Missing from Addventure 2.0

UI improvements

• Include the text description in the option entry page
• Allow for the ability to limit the number of options that can be entered

Guides to help you through the game

Guides are a concept we're looking at to provide a number of interesting features such as

• A graph of the game, showing all the episodes and the paths to get between them.
• Indications of "hot spots" to view or avoid.
• Keyword searching, for areas that may be of more interest than others.
• Possibly many more ideas?
• Help you locate a room number you've been to before

Author/editor board

There is some interest in restricting access - we will probably go with one or more of the following forms

• Allow the story to be read by anyone, but only writable by certain individuals
• Require episode to be approved by an editorial board before publishing
• Forward copies of the new episode to an editorial board for review

Technical improvements

• Make email replies more customizable and flexible
• Do some sanity checking on email addresses
• Reduce the ammount of space required to store pages that are not yet created

Previews

After you have created a episode, how are you sure that it looks correct and doesn't have any typos? This gives the ability to edit a episode after you have created it, but before you open it to the public.

More access to lower-down episodes

There have been complaints that episodes that are created farther down in the game aren't viewed, and we are looking at a couple of ways to solve this. Some of these may be implemented with guides.

• What if there was a link or button at the top of the game that could take you to any episode that currently exists?
• What if every player had the opportunity to nominate the episodes they think would be good starting points, and episodes that get enough votes would be designated as such?

New forms of linking

We're looking at a couple of different things that you will be able to use to make more powerful options

• Linking from an option to somewhere outside the game
• Sidelinking to a "sibling" episode, and have each sibling episode link to each other (backlinking can't do this).
• What if there is a chance that you will end up in a different place by following the same choice? Adds a sense of the real unknown.
• What if you could create a choice that started a whole new game?

More control for authors

Authors seem to like to create a whole bunch of episodes at once, so it might be a good idea to reserve a "block" of episodes for a person to edit?