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by sago 3064 days ago
There are lots of these. In fact, Amazon even has a tool for creating your own.

As for regular CYOA interactive fiction, there are lots, And lots of tools for making them. Even start-ups promoting them. But so far there is no long-tail. And outside one or two successes (like "80 days" on iOS), players don't seem to be flocking to it.

It's easy to say 'it will be huge', but it it doesn't seem to be even the most popular form of a Alexa skill. Of course it only needs one big success to make it look inevitable, but so far, colour me sceptical.

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Wow.

This is the tool for Alexa. Fantastic.

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/post/TxEQV5K754YS77/Annou...

I tried it out and it wasn't very usable. You can never have two options reconvene at the same node. And there's no built-in option for adding chance or variables to decisions. I decided to start building my own framework for these options.