MSPaintAdventures

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<div class="IPBDescription">A whimsical, reader-driven webcomic</div>I stumbled across this in a Google search and then remembered a couple of people at work had mentioned it, so I took the inadvisable step of starting to read <i>Problem Sleuth</i>. Can't see it linked in NSOT, so here it is. (Warning: it's pretty long, and morish!)

Read about 4 pages from this link to get the flavour:
<a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001932" target="_blank">http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001932</a>

<b>About MSPaintAdventures:</b>
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->1) MSPA stories exist in the format of "mock games", specifically text-based adventure games. You advance through the pages of the story by clicking links which sound like commands you would type in a text prompt to get a character to do something. Generally, the character will respond to that command on the following page.

2) MSPA stories are largely "reader-driven", in the sense that most of the text commands were supplied by readers through a suggestion box. I would select a command from the list, and then illustrate the result of the command.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It's also educational: I now know what the terms 'beagle puss' and 'ambergris' mean! :P

lolfighter

Though it's important to note that the "reader-driven" aspect of it has been pushed aside to a great extent over the course of Problem Sleuth (and to even greater extent over Homestuck). While reader suggestions are still used, the author decides on the overall structure of the plot, and often makes his own "suggestions" too. In fact, the <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?viewpage=new" target="_blank">new reader</a> page is a great place to start (or at least a great place to continue after having started).

spellman23

Problem Sleuth was very, very reader driven for a while, and I enjoyed it even in the hilarity of bull###### that happened.

Unfortunately, Homestuck has deviated dramatically from this, and suffers incredibly from poor narrative in the form of chat logs. It usually takes a bit of Wiki greping and waiting for recaps to understand WTF just went on. Especially since he decided he wants to screw around with time/freewill/stuff.


Overal, Problem Sleuth was awesome. Homestuck, while shinier, is way harder to follow and suffers the problems of the storytelling system (PS, chatlogs are NEVER OPTIONAL if you want to know wtf is going on) plus he sucks at narrative timing. I hate staring at fractal bull###### for 30 seconds in a movie, and then the important stuff happens in like 10 frames.

X_Stickman

I discovered that Lil' Cal from Homestuck <a href="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/Eyes5/DSC05225.jpg" target="_blank">is real.</a>

This is easily the scariest thing about the whole MSPA site.