Possible Reward Option
Added 2018-09-20 05:47:29 +0000 UTC First, thanks to everyone who has donated to me, I appreciate it a lot.
Now, while I said I wasn't a fan of rewards or anything, and I'm generally not, I have been toying with the idea in my head. I didn't want to do rewards because...
1) I don't want people to feel like donating is what keeps me working on P-S. As I stated, donate based on how P-S is, not for how it will be. Cause I can stop at anytime, I just haven't yet.
2) I don't want to put obligations on myself, nor force myself to work on something.
3) Just cause...
HOWEVER...
I have been toying with this idea for a bit and I think it might be a fun addition just as a whole. So I'm curious as to what other people think, but the main reward I could see putting out there (and this would be to anyone donating, no matter the amount), would be... an ongoing fan-made path. Basically, once a month, I would pick a Patron at random (can't be twice in a row), and they would write the next 50 or so lines for the path. Next month I would pick someone else, and they would continue where they left off, and so on.
Now since this format would heavily favor the first patron to write, I think I would do a big poll, after a long discussion, over how people would like the path to start. Who the lead character is, is this even ABOUT the device, or what have you. It would be entirely non-canon, I probably wouldn't even spellcheck (unless it was unreadable). I'd give people the info they would need to write it the way it needs to be written, that way I could just port it in, code it and be done with it. Essentially, this idea is what it's like to write interactive stories on writing.com. So you could have an idea for how you want it to go, but then BOOM, someone writes the next chapter before you and completely screws it up, bad English and all.
Would people be interested in this kind of thing?
Limitations would exist in some regard. I am also debating whether I would allow you to have choices or if it would just be an ongoing path. If I do make it 50 lines per month, I may make swaps or things like that cost multiple lines, so you can't just make everything go to hell super, super quick. I'm not sure. All topics for debate.
But yeah, I mean, 50 lines a month isn't the worst for me to code.
Comments
Aspiring writers could opt-in to such a pool. And really, there should be no guarantee your work would be used. That's how real writing gigs work, after all.
Crissa Kentavr
2018-09-22 02:53:47 +0000 UTCSounds like a terrible idea. It's certainly interesting in theory, but I'm more than versed enough in how interactive stories work to know how this would most likely unfold. My expectations being: 1. Many of your patrons will be uninterested, unproductive, and/or unresponsive when selected by you. This meaning you'll either have to compromise the premise by scratching off every month such a thing happens without it being immediately apparent or having to expend drastically more effort on managing this than expected. 2. The literacy, writing quality, and themes will vary so wildly and drastically between writers as to make the path completely incoherent. This may also cause frustration if anyone actually does get into this, and potentially feed into the first point regardless. Now, I can certainly feel some nuggets of interesting ideas here, and I think I may have some proposals for you to consider as well... but it's also very late as I'm writing this right now, so my evil suggestions will have to wait until tomorrow I suppose.
The Arrogant Nair
2018-09-20 06:45:59 +0000 UTC
