Missing Entry by cyriaque
MISSING ENTRY [LD45]

Created in 48h for the 45th Ludum Dare
Missing entry is a story written by you and others that started with nothing and can do in any direction.
Find a [MISSING ENTRY] to add your part of the story.



- Note An internet connection is required
| Youtube | http://ciriak.itch.io/missing-entry |
| Youtube | https://github.com/Ciriak/ld45 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/missing-entry |
Ratings
| Overall | 67th | 3.881⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 203th | 3.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 4th | 4.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 48th | 4.119⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 224th | 3.105⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 71th | 3.441⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 125th | 3.559⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
There is some "protections" against abuses but not that much honestly, it's very permissive i want to see how it goes.
And yeah, for the "what happend" i blame my broken english <3
I ended up playing skyrim for a while.
Other than that: This is such a great idea. Actually start with nothing as a game and then let the community, the players, build the game themselves. This is a really awesome narrative game concept, I can't even believe it. It could become so much! But I worry a bit about what people enter into the system. Let's hope it goes well! I will be checking back later, when there's hopefully more to it.
Edit: I also really enjoy that you added the possibility to add pictures, even though there is of course the danger of abuse. But the way you then also filter the pictures to fit into this "console" theme, is just really great.
I came with multiple iterations of the choice system and still i'm not happy with the current one (for the reasons you said).
I tried to add some helpers (like the I ...) when you enter a choice or forcing a "You $eventName" but it felt too restrictive so i scrapped some stuff.
As you said ,peoples can abuse the system , but hey, we are here between smart and mature peoples, right ? :D
I think it would've been cool to ask players for a username at the start and then sign all their stories accordingly.
I felt that the images should've faded in faster.
I agree with some other comments: throw this on reddit or on facebook it's gonna be a ton of fun.
Then you could add shortcuts to go faster to some point of the story :)
Also you could create the ability to end a branch after some points (say, 10 branches without end) and never have the 3 possibilites be an end.
Also, if you go full on that way, it could be cool to have accounts so we can make changes to choices we created (escpecially to solve first try issues)
I had some idea for this problem but didn't had enough time sadly