god I hate Twine games *so* much

every time I find one that looks interesting I spend 1/3rd of the playtime just fighting the UI

"you can build your own UI in Twine it's as customizable as you want!" okay make the default UI suck less because most people aren't going to do that

there's no keyboard shortcuts, you have to use the mouse for basically everything, the save menu is insanely unintuitive, you can't even name your savegames...

#twine #twinegames #interactivefiction

I just spent probably entirely too much time figuring out how to make traveling from location to location in the first "free play" chapter of my twine game work.

Fully 1/5 of that time was spent hunting down a problem that was literally: "I used a period instead of an underscore."

At least I'm now confident that I can actually release a new version in the next couple of days. Also, I won't have to rewrite a bunch of passages to implement random events that occur when the player is traveling from place to place since that all exists in one passage now.

Next on the list: Said random events and NPC conversations that aren't a gazillion nested ifs.

#twinegames #twine

screenshot of my Twine WIP!!! I'll be making an introduction post when I actually have some playable content up on Itch.io (I don't see the point in trying to get ppl interested in it before there's a game for them to actually play at least somewhat) but for now have this screenshot of the UI

#Twine #TwineGame #TwineGames #InteractiveFiction #TwineIF #TwineWIP #GameDev

Currently trying to get my #Twine #InteractiveFiction game to the point where it's been outlined and there's at least a bit available to play on Itch.io, also working on implementing a codex! I'll post some screenshots here later :D

#GameDev #Twine2 #TwineGame #TwineGames

Does anyone have #ChoiceOfGames, #HostedGames, or #ChoiceScript game recs? #TwineGames are ok too but only ones with no graphics, music, or left frame please.

My past faves are the #FallenHero series, #180Files, #TheExile, and #AMageReborn series among others.

Here's a text adventure "game" I wrote a few years back. It's called CASTLE DOOMENSTEIN and it's pretty silly. Made in #Twine.

You can play it here for the low low cost of free: https://www.radvon.com/castle/castle.html

#twinegames #gamedev #writing #textadvenutures #if #interactivefiction

I guess I'll post a few #interests tags, even if they reveal me to be the lamest person on the instance.

#bookbinding
#journaling
#interactivefiction
#twinegames
#parsergames
#videogames (I'm so sorry)
#narrativedesign
#jazz
#hiphop
#chillhop
#soundtracks