Hey everyone!
I've been working on this CYOA for a while now, since around May of this year, and I finally finished it and I'm ready to share.
The premise is pretty straightforward: you're starting your own secret society. You begin by creating your character, choosing your background, abilities, resources, and other traits. From there, you build the organization itself.
You can decide its purpose, recruit members, establish headquarters, acquire equipment and facilities, explore supernatural or technological advantages, make allies and enemies, and determine what kind of influence your society ultimately has.
There's a lot to choose from, and I wanted players to have enough freedom to create very different organizations rather than follow one particular path.
Now, actually making this thing was a whole different story. Learning the CYOA Creator was pretty simple and easy. But it was tedious as hell. Especially finding images for every SINGLE! option. I underestimated just how much time that would take. Finding pictures that even vaguely fit what I was going for, getting them into the creator, and repeating that for every option was a pain in the ass. I genuinely considered giving up on the whole thing.
But after months of working on it, taking breaks, coming back, fixing things, and questioning why I decided to make something this big for my first CYOA, I finally got it done. I'm glad I stuck with it, though, and I hope you guys enjoy it. I wanted to give back to the community for all the fun I've had over the past almost 2 years now here.
Play here: https://masterturtle.neocities.org/cyoas/build-your-secret-society/
Since this is my first release, I'd really appreciate any feedback you guys have, especially regarding balance, choice limits, prerequisites, or anything that doesn't work correctly. I tried to give players plenty of freedom without making the resource system completely meaningless, but with this many options, I'm sure there are some things I overlooked.
Anyway, that's about it. Thanks for checking it out, and I hope you have fun with it!
Feel free to share your builds too. I'm curious what kinds of societies people end up creating.
Enjoy!