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It's funny (and by that I mean not) that >>349522 first goes full retard and after being told/schooled/owned is actually proven correct when nobody else posts and discus.
So let's put the discus thread to some fuckdamn duckflipping use because >>/quest/326589 said a word that coincided with a thing, bringing up a point.
Let's start with the word "montage". Unfortunately I'm not all but a virgin when it comes to making using moviemaking or flash software and making videos, so even though it would have the best soundtrack ever, there won't be a video/flash. It would also be a lot of work, even at best potentially a pointlessly disproportionate amount of work at that.
So then the options left are pretty much:
a) Regular update format but using ten or more images in a single update.
b) Comic format.
And that brings us so conveniently to the second thing. Which is basically a kind of a spoiler, but could only be avoided by not discussing any of this - which would just bring everything back to square one with either the spoiler or a forced solution being the only possible conclusions. But I'll tag it just on principle or something.
Joandventure is ending! This isn't an arbitrary and/or sudden decision, as Joandventure is at one of the planned points that are good places to end the quest.
So in the end it's a question of how to end the quest, with a typical quest-format "cutscene" or a comic (or perhaps something else, although at the moment I can't really think of anything viable).
And just to negate the point of spoiler tags, I'll continue onto something that pretty much counts as a spoiler contextually.
Namely, I'm going to quit quests, perhaps excepting some short "one-shot" stuff in the vein of Put Away Escapade and Holiday Issues. If you're a quick person with your brains, you might have already realized that this also means canceling NPDT.
There are several reasons for this:
-It's not fun anymore. Here on tgchan it takes ages for enough suggestions to be posted, which really kills the flow. I can waste an entire day for a single update, basically doing an hour's work in 8-12 hours becaus) I have too much time to overthink everything over and over and there's no pressure to and reward for being fast. Back in the 4chan/tg/ days I could take that 8 hours and have a huge update marathon.
This was fun because the feedback was immediate and there was a pressure to update and a reward for succeeding. The advantages of tgchan only really show in the archives, with completed quests, where you can happily ignore timestamps and enjoy the theoretically improved art (and maybe writing) which was/is allowed by tgchan's slow pace. Reading archived quests is better than ever, but actually making or reading an active quest? A pain in the ass. Everything takes too much time. The story feels like it drags on because you only get it in small pieces over a very long timeframe, you can't feel the progression. Any serious(ish) and long story would be a project for years to come.
-I really shouldn't be doing this shit anyway. Not because quests are somehow bad as a concept or such, but because it actually gets in the way of what I should be doing. In short, quests don't bring me income, not through donations and at least Joandventure really isn't something I could turn into a profitable thing, for example a comic book/graphic novel/whatever fancy shit term you want to use.
We're also trying to sell the house and move so there's a whole lot of shit to do in that context.
A webcomic has the potential to be profitable to at least some degree, so it doesn't really get in the way even if I spent "too much" time on it and over time it could even be sold in a compiled physical format. I also considered a semi-interactive comic - conceptually - but unless popular enough, it would have the same problem with slow "suggestions" as tgchan, with the added risk of looking stupid running it with only a handful of suggestions over for example a week. And at worst it would only end up as a comic which is unnecessarily slow to do and lets people stick their dick in the story.
And with a webcomic, I need a host and domain and that won't be free so it makes little sense to shit it up with, uh, things. Especially if it's not just a side thing, but a part of the main business (if not the main business itself) and as such a kind of a brand name thing.
Maybe it's pointless to talk about this here, but putting into words clears it up a bit for me, in a sort of thinking-out-loud way.
So discus this and that.
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