>>132030
For quests, if it's been long enough to be in the graveyard then you need to contact a mod to ungraveyard it. Then yeah, just update it.

>>131360
>>131670
Most of the difference comes in the community. Tgchan/Questden has way more in common with /trash/ and /d/ than it does /tg/ and /qst/.

Questden also values OC way more than 4chan ever has.

>>132049
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fVj8A-K8E

As a reminder, if your quest has been graveyarded from inactivity, you can contact a mod to get it put back. The fastest method is the questden discord - https://discord.gg/Fh5zMTX - but it can also be done by reporting the thread.

rolled 6, 2 = 8

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Don't mind me, just testing out the dice functionality.

Quick question. I seem to have run into this same problem multiple times. When I post a photograph to one of the boards the minimized image is flipped sideways even when the expanded image is perfectly fine.

Is there a way of fixing it so that the minimized image is also upright?

>>132398 Usually that's due to the image orientation being stored in metadata, which the thumbnail generation code does not support.

Not sure how to fix it (other than updating the site's thumbnail code)...
Perhaps some image editor has an option to "rotate the pixels the way the orientation metadata says they are"...
Or you could try copy-pasting the image contents from one instance of your image editor to the other, for example when you resize the image for posting on the web.

Hey, about to start a new quest here. Checking real quick; what's the ideal file size for pictures that won't blow up the viewers' screens when they expand them? The images I made so far are 2048x1536px. Should I halve those dimensions, or is it already good?

>>132509
I think it depends on what kind of monitors peeps are using, personally i find that pictures around the size of 600x600 or smaller work the best for my screen. So i think at least halving it is a good idea.

>>132509
on both my phone and my desktop, 1000-1200 px across at the most is what’s comfortable and larger than that creates a side-scrolling issue. i set my panels at 700-800 wide just to be safe (and i honestly like how tiny quest panels have to be! i think it forces me not to spend a million years on panels agonizing over tiny details when i prefer to keep quest art pretty quick.)

>>121761
Meet this site first time. Sorry for bothering you to test if I could post.

I think the posting HUD needs a rehaul.

I haven't been in this community for ages (POSSIBLY A DECADE, OH NO) but tgchan is what inspired me to learn how to draw.

Please egg me on and bully me into running a quest.

>>133388
Egg egg, bully bully

Did you run a quest before?

Make a quest, and abandon it after the OP.
Make a quest, and railroad the entire thread.
Make a quest, and punish the protagonist for suggestions that don't fit your idea of what should happen.

Make a quest, and only plan one path for the plot out; wing anything that diverges from it.
Make a quest, and wing the entire thing.
Make a quest, and write up three pages of personality and history for every named character.
Make a quest, with a plot outline written out for at least 9 threads.

Dare to be stupid; make a quest at all.

>>133407

Someone's probably said it before, but honestly, it's very similar to running a tabletop game, like D&D, except everyone's controlling the same character. So really, the secret is remembering that the random elements in the game are the fact you've got potentially dozens of people coming up with things to do.

Pick what works, roll with the rest. And remember: you can always give characters agency. If people aren't playing along or just being butts, the character can point that out. If anything, it's a good way to handle it:

https://questden.org/kusaba/questarch/res/809939.html#862127

(I can't remember the shorthand for cross-thread references)

Don't mind me, new to styling the text.

Test, did I do it right?

Another test, pay no attention.

>>Newbie's first green text.

>>133807
for green text all you need to do is put > at the front of whatever you want to wright and the site does the rest for you

>like so

>>134204
Thank you.

The following threads are, or will soon be, in conflict with quest board ID numbers.
>>/questarch/1000005
>>/questarch/1000012
>>/questarch/1001208
>>/questarch/1001473
>>/questarch/1002229
>>/questarch/1002368
>>/questarch/1004220
>>/questarch/1004245

>>135528
What does that actually mean? This is the first time hearing about this and I was here from 2016.

The board uses internal IDs to refer to both posts and threads. Posts and threads use the same set of IDs. The archive uses the same set of IDs as the quests, so that old quest links get automatically redirected to the archive. I don't know for sure what other ramifications this could have, but I know that, for instance, it can create some ambiguity in what post or thread a link is meant to go to.

>>135565
Ok thanks for the explanation

>>135565
Could it be fixed by specifying in a URL/link /thread and /post?

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can anybody send me the link for the tgchan discord?

>>139141
Unless you were banned, the link at the top of this thread should work just fine?

>>139141
The Questden Discord is plastered all over, but here's the original TGchan Discord:
[snip]

>>140739
This an offshoot group or about the 4chan TG board or something?

>>140739
Please don't confuse newcomers by linking to unofficial discord servers.

This thread is for quest advice.

Slinko (and others who have taken the plunge), any advice on adding extra media to quests, like animations or minigames?

>>140873
Don't make it too complicated. The number of assets you'll need can pile up VERY quickly, especially if you do a game with animations. Have a well-defined goal, a purpose that you want to achieve with it, for example "character bouncing around a room with physics because it's funny." Once you have made that happen, then you can think about adding things onto it.

>>140873
Yeah, would reccomend incredibly small scopes per project, stuff like:

> Just a guy moving around and talking to people with text and simple character/environment art

Is actually a lot for most people even just using premade assets and software. Not to mention the writing and art assets also required to make it work. Not to mention most people feel it's a requirement to add talksprites so that's basically doubling the artistic work required.

Keep it simple, and if you consistently make more projects, then add like one new thing that you felt you needed to the next one.

At least, that's how I'd suggest handling it if you wanted to produce something reusable or long term for a project while working solo.

Is it possible to delete other people's comments?

If so, I might have made a mistake. Sorry.

>>141264
You're only able to delete posts you know the password to. A password is auto-generated and automatically filled in for your posts.

So if you're worried that you deleted someone's post, don't stress about it. Unless you managed to delete some spam then hell yeah!

Sorry if it's weird to ask, but does anyone have any quest ideas they'd like to see done? I've been a lurker for a while but have really felt the urge to start my own quest recently. Problem is I'm having trouble coming up with what I even want the quest to be about, so just looking for ideas to at least have as a jumping off point to develop something.

>>143424
Well first think of what kinda stuff you like.
Example, From Nothing was inspired by MAQ, AuditQuest, and Dungeoneer.

>>143424
How about the life of a retired, washed-up henshin hero?

I don't know where else to ask this where it'll be easily seen, but I saw someone on twitter claiming that reaver/reavz has died. Does anyone know if that's true?

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>>143595
perhaps I overestimated how much anyone cared...
:(

this is before my time, but that is unfortunate

>>143609
Oh, shit.

I didn't even know he was on Twitter.
I'm sad to know things ended up like that.
Now I'm left wondering what happened.

I have a problem, somehow I managed to make one quests taht I followed no appear in the quest page. It still is there, I only can't see it.

Is there a way to fix this issue?

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Does it say that the thread is hidden? If so, you'll just need to click on the small box at the end of the message to bring in back.

If not, what precisely are you seeing?

>>143687
Thanks!

Hey there! Been a while. I've been out of the community for ages, almost a decade. I want to get involved again but my life circumstances are a little crazy. I'm not trying to make any Quest Den faus pas so I wanted to ask a couple questions

So first, I'm dying to run a quest again. I have run 5 in the past and they've mostly been a mess. I'm a little proud of Rag Girl, though. I'd love to get back to it but its been almost a decade and I think it'll be pretty darn hard to bring the old posting crew in, if they're still around, and even harder to bring new people in considering it's a somewhat established write quest. “Hi, enjoy the quest, but first do your homework.”

My plan is to start something new, but again my life is insane. My availabilities are super limited. My best shot is to do super long, daily-ish updates. And that kinda sucks, right? Like, write quests were always a little 'eh' because a big magic in questing was seeing your suggestions come to life. Or at least it seemed that way. So now we axe that and I'm back to giving homework and hoping people really like the assignment.

I'm expecting participation to be low. I'm cool with that. I've been a very small time streamer for years now and I've really come to appreciate what I have instead of lusting after what I don't and drowning in horrible artist envy. Young me did not possess that, and thus my many abandoned quests.

Anyway, I'm cool with low participation, but I dread zero participation. I think that's a super real possibility, and that possibility has kept me frozen for, like, the past two weeks. That's given me time to re-read Brom's stuff (found out yesterday about his new writing and absolutely fucked up my sleep schedule devouring it), but it's not doing much for my quest aspirations.

So, finally, question 1. Is it taboo to just push the quest forward? Like, give it 24 hours, see there's no response and then just push forward anyway. Is that okay? I'd hate for that to be the standard (because then what's the point, right?), but I'd be comforted knowing that was an option. Like, maybe I should just be doing traditional writing, but it's so fucking isolated and lonely and there's this endless push to refine and improve that makes it so hard to finish anything. But with questing, boom, it's out there, and it might stink like the shit it is but it's done, y'know? And having an audience is just so nice. It's the best. So I really want to quest. I'm just worried I'm gonna be this nasty little pervert doing the quest equivalent of masturbation as I push a quest forward with no participants.

Second question, way faster. Is it cool to direct people this way? I don't know how private the community is. Can I funnel people from Bluesky, Youtube, Twitch, etc.? Shit, can I stream questing? That'd be a later thing, crazy life stuff, but I'm interested. I'm just a little guy in the big internet so it's not gonna be a ton of eyes, but I don't know how acceptable that is to the community.

>question 1. Is it taboo to just push the quest forward?
nah not really. sometimes prompts don't mesh well with suggesters or it's too unclear. never hurts to push forward but i'd give it more than 24hrs since engagement here is not what it used to be

>Second question, way faster. Is it cool to direct people this way?
go for it. it's super niche here and i find that's what keeps the community relatively small. haven't seen anyone say otherwise when people advertise their quests

>My availabilities are super limited.
you'll find that there's some authors that update once a month or once every few months. i myself took months long hiatuses before getting back to my current thread. update when u can, it's not a race