Stable Games Workshopping

[vej (Vejou)]

This is a bit of a meta post.

Here you can discuss and design forum games that are resistant to dying out in slow or inactive forum environments, or over long periods of time.

Forum games could be anything from a reimagined classic roleplay topic to a more society focused type, like a remake of Mafia-Murder.

Here are some guidelines you might follow for making a stable one:

1. A game could have no leader. The story should be able to be pushed along by anybody without one person having a special, irreplaceable role. This doesn’t mean the starting topic can’t set up a permanent situation, but the original poster should not have to come back later and maintain the game, and might also be allowed to join as a participant.
2. A game could be fun to contribute to, without ever coming back and looking again. This makes it more open to people adding on, without the risk of missing out as badly if they do not return. You could do this by making additions creative in themselves, without needing feedback.
3. A game could be adaptive. If a whole new set of people are playing, they might want to change how the game works.
4. A game could be voted on. Original members could vote on which things get changed or replaced in the game by liking certain posts, and could also decide which new members also get this voting permission. This sets up a rules government.
5. A game could be revivable. If your forum game is long dead, someone later might want to start it up again. You could plan for this in your rules.

Those are some guidelines you could keep in mind when thinking up game ideas, but feel free to make your own.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@vej

Here you can discuss some ideas on how to make forum games, and more specifically, you could discuss how to make forum fames that are less volatile and susceptible to dying out.

We already have a thread for the FG part of this thread:

General Forum Game Discussion Thread

This is essentially the thread where you can talk about Forum Games and Forum Game-related stuff, as if the TNMTTDDaNTTT but for Forum Games. FG(s) stands for “Forum Game(s)”. My pool on something related to forum games - Forum Game Species now hit enough people for me to reveal those species: Deeiderans - from Twilight Realm Forum Game, may get changed Craygons - from Incipit de Novo Hexapinna, from Thrive Rules of Nature Competition, will be evolved Phytosphaericae Haplobios, from Olymp…

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Yeah, don’t think this thread is needed. But suppose it is a good idea to make if you hadn’t seen the other thread!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

With the knowledge of the other thread around here now though I suppose it could still be used for this:

@vej

and more specifically, you could discuss how to make forum fames that are less volatile and susceptible to dying out.

(did they mean to say “fames” here like as in your reputation or is it a typo?)

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

Pretty sure that’s just a misspelling lol

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Oh, I thought they really meant something regarding the fame of yours in the forum

[vej (Vejou)]

1. Fames v Games: that was totally a typo, i wrote this on phone, thanks for letting me know
2. Dupe: it is a bit different (this one is specifically for making new ideas while the other is for discussing current topics) but i have changed it so it is now even more distinct

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Seems better now. Don’t expect much activity here though.

[vej (Vejou)]

thats alright, hopefully the forum gets more active in general now with the (only major) update

this topic in particular is because the forum is inactive, if we had a super lively one games do not need to be shelf-stable

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I think we may need to wait longer for a major wave of popularity to appear