoryShift"
Evil-Dog responds:
You could try on your smartphone if you have one
I love this idea! An app that crowdsources votes for choose-your-own adventure stories? Awesome! It's definitely great to see Newgrounds members team up for another collab, and this one' not half-bad.
You may want to work on the graphics being shinier, though, in order to attract more downloaders and regular viewers; the current icon looks generic and unappealing. You should also be more aggressive in promoting this app, it doesn't look like a lot of people are interested in this so far. Hate for you to go hungry if this doesn't take off.
The current offerings also don't grab my attention very much, seeing as the basic ideas behind them have all been done before in much more lucrative ways. The writing sounds cliche, The key to building a good choose-your-own-adventure lies in an unique premise as well as world-building. I think that's the problem. Most of the stories you offer right now throw the reader into the middle of the action without explaining what's going on, and it's difficult to get attached to a story that has very little content starting right off. Perhaps if you had meatier first starts...
A tip to all writer for the app if you come across this: develop characters that people would be able to connect to, and make your setting the strongest part of the story, since that's essentially your playground for the story. And readers love playgrounds that have the latest swings, the raddest seesaws, and the best jungle gyms and feature them prominently (basically story elements like gods, magic systems, scattered golden weapons that were connected to a prophecy, etc.);
I still need to practice with Photoshop if I want to do comics, but I'm willing to contribute as a writer to this project. A few questions I have to ask, though:
-Do you have to provide your own cover image?
-Does your content need to be original?
-As an author, can you change the lengths of the voting period?
-Are there any content guidelines relating to the stories you write?
Evil-Dog responds:
- Yes or we might be able to do one for you
- Yes
- It's typically 1 week, I don'T think I'll let authors decide, but everything is subject to change
- other than no hate speech and the usual it can be any kind of story you want.
If you wanna contribute PM me and we'll talk.
Classic Evil Dog!
Evil-Dog responds:
Haha classic Evil-Dog would have a bunch of zombies :D
Hey guys, congratulations on all this awesome work!
It's really impressive in all ways. It really is a new storytelling experience, a very original one. I really think this has potential to change things. And the writing is also really good, I've already read the first two stories. This is going to go forever!
Anyway, stay awesom !!
Evil-Dog responds:
Thanks man, we appreciate the kind words :D
So it's kind of like AnonKun, but slower...and with ads?
Evil-Dog responds:
Looks like it