Working or not?

I honestly think you should go at a pace your comfortable with. If that means creating it as a Gates of Bowser style. Then That's what you should do.

If this is something you just can't get into or if this is something where your heart isnt in to. I much rather you just restart the format from scratch and go back to the format you like the best.

I like the gates of Bowser style just as much as the Cemetery gates style. The Gates of Bowser is much easier on you as a GM because you only have one team and one group to keep an eye on. If this is something that's hard on you I much rather you go to a format your okay with.

I know right now its slow on my end because its going through the process of signing up to be a trainer in Ethos. Paper work and filling out forms usually isn't very exciting. I mean if others want to do there own thing I guess. But I think others really liked the original Gates of Bowser style. Considering we actually got to the end of the game and we completed the game.

With Gates of Bowser it might have been 100 floors but some of those floors were mini floors like boss battles or a trap. Others were there own little world and had so much to do.

Honestly, Punk I am all for you doing what makes you comfortable. Because in the end this is your idea and your thing. If its something thats hard for you and you don't want to do it. Then this doesn't really have a chance because in the end your the one who's in control of posting this and keeping up with everything in the end.

The problem is that I do not think that my preferred, narrative based style is very popular on this site.  I took a poll to see what people were interested in, and every single vote went to forum game.  People want individual characters and individual, completely free choice, but this is kind of a problem because there's not always a hell of a lot to say about what's going on depending on their actions.  In particular, I struggle very very strongly with making conversations work in this format.  However, the votes, including yours, say quite a bit: they want individual forum game style gameplay, not a shared CYOA.

For example, the scene with Fawful, Rosalina and their registration.  In a less free format, I could start and conclude that in a single post with no need for boredom, since the only meaningful choice to be made is whether they consented to being scanned by the Gardevoir (yes/no choice) and who they want as their sponsor (of which Fawful and Rosalina could only really say May or Dawn, say they don't know anyone, or lie and say they know Professor SoGood).  It leads to situations like Pielover getting caught at the shop and making his post literally just "Probably not." and such.  Basically, it makes the entire thing turn into a slow crawl towards essentially nothing.  To get through the amount of days I had planned for this story would take at least a year if not longer, and I feel like interest has already dropped off.

Gates of BC and it's 42 floors were really fun, but I feel like if even a Tower made by the one and only Justice can't build hype, anything I would do in that category would be scant in popularity.

Here's the thing - it's not even that it's hard for me.  I just don't enjoy splitting up my writing into individual, super short chunks for each player.  I like to write a nice, reasonably sized update in which I can guarantee there's at least something happening each post.  I know people want freedom, but tbqh there's not really anything that any of the players have done that wouldn't have been included as a choice in a CYOA.

tl;dr: Back when I created the original Cemetery Gates, I wanted to be Bethesda Game Studios.  After some growing and personal changes, I want to be Telltale Games.  But I don't see that as a popular choice that would appeal to the local tastes here.

It was intended to be daily updates to compensate for the relative shortness of the updates.

I appreciate that, but don't feel pressured.  The reason I decided to run this game was to appeal to local tastes, and I will try my very best to update quicker and more reflexively.

Anyone have any tips on the 'not getting caught up on things that could and should be resolved quickly' problem I'm having?  Like, conversations, store interactions etc that in a video game would be resolved near-instantaneously.


Really, the most important thing is that I feel like if I did something to appeal to my tastes and not the local ones, I would get nearly no participation, and I don't want anything I write down to be masturbatory (just for me).  As much fun as I've had with my main game (SRW), it literally gets 1-2 votes per update, and that's just not enough.  I want to feel like I'm part of the community, not just someone running a game on the site individually.  That is why I started this game.

I have nothing negative to say about this game or it's pace.

I love your style to be honest.