This is really cool! It reminds me a lot of a game we’re actually building right now, Storytime. Storytime is a creative-writing game where a group of players are writing a story together, each competing to write the most interesting story continuation in 2 minutes & 280 characters; and you get bonus points for using certain random words, madlib-style.
In Storytime, we have a few default starting prompts (an isekai themed one; a rhyming one; etc) written by hand, One idea we had to increase our pool of prompts was to draw them from responses that our players have created. But maybe an actual meta-prompt, aka having our players explicitly compete to write prompts, would be another way of generating great prompts… Thanks for the idea!
Ah, cool game! Are you familiar with the “story games” genre (EG Fiasco, Apocalypse World, Swords Without Master, Ironsworn, A Quiet Year, Dungeon World, Norwegian Style, Microscope, …)? I have a weekly story game group; maybe we’ll try your game out.
Not super familiar, actually—we came to this from another direction of gaming (party games, word games like Codenames and Decrypto). Thanks for the recs, though, I’d love to check these out. And definitely LMK if you have any feedback!
This is really cool! It reminds me a lot of a game we’re actually building right now, Storytime. Storytime is a creative-writing game where a group of players are writing a story together, each competing to write the most interesting story continuation in 2 minutes & 280 characters; and you get bonus points for using certain random words, madlib-style.
In Storytime, we have a few default starting prompts (an isekai themed one; a rhyming one; etc) written by hand, One idea we had to increase our pool of prompts was to draw them from responses that our players have created. But maybe an actual meta-prompt, aka having our players explicitly compete to write prompts, would be another way of generating great prompts… Thanks for the idea!
Ah, cool game! Are you familiar with the “story games” genre (EG Fiasco, Apocalypse World, Swords Without Master, Ironsworn, A Quiet Year, Dungeon World, Norwegian Style, Microscope, …)? I have a weekly story game group; maybe we’ll try your game out.
Not super familiar, actually—we came to this from another direction of gaming (party games, word games like Codenames and Decrypto). Thanks for the recs, though, I’d love to check these out. And definitely LMK if you have any feedback!