RE: ETFA Discussion and Fanartery
04-21-2016, 07:39 PM
Long standing text-adventures, however do have a much higher cost of entry than your typical image based adventure.
In part, you can get a better idea of what kind of command to submit with an image. Even if you don't know what's going on, a quick picture gives you a list of options to pursue. "Check out that note!", "High five that guy!"
It lets the reader engage in an I-spy game with the panel, looking for something there that other reader's haven't noticed. Once they've added their suggestion, they're more invested and more likely to go back and read through a backlog.
It is a lot harder to do that with text adventures. They aren't as in-and-out as your typical forum adventure (Although there are some exceptions).
Really it is a different medium. It has its advantages and disadvantages. For instance, you can integrate responses much easier, and you can encourage longer suggester responses. However you will typically run short of suggestions once the adventure gets longer.
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Successful text-adventures, I think, have to follow a s mindset similar to someone who is publishing a full body work. People will catch up and read you work on their own time, but you have to be willing to keep going on it even without regular input.
Successful any adventures follow similar advice. Keep making it as long as you like it. Enjoy the rush of the people participating, but if that rush is the only reason you're doing it, you will soon run out of steam.
Side note-nostalgia: Actually one of my favorite examples of text adventures on this forum is now the long abandoned INCIDENT
In part, you can get a better idea of what kind of command to submit with an image. Even if you don't know what's going on, a quick picture gives you a list of options to pursue. "Check out that note!", "High five that guy!"
It lets the reader engage in an I-spy game with the panel, looking for something there that other reader's haven't noticed. Once they've added their suggestion, they're more invested and more likely to go back and read through a backlog.
It is a lot harder to do that with text adventures. They aren't as in-and-out as your typical forum adventure (Although there are some exceptions).
Really it is a different medium. It has its advantages and disadvantages. For instance, you can integrate responses much easier, and you can encourage longer suggester responses. However you will typically run short of suggestions once the adventure gets longer.
READ SWAMPED GUYS - UPDATES DAILY
Successful text-adventures, I think, have to follow a s mindset similar to someone who is publishing a full body work. People will catch up and read you work on their own time, but you have to be willing to keep going on it even without regular input.
Successful any adventures follow similar advice. Keep making it as long as you like it. Enjoy the rush of the people participating, but if that rush is the only reason you're doing it, you will soon run out of steam.
Side note-nostalgia: Actually one of my favorite examples of text adventures on this forum is now the long abandoned INCIDENT