Basics of Interactive Design
Unlock your players’ fantasies
With interactive, you can give your fans a customizable experience that reflects who they love, who they are, and what they truly want. We’ll show you how!
You can give your player control in your game by designing for player agency.
Use these techniques to make sure you’re designing for great agency!
Great choices let the player influence the direction of the fantasy…
These can be choices that change important and permanent factors of the game (like gender & pronouns) or choices that allow the player to express their own principles, loyalty, interests, and tastes. Don’t feel like you need to write an enormous amount of choices with huge branches! You can still express agency with dialogue choices, for example allowing them to choose if they flirt in a sincere or snarky format. The best choices have at least two interesting options rather than “Do this” or “Don’t do this.”
Need Inspiration? Expand the labels below to see ideas of types of agency choices!
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When possible, you should offer customization options like:
Gender choice for MC
Genitals options during spicy scenes
Pronoun choices
Check out our Choice Memory Module for how to set these up1
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Choices that are "key decisions" and allow for choices that have later consequences. They can be things like:
Choosing to tell or keep a secret
Choosing an action that has both good & evil outcomes with implications on the world
Choosing to acquire an item
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Players love choices that allow them to roleplay powerful fantasies. This often means allowing the player character to make more bold & exciting choices than you might do in real life. Try things like:
Going undercover or putting on a disguise to infiltrate a location
Putting on a steamy distraction to solve a problem
Getting to stand up to a bully or enemy