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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!! ^^;

Did you check the 'mature' box in the story overview? If not, that's definitely part of the problem.

If you have checked it, maybe try adding a story direction that says something like; "allow nsfw, explicit content and descriptions".

Sometimes the AI just really doesn't wanna let you do what you wanna do tho, and there's really no fix for it; AI is still kind of new technology, and not very intelligent yet.

Hiii!!

So that's one thing I'm still figuring out.

Thing is, long before I started making cyoa I actually started creating a Hogwarts Legacy fic that I call 'Hogwarts Legacy; Portkey Games'. I've worked a lot on it and it's taken a lot of time because I have circa 48 characters that I'm putting in. The idea is for this fic to basically be a copy of the game, except in text game format; and you will have to follow the story of the game, but can also do a lot of minor choices on your own and have actual conversations with your friends, say hi to Poppy in the hallway, just the small things that would've made the actual game more immersive.

It's about the Episodes part. In my first episode, in the Initial Choices section, Glimmer says this field is required. I'm working on a tablet rn and I can't test the episode without filling it. What should I put in these fields?

When I was on the computer, I managed to get to the test part, but after the initial text I wrote in 'First Turn', telling that this is CYOA fic and etc, there was only the choice spaces, empty :( How do you make it go directly from the initial text to the questions about the main character/reader? Sorry, as I told you I've never written in Glimmer before, but thanks for the tutorial anyway :) Have a good day🙃

How do you make so the player can choose to play 5, 10 or 15 scenes?

I thought maybe creating three different branches, each one with each number of scenes and after the player selects the number, create each transition depending on what the player chose? (Do I make any sense? Because English is not my first language and I feel like Im explaining myself terribly, I'm so sorry!!!)

Anyways, thank you for everything, hope you can answer this but it's totally find if not, just know it's been a pleasure!

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Hiii!!

I don't really have the time to make a detailed tutorial but I can try to tell you.

It's quite easy. I make one first scene and choose a custom length and put in 1 turn. I then add the options '5 scenes', '10 scenes', etc to the first turn. For the Scene Plot I write 'player chooses their number of scenes.'

Then I make three different paths, all with individual transitions that say "If 5 scenes chosen", "if 10 scenes chosen", etc. Then I just branch those paths out with the number of scenes the transition needed.

May I have a question about the tutorial? I tried to make my own CYOA stories and I kind of finished episode 1. I wanted to do episode 2, but I don't know what to write in the 'First Turn Text', 'Initial Choices' and 'Scene Plot' in the first scene to make sure that episode 2 follows episode 1.

What did you write in these if you are okay with sharing them?

Your tutorial on CYOA stories have been incredibly helpful and now I can do them for any fandom i like. Thank you!

I'm just having one issue and I wanted to ask you about it. I like how in your stories, all three customization questions are being asked before the story even starts. I've tried a lot of things but can't seem to get it right. It starts randomly writing a scene after the first question. Do you know how I could fix this?

I'm also on discord but the writers on there intimidate me with how against cyoa stories they are. That's why I wanted to ask you instead. Thank you in advance!♥️

-COD Asker