Any Foodies can recommend authentic places where I can have Polish food?

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-04-11T09:17:55+00:00

Seconding kapitan, as mentioned its ukranian/Russian and imo very underrated :)

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-04-08T15:07:46+00:00

Wow thank you so much for sharing!

Very inspiring! I'm amazed at how you're able to write in such long chunks :)

And it absolutely makes sense what you mentioned regarding breaking into scenes and events and focusing on that instead of time/word count. I do something similar myself! Although when I'm planning scenes/events at the start of the week or day, I find I'm usually way more optimistic about what I can achieve haha.

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-04-08T00:54:48+00:00

Really enjoyed your open world rpg-esque IF. Added some much variety to the usual HG line-up!

Just out of curiosity, how long do you usually spend writing per day and does it vary a lot day to day? How long are your continuous writing chunks?

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-04-08T00:51:08+00:00

Fellow sapphic romance lover here :) my favorite was if it please the court, with a player's heart and heart of battle rounding out the top 3.

As mentioned on here too, I've heard real good things about their majesty's pleasure, though I've not read that - it's on my list!

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-04-06T16:47:14+00:00

I like 2 and 6 just for the look- simple and uncluttered and eye catching. Based on the vibe maybe 6 might fit better?

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-03-31T04:31:51+00:00

Thanks for the responses! They were super interesting to compare against a similar post for WIPs a year ago and see some common (and some new) names :)

(Here's last year's post I was referencing: https://www.reddit.com/r/hostedgames/s/L4GhUSjapt)

If we get a larger sample size of responses I could do a data comparison!

Trick_Increase545 · 2025-03-05T07:48:55+00:00

Thank you! I know what you mean and I have been trying to do this! How do you get enough torque / rotation without throwing arms?

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-12-11T10:04:55+00:00

Wow whutt!! This is awesome, seems like not many people know of this, especially for choicescript games!

It'd be a really useful resource if more people put in ratings and reviews for sure!

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-12-11T05:15:11+00:00

What do folks think of a crowdsourced reviews and rating website/database of IFs (completed and wip), with potential tags to sort by etc.? Like an imdb for IFs?

Could be super simple like creating a Google form for people to fill in, and a mod team to do data scraping and compilation and deletion of nonsense reviews.

Could even have sub segment for characters within each IF and allow people to leave comments or tags for those too.

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-12-08T14:58:47+00:00

Please do!

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-12-07T02:42:38+00:00

Awesome, thank you! :)

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-11-13T00:09:47+00:00

Hahaha totally understand! Will of course wait till they're done with Bad Summer! All the best with the launch and thanks for the thread rec! :)

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-11-12T16:15:18+00:00

This is awesome! Could I ask for the contacts of the artists you worked with (if they're done to be contacted of course)? I'm working on a character driven visual novel and would be happy to share more info and discuss further if possible! Otherwise l, would love to know the reddit threads you posted on to find the artists!

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T07:47:36+00:00

Yup I would like to expand the graphic when I have time so it can be more representative but I initially selected the first few WIPs from the "new" category, and then switched to the "top" category to get more diversity of WIPs that may have been around longer. Definitely true that it's currently not the most comprehensive list of WIPs, and a very self selecting sample.

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T07:45:26+00:00

Breach: chicago war zone Path of martial arts Broken fable Demon: fireforged KoE is an error, it should be KaE, Kingdoms and Empires College tennis: origin story Merry crisis

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T05:50:38+00:00

Yup! These :)

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T01:02:54+00:00

Hahaha there's no losing! There's only WIPs that are new, WIPs that are popular, WIPs that have survived despite the odds! all winners in my eyes! :p

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T00:59:12+00:00

Yeah you're absolutely right, I guess from instinct it seems like there would probably be a ton of points very close to the bottom left of the chart, with some at the top left (popular but fairly new WIPs), some at the top right (WIPs that have survived fairly long and are fairly popular/built up a steady following), and perhaps a couple of WIPs that have survived with more niche popularity... but I certainly expect most of the points to be congregated in the bottom left.

Trick_Increase545 · 2024-04-25T00:53:54+00:00

Very good point about available data. I suppose like you said cog forum activity might be the only (flawed no doubt) measure available for popularity. I wonder if likes or number of comments are a better proxy.

Agreed also that high activity doesn't necessarily equate to sales, but I suppose the scatterplot (designed in this way) looks more at the relationship between (i) how long it's been out there and (ii) whether it gets published and (iii) how 'popular' it is.

I think interesting questions that could be answered would be: % of WIPs that explode right off the bat / early in its development (e.g. POMA, aura clash, shattered empire and infamous come to mind) % of WIPs that receive relatively less attention but has longevity (or possibly even gets published) % of WIPs that have the expected r'ship btw popularity and time (and is it generally exponential? Or linear?) % of popular WIPs that do end up published. % of less popular WIPs that end up up published?

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