Monstory is a story based game that allows players to create and share their own stories! Monstory is built off of the twitter api and using hashtags to build a story by ANYONE!
How to make a story to share in game:
1) Write a story.
2) Tweet the story AND add BOTH #Monstory and a unique hashtag name (like a title).
Live example: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23MyFriendFred%20%23Monstory&src=typd
Developer Note:
@jstclair13 here. This code was written quickly and few hours of sleep. I may add comments and clean up some of the code if interested, after a lot of sleep!! :D Enjoy
*Post Submission Edits*
Make your own story! Watch me make one! https://youtu.be/PzM_lHlgJVs
Uploaded a new source because the old one had my token keys. I was tired and rushed...
Player can move left or right, but it is best to start to the right. :D
This game is built using Twitter's API to build user stories.
Here is a list of playable stories! Put the hashtag in the input field to play!
#MyFriendFred
#TodayIsThatDay
#Fangs
#Dreamstealers
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 62% |
| #229 | Innovation | 3.39 |
| #634 | Audio | 2.10 |
| #674 | Humor | 2.24 |
| #837 | Mood | 2.17 |
| #878 | Graphics | 2.00 |
| #917 | Theme | 2.13 |
| #920 | Overall | 2.34 |
| #927 | Fun | 1.94 |
Comments
There was an issue with the upload to google drive. It is fixed!!
You can load stories with each of these (one at a time) #MyFriendFred #Fangs #Dreamstealers! Or you can make your own story!
Cool idea! I think the execution needs some serious work, though.
Worked fine on Mac OS X! I'm glad to see you got a Twitter API working in Unity. I was looking for something like that. I also made a game that read a twitter feed, but ended up doing it on the server side with nokogiri. The Twitter API kept flaking on me. Thanks for sharing the code!
You should not share your keys/secrets/tokens though! They're in the source you released.
Amazing idea, though I wasn't always sure what exactly it did. It parses in tweets with a particular hashtag?
And then? How would one "level design" within those tweet characters? Do something affect the way the tweets are arranged in space? Or are they always descending to the right?
If so, what's the point? Just move to the right and read tweets?
There's potential here, but requires a lot of figuring out. As it is now it's a nifty twitter API hookup.
Very interesting, I feel like using tweets to write a story is not the best choice, because you need to make a lot of tweets to make anything super big, however.
It's a neat idea! If you trimmed the hashtags from the string then people could enter single words or even letters to add a challenge to the story in the form of small platforms. Maybe you could have additional hashtags people could add to insert obstacles or enemies or something in to the line. This concept has a lot of potential.
Interesting. This could turn into something really cool.
Thanks for the positive replies! I wanted to make this game in a way that the player or other people could reply to a section of the story and create an alternate story line or ending. I just ran out of time.
I like the idea of parsing out words to create a small platform.
I like where you were going with this, with a bit more time this could be an interesting text adventure game (or something similar at last) with constantly branching ending and options! Nice effort :)
The only gripe I have is that there's no way to go back to the main menu once you finish a story unless you close and restart the game but pretty interesting use of the Twitter API.
An interest idea to say the least but it lacked in the gameplay area. Perhaps each tweet could have been an obstacle course depending on the characters...?
I'm using the Windows build, and I seem unable to move beyond the title screen, regardless of whether I click a red hashtag or search for another tag that you've provided in the description. I even ran it as administrator, and still refuses to budge. Not sure what else I can try.
Wish I could check this out, looks really neat!
@Jelinib @solker Sorry, it is working now. Just found out that twitter's 'search' api is limited to the last 7 days.
I'm still having the same problem. Even tried redownloading. I don't understand what's wrong! :(
I don't think it worked well for me.. I included it in part 31 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/ZV7CU8j_StI
You must sign in to comment.
Mini Submission FAQ
TEAMS: Teams entering the Jam should pick a single representative to submit your game, or create a team specific account you can share. We currently do not support Team Voting, but sharing an account and together playing and rating games is acceptable.
CAN I ENTER BOTH EVENTS?: You should pick 1 event, whichever you think it’ll do better in. If the idea is strong, and everything plays well enough, you can go Compo. If you’re a perfectionist, and would prefer people to play a more polished game, do the Jam. Historically, more games are entered in the Compo, but with more people and more time, Jam games have the potential to be better (that doesn’t mean they are). Many solo participants do enter the Jam.
If you made 2 games, unfortunately, the website doesn’t support multiple submissions per user. To submit your 2nd game, you will have to make a 2nd account. Only do this if you made 2 games. Alternatively, if one game is better than the other, then consider just entering the better game.
CAN I KEEP WORKING UNTIL THE DEADLINE?: Yes! Immediately after the 48 or 72 hours, we do something called Submission Hour. As the name suggests, it’s an extra hour for you to package, upload, and submit your games. If there were catastrophic issues trying submitting your game, or you misunderstood how submissions work, that’s okay. It happens. We’re flexible. If you need advice, check with the folks on IRC. If you need an admin, get in touch.
CAN I KEEP WORKING ON MY GAME?: Oh definitely! You should! But for the sake of judging, keep the Compo or Jam version around. You can include a link to the Post-Compo/Post-Jam version of your game on your games page, but sure your main links are the original version.
PORTS: Ports to other platforms can be done after the deadline. That said, the sooner you finish your port, the sooner people can play your game, improving your chances of placing in the final results. For best results, provide a Web version of your game, or a Windows version with no dependencies. Also be sure to rate at least 20 games to improve your visibility (Coolness).
MY GAME CRASHES, IS UNBEATABLE, OR I MADE A TYPO: We allow you to fix crashes, win condition, or tiny bugs after the deadline. In a sense, this is like “porting” to support more players. We leave this open to interpretation, but generally speaking your game should be identical to the game you submitted. No new features, just fixing mistakes you should have caught had you been better rested.
MY GAME DOESN’T SHOW UP: If you can’t find your game, it’s usually because the URL to your downloads are missing ‘http://‘. Fix your URLs (http://mysite.com/mygame.zip) and you will show up. Alternatively, if you just posted it, wait a minute. The cache may not have refreshed yet.
NOT LOGGED IN?: If you get a message about not being logged in, even though you are, it’s because your web browser cached the non-logged in page. You can fix this by either refreshing your cache or clearing your cache. CTRL+F5 in many browsers. Chrome is a bit more work. Press F12 to enable Developer Mode, then you can right click on the refresh button and select “Empty Cache and Hard Reload”. This option is unavailable if you are not in Developer Mode.
Impossible to start the app on Mac :/