NaNoWriMo 2007: Choose Your Own Adventure
Here is the visual map of the adventure. I will update it fairly often because I like looking at it, latest update is 2:30 am on the 2nd. I should go to bed.
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This year for National Novel Writing Month, I am going to attempt to write a Choose Your Own Adventure story online.
So, since it's nearly halfway through October now, I am starting some preliminary preparation.
First is my initial design for the website where the story will be posted. It's all done with css, no tables, so I'm pretty sure it's all w3c compliant. (As if that really matters though). I think it's looking pretty good in both IE and Firefox at the moment, but suggestions are welcome as-to how I can tweak it for maximum readability.
Second is my big list of plot ideas. I wrote down a bunch of these in class earlier today. Suggest more in this thread, as well as any other helpful ideas. Also feel free to de-suggest any ideas you think are just awful.
Some plot lines will end the story, some won't, it'll be up to me.
In alphabetical order:
There's some technical stuff I need to deal with too, here's a tenative list.
Edit: Added hlavco's suggestions
Edit Edit: Added Melted Jhonnycake, god, mario, X'o'Lore, Garnet, MrCheese suggestions
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This year for National Novel Writing Month, I am going to attempt to write a Choose Your Own Adventure story online.
So, since it's nearly halfway through October now, I am starting some preliminary preparation.
First is my initial design for the website where the story will be posted. It's all done with css, no tables, so I'm pretty sure it's all w3c compliant. (As if that really matters though). I think it's looking pretty good in both IE and Firefox at the moment, but suggestions are welcome as-to how I can tweak it for maximum readability.
Second is my big list of plot ideas. I wrote down a bunch of these in class earlier today. Suggest more in this thread, as well as any other helpful ideas. Also feel free to de-suggest any ideas you think are just awful.
Some plot lines will end the story, some won't, it'll be up to me.
In alphabetical order:
Adopt what you believe to be a domestic house pet, only to have it turn out to be something completely different... Ascend to heaven (if you're lucky) Battle a ninja Beat the Master Computer at tic-tac-toe Become a famous trumpeter Become a fish Become a master swordsman Become a monk Become a ninja Become a pirate Become a Pokemon master Become a racer Become a Wizard Become a wizards apprentice Become trapped in a computer game Befriend a tribe of cannibals Break the copy machine break the master computer Build a Rube Goldberg machine. Build the world's largest theremin, which requires you to raise and lower your entire body over it with a bungie cord. Bunt Capture some pirates Cause cancer. Challenge the Master Computer at chess Change a lightbulb Chat with a mermaid Climb a tall mountain Confront a pretty witch Cure all disease Cure cancer. Dance with a boy Dance with girl Date a famous person Delve into a cave Destroy the world Develop film and/or print photos Die (often) Die and go to Hell (while evil), escape from Hell Die,then realize it's just another world to explore...with people and things to do like that of on earth Dig for buried treasure Discover an uncharted land Dive into the depths of the sea Donate a kidney. Draw a picture Drink Immortality potion Drop a flower into a pool of water and watch the ripples Eat a grilled cheese sandwich Eat cheese Enter a fighting tournament Escape from "the Matrix" Explode Explore a vast desert Explore the woods Fail at becoming a ninja Fall in love Fall into a bottomless pit Feed a cockatiel Fight a brick wall in hand-to-hand combat Fight a werewolf Fight Grendel in an abandoned mead hall Fight the Gorgan Find a pencil that has the words "Loaf Loaf" written on it. Fix the copy machine Forage for mushrooms, hallucinate Form a primitive civilization of botched clones of yourself Get a sex change, seduce your own clone Get captured by an evil wizard and then saved by a sexy maiden Get lost in the big city Get lost in the big forest Get magic'd by a wizard Get married Go bowling Go snowboarding Go to a party and refuse to dance at all Go to a wedding Go to a wild party, do some drugs Go to college Grow a beanstalk Grow a tail Grow wings Have a sordid affair with the queen Have an intelligent conversation with animals Help an old person Invade a foreign country Join a gang Join the army Join the navy Kick someone in the shins Kill a wizard Learn to knit Live in a world where everyone rides bikes instead of cars Lose your glasses Make a Key Lime pie Make a movie that has its own version of Monopoly. Make dinner Meet your arch-rival Microwave something Overcome your caffine addiction. Paint a landscape Paint a portrait Paint a portrait of a soup can Pay off your student loan. Perform a play Pet a cockatiel Play a video game (readers could choose whether to jump on things or break bricks!) Play God Play hide-and-seek Poison a crime lord Prevent a hostile corporate takover by a foreign company. Prove cancer does not exist. Punch someone in the kidneys. Reprogram the master computer Restore an old car, only to have it turn into a spaceship Reunite with a long-lost friend Ride a primitive rocket into space Ride a really cool bike Ride a really crappy bike Rob a bank Sail the world on a pirate ship that is also a dentist. Save a burning village Save a damsel in distress Save the world Shrink, then get lost in the LITTLE forest Slay a dragon Smack a famous person Smell a flower Solve mysteries with a famous person Solve mysteries with Velma Start a delivery service Start a farm Start a musical career Steal a kidney. Steal third base Stumble into the future Survive a shipwreck Swim in the ocean Take over the world Terrorize a county hamlet Throw a rock at that annoying little dog. Throw a rock at that annoying little kid. Throw the kid at the dog. Thwart a military coup Time travel Train to be a wizard Travel back in time, inadvertently change a past event, then attempt to make things right and fix the timeline Turn evil, then get confronted by a mighty hero Use a camera Wake up from a cold sweat...It was all a dream? Waste your life on a computer game Work on a fishing boat Write a memoir
There's some technical stuff I need to deal with too, here's a tenative list.
[I]404 Page CSS design Page design[/I] Scoring system Should I disable the BACK button? If so, how? Should I hide page filenames? If so, how? Small, regular updates or large chunks all at once? Unguessable page filenames
Edit: Added hlavco's suggestions
Edit Edit: Added Melted Jhonnycake, god, mario, X'o'Lore, Garnet, MrCheese suggestions
Comments
Go bowling!
Waste your life on a computer game!
Become trapped in a computer game!
Grow a tail!
Become a famous trumpeteer!
Dig for buried treasure!
Meet your arch-rival!
Fix the copy machine!
Break the copy machine!
Restore an old car, only to have it turn into a spaceship!
Become a racer!
Go snowboarding!
Smack a famous person!
Date a famous person!
Solve mysteries with a famous person!
Solve mysteries with Velma!
Lose your glasses!
Time travel!
Help an old person!
Get lost in the big city!
Get lost in the big forest!
Shrink, then get lost in the LITTLE forest!
Steal third base!
Bunt!
Adopt what you believe to be a domestic house pet, only to have it turn out to be something completely different...
Change a lightbulb!
Coincidentally, since all dead links get a 404 error, there's now an ending you can get.
draw a picture
capture some pirates
go to a wild party, do some drugs
perform a play
dance with girl
dance with a boy
go to a party and refuse to dance at all
ride a really cool bike
ride a really crappy bike
live in a world where everyone rides bikes instead of cars
Throw a rock at that annoying little kid.
Throw the kid at the dog.
Overcome your caffine addiction.
Pay off your student loan.
Prevent a hostile corporate takover by a foreign company.
Build a Rube Goldberg machine.
Donate a kidney.
Steal a kidney.
Punch someone in the kidneys.
Cure cancer.
Cause cancer.
Prove cancer does not exist.
Sail the world on a pirate ship that is also a dentist.
Find a pencil that has the words "Loaf Loaf" written on it.
Make a movie that has its own version of Monopoly.
Build the world's largest theremin, which requires you to raise and lower your entire body over it with a bungie cord.
Travel back in time, inadvertently change a past event, then attempt to make things right and fix the timeline
Play a video game (readers could choose whether to jump on things or break bricks!)
Become a ninja
Fail at becoming a ninja
become a wizards apprentice
kill a wizard
get magic'd by a wizard
save the world
take over the world
destroy the world
Challenge the Master Computer at chess
Beat the Master Computer at tic-tac-toe
break the master computer
reprogram the master computer
Form a primitive civilization of botched clones of yourself
Paint a landscape
Paint a portrait of a soup can
Make a Key Lime pie
Smell a flower
Drop a flower into a pool of water and watch the ripples
Use a camera
Develop film and/or print photos
Wake up from a cold sweat...It was all a dream?
Drink Immortality potion
Become a Wizard
Kick someone in the shins
Go to a wedding
Get married
Swim in the ocean
Dive into the depths of the sea
Chat with a mermaid
Become a fish
Have an intelligent conversation with animals
Die,then realize it's just another world to explore...with people and things to do like that of on earth
Feed a cockatiel
Pet a cockatiel
Eat cheese
Now's the time people, there's less than a week left in October!
Fight an android.
Buy an android.
Fall in love with an android.
Learn that you are an android.
Learn that your mom is an android.
Scare a small child.
Get scared by a small child.
Get scared by a smalll android child.
Learn that your mom is a smalll android child.
Fall in love with a smalll android child, for which you are shunned by society (and possibly arrested).
Fight off a horde of zombies.
Get killed by a horde of zombies.
Command a horde of zombies.
Get ye flask.
Make an independant horror movie that developes a cult following.
Make a crappy remake of a cult horror movie.
Kidnap various famous people from the past to fight in your arena, but get killed be a misfired shot during the Shakespeare/Freud death match.
Assasinate the emperor of the emperor penguins.
Assemble a killer robot
Befriend a gorilla
Get wasted in Ireland
The "We Need to do this Adventure" thread
Eat something off the ground
Try to eat something off the ground, get punched in the face
Eat some people with a glass of punch
Never eat anything
Get in a bar fight
Get in two barfights at the same time
Get in a bar riot
Get in a regular riot
Go to a gay pride parade
Participate in a gay pride parade
Get hella wasted during school
Get hella wasted during work
Get hella wasted in the middle of the road
Get hella wasted at the library
Get hella wasted and pass out at your parent's house three states over
Refuse to get hella wasted
Get hella wasted in the FINAL DIMENSION
Makeout with a cat
Makeout with a dog
Makeout with a bear
Fight a bear in space
Fight a bear behind your house
Fight a bear with a chainsaw
Fight a bear at the library
Make someone fight a bear for you
Discover ultimate powers, abuse them
Discover ultimate powers, use them responsibly, and for improvement
Discover ultimate powers, don't use them at all
Oh how I could go on.
Hack the planet
Clicka!
I removed the filenames, because that would just be cheating for you guys, that's about 2500 words right there.
I guarantee that eventually it'll be a giant mess of intersecting lines.
Check the map in the first post, I keep it updated.
For the love of god send it to me.
ETA: From Penny Arcade
BESIDES, NWN2 FAILED TO MAINTAIN THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT THAT THE FIRST HAD BUILT UP. WITH NO PRC AND CEP AVAILABLE AND SUCH, IT'S JUST NOT AS AWSOME.
NANO UPDATE:
I am almost done. Go me.
As for the NWN games, NWN2 has potential. It's updated to be based on 3.5 edition rules which is neat and I dig the warlock, but if I can't be a trollish crystal dragon disciple with a cool Ice fiend model and a little imp voice then what the hell am I playing for?