I’ve now completed one “branch” of a branching story, and I have to say the functionality is very good! Everything very seamless as far as submitting the chapters and seeing the layout.
I wonder, though, if we can add an icon to branching stories next to their titles so readers are aware that a story has branches, similar to the community series pictures. I personally have a different reading approach to branching stories than I do for stories that don’t branch, and notification could help me find story styles I’m in the mood for.
I also wonder if there is or is planned functionality for listing all the branched stories in the story list by toggling something or searching something. Maybe a simple tag would work? (this might exist and I’m ignorant). Still, if I’m in the mood for a choose-your-own-orgasm outcome, it’d be fun to have all the options up front and present, so to speak. Just a thought!
Again, amazing functionality. Thanks for always building and expanding things on this site! It’s appreciated.
I massively approve of the ideas here. Great post.
You could perhaps even swap it with the word count marker, i.e., instead of a word count number, a bespoke colour and branch symbol (if this would be doable, I have no idea if it is).
But either way, the reasoning;
When it comes to interactives, the wordcount is essentially useless information;
is the wordcount for the first chapter? (who needs that)
is it the average wordcount per path to all conclusions?
is it all the words in all the branches? etc, etc.
I’ve added the mark with the new layout. It will take a while for it to appear consistently, as the database is updated, which will take around 2 hours.
The separate list of branched stories will be added later. It’s not a big deal.
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