Idea #1: Cloud
You are a cloud. You have many decisions to make! Both out of necessity and just for fun. Being a cloud, you are moisture in the sky, and if you dry out, POOF! Gone. So, you must make decisions on where to travel to continue existence, for example…
Over the past week or so, you’ve noticed a slight dry spell. You’ve kept on surviving by absorbing smaller clouds in the area, but they’re all gone. There is an arid wasteland beyond, but past that is a storm running parallel to it. You can either wait and try your luck or brave the arid wasteland in hopes of all the moisture you’ll need!
But there are also cloud shenanigans! For example, you see a weatherman having a barbecue. Bet he predicted sunny skies, we’ll see…
Idea #2: Street Garbage
You’re just a lone recyclable bottle on a city street, with the dream that you might be made into another bottle to be used again! You do have the ability to roll, and roll you shall! You encounter many perilous situations, such as convicts with trash bags and dreaded street sweeps… some situations you might get into include:
You see a thirsty homeless person by a recycling bin, this is your chance! You can roll yourself into a puddle and try to look quenching, or roll on your way to a safer place… you can hear them street sweeps a comin’!
You see a girl with a ice cream cone on a bench. Suddenly, a young man in a soccer jersey comes down the road kicking cans. You could position yourself so you could be kicked into the girls ice cream, or roll into the bushes to avoid damage.
CYOA reading:
The one part of the thing that made me think about the reading was that in any reading, the reader wants a resolve and closure, and that not all CYOA endings provide a successful closure. Like if you die without resolving something thanks to a bad decision. That would at least leave me disappointed after taking the time to take the whole adventure, as opposed to a regular book where it has a SAFE conclusion. Hadn’t really considered that before 😛
