@Jennkryst said in Game Development: Modern Gothic Storypath System:

crossed with Everworld but never had the energy to get it done.

Every so often I have this intense memory of reading Everworld but can’t remember wtf the series is named, so I go on this crazy google hunt trying to remember and finally figure it out. And anyway this is to say please do this? Thanks.

100000% staff should play their own games.

I’m on the fence about whether or not they should disclose who their PCs are though, especially on story-driven games. Being able to just dip into a PC skin and turn off Godmode is part of the appeal of having a PC on your own game; you don’t feel forced to provide story for anyone if no one knows who your PC is, and you don’t have to worry about people only playing with you because they think you are a plot dispenser.

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

Yes, her eyes may harken back to bygone timeless memories hidden within pools of mystery, but what color are they?

IDK about you but eyes harken back to bygone timeless memories isn’t an automatic AI flag to me. I’ve seen descs like this since the late 90s?

I want to ask people to RP but I have 0 ideas for scenes and so I wait around hoping someone will have an idea and ask me instead or an idea will magically come to me lol

@Pacha make a MUSH without channels, boom.

@ten @BloodAngel

time to make a mush about making a mush where the plot is coming up with all the things people can have peeves about and figuring out solutions!

@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:

you could say that about any mu peeve. just make your own game!

I mean yes, you could and yes, we have. We’ve also said ‘vote with your feet’ and ‘if you don’t like it you don’t have to play there’ and other such “silly” responses to a MU peeve. They are all good, viable solutions to many mu peeves.

But also it’s my personal mu peeve that there’s not enough games, so pls for the love of god make more.

Why not just make your own superhero smut mush, surely there is room for two lol

@Tez I’m not entirely sure why this isn’t embraced. Maybe it’s because people think the games have to last years and years to be successful? Or I guess it could be an attachment thing, some people have a really hard time letting go.

But I’ve rarely seen a MUSH that actually ends. Nine times out of ten, the game just dies a slow death of attrition and that sucks too because you never get to have a conclusion on the story. I would love more games that were upfront about having a story to tell and not go off the rails trying to keep expanding and expanding that story to keep it going and going.

@ten said in MU Peeves Thread:

guess the fuck fruit needs more work.

Hasn’t Concordia been around for over a year now? It had a good run, not sure why they are “unreleasing” it. It’s ok for games to just end even if the conclusion isn’t satisfactory…

@Tez I feel like there’s something wrong with me because I can’t tell when a theme is AI generated or not, but I suppose that’s only going to get worse as time goes on, huh?

I don’t know what the solution is, truthfully. If it’s becoming a consistent problem, naming-and-shaming won’t work. And if people like to RP a theme that’s AI generated… well, I don’t know what to do about that, either. I just would rather not RP with a robot (but I’m also not sure if I would catch someone using AI to generate their poses???)

@Tez which one where lol

Believe it or not, but you don’t actually have to touch a woman in every single scene you’re in. It’s weird, creepy, and gross.

@Selira Dropout is by far the best subscription I have. There’s no bad show on there. Have you watched Very Important People yet??? I WAS DYING!!!

I feel like this might be good for women who have had double mastectomies and got fake breasts? But I don’t know why you’d want them poking out like that.

@Livia Yeah I think having an ‘anchor’ character is important, I guess I am just trying to figure out how you could make the downtime not seem like it is taking for.ev.er?

@tsar we have killed so many games with LOTR

I keep circling back to this idea of episodic games and how much I enjoyed playing HorrorMU when it was around. I know the Network was very popular, too. I love the concept of episodic games because I tend to only be able to stick with a concept for about 3 months (or less) before I get the itch to start something new, but one thing that’s always bothered me is the down time. I get it is important so that staff can catch a break in between episodes, but as someone who is not a big fan of pure slice of life / social fluff scenes, the aspect of the downtime has always made me hesitant to join (or create) an episodic game.

So I wanted to pick some brains and see what people’s thoughts are on this. Does an episodic game NEED a downtime where everyone goes back to a central facility as the “real” them? How can you make that time more interactive and story-driven, and less parties and social hangouts? Are episodic games even something that you enjoy?

Curious to see what everyone else’s thoughts are on this.

@helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread:

That said, people are on these streets making @bear_necessities and I agree on things.

The horror, the horror! lol but I honestly can’t remember the last time I disagreed with you on something so maybe the world is righting itself.

Either that or my memory is failing me because I’m 40 now

@helvetica all the @Alveraxus account does is shamelessly self promote their game and how they do things Different.

also this is all conjecture and rumor but there’s a suggestion that @mangosplitz and @Alveraxus might be the same person in which case it’s kinda gross that they’d use one account to bash Concordia and another to promote how their game does it better >.>