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Contest #1: Choose Your Own Adventure Game!

Deadline: 6/22/15 @ 11:59 PM PST

Since the dawn of time, story-based video games have always been about choice, and there’s no genre that does it better Choose Your Own Adventure games. In a Choose Your Own Adventure Game, the reader (or player) assumes the role of the protagonist, where the rest of the narrative is written in a second-person point of view. This protagonist is often gender and race neutral, and age-wise can be anywhere between a small child and a young adult.

Your challenge is the following:
Create a Choose Your Own Adventure Game!

Choose Your Own Adventure Games are mainly characterized (identified) by their vast second-person point of view, with the only interaction being typing in actions or pressing numbers to pick an action. Your game may have more or less interaction if you’d like, but the general concept should be similar. Chances are, text will be your main medium, but images and cutscenes can be spliced in and more, the sky is the limit.

NOTE: This is NOT a RPG or a JRPG game! xP We're saving that for later.

It can have as many or as few endings as you like, but 2 is most likely the minimum amount (or else it would just be a novel). You will be judged on efficiency and data compression (if any), but most of all, the plot.

Just a tip:
Many great Choose Your Own Adventure Games start with a single setting or idea, such as under the sea or a cave that spans through time. The player’s choices have vast consequences, and can lead to death or worse. However, the greatest choices are those with no right or wrong choice, the moral dilemmas that cause us to stop and think, and later haunt us for the rest of our lives.

If you’d like some examples of good moral dilemmas, look it up on Google, or look up This War of Mine by 11bitstudios.

Until then, good luck, and happy coding!


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