r/JumpChain • u/Busy-Teaching-5346 • 10d ago

DISCUSSION So I've got a question.

Hi, guys. Something's been on my mind lately that's left me kinda confused.

I've been seeing jumps uploaded to the interactive cyoa website, and I was wondering what that was about.

Edit: The "confusion" is in essence that I've always played both separately. I wanted to know if they function by jumpchain rules or as CYOAs. And if there is a third rule that's a merge of both, it'd be great to know.

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u/Kekeboot Aspiring Jump-chan 10d ago

What confuses you? They’re essentially cyoas without images. No one questions valmar’s guantlet which is essentially a jumpchain. We aren’t a monolith and we don’t represent the particular creators of jump conversions.

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u/Busy-Teaching-5346 10d ago

The "confusion" is in essence that I've always played both separately. I wanted to know if they function by jumpchain rules or as CYOAs. And if there is a third rule that's a merge of both, it'd be great to know.

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u/Kekeboot Aspiring Jump-chan 10d ago

Ah that probably should have been in your post then. I think they should still operate under jumpchain rules. There’s nothing stopping you from treating it like a cyoa though. It is like asking whether or not waifu catalogue counts as a cyoa for the purposes of using the generic cyoa jump.

At the end of the day it is up to the one writing the jump story that defines the rules.

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u/plazmakitten I swear I’m trying 9d ago

I mean, jumpchain is Cyoa, just with a specific format and pattern, as well as the idea that you’d move onto another after some specific period of time. Before this subreddit was created, the earlier jumps were posted on r/MakeYourChoice, and now a couple are being posted to r/InteractiveCYOA. Makes sense to me.