Chasing the Rainbow Stripes
2016 UCI World Championship
In July I wrote a choose-your-own-adventure story/game about the Tour de France and it was so fun I wanted to do it again, but this time it’s about the 2016 World Championships.
This is shorter than Le Grande Boucle, some 20 000 words instead of 33 000. Mostly, however, it’s due to the fact that I tried to add some more choices, and choices that matter, than in my previous story. I felt that it constrained the reader too much which made it feel like nothing the player did mattered in the way the story developed. There’s also two major story lines instead of just one, you can either choose to be a sprinter or a breakaway artist which completely changes the story and the way the race unfolds.
have to say that I enjoyed breakaway artist a lot more due to much more decision making...brilliant stuff though once again, thanks agamir!
Issues:
Spoiler
Sprinters edition:
- On the breakaway members site you missspell Jarlinson Pantano
- "Unfortunately the Peloton is lead by Peter Sagan and three of his team mates": that sounds pretty unrealistic on a late stage of the WC, as they shouldn't have got the manpower
Attackers edition:
- "Yukiya Arashiro breaks a table, 0 almost breaks a leg and Thor Hushovd falls into the hotel pool with all his clothes on.": I guess the 0 is missing a text
Croatia14 wrote:
have to say that I enjoyed breakaway artist a lot more due to much more decision making...brilliant stuff though once again, thanks agamir!
Issues:
Spoiler
Sprinters edition:
- On the breakaway members site you missspell Jarlinson Pantano
- "Unfortunately the Peloton is lead by Peter Sagan and three of his team mates": that sounds pretty unrealistic on a late stage of the WC, as they shouldn't have got the manpower
Attackers edition:
- "Yukiya Arashiro breaks a table, 0 almost breaks a leg and Thor Hushovd falls into the hotel pool with all his clothes on.": I guess the 0 is missing a text
Cheers! I agree that more interactivity makes for more fun gameplay, and if I keep writing these that's definitely something I'll do more of; good constructive feedback
Regarding the bugs, you're completely right, must've messed up the "coding" part.
Also, tips if you want to play all the different endings:
Spoiler
1. The breakaway can either get caught or stay away. During the Breakaway part that starts with “The next ten kilometres it increases to five minutes”, go back and forth until you get the other sentence that you haven’t gotten, starting with the words With or Over.
2. There are three possible endings for the sprinters, you can win, you can come third, or you can crash. During the Sprinter part that starts with “Now all you have to worry about is beating”, do the same but here there are three divergences, that starts with the words: With, Coming or Riding.
Thought about making it only a 10% chance of getting that ending.
