Omega Update Fan Adventure Discussion Thread

Anyone else here lose their adventures when the MSPA forums went down? I never transferred mine over to MSPFA, and blah blah blah I lost it all.

If you did, or if you didn't, imagine a hypothetical situation where you did, how would you go about continuing to write the adventure? Would you make a recap before you pick up where you left off, would you rewrite it and speed up the story, would you continue where you left off and recap as you go, or would you say screw it all just continue without it? What do you think is a good way to bring people up to speed with your adventure in such a situation?

Here's a list of all the threads that were archived by the Wayback Machine. It should prove pretty useful if you can find your adventure in there.

As for continuing your adventure, if it was me, I would either probably start over if it was just in its infancy or kill it if it was already lengthy

Long story short, of the 48 pages it's archived from late 2015, the first 40 or so is its own story, and the last 8 is a sequel of sorts. I'm thinking I'll just start over, fix some things I didn't like about it the first time around. 
The first part I'm rewriting out of a sense of pride more than for the adventure. It was my first time writing anything ever, and it was a train wreck.





My issue isn't regaining readership, I just got it for being active for a few years. Mine is that without bringing people up to speed, what I'm currently doing makes no sense. I know the story I'm writing, I wrote it! But am I writing it clearly enough for others to understand it?

If you're having trouble getting it restarted, my two cents? If there's parts you wish you'd done differently, now's the time. Try sitting down, going through your adventure, then change what you want and see how everything else changes. If you like the new direction, go with it. If you don't, then figure out why. It'll tell you what about it you like enough that you want to keep it, and you can go forward with that knowledge in mind.

Damn, my old shitty fan adventure is still in there :/

I haven't read Super Ego, but I like to think there are some good Fan Adventures.

Although it does ultimately depend on what you mean by 'Fan Adventure'.

I dont think i've found any 'stuck' style adventure's i've particularly enjoyed, even if they where well written.

But for an obvious example, I do think A beginners guide to the end of the universe was great, and that alone shows potential for them to be good, and I like to think there are good example's here aswell, but I haven't read to many yet.

The only good shit is a shit post

Speaking of whitch, SugoiStuck is great if you haven't played it

That always makes me worry that I have constipation or something

I'de be fine with it if I consistanly didn't have to wipe. but when it only happens every now and then, im just suspicious.

It's fun so far, but since it has only 1 update, its hard to tell much about it.

It's good looking

I like the whole 'its literally just homestuck, but literally just "not"' thing.

I feel like it might be a good idea to try and choose a much sooner ending point though.

I mean, this is a comedy thing, so given the right anti-climax, you could decide to end it nearly anywhere.

Rootborn, which I have all the images for, but none of the formatting or text, was also lost. 40 pages worth not hosted anywhere else. Through backups and with help I've managed to get ~60% back, but the remaining 40% is practically lost to the void, so I'm busting my ass off trying to reconstruct a bunch of pages with no idea but from memory what the text or order of panels was. Gotten back to Page 5, with pages 4 and 5 so far reconstructed prolly in an inferior way to the original. It's been a bitch.

A couple of questions, how long do you guys think a fanventure should be? I usually notice that a lot of fanventures tend to desire to be the length of Problem Sleuth or even Homestuck itself, which is kind of a big no-no, especially the Homestuck part. If is already really lengthy, most people won't read the dialogue or narration and just add commands just for the sake of it.
On my own silly fanventure, I don't want to make it go on for too long for fear that people will get bored of the characters, concepts, dialouge or plot/story. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was there since the beginning. lol.

Also, does anyone know any fanventures that are limited on art quality, but good on things like story, characters and concepts? One that comes to mind is 'A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe'.

Problem sleuth is probably a pretty good goal, but given the nature of Fan Venture's you want to try and aim for half of that at best, because naturally, its going to get bigger.

Aslong as your good though, people will still enjoy it. If you keep the story interesting, people will enjoy it.

On the topic of fanventures with limited art quality, but good on things like story character and concepts. I like to think my adventure Item Unoriginal is like that, but naturally, its a personal thing.

If its fair to count Stuck style adventure's as unoriginal, then any one's that look good would fall under that category (see Creata or RedditStuck). But again, that's a probably unfair basis, since easily half the adventures on here and MSPAF are like that.

The problem is, that other then that. I can't tell you. I usually quit stuff if they they dont have something as an interesting hook writing wise (whether it be writing style, characters, concepts, dialogue, story, or whatever).

I think Art can help a mediocre adventure become good, but it can't help a bad one become even mediocre. Atleast for me.