RE: Swamped Talk
05-31-2018, 04:17 AM
Hey I just read through this over the last week or so, and it's very good. It started off a bit dull, but it got much better, I'd say around the point where we started switching to multiple characters' perspectives.
An interesting thing to me is that, well, most forum adventures usually start off with some sort of game, or with an incredibly simple objective, or with almost no information about what's going on given to the reader. It's in no way a bad thing, its just that there's usually more difference between a forum adventure and a conventional story than merely that the former is influenced by the readers.
Swamped, though, starts off with an introduction that could be from any novel. It's the most actually book-like forum adventure I've ever read, which is really interesting, because it kind of isolates the whole 'collaborative storytelling' aspect from all the other idiosyncrasies of forum adventures, if that makes any sense.
An interesting thing to me is that, well, most forum adventures usually start off with some sort of game, or with an incredibly simple objective, or with almost no information about what's going on given to the reader. It's in no way a bad thing, its just that there's usually more difference between a forum adventure and a conventional story than merely that the former is influenced by the readers.
Swamped, though, starts off with an introduction that could be from any novel. It's the most actually book-like forum adventure I've ever read, which is really interesting, because it kind of isolates the whole 'collaborative storytelling' aspect from all the other idiosyncrasies of forum adventures, if that makes any sense.