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(69) The Never Ending Story I came up with and specced out something like this for a school which never got passed the planning stage. The idea was more simple

by weego 16y ago

(69) The Never Ending Story I came up with and specced out something like this for a school which never got passed the planning stage. The idea was more simple in that there was a seed story, and then the kids took a word or phrase from the seed story and that was the title of their story, with the chosen word/phrase becoming a link (it was a user-friendly wiki in effect). This could be repeated to infinite depth and words/phrases could link to more than one story (or partially overlap etc). I still have it in perpetual inactive development.

IsaacL 16y ago
I've seen a few things online that sound similar to this idea; http://editthis.info/choose_your_own_adventure/Main_Page http://editthis.info/choose_your_own_adventure/Main_Page is one; they mostly follow the "Choose Your Own Adventure"-meets-Wiki route.
jeromec 16y ago
I watched a Never Ending Story play out long ago (possibly it was on a Lulu.com forum?). Absolutely horrible. You mix in bad writers with worse writers, and just when you come across a half-decent page some other author whisks the story off in a totally different direction.
- haraball 16y ago
  What if people could continue the story tree horizontally, and continue on the part they found most interesting? Then the parts with the most "continuations" could get a higher ranking and therefore shape the best story at the (never)end.
  - jeromec 16y ago
    That does sound like it could result in an improvement, but the tree would grow quite large I imagine! :) Each writer would have to read each horizontal version to decide where to continue, and I'm betting there would be multiple continuation points, too, so it would start to look like the exponential story, especially with a virtually endless supply of writers. Crowd-sourced writing is a fun idea, but I think at best it might be an activity writers do to stay creatively loose.
- c1sc0 16y ago
  Maybe you could alleviate the problem by introducing a distinction between 'writers' & 'editors'? Or maybe have people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story?
  - khafra 16y ago
    > people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story? MSPaint Adventures[1] is like this. Generated off a SomethingAwful thread suggesting story ideas/outline, and then written/illustrated by another party. [1] http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ http://www.mspaintadventures.com/
entropie 16y ago
I'am implementing such kind of thing atm. Some few things are missing, but overall its ready to use (e.g. test). Feel free to try around. This is not livedata atm, everything can be resetted. Written in Ruby/Ramaze btw. http://palavr.kommunism.us/ http://palavr.kommunism.us/
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callmeed 16y ago
I was recently thinking something like this would make a great iOS app. Start a story with a stranger or friend, and you have to hand-off at a certain word count or time. Spectators can read and vote on stories in real time. Winners get a book deal, maybe have some celebrity authors, etc.

by weego 16y ago

IsaacL 16y ago

I've seen a few things online that sound similar to this idea; http://editthis.info/choose_your_own_adventure/Main_Page http://editthis.info/choose_your_own_adventure/Main_Page is one; they mostly follow the "Choose Your Own Adventure"-meets-Wiki route.

jeromec 16y ago

I watched a Never Ending Story play out long ago (possibly it was on a Lulu.com forum?). Absolutely horrible. You mix in bad writers with worse writers, and just when you come across a half-decent page some other author whisks the story off in a totally different direction.

haraball 16y ago
What if people could continue the story tree horizontally, and continue on the part they found most interesting? Then the parts with the most "continuations" could get a higher ranking and therefore shape the best story at the (never)end.
- jeromec 16y ago
  That does sound like it could result in an improvement, but the tree would grow quite large I imagine! :) Each writer would have to read each horizontal version to decide where to continue, and I'm betting there would be multiple continuation points, too, so it would start to look like the exponential story, especially with a virtually endless supply of writers. Crowd-sourced writing is a fun idea, but I think at best it might be an activity writers do to stay creatively loose.
c1sc0 16y ago
Maybe you could alleviate the problem by introducing a distinction between 'writers' & 'editors'? Or maybe have people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story?
- khafra 16y ago
  > people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story? MSPaint Adventures[1] is like this. Generated off a SomethingAwful thread suggesting story ideas/outline, and then written/illustrated by another party. [1] http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ http://www.mspaintadventures.com/

entropie 16y ago

I'am implementing such kind of thing atm. Some few things are missing, but overall its ready to use (e.g. test). Feel free to try around. This is not livedata atm, everything can be resetted. Written in Ruby/Ramaze btw. http://palavr.kommunism.us/ http://palavr.kommunism.us/

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callmeed 16y ago

I was recently thinking something like this would make a great iOS app. Start a story with a stranger or friend, and you have to hand-off at a certain word count or time. Spectators can read and vote on stories in real time. Winners get a book deal, maybe have some celebrity authors, etc.