Some people have done it on FA, using different submissions and links between them to form it.

But I think there must also be CYOA program one can find, yeah. I'm afraid I don't know where that might be. Maybe google 'choose your own adventure maker' ? >_>

Oh, that'd be a clusterfuck. Plus I want it to be available independent of any website (another knock against writing.com). I'll do that, for sure. Thanks, snakie. Your input is always appreciated, especially when it comes to writing.

You're welcome! :}

I actually own every volume of Choose Your Own Scare Goosebumps books, so I'd love something like that!
I actually spent a large amount of time trying to map out the branching pathways to several volumes...

Well, this would probably be a kinky, porny bunch of fetish-related stories, so I'm not sure if you'd be into them. BUT, I do plan on writing them to the best of my ability, giving them decent stories, settings and characters, and making them fun and winnable (though, like any CYOA, there will be a lot of "bad ends").

Too many CYOA stories I've seen are barely-started, badly written, completely random chains of events where instead of choosing what to do next from the character's point of view (for example "try to fight back" or "show him the letter you received"), they lazily tell you what's going to happen ("she haz teh sex with him" or "he dies lol"). I feel I can do better, and I hope that you can find something to enjoy in at least a few of my planned stories.

*Reads that first sentence*
SIGN ME UP!!!!!!
I want to be a beta tester for this, whenever you decide to get this started/off the ground.

I'm VERY interested!
I was just expressing how I loved CYOA books growing up.

I know there are several programs for creating text adventure games. If you can't find a good CYOA style program, you could use one of those instead, with different "rooms" being chapters, with one-way "exits" that lead to other chapters.

I'd prefer something specifically made for CYOA just so I don't have to deal with all the extra complexities, but if it comes to that, it might be a viable option. Thank you. :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/.....=Tin+Man+Games

I have this one: My very frist CYOA book: https://play.google.com/store/apps/.....y.forestofdoom

Knock yourself out! (If you have the appropriate Android device, that is!)

Looks good for playing, but maybe not so much for writing (at least, for my purposes... I don't think the naughty stuff I want to write would fit in at the app store!)

That's what I get for checking out stuff before dashing off to work. Somehow I had the impression, that you look for Cyoa games. Your journal has a lot different meaning, now...either you have re-written it, but nah I was in a hurry and misread it! :P

You're right, these are for playing. I've done a Cyoa game before, back in the days, where I have learned to code a html-webpage. That works really well, and the image mapping helps a lot too, and you can add sounds and anything you can do with a regular webpage...I guess this would be a bit too outdated nowadays tho'. :P

I did a little HTML back in the day, but yeah, it's not ideal. It looks like the Twine thing people are recommending is pretty much a way to make an HTML-based game though, without the tedious parts.

I think, I'll give it a try myself, to see, how it works!
I wish you the best of results!

I'd consider looking at Twine: http://twinery.org

While it's a browser-based tool, it's actually a JavaScript application; while you can use it online, you can download it to your own computer if you wish, and it creates a standalone web page with your CYOA-like program in it. Put that on a web host and it'll run on anything with a JavaScript-enabled browser.

It's a pretty sophisticated tool but easy to get going with. My long-delayed adventure game, "The Traveling Salesman Problem," is something I was working on in Twine. (Technically I was using a command-line version called "twee" because I'm a programming nerd, but the principle's the same.)

This looks like pretty much exactly what I was hoping for, at least from a cursory glance. Will try it out when I have time later. Thank you very, very much, I think this is what I needed!

By the way, I'd love to try out your game if it is ever finished!

So, I played around with it a bit, and it looks absolutely perfect. Aside from the simple, easy to use interface, I'm seeing a lot of options like being able to make things dependent on the outcome of earlier encounters, randomize events or outcomes, add images or video, and make the file playable in someone's browser even if they don't have an internet connection. I don't know how much of the more complicated stuff I'll use for my very first attempt at writing a game, but it's definitely nice to know that I can do virtually anything I can think of without all those options getting in my way when I want to keep things simple. Thank you so much for the recommendation, this is just what I wanted!

Also endorsing Twine, as above. It's definitely the way to go in this scenario.

Thanks, Miranda! I'm certainly going to try it out and see how it works. I think the main thing that's kept me from working on this story for so long is the lack of any system to keep track of all the branching choices and a way to distribute it that doesn't require it being tied to a specific website. This would appear to solve both.

I'm trying to work on something similar using Ren'Py. It's more in the "virtual novel with pictures of what your character is seeing, text-boxes for what other characters are saying, and changes according to your choices" type thing.

Can be complex though. If you want to avoid being restricted to the basic stuff and want to do more complex things, you need to know a bit of Python coding (something I'm still trying to teach myself!)

Unfortunately, that's probably a bit beyond me. I only even know that Python coding is a thing from spending weeks getting about 70 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion mods all working together, and that didn't include any actual programming, just installing some Python stuff and messing with a lot of settings and load order.

Aye Twine, and if you want a bit of Visual trackign your story via path/thought web in story writing, quest5.0 and greater

Could you explain what quest is? I'm at work and can't check.

Umm, you knwo the thought process that involves designing a web network? well the program visualizes it, in packets of how the sotry progresses with little interconnected tick marks, almost liek an old, Text based :look at "X" kind of game,

To be honest, I still didn't know what you meant until someone else told me about Quest and gave me a link. But I looked at it, and it indeed seems pretty useful. I think I'll stick with Twine, since it's geared towards CYOA more, but I might actually use Quest to write a couple silly text adventures just for fun. :)