Choose Your Adventure: Tutorial
Hey, Ferny here. I am so sorry but I WILL NOT BE CONTINUING THE MAKING OF CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE REQUESTS due to personal reasons and schoolwork. It feels very unfair to just leave you all hanging however, so this is my tutorial on how to make Choose Your Adventure fics on Glimmerfics.🌜🌀
(I WILL BE FINISHING THE MARAUDERS AND HOGWARTS LEGACY FICS)
So first of all you will need a computer since you cannot make stories on glimmer on any other device.
After this you will need to go to the Author Portal on Glimmerfics.com and make a new story. Now I will show you step-for-step how I make the Choose Your Adventures;
1. Overview
This is he "overview" section; here you fill in what others will see.
What matters most here is the Fandom, Player and Love Interests.
All you gotta do here is select the Fandom your story belongs to, select the Player to be 'Reader' and type in 'Any' in the Love Interests Tab.
Scroll down and there's a few more tabs!
!! - If you want the AI to allow NSFW themes in your story you will need to select the Mature tab here!
Tags will not affect the AI, but will help your story get recognition! ^^
2. Story Setup
This is the Story Setup; here you steer the story outside the episodes!
What matters most here is the Background.
It's very important that you write 'This story takes place in (Fandom world)' as that is how the AI will know what to search for when it gathers information for writing the story turns.
After that you can add any details you want (more details = the AI messes up less about canon). In this example (Harry Potter) I have added all the students when Harry goes to Hogwarts, their years and houses. You can be more specific (but it might make the AI repetitive).
After the Background comes the 'Characters' tab.
The most important thing here is the Main Character (Player).
Select the 'Allow player to customize MC' button.
Add up to 3 questions where the player can fill in the details of their story! Character backstory, appearance and the story setting are important for the AI, and it's wise to add questions for those 3 categories.
The AI will remember the answers to the Customization Questions once the Player has answered them when playing the actual story.
After this you can add characters outside the MC that will appear in the story, but usually I don't in these types of fics. Why? Because when you add a character and all their specifics the AI often gets hung up on specific descriptions and will get repetitive when mentioning said character; I usually just write the character in the Background tab I showed previously.
!! - After the 'Background' and 'Characters' sections there's an 'Advanced' section. I leave it completely empty because in my experience filling any of it in makes the AI repetitive, but you can do however you want!
3. Episodes
There are three sections here. 'Overview', 'Plot' and 'Advanced'. Focus on 'Plot'; I actually ignore Overview and Advanced in CYOA fics.
The First Turn text doesn't really matter; just inform your players that this is a fic where they will be able to choose and steer the story however they want and how important the Customization Questions are for the AI and their story.
Now you will go ahead and make how many scenes you want for each episode- I usually go with 10 or 15 scenes. Lets start with scene 1.
I name the scenes numbers (1-15); the names don't affect the story.
In the Scene Plot I instruct the AI, telling it the plot is steered by the player and that it should help the story by describing the enviorment, etc. I copy paste this instruction to every scene.
To make new scenes, scroll down to 'Transitions' and click 'Add Transition'.
When adding your transition you create the next scene that the 1st scene will transiton to.
The 'Scene Ending Condition' determines what will make a scene end; I tell the AI that a timeskip or switch in enviorment will end the scene and transition to the next one.
Repeat this for every scene.
For the final scene (Number 15 for me) you will create a Conclusion when adding the Transition.
In the Conclusion Overview I tell the AI to summarize the player's story.
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-- That's all!!
This is as good as this tutorial is gonna get I'm afraid, I made it on a whim and I hope it's at least understandable!!
TYSM FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND I'M SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU HANGING!!! Pls feel free to unfollow if you were only here for the CYOA fics!! ^^;
,, Ferny 🐽🪽