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#InteractiveFiction #twine #TextAdventures #NarrativeGames

Victorian Heart; Original Acrylic Painting, Highly Textured Gift of Love is Love, Layers of Colors, Wall Art Decor, Romantic, Nostalgic by ColorBySusan on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/1458551422/victorian-heart-original-acrylic #victorian style #3dart #twine #giftideas #texture

Femboy spices up their room with paper!

#Femboy #Room #Tour #RoomTour #Paper #Colorful #Origami #String #Twine #Art #Craft #Arts&Crafts #Gay #Twink #GenderQueer #Sissy #Fangs #Autistic #Anime #Muscle #LongHair #Bisexual #Skirt #Cute #Space #eBoy #NeuroDivergent #Trans #eGirl #NonBinary #Kawaii #Breedable #Blushing #CrossDresser #Submissive #Trap #Pride #Athletic #Comfy #LGBTQ #Croptop #RoseBoy #Fishnets #Teeth

I’ve been tinkering with #Inform7, #ink, and #twine for writing #InteractiveFiction lately and they are all so good! Each has a different focus but they are all interesting and well thought out and elegant in their own ways.

trying to decide if I want to go through all the headache of letting a player make decisions for all of their party members, which is traditional, or just for themselves. Honestly if there is an elligant way to do that in #sugarCube I'm not certain what it is. #twine #writing #gamewriting

It's summer, which means it's the perfect time to think about ghosts!

How to deal with Ghosts is on @itchio

Investigate several cases and try to understand the nature of ghosts and why people are haunted. And then, do your best to help them!

LINK⏩ https://gabjir.itch.io/how-to-deal-with-ghosts

#indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev #twine #interactivefiction

I've been giving #twine another look, and if anything, it's gotten more confusing since the last time. For something that's supposed to be a simple introduction to interactive fiction, there sure is a lot of "the first thing you need to do is choose a story format, which determines which of several completely incompatible syntaxes you'll use" in people's intro articles/videos. I know at some level it doesn't really mattter for getting started, but it's off-putting.

Babe wake up, new AdventureTome preview just dropped with more new features than I can possibly fit in a single toot!

(seriously, the changelog just keeeps scrooooolling)

Also I added a bunch of new documentation!

https://sophiehoulden.com/twine/adventuretome_guide.html #twine

don't mind me making my silly little operatic fanfictions about curses and trans wolf girls (yes this is actually a #twine and if you can guess the fandom good on you)

I love my little #gamedev #fanfic #art

Trying to create a link with a setter attached. This seems like it shouldn't be difficult, according to http://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/docs/#markup-link

My test code looks like:

$foo is false
[[change foo to true.|next][<<set $foo to true>>]]
[[next]]

And then
:: test
<<if $foo === true>>
this text should display if we have clicked the link.
<<else>>
This text should display if we have not clicked the link.
<</if>>

[[cont'd]]

The error indicates an unexpected token << after clicking the link, but isn't that how you're supposed to write a setter? #interactivefiction #twine #sugarCube

Final repost for this, now with hashtags.

I've republished for itchio my game 'Blank Page' about creative block and imposter syndrome. It's a very personal and introspective piece that was originally launched for the 2021 Spring Thing Festival.

If you've ever experienced this feeling, I hope it resonates with you:

https://creativwhisper.itch.io/blank-page

#indiegame #interactivefiction #Twine #gamedev #creativity #writing

A really quick entry for #NeoTwinyJam, One-Word Warlock is a #Twine game that's under 500 words in length, with each passage being just one word long! (Plus some sound effects.) #gamedev #SceenshotSaturday #InteractiveFiction https://damonwakes.itch.io/one-word-warlock

I hit a milestone with my Twine CYOA book. #Twine #CYOA

Recently someone asked me how to get started with Interactive Fiction from a technical side.A year ago I did a stream for beginners:

► https://youtu.be/I8gbtTO2lPg?t=854

#twine #writing #interactivefiction #if

Currently playing the 2015 #InteractiveFiction SPY INTRIGUE by furkle. Very intriguing so far.

It makes me realise (again) that the problem with a lot of novels, certainly in the Netherlands, is that they are just boringly conventional. I want to read things that confuse me, where I don't know where they're going, that show me that text is alive with possibility!

#literature #IF #Twine

Just making #twine from the 5-7 foot tall #mallow stalks. It looks like if you dry & pound them, you can extract some fibers. Yet another use for this abundant weed.

Ah ha! Finished my second rewrite of the #Twine intro! 32 passages, 5,176 words. I'm a lot more happy about this rewrite, even with my lack of brain/sleep this week. Or maybe because of... 🤨

It might be ready for a polish pass and then be complete! Then just the rest of the game to go!

#interactivefiction #gamedev #writing

This week I've mostly been looking after my sick baby son. I've managed the time and brain power to keep moving on my second rewrite of my #Twine intro. I'm much more happy with it than the other two versions combined. Just need to finish it off and get moving on the rest of the game!

#interactivefiction #gamedev #Writing

On teste deux jeux textuels courts proposés lors de la Neo-Twiny Jam !! (limite de 500 mots)
https://www.twitch.tv/mj_feldo

#gamejam #twine #fictioninteractive #neotwinyjam

A slightly unusual thing to share for #ScreenshotSaturday: here's a flowchart outlining the method I'm using for the #NarraScope collaborative #Twine jam. This structure - which I'm provisionally calling a "Hypertwine" - allows each contributor's work to be viewed in a random order, with the whole lot bookended by an opening beforehand and an ending afterwards. State-tracking within index.html is provided by the (save-game:) macro. #InteractiveFiction #gamedev