jsn lxndr lv
I don't know that he can see it here, but Zarf asked for narrative project suggestions here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/114441132466528530
Andrew Plotkin (@[email protected])

I need a project. What's a narrative tool project that nobody's done that you would use? Some missing Godot plugin? Dialogue authoring spreadsheet? Interactive comic framework? Bonus points if you'd pay me money for it, obviously, but that's not a requirement. (I asked this last year and wound up with the Visible Zorker project, which I'm still pretty proud of. So all wild suggestions are welcome.)

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May 3, 2025 at 6:26pmWeb
Show threadjsn lxndr lvMay 3, 2025
The thing that I would selfishly want to see realized is a visualization tool for Inform 7's Scenes. This doesn't lend itself to visual representation as cleanly as Rooms do, and many games would have no benefit for such a tool, since either they don't use scenes, or the scenes themselves do not interact and are wholly independent.
Show threadjsn lxndr lvMay 3, 2025
However, I have a baseless suspicion that scenes are underutilized by the community and represent an extremely powerful tool which we could be using a lot more inventively than we have been.
Show threadjsn lxndr lvMay 3, 2025
If I could see relationships between my scenes the way the index lets me see relationships between my rooms, this could make it a lot easier to troubleshoot my games. I think it would also lead me to attempt to create more reactive environments and game-states.
Show threadSpindley Q FrogMay 3, 2025
@jsnlxndrlv yeah, we still don't federate to mastodon.gamedev.place at all. I keep going back and forth on whether I want to consider changing that.
Show threadjsn lxndr lvMay 4, 2025
@SpindleyQ yeah, federation decisions seem tough! I don't envy you the decision making process!
Show threadGame Making TooltsMay 5, 2025
@SpindleyQ @jsnlxndrlv fwiw I haven't heard of any other bullshit since. I probably would have looked into it more last year if we weren't already pushing the limits of our database size.