r/makeyourchoice

It's exciting to see this subreddit getting busy. I appreciate all of you who are revitalising old CYOA and bringing them to our attention. However, lately I have been disheartened to notice that a lot of very low-effort reposts are getting more traction and attention than well-crafted, new OC by creators. We all have our tastes so this isn't a criticism of what types of CYOA are popular on the page. It's about giving space to and spotlighting our contemporary CYOA creators who are the backbone of our community.

How do we address this without kicking down those who have been driving awesome engagement to the subreddit? I'm interested in seeing what our community thinks. Some potential ideas to help kick off some conversation:

• A dedicated day for OC.
• A moderation panel composed of creators and consumers.
• Post limits

P.S. There's no expectation for others to carry this, i.e. current moderators. This is a dialogue, not a demand. I'm sure there's plenty of us willing to put in work to support the growth here.

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Here is the link: https://ynead.github.io/nemesis-island-cyoa/

It is a much expanded and interactive version of one of my old CYOAs from ~10 years ago.

Doesn't work so well on phone, intended experience is desktop.

At ~40k total words, it’s pretty damn long. I tried to alleviate some of that by adding summaries at the top of massive sections.

All feedback is welcome, either here or using the feedback box at the end of each run. Favorite Nemesis or epilogue, most disliked issue...

How do I play?

You pick a nemesis, then spend your 7+1 tokens to make your build and try to find the nemesis' weakness, indicated by the hint you get when you choose it. A weakness can be either a specific item or a minimal attunement value (3 shadows, for example).

Some items combo into new ones (anomalies) that you get for free. Some items require previous picks. Origins in particular unlock some stuff.

If you didn't find your nemesis' weakness, you get a defeat text. If you did find it, you get an epilogue instead.

Depending on your companions and how hard you leaned into their archetype, you get to choose between one or multiple epilogues. There are good and bad endings. There are also 2 really bad epilogues that lock you out of all the others if you truly fucked up.

edit: IF YOU ARE LAGGING HARD, especially on Firefox and its forks:

Firefox sometimes disables hardware acceleration by default, or because your graphic driver is out of date. This causes the cyoa to be entirely rendered using your cpu instead of gpu. You can re enable it in the settings or do:

Firefox menu → Settings → General tab → scroll to Performance → tick Use recommended performance settings → then close Firefox completely and reopen it. It does nothing until you restart.

I also pushed a low spec mode, it is a simple toggle in the top bar. Ctrl+f5 to clear the cached version and get the low spec fix.

Repost because it's been a while since it was last posted and it's a fun one to play whenever done by choice or randomly, if only for all the possible interactions among the major arcanas.

Link to imagechest https://imgchest.com/p/n87wvp2x4xd

Wanted to ask as am planning to make my first one. Obviously i have my own likes but i wanted to see if there was anything other people really like to see. Alternatively if you want to add what you really hate that’s helpful too. The CYOA will be witch hat atelier based btw :).