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[Sergius]

Or you could keep scores of different consequences of your actions without actually having to have a branching choose-your-own-adventure. Sorta like RPG stats but not of your own character but how you have been dealing with things.

Like the reputation system in New Vegas, or the relationship thing in Alpha Protocol, except you track a lot of more arbitrary things than just how much people respect you. At some point these get evaluated at certain branching points, at the ending "slides", whatever. Even if some later converge, they will still affect how hard some puzzles get later if you use the easy way at the beginning.

EDIT: Actual point & click example. I think it was Kings Quest 4 (I'm not sure, could be confusing with another game), there were a couple places were you had to get rid of some animal to access certain place (different creatures). You could like, throw a rock at one, with no immediate consequence. Or you could use a less aggressive way. But later to get past a different challenge, the game remembered if you were mean to one of these beasties and didn't let you thru. (in this case it rendered the game unwinnable I believe, but this wouldn't need to be so extreme)

[Twinwolf]

Any CYOA by Choice Of Games tends to keep track of various stats that increase and decrease based on your actions, and affect if you'll succeed on certain actions.

[Generally me]

Any CYOA by Choice Of Games tends to keep track of various stats that increase and decrease based on your actions, and affect if you'll succeed on certain actions.

Choice of games are awesome

I just wish there were more

[notquitethere]

Any CYOA by Choice Of Games tends to keep track of various stats that increase and decrease based on your actions, and affect if you'll succeed on certain actions.

Yeah I was just about to say that. There's a lot more scope for deeply interactive stories when there's no graphical elements.

I just wish there were more

This is pleasing to read. I'm working on one right now.

[Bohandas]

A pinball machine based on the Countryball/Polandball comics

[Holy Snickerdoodles]

Any CYOA by Choice Of Games tends to keep track of various stats that increase and decrease based on your actions, and affect if you'll succeed on certain actions.

Yeah I was just about to say that. There's a lot more scope for deeply interactive stories when there's no graphical elements.

I just wish there were more

This is pleasing to read. I'm working on one right now.

I've never heard of the site before, but I decided to read a free sample of one at random and it was pretty fun!  Lots of subtle changes in the text depending on past choices.  Would be interested in seeing your own work whenever it's out.

I share the same wish as itisnotsological, though I understand having a CYOA with a myriad of paths is extraordinarily implausible.  Nothing wrong with dreaming though!

[Neyvn]

Ever read the book, "Ready Player One"?
In that book there is a part where the main character has to do some exercise before his PC will actually let him use it for anything other then the exercise program...
I want that. I want a way to lock me out of my PC which isn't just someone else in the real world going "No. Not until you do pushups" cause I would just fucking ignore them. I want to gamify the whole thing or such...

[Bohandas]

Ever read the book, "Ready Player One"?
In that book there is a part where the main character has to do some exercise before his PC will actually let him use it for anything other then the exercise program...
I want that. I want a way to lock me out of my PC which isn't just someone else in the real world going "No. Not until you do pushups" cause I would just fucking ignore them. I want to gamify the whole thing or such...

IIRC It wasn't an exercise program, it was a pedal powered generator that actually charged the computer. Which is also a good idea.

[Neyvn]

Ever read the book, "Ready Player One"?
In that book there is a part where the main character has to do some exercise before his PC will actually let him use it for anything other then the exercise program...
I want that. I want a way to lock me out of my PC which isn't just someone else in the real world going "No. Not until you do pushups" cause I would just fucking ignore them. I want to gamify the whole thing or such...

IIRC It wasn't an exercise program, it was a pedal powered generator that actually charged the computer. Which is also a good idea.

Really, could have sworn. Eh, still want that...

[miauw62]

Ratchet and clank three, but co-op.

Arena just isn't quite as good, as much as I enjoy speedrunning it at the highest difficulty with my best friend.

[Bohandas]

Ever read the book, "Ready Player One"?
In that book there is a part where the main character has to do some exercise before his PC will actually let him use it for anything other then the exercise program...
I want that. I want a way to lock me out of my PC which isn't just someone else in the real world going "No. Not until you do pushups" cause I would just fucking ignore them. I want to gamify the whole thing or such...

IIRC It wasn't an exercise program, it was a pedal powered generator that actually charged the computer. Which is also a good idea.

Really, could have sworn. Eh, still want that...

I'd really like to have the pedal power generator. That way I could exercise without feeling like I'm in a piece of avant-garde performance art about the futility of human endeavor; "Let's bike to nowhere or row to nowhere or walk up stairs that don't go anywhere derp  derp derp!"

[Lightningfalcon]

Really, what I would want is just a bike setup where I can pedal while playing games. Wouldn't have the boredom of exercise set in, and I have something to do with my feet. It wouldn't even need to be intense. Sitting at my computer for ten hours while very lightly pedaling will be plenty of exercise.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Im willing to go very far. As someone who also does a fair bit of writing and thinking about stories, nothing pleases me greater than to discover the stories of games, whether that means going all out in a game, trolling its wiki, or both i'm more than willing to do it. I love it.

[Twinwolf]

Im willing to go very far. As someone who also does a fair bit of writing and thinking about stories, nothing pleases me greater than to discover the stories of games, whether that means going all out in a game, trolling its wiki, or both i'm more than willing to do it. I love it.

Perhaps you meant that to go in the "How far are you willing to go to play a game" thread?

[Sergius]

Really, what I would want is just a bike setup where I can pedal while playing games. Wouldn't have the boredom of exercise set in, and I have something to do with my feet. It wouldn't even need to be intense. Sitting at my computer for ten hours while very lightly pedaling will be plenty of exercise.

A game where the objective is to run over as many pedestrians aspossible, with ocasional upgrades like lasers, all using a stationary bike as controller... Endless possibilities. As long as all of them involve murder and chaos....