AO3 username:lirin Letter link:https://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/19576.html Fandoms you would like IF for: Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Video Game), Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt), Yarnia: The Grand Quest Blanket (Knitting Pattern), Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy Anything else: I'm not very good at playing parser-based IF; I'm totally up for giving it a try, but please don't make it super difficult! As regards choice-based/CYOA, I'll soften my character death DNW: as long as one ending (that I can pretend in my head is the "real" ending) doesn't contain non-canonical major character death, you can include it in the rest of the story.
A few non-comprehensive possibilities for each of the fandoms:
Epistory - Perhaps some snippet of the canonical adventures but with the fox—or one of the creepy-crawlies, or an unseen observer, or whoever—as the protagonist? Feel free to require lots of typing, since this is originally a typing game...or play in any way with the interaction and overlap between words and pictures that is a bit of a theme in the game. For a CYOA, perhaps something where the protagonist doesn't always successfully escape the origami world. Something I Must Do - Adventures of the explorer fishie! Or stressed-out waiting at home for news on the part of the fish in the water! Feel free to kill off the explorer fish (or both, or destroy the entire world) in all but one ending because I totally don't mind them having a really hard time of things as long as they have a chance at succeeding. Yarnia - Perhaps taking part of the actual story and giving it other options of ways it could have gone...or centering around a different character and playing with the world of Yarnia without touching on any of the canonical adventures. (Perhaps another adventurer shows up in the Sheepkin's house, after the protagonist of the Yarnia pattern leaves.) Or just exploring one of the Yarnia locations in a parser-based IF. I'm so intrigued by the little glimpses this knitting pattern gave of the world of Yarnia that I want to get some more glimpses of it. :-) Oxford Time Travel Universe - I'm not sure how well the prompt in my letter would work for IF, but you could also go earlier and have the adventures of Colin looking for & trying to rescue Polly et al. Parser-based...it would be cool to play as Colin and go through random newspaper articles trying to find which ones have significance. Or choice-based...those stuck in the future (including Colin) hit a lot of dead ends in trying to rescue their friends in the past, so perhaps something where you play as one of them but your choices almost never pan out. Scarlet Pimpernel - Perhaps something involving the spread of gossip, as characters either ignore or spread their knowledge of Marguerite's and Andrew's compromising behavior. Or a traditional Pimpernel rescue that Marguerite and/or Andrew are involved in.
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Letter link: https://lirin-lirilla.dreamwidth.org/19576.html
Fandoms you would like IF for: Epistory - Typing Chronicles (Video Game), Something I Must Do (Woot T-Shirt), Yarnia: The Grand Quest Blanket (Knitting Pattern), Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Anything else: I'm not very good at playing parser-based IF; I'm totally up for giving it a try, but please don't make it super difficult! As regards choice-based/CYOA, I'll soften my character death DNW: as long as one ending (that I can pretend in my head is the "real" ending) doesn't contain non-canonical major character death, you can include it in the rest of the story.
A few non-comprehensive possibilities for each of the fandoms:
Epistory - Perhaps some snippet of the canonical adventures but with the fox—or one of the creepy-crawlies, or an unseen observer, or whoever—as the protagonist? Feel free to require lots of typing, since this is originally a typing game...or play in any way with the interaction and overlap between words and pictures that is a bit of a theme in the game. For a CYOA, perhaps something where the protagonist doesn't always successfully escape the origami world.
Something I Must Do - Adventures of the explorer fishie! Or stressed-out waiting at home for news on the part of the fish in the water! Feel free to kill off the explorer fish (or both, or destroy the entire world) in all but one ending because I totally don't mind them having a really hard time of things as long as they have a chance at succeeding.
Yarnia - Perhaps taking part of the actual story and giving it other options of ways it could have gone...or centering around a different character and playing with the world of Yarnia without touching on any of the canonical adventures. (Perhaps another adventurer shows up in the Sheepkin's house, after the protagonist of the Yarnia pattern leaves.) Or just exploring one of the Yarnia locations in a parser-based IF. I'm so intrigued by the little glimpses this knitting pattern gave of the world of Yarnia that I want to get some more glimpses of it. :-)
Oxford Time Travel Universe - I'm not sure how well the prompt in my letter would work for IF, but you could also go earlier and have the adventures of Colin looking for & trying to rescue Polly et al. Parser-based...it would be cool to play as Colin and go through random newspaper articles trying to find which ones have significance. Or choice-based...those stuck in the future (including Colin) hit a lot of dead ends in trying to rescue their friends in the past, so perhaps something where you play as one of them but your choices almost never pan out.
Scarlet Pimpernel - Perhaps something involving the spread of gossip, as characters either ignore or spread their knowledge of Marguerite's and Andrew's compromising behavior. Or a traditional Pimpernel rescue that Marguerite and/or Andrew are involved in.