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Jukashi!!WzMJSzZzWx 2012/07/11(Wed)22:48 No. 57071 ID: 203500
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Well, I'm not updating for some reason, so I might as well contribute in some fashion.

>What got you into quests in the first place?
Well, judging by other people's answers, I'd suppose I'm sort of an old man here, because my interest in this sort of thing started way back when Hussie was doing Problem Sleuth. I also found choose-your-own-adventure books fun, way back in childhood, but there's probably not really a link there. Rubyquest was probably what made me think it would be fun to do myself, aside it being a pleasure to experience in and of itself. I was actually lucky enough to be there right when it started on /tg/!

>I noticed [a particular theme] shows up a lot in your quests. Is that deliberate?
I've been told my sense of humour is "bawdy".

I just think sexuality is pretty funny!

>Which of your quests are you most proud of?
Undermind, I'd say. Mostly because it's pretty much completely original, unlike Lunar, and held itself together, unlike The Sword. Battle Quest is also super great, but I can't stake a solo claim on that! You may notice, though, that none of these quests are actually finished.

>What do you like to do in your spare time?
Bum around on the internet, mostly.

>do you imagine voice actors for your characters? If so which ones and who?
Naw. They do have their own "voices", in the literary sense of phrasing and rhythm and so on, the way they say things, but there's not really any sound in my head. I have thought about it, but the only one I came up with any formal guidelines for is Maolla, and even then it's just "somehow both sort of sexy and sort of annoying at the same time". Aside from that it's just very very vague stuff, like... well, heck, I guess I'll write them out, what ones I do have a solid enough idea of to describe.

Wordblood: smooth and educated. Usually calming and contemplative. Probably some fanciful aftereffect, like a soft hint of papery rustlings, pen scratchings and distant voices underlying his speech.
Peregrin: clever, and charming, in a sort of slick way. Whatever comes to mind thinking of "stage magician dracula".
Maolla: As said, attractive but with an option on annoying. Relatively intelligent and educated, but also casual and coarse. A sense that she'd be charismatic if she bothered herself to be.
Mitrel: sort of resigned and gentle. Tired, but caring.
Rel: "Friendly doctor"-ish. A bit motherly, even, but also a little creepy.
Radde: Not actually a 90s cool dude or surfer. Basically the sound of a fun guy, whatever that is, but with a sense of strength as well.
Piyerra: Curt. Patient, but deliberately so, and not always successful. Sort of a long-suffering older-sister voice.

Saulanna deliberately doesn't have much literary voice of her own, being largely a vessel for the players. She has her high social stats, so whatever it is it's pleasing to listen to, and she would come off as being intelligent.

>How'd you come up with your username?
shhhh its an ancient secret, lost in the mists of Web 1.0

dare you plunder those ancient tombs??? The answer is no, you don't.

>Is there a character that reminds you of yourself?
Not really. Some of them kinda remind me of different aspects of myself, but I don't think that counts.

>how much time do you spend spend working on the quests that you run?
It's hard to say. I start and stop a lot, and get distracted, so there's seldom any sort of solid chunk of effort that can be easily measured.

>I got some to do with your avatars. 1.Why do you use it? 2.How did you come up with it?
This is Jyfriss. He's pyromaniac journalist to the gods, member of a race of magical pterodactyl-men, from Exalted. The most fun character I ever played.

>How far planned ahead do you usually stay?
I tend to have broad ideas in mind of what will or may happen when or where, but I think I favour keeping it loose.

>Do you draw or write first?
I "write" a rough outline in my head, then draw the pictures, then write properly.

>“Have you ever felt like you’d ‘written yourself into a corner’ in one of your quests?”
Actually, sort of the opposite problem! With The Sword, I didn't write myself enough corners. Eventually it drifted out into open waters, where any direction it could have gone would have mostly just been more aimless floundering. Lots of freedom, but no "pull" to it. It was just too loose.

>What difficulties did you deal with when creating your quest?
I really need something to listen to in the background or something when I draw, or my attention wanders.

>How long have you been drawing
Probably ever since I was bored and within reach of materials. I really don't do any sort of proper practice, though, which is why I'm not as good as I should be.

>what kind/genre of books do you like to read?
Like, text-only, dead tree books? Mostly fantasy. Some sci-fi and humour.

If we're being more open, I do like comics a lot, though I'm probably not at the level of the american idea of a comic nerd, since there's less opportunity to be so in this country. On the plus side, I did get more exposure to euro comics, which were probably rather an influence on my story style. Asterix and Tintin and so forth. More focus on setting than on central protagonist, compared to american comics, I think. More general faffing around and soaking up atmosphere. Seeing interesting things and meeting interesting characters.

I do have a comic, if by chance anyone isn't aware. Or did, and will again, if I have enough to do with it. :V

>>57071
>Or did, and will again, if I have enough to do with it. :V

Hooray! I just went through the archives last night- it was a great read and I look forward to more when it comes out of hiatus. Or did you mean you were going to start a new one?

>>57071
>Radde: Not actually a 90s cool dude or surfer.

MADNESS.

And it's no good; ever since that "it's a mystery, is what is is", Maolla's voice is a female version of Phil Harding.

...actually, that probably is "intelligent and educated but casual and course".

Think I have a decent idea for some of them
Mitrel: Seth Green (Performance of Oz was pretty chill but caring, not tired, but best comparison I can come up with that description)
Rel: Jennifer Hale (you ever hear FemShep's idea of flirting? Creepy.)
Radde: Bruce Willis (Dude is totally fun and strong, and even has the bonus of having a form of 90's/80's nostalgia)
Piyerra: Angelina Jolie (tyyyyypecaaaaast)
Saulanna: Fuck it, it's obvious, Tara Strong

Annnd for Maolla: Eliza Dushku, sexy, potentially charismatic, coarse, intelligent, casual, and annoying. (But this is more from her Saints Row 2 performance than Buffy)

I find it intriguing that the Scellor voice actresses have a related acting background with their male shipmate scellor's VA, but from very separate works

Cirr 2012/07/12(Thu)14:47 No. 57093 ID: 120d63
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> What got you into quests in the first place?
It's a long and embarassing story involving the death of a few freeform roleplay forums, stumbling upon Ruby Quest on the recommendation of a friend I haven't seen in years, deciding to run a quest on my site for an audience of three or so people, looking at TV Tropes to see if they had anything specific to quests and finding out about Mudy Quest, tracking down this place after the first URL was invalid and then peeking into the site through the safe bathysphere of the wiki.

But I'll never tell you any of it. Ever.

> I noticed some themes show up in your quests a lot. Is that deliberate?
Yes. Probably.

I'm a pretentious son of a bitch at times, and people have probably noticed there is not a single goddamn work I have ever written which does not have an artificially constructed character in there somewhere. Typically as the protagonist.

Why do I keep coming back to this theme? Well, there's a metafictional appeal to it because I personally see fictional characters as constructs of the mind of the author anyway, with authors becoming the gods of their own creations. But it's not as simple as that. When something is written well, and I'm damn sure this has happened for anyone who can write a character with SOME motivation, sometimes you don't have full control over the situation without things feeling forced and awkward. Things interact and emerge. The whole questing thing is especially appealing because even more of that control slips away and the product becomes more organic in its design.

See what I mean? Pretentious rambling bullshit.

I've also spent the large majority of my life being fascinated by intelligent creations. I'm currently studying AI in games for my PhD. AI and aLife and all that jazz has endlessly fascinated me because there's some level to these fields which is far simpler than nature, but which reflects nature in its complexity also. It's hard to articulate. One of my favourite things these past few years has been emergent behaviour, or how elements in a system interact in ways no one could have predicted. Nine times out of ten we call these "bugs" or "glitches" and rightfully stomp them dead and burn the remains. But there is sometimes that glimpse, that insight into complex behaviour from simple interactions. I'm not a poet, so I can't really do much more to explain what I mean but ramble. Ramble about stuff that I'll read in two days time and cringe over how badly worded it all is.

This also ties into a fascination with how non-human intelligence works. The two are strongly related. I haven't really explored this as much as I would like because I fear making something too alien would make it difficult for an audience to relate to, or to get into the mindset of. Ten Updates was an experiment into this and it was kind of awkward running it. People were kind of getting ticked off at the protagonist blatantly ignoring any suggestion that didn't conform to its own view of the world around it and continuing to act like a dick. I don't think that could have worked as anything other than the gimmick quest it was.

In conclusion I guess I have brain problems and am crazy. Next question.

> Which of your quests are you the most proud of, personally?
I despise them all in different ways. Next.

...Oh, alright. Defective, TWIM, and Reformation is going far better than I could have ever hoped for. By the time you read this I should be working on an update for it.

Bungee Grapple Adventures is probably the quest I've had most people unanimously talk about how much they loved it. BGA3 was a mistake.

I guess Infiltration and Red Sky had some merit to them as well but they both wildly diverged from how I wanted them to go.

> Ever had a recurring nightmare?
Not that I can recall. I do miss the ease I used to have in lucid dreaming, however. One of my lucid dreams inspired a quest that was run on a different site (and has since died a slow drawn out death).

> Have you ever felt like you'd `written yourself into a corner' in one of your quests?
Not necessarily into a corner, but into parts I don't find particularly interesting. The part with Stern in TWIM I realised was going to go into politics far above and beyond my own limited comprehension, and so I eventually ended up copping out and delaying any outcome. This is particularly problematic given that diplomacy and politics are a case where the suggesters have the upper hand over the quest author if they happen to be ridiculously bad at either or both, such as myself. Anything an individual suggester misses, someone else can provide. If I miss a gaping flaw in the thing I'm writing, that's it. The characters I directly control will always be weaker than the characters suggesters have influence over.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to become less useless and impotent in situations like this, for the love of all that is good in the world let me know.

This isn't particularly related to the question but I have had characters that were meant to be smart do stupid things, because it is basically impossible to write a character smarter than yourself. This is more of a problem I've encountered in tabletop games, really. As an author on an imageboard that doesn't move too fast, there is more time to plan out an appropriate course of action. And there's the good old fashioned setting things up so that the character looks smarter than they are based on hidden knowledge unavailable to suggesters, but this always feels like such a cop-out.

> Do you imagine voice actors for your characters?
Some voices in some cases that I am not even going to pretend I can articulate or describe. Not to mention I change my mind on the matter every time I envision a scene to write it.

> Is there a character that reminds you of yourself?
It doesn't matter a damn what I say, people are going to associate me with Teteke until the day I leave all conscious memory. Stupid bird.

Personally, seeing as every character I've come up with has been formed somewhere in the dark recesses of my psyche somewhere, I can say there's possibly aspects of myself in every character I've written. Or reflections of people I've known, or amalgamations, or who knows.

> What do you like to do in your spare time?
Waste it on video games or, more increasingly, watching internet streams. Sometimes I actually work on game development. I remember those days.

> What difficulties do you deal with when creating quests?
My inability to ever focus on one quest at a time aaaaagh why do I keep starting new ones

> Cut or uncut?
Look how long this text is. LOOK AT IT. If I knew how to edit we'd have been done a screen ago.

> How long have you been drawing?
Long enough that my art should look better than it does, but never in a dedicated fashion. I have a few notepads filled up with doodles, that's pretty much it.

> Are you male or female?
Standard internet assumption works in this particular instance.

> Favorite color?
Blue. Blue and black is my favourite combination. Shiny black and glowy blue is the god-aesthetic in my world. I have tried to stop abusing that particular aesthetic as much as I used to but it keeps coming back.

Yes, I did like Tron Legacy. Even if they changed the blue to more of a blue-white.

> How far do you plan ahead.
Never far enough!

> Do you draw or write first?
Write. Always.

There have been two or three updates I drew the image first instead. I don't even remember which ones they were or what quest they were for.

>What got you into quests in the first place?
Honestly, it was probably attention-whoring. I did my first proto-quests starting back in '05 or '06 on /co/. They lasted a few hours each and consisted of somewhere around 30 hasty scribbles, mostly composed of puzzles and combat. I saw a few more of them around, and one day around the end of '06, after a breakup, I decided to do a hardcore one. For about a week straight I mostly stayed in my room and churned out around 40 images a day, only stopping to eat and drink and sleep a little. The story was pretty lame by modern quest standards, the drawings were crude, and it was pornographic at parts, but I still felt like it was a worthy accomplishment. A little later, I discovered Problem Sleuth, did a handful of quests on their adventure board, and then eventually migrated here.
>Which of your quests are you most proud of?
It's an odd question, because it seems like every time I start a new one, I decide that the last one was trite garbage and beat myself up for having worked on it. Still, if Oblitus doesn't count, I'd have to say Alanna was pretty good. I did that one on MSPA, though.
>What do you like to do in your spare time?
I'm in grad school for 3-d animation, but I don't know if that counts as spare time. Dick around on the internet and get enough passable information about a variety of subjects to make it look like I know what I'm talking about, I guess.
>do you imagine voice actors for your characters? If so which ones and who?
Sometimes Viktor is Aku, sometimes he's Slingblade. Most of the rest of them are friends of mine.
>how much time do you spend spend working on the quests that you run?
It really varies wildly, depending on mood and quest. Oblitus updates usually take me like 5 hours, but only one of those hours is actually working, the rest is thinking about what should happen next and talking about it on IRC. I'm running one on /tg/ right now, which I do about once a week as an all-day affair.
>I noticed crazy women show up a lot in your quests. Is that deliberate?
No.
>Ever had a recurring nightmare?
For about a week, my reflection in the mirror by my bed would get out of bed, his eyes would turn black, and he'd start beating on the glass, growing more and more deformed the more I stared at him. At the end of the week he broke the glass, stepped out, grinned at me, and walked out of my room.
I can't have mirrors in my bedroom anymore.
>Have you ever felt like you’d ‘written yourself into a corner’ in one of your quests?
All the time. It tends to make me hesitate to update for a long time, and then do one huge update several days later that progresses things beyond the point I was stuck at.
>How'd you come up with your username?
AB was the god who created humans in Alanna. OB and EB were the other two of the trinity.
>What difficulties did you deal with when creating your quest?
Successfully challenging a giant shapeshifting man-eating monster with anything that doesn't just kill him outright.
>Do you draw or write first?
I jot down the key issues I need to address in the update, then sort of solidify how I'm going to address them while I mull over and draw, then I write.

>>57094
2006? Dang, yo. You still have any of that stuff?

>>57093
BGA didn't have any artificial lifeforms in it!

Look, I dunno about you, but to me boxcats just ain't natural. Dark voodoo magic is the only explanation.

>>57093
I know that you are probably not asking for advice actually concerning this issue, but because I am "helpful" and like to "type a lot" I will offer it anyway.

I personally feel that characters written by suggesters are only stronger if the author uses their suggestions to smash into some sort of consistent personality.

It's pretty easy to write a consistent character with only two or three traits, if you just keep in mind how they interplay with each other, it'll give a pretty good illusion of depth. Even one trait will seem realistic as long as it's an actual motivation and not a quirk like "likes beef." I mean, that guy could still be a background joke guy I guess?

Anyway, I think suggesters sort of flatten the personality of the main character, because they're going to be wildly inconsistent at some points. Although Survivors is a terrible quest also for various other reasons, it would be hard to characterize Clara, although you could pretty easily describe Jacob or Jayce's personality in one or two words. Even with Spikesby, it is awkward and difficult to describe his personality. Where you impose more personality on the character, the traits people use to characterize it are the traits that you imposed anyway. People would describe Jim Crow in the ways that were based off the things I wrote about him, and not really based on the suggestions, other than "hits on everything." :v

As far as writing outside your area of expertise, especially in an area that you claim to be grossly incompetent at, why would you do that? I mean, the world is just as artificial as the characters in it. It's easy to make characters interact only with things you as author understand. You also design how the political structure and social interplay of the society operate. It's easy to cut off suggesters' depth of knowledge at the knees by just making things not work that way. As long as they work in some consistent and somewhat reasonable way, everyone will think you are creative and clever for coming up with the system instead of realizing that you have just been erecting barriers to protect yourself from your own ignorance.

Fractal here, typing painstakingly on an iPad in London. I should wait two days so that I can actually have an author picture and stuff but I'm bored and I have a precious trickle of Internet.
>"What got you into quests in the first place?"
My answer is the same as most - I read rubyquest, thought it was super nifty, and decided to do my own.

>"Which of your quests are you most proud of, personally?"
Well, I only have two, but I definitely think Rekitzchenstreben is better than FudgeQuest. I mean, they both have totally different vibes and goals, but I'm a lot more pleased with deerlings at the moment.

>"Have you ever felt like you’d ‘written yourself into a corner’ in one of your quests?"
Not really "into a corner," but I feel like right now I'm not giving my questers enough room to really stretch their legs and make choices in FudgeQuest. Every choice just seems to be pretty obvious. I'm trying really hard to get to a point where there will actually be different choices to be made, and I feel like that'll make it a lot more interesting.

>"Do you ever imagine voice actors for your characters?"
Not actors, but when listening to music sometimes I'll think, "This is what [insert character here] would sound like." I also do this super dorky thing where I imagine music videos starring my characters when I listen to music BUT DON'T EVEN PRETEND YOU HAVEN'T DONE THE SAME THING

All Authors:

A couple questions about quests made by *other* authors.

1. Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?

2. What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?


Lagotrope:
I notice you're running three quests at once, with a fourth on hiatus. Are you insane, or just suicidal? :I

Seriously though, I appreciate the work you're doing and all, but don't push yourself too hard. Permit me to enlighten you as to the dangers of over-questing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Cave_adaptation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity

>Insane or Suicidal?
Masochist.

>Carpal Tunnel
I have pain in thumbs, wrists and all sorts of variants, but a fuck is not given. See above.

>Cave Adaptation
It's cool, I sit near a window.

>Virginity
It probably grew back after so long, yes.

>Other author quests
I am terrible at being involved in other's quests. Sometimes I do follow a quest at least loosely, but I don't believe I've ever suggested.

>>60232
Grew...back?

Oh my

>>60232
>I have pain in thumbs, wrists and all sorts of variants, but a fuck is not given.
Ok, I suspect you're joking to some degree, but if I can go all suddenly SRS on the Internets, don't fuck about with your wrists. Beyond a certain point it becomes pretty much a one-way street of "boy, I sure hope you won't miss doing that thing you do ever again".

>My experience suggests that once you start having RSI problems they are unlikely to go away by themselves. Everyone I've ever heard of with RSI problems (myself included) ignored early warning signs and didn't take action anywhere near soon enough, even when the symptoms started becoming severe. It's not clear to me that you can ever "recover" from RSI; all you can do is stabilize at your current level of disability. If there is any recovery, it takes many years.
-- John Ousterhout (CompSci Prof; forced to switch to speech recognition in 1996, and still at it as of 2007, only able to type at all in short stints)

Since "do less of the thing you do" never happens, at least give your wrists more variety---any kind of exercise that involves your hands is helpful. Get out of the chair between updates. (Your eyes could do with focusing at something at a distance other than "monitor" anyway.)

>>60234
I was actually quite serious about the wrist pains, but they're tolerable now. Around august of last year was when I had to take frequent breaks from drawing due to pain, and since then I have made it a habit to just occasionally stretch my wrist around or otherwise break the repetition. It's still around, but overall significantly better than last year. It is just now that I'm realizing it is already september again. Anyways, thanks for the concern nonetheless.

>>60236
Stupid question, but are you a guy or a girl?

I said it was stupid... :(

>>60238
A guy, and now, out of curiosity, I must ask what spurred that question.

>>60239
The "grew back" comment.

Don't...uh...don't think about it too hard.

>>60240
Already did, and no I am pretty sure that in reality it is not a thing that actually happens, I was joke.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2012/09/04(Tue)13:46 No. 60361 ID: 82dd9a
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>To Octary
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>To Octary
What is your favorite flavor of candy, please tell us, this is is very important.

!DReamEr2eU 2012/09/08(Sat)23:51 No. 60587 ID: 55c4cf
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>>49280
(Previous Ask the Author Post)

“What's with all the eyepatches?
My left eye is all but dead. It causes me an incredible amount of pain at times so I have to wear an eye patch in order to function. I have learned some techniques to drastically lessen the pain and the frequency of the fits, at least. I run into things with my left side all too often because I sometimes don't see where the wall, door, or corner are properly.

So, with that, I guess I wanted to ask the other authors what your first quests were like!
Pretty stressful, but rewarding experiences. You stumble and fall hard at the beginning, and when you look back you see all of your early mistakes and it can be hard to look at them.

What were the biggest obstacles you faced?
Losing my computer, moving homes, feeling guilty about monetary obligations to the point where I don't feel comfortable working on quests.

What's the best part of quest-writing?
The best part of quest-writing is the reactions. Watching the audience react to things you do is extremely exciting. This is magnified when it is a special event you have worked on the quest to get to, or built up toward. The audience reacting to really important parts of the story is exhilarating and they are the things that push me to keep working on them. I think this is a common joy, because if the interactive segment didn't make people happy they'd just make a comic.

To all quest author: what is the thing you find harder to draw?
When I started I really disliked drawing backgrounds. I have been forcing myself to work on them. I've also realized I cannot seem to get a grasp on “cute” or chibi things.
 
Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?
I try to be! I have a few quests I try to keep on top of so I can suggest (Passage, Meigara, Unnatural Selection, Beyond, Hatch, Black Company, Doolbag, Crash, The Island of Onigashima, and a lot more). The PROBLEM is that with my dyslexia mentioned in the previous post in this thread, I have trouble reading things that are lengthy. The words scramble the more grouped they are. Luckily some people do quest readings and record them, and Lagotrope reads his quest to me. If anyone will read their quest(s) to me, or record them for the quest reading thread I WILL read them. I try to suggest actively, but when I get busy I lose track.

What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?
Frisbee quest by BeakieHelmet.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Noble-spirited mischief will face fruits. This method has never been released to the public before. Very few, if anyone has implemented this. Sometimes it just becomes.

What is your favorite flavor of candy, please tell us, this is is very important.
That is hard to say? It depends on what you mean by candy. When it is hard candy I would have to say orange, when it is chocolate type things I would say pretzels and/or caramel (Take 5), or chocolate covered cherries. Twizzler's Pull n' Peel please me.

>>60587
>and Lagotrope reads his quest to me
Oh, so that's what he does when he's not updating. There I was thinking it was something like sleeping.

>If anyone will read their quest(s) to me, or record them for the quest reading thread
>>60589

>>60587

I find Dyslexia really interesting, because I cannot comprehend it in an empathic regard. If it is not a rude question, and if such a question is within the realm of this activity, does Dyslexia at all affect your ability to write updates?

Not to say that your updates are written poorly, but would you say it is more difficult than what might be expected from somebody without the disorder? Does it only affect reading?

>Are you active in other people's quests?

Sadly I'm not very active in quests. I think I can count the number of suggestions I've made on one hand.

>What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?

My absolute favorite quest ever is Apocalyption, with Kara Quest shortly behind it. Basically the entire Rastin/Vresch thing. I just love the setting behind it and the characters.
Shortly behind those two are KB and Ruby Quest. All the quests I mentioned are ones that I caught up with near the end (with ruby quest being maybe a year after it ended) but binged on them until I was done reading them.

chirps 2012/09/13(Thu)06:35 No. 60790 ID: 34cbef
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>1. Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?

...there are other quests?
I'm not very active in other quests because i'm trying to come up with very interesting quests of my own. But when i do want to suggest something it's usually the funny nonsensical quests that get me... or any just flat out humerous ones.

>2. What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?

NONE HISSS BOO BOO THEY ARE MY RIVALS- i like dompag... i've been just skimming over oblitus.... pornquest is actually one i'm a part of, but i would like more character interraction (or for the others to update it besides myself)... I've been kinda perrusing larro's quests a bit (no i'm not shipping emily with an emotionless dictator, why would i do that?)... and i guess lonelyworld has some good ones i look into sometimes, other then that i can't really think of any.

Now that i'm kinda not an arse hat i think i can re answer some questions.

>What got you into quests in the first place?
Gnome did, he was making dorfquest when i used to go to school with him. We had similar friends.

>"I noticed [a particular theme] shows up a lot in your quests. Is that deliberate?"
I like being funny, especcially when it attracts peoples attention. I like cute creatures doing cute things... though asside from anime i have really no clue what that would entail. I am terrible with my personal emotions and sometimes that bleeds over into my quests, and that's why i drop horrible things into the story.

>Which of your quests are you most proud of, personally
This question i can't answer yet. I'll see if i can finish a single one before i make that judgement.

>Ever had a recurring nightmare
sudden death, like either your falling and then you hit pavement then you wake up in a cold sweat... or any other things that fall under the sudden death spectrum of a nightmare

>Have you ever felt like you’d ‘written yourself into a corner’ in one of your quests
Plenty of times, but my more dominant issue is losing interest in my quests fast

>What do you like to do in your spare time
sleep, eat, be lazy... I've got enough money for the next few months, but lately I go job hunting. (if anyone wants to wish me luck, i'd appreciate it- hell use voodoo magic to get the fates on my side, that'd be even better)
I play video games also, none on the laptop but plenty on my consoles.

>cut or uncut
mfw i have no face

>do you imagine voice actors for your characters? If so which ones and who?
I don't watch much tv to really know the names of who i want... but alot of them could be the same voice actors of some older popular cartoons.

>how much time do you spend spend working on the quests that you run
seconds or minutes... it varies, but i'm no lagotrope when it comes to updates

>Are you male or female?
Male

>How long have you been drawing?
since my older brother wanted to draw for the Heavy Metal magazines. Which was a very long time ago... he's much older, and i haven't seen my family in i don't even remember

>Also, many authors said they like to read so—for those of you who do—what kind/genre of books do you like to read?
Fantasy and sci fi, my particular favorites are books written by Dianna Wynne Jones- lookup Darklord of derkholm, it's a great book that i grew up with.

>any recipes to share
start with a baby marmoset, take three parts club to two parts scalp, use force or vigorous tenderizing, and finally extract brain and then enjoy.

Also for a final word, i'm a whole slew of people- if you want to know what names i've gone under just go under the bamump wiki page.

FRACTAL 2012/09/13(Thu)10:04 No. 60793 ID: 2c322d
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okay i already did this but i only did a few questions and now there are more available HERE WE GO
i'm basically just going down the thread and answering any questions i didn't the first time so this is gonna be really long sorry

> Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?
i'm not, but i really mean to be more active. i have a bunch of quests where i'm like "man i really need to read this, i'll read it next time i get a chance!" and then i just ... don't
but i really like Rainy Day and Hunter and JaneQuest.

>How'd you come up with your username?
I am really fascinated by fractals and the golden ratio and fibonacci sequences and other mathematical things that show up in nature. a lot of this is because i'm a deist so any time i see grand patterns of math and science in the world around us i get really excited.

>>When you make characters for your quests, what do you draw inspiration from, or what suddenly stimulates you to make a character for your quest. The same question for how you make quests.
ah that's really hard! it depends. for fudgequest i just sort of tried to put together an engaging cast of characters who were sort of caricatures of different tropes. i made fudge and miriam almost simultaneously, with fudge basically being a shameless pile of a bunch of different traits i find attractive, then miriam just as basically a foil to her. fudgequest itself came about because i was really inspired by rubyquest, which is why i wanted my first quest to be a horror/comedy.
deerlings was based on characters i made a few years ago for a collaborative comic project that never really got off the ground. i tweaked the idea to make it work as a quest and fleshed out the world, but basically that was fully formed before i even started the quest.
katherine quest is, obviously, a direct nod to an artist i admire.

>Is there a character that reminds you of yourself?
okay everyone is expecting me to say fudge but, as i mentioned above, fudge is just sort of a projection of my ideal girl. she's just a bunch of things i find attractive mashed together, which is why we share a lot of physical traits.
i actually think i am pretty similar to gunter and katherine, even though i don't think i come off that way online.

>Got any fun or interesting stories to share?
one time i was on vacation with my family and we did this like tropical hike thing and our hike guide was like "who wants to eat something gross" so of course i was like "ME ME" because i thought it was gonna be like weird vegetation or something but then he walked over to a termite mound and stuck his hand in and i ended up eating termites off a stranger's hand

>Also, many authors said they like to read so—for those of you who do—what kind/genre of books do you like to read?
oh that's a hard question too. a lot of things! i like mostly fiction, both fantasy and realistic. my favorite book is "the story of edgar sawtelle."
i also really really like children's books or books aimed a young adults. i like "the miraculous journey of edward tulane," "the amazing maurice and his educated rodents," "mr. maxwell's mouse..." come to think of it, it seems like i just really like things with long awkward titles
similarly i like children's games and movies too, like pixar stuff and spyro, etc. etc. i have a very active, very demanding inner child.

>any recipes to share?
okay so
slice a banana and toss it really gently in brown sugar until the sugar sort of melts
heat up a pan until butter sizzles and then really quickly sear the bananas, just til the sugar caramelizes, try not to let the bananas get smushy
layer the banana slices between slices of bread and fry it like a grilled cheese sandwich
serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. banana fosters sandwich. you're welcome

okay and then NEW QUESTIONS
> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?
> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters? what about other people's?

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?
i'd give alot of them... an ending

> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters? what about other people's?
my favorite character is myself, why? because shuttup. Other quest characters would have to be .... That mushroom dryad girl from oblitus, overlord from how to be an overlord quest, that black bald guy from command quest, and i guess soviet hero (i guess)

All Authors: Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?

...please tell me I'm not the only one who likes to imagine characters singing and dancing to songs. :I

Authors
Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
So we can like, know how to act in certain quest threads as to not annoy the author. I mean, like if you hate sex jokish suggestions or the really absurd ones.

not sure if i can write in this thread already,but..fuck it

>What got you into quests in the first place?

Rubyquest and Larro

>Which of your quests are you most proud of?

Necroquest, mostly because it's my first and people seems to like it

>do you imagine voice actors for your characters? If so which ones and who?

The necromancer has my voice, everyone else has a voice based on wath my brain choose they soundlike

>>Is there a character that reminds you of yourself?

a little bit the necromaner

> Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?

i'm active in a lot of quests, the i'm most active is how to be an overlord, but my suggestion are just > do this

> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters? what about other people's?

the necromancer and the still unnamed bunny girl in "ruin". other author character i like, sarah from "junequest", emily and the overlord from "how to be an overlord"

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
steve shirts

>>60818

And gimp suits.

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?

Absent ones, because I realise I've fucked something up.

>Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?

No.

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?

Space Marine Quest, I'd change just about everything ever.

> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters? what about other people's?

I don't know, really. I guess I like officer Murder the most. In other peoples', I liked Heartsbane, also Foxtits, since she is my waifu.

>Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?
yes yes yes! i actually plan on posting all associated character songs for katherine quest in the disthread, and the planned sequel to katherine quest (not really a sequel, but related) will feature music!
i can't really list all the songs i associate with my characters, just watch the disthreads i guess
but yeah i TOTALLY imagine like little music videos in my head starring quest characters i'm not even sorry

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
i guess sometimes it's a little frustrating to get suggestions that are a reaction to the update but not a suggestion for action. i love reactions, i really do! but it's also really important for me to know what my readers think the character should do so i can tally up the suggestions, because i normally work pretty strictly with majority rule.
in the same way, i know quests are supposed to be fun, but i get a little annoyed with joke or troll suggestions - like, the really dumb stuff. because again, that suggestion you made that obviously isn't contributing anything could have been a vote to be tallied!
maybe i'm just fussy, though.
...and steve shirts

>1. Are you very active in other people's quests? And which quests have you been the most active in?
I try to suggest! It just doesn't happen sometimes. I read, in no particular order: Story Seeker, Rainy Day, Wizard Quest, Incense, FudgeQuest, Doolbag. Also the quests of basically everyone who I'd consider myself friends with on IRC as well.

>2. What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?
The ones listed above! Also anything that Slinko has run. I also love Defective and I really wish Cirr would put it on not-hiatus.

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?
It' be nice if I could keep a consistent once-a-day update schedule again. In Dragons, I've made way too many decisions that I have later regretted to really discuss in any coherent way.

> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters?
Hoviet Sero, definitely. I really enjoy writing for him, and the quest in general.

>what about other people's?
I liked Chee when Cheequest was still running. Doolbag's entertaining too.

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
Yeah, I'm never too happy with people who insist on being 'wacky' in quests that, well, aren't. You know, trolling 'suggestions'. Eh, I've said this all before anyway.

>>60840
>i guess sometimes it's a little frustrating to get suggestions that are a reaction to the update but not a suggestion for action. i love reactions, i really do! but it's also really important for me to know what my readers think the character should do so i can tally up the suggestions, because i normally work pretty strictly with majority rule.
Oh man, I am exactly the same way. I love getting reactions, it helps me understand what people are responding to and also probably helps people shape their opinions. That said, It's really frustrating when I finally get a chance to update a quest a week after the last one, and I have 20 replies, but only two of them are suggestions and they don't even agree. I as an author want reactions, but I need suggestions.
What also happens often is that someone will suggest something, and then I'll get a dozen replies saying that suggestion is terrible, but none of those replies contain an alternative course of action. Crossing off one possibility from a list of a hundred doesn't really help me decide what should happen next.

>Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?

well, lemme just put down a list then.
Bananaman- Tally hall (general humor in speed zoom)
Thunderstruck- ac/dc (for those awesome moments which are far and few between)
Blitzkieg- Audiomachine (there's a lot of this in moria... asside from drama drama drama)
Little Lion Man- mumford and sons (this was anything related to my indigo phase)
Strength of a thousand men- 2steps from hell (this is mostly the intro to Another Potential)

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
None that really come to mind. Frank D. Pompadour actually wears a steve shirt, the reactions i use to come up with faces for the characters in quest, and for those dumb ones i just have to say that i'm not afriad to kill off a child character or cute puppy because if the one "troll" suggestion is the only one there i treat it like any other. I try to cater to a wide demographic, but if there is one suggestion and it's lolrandumb i'm gonna have to use it.

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>Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?

Tons. Only a few are really set in stone, though.

Most Notable in semi-recent history:

Galliard -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYUaVxGRJoo
Pavane -- (see embedded file, apparently it's not on youtube)
Moon (the quest) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_101690&feature=iv&src_vid=dr547-GZpYE&v=GmjgRO3fc9g (This version because I prefer music without lyrics, even if they are gibberish)

>>60884

PS you have to download the file the embed doesn't work for some goofy reason.

>>60801
>All Authors: Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?
>>1225

IdiomAlpha!a1..dIzWW2 2012/09/16(Sun)08:46 No. 60924 ID: 067a04
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>>What got you into quests in the first place?
I had written up an adventure game, was looking for an engine with which to make it, somehow stumbled onto RubyQuest, from there to TGchan, from TGchan to Deep, and I fell in love. I spent most of my free time just reading every quest on the wiki, up until about a year and a half ago.

>So, with that, I guess I wanted to ask the other authors what your first quests were like!
Fun, quick, and ugly. Not unlike a weekend in Vegas.

>What are some of your favorite quests by other authors?
RubyQuest and Deep hold special places in my heart for bringing me here. Otherwise, all of them. Quests fascinate me to no end, and I enjoy them all immensely. Except for textquests. >:C

>I noticed [a particular theme] shows up a lot in your quests. Is that deliberate?
I love the concept of duality. In fact, I want to marry the concept of duality, and have little half-human half-concept babies.

>Are there any suggestion types that particularly annoy you?
No. I'm happy to get suggestions at all.

>if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?
I would restart Wizard Quest. A lot of wasted potential, there.

>Are there any characters, authors, quests or events-within-quests that you associate with a particular song?
Absolutely everyone in Wizard Quest has a theme song. Cheese Wizard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kwILL35ig
Rainy Day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyoXP3w7dp4
The TGchan Caravan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5M04_qkRdY

>Have you ever felt like you’d ‘written yourself into a corner’ in one of your quests?
'One of'?

>>Are you male or female?
Snakefighter.

>How long have you been drawing?

Since March.

>>Also, many authors said they like to read so—for those of you who do—what kind/genre of books do you like to read?
I can enjoy any book if I can get myself to read it.

>What do you like to do in your spare time?
What do you think?

>Cut or uncut?
Like a dog without a bone, or an actor out on loan.

>How far do you plan ahead.
I have a book-sized collection of notes on Wizard Quest. No, I'm serious.
I prefer to leave quests radiant and impossible to predict. Flesh out the setting, characters, and possibilities as much as you want, but never railroad. Never. Whenever I feel I've railroaded, I feel I've failed in a big way.

>Favorite color?
Gray. Or white-black, I suppose.

>To all quest author: what is the thing you find harder to draw?
Humans. Hands, specifically. Fuck hands.

>What do you think is most important in life?
It's just a lie without the 'F'.

>>60887
Little known fact; Chicken Chungus's character is based off of "Stacy's Mom".

>>60887
When I first started drawing Hatch I listened to "Polly" by Nirvana whenever I was drawing an update, because I wanted that to set the mood for the quest. And because bird.

I guess I did it right because Hatchquest soon got the nickname of "Child trauma quest."

I listened to "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom when drawing updates with Aruuchi and Liam. I kind of considered it Aruuchi's theme like Polly was Hatch's.

I think Silvermoon's theme goes without saying.

Nowadays I only listen to Electric Six or the Madworld soundtrack when doing updates. Sometimes Infected Mushroom again, or maybe Daft Punk, but mostly Electric Six. I dunno what it is but their music always leaves me in a good mood and inspired.

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?

The update schedule. I've been horrible about this. I should be updating a lot more often than I have been, and I've been telling myself this for like two years.

Over half of hatchquest was done in the first year, then one thread the second year, and now it's taken two years to go over the third thread. There's been 31 updates since January 2011.

Granted, I've done a lot of stuff since, like a couple silvermoons, the pony stuff, and a ton of other distractions, but it's still bad. I think I also did Frisbee quest in summer 2011.

It's just been a cycle of questioning my ability to do something -> Not doing it -> questioning why it's taken so long to do something -> not doing it -> reminding myself that the story in hatch is awful anyways -> double not doing it. Hatch is my first real attempt at both consecutive art and storytelling, so it has a LOT of flaws and I feel pretty awful about them, but then,

>artist
>own biggest critic
>no shit

so yeah.

> who's your favorite out of your own quest characters? what about other people's?

I think Aruuchi is my favorite out of my own characters, though he hasn't gotten to be in the limelight lately as I've wanted to shift focus back to Liam. I've tried to present Aruuchi/Makuri/Ikar as the happy-but-a-little-naive sort of family (without being retarded) while Liam/Hatch/Rikkiri (Hatch's mom) are the more broken-but-still-good sort, so there's an instant comparison between Liam's way of life and Aruuchi's, without either really being better, just different ways of living in a somewhat harsh world.

And yet they're still good friends, even though they're from very different walks of life.

>other people's?

I think everyone knows I have an extremely unhealthy obsession with Kyaos, but apart from that I also really like Zane, Kirska and Comfybat from Lonelyworld's quests, Joshua and Shyen from Riarda Legends, Kensuyata, "Ryu" and Musashi from Onigashima, Cheren, Imli and Beautiful Flarey from CBSF, Jayce from Survivors... man, I don't read a lot of quests anymore.

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?

Journey Quest: Give Denjold some actual build up instead of him being a "Giant Space Flea." Make the Denjold fight not retarded, lame, and drag on forever. Maybe try giving Aggeia a bit more characterization rather than just slinky "sexy" female thief party member. Various suggestions for lines that I wanted to use in updates but forgot to by the time I actually typed them up. Maybe come up with better puzzles (not likely within my power).

Riarda Legends: Not do it. I should probably have just adapted one of my comic stories for the setting into a quest format rather than try to make up a brand new, ill thought out train wreck of a story.

Island of Onigashima: Better pacing, but I'm not terribly sure how I'd manage that with my writing ability. Maybe come up with better boss puzzles, but I like to think I was doing an ok job with those, though the later ones have probably been too easy modo.

Also I just kind of stopped updating all together.

> if you could change something about one (or more) of your quests, what would you change?

I'd change the art in the first act. It was all lemon head people.