[90s_dev]

I was kind of hoping it would be for text based adventures,

since last night I had the idea for one,

where you're an adult and you have to do adult things

like file taxes and go to work and dust your house

and the less you do these things the harder life gets,

but the more you do them, the easier it gets,

and the goal of the game is to die with no debt.

[spencerflem]

Ink language & their IDE make it very easy to get started with choice games ! And it exports to HTML/Js where you can add further visual effects via custom JavaScript.

Highly reccomend, its so good that it takes all the fun out of designing my own janky custom system.

[shakna]

Unfortunately Inky has a showstopping bug I and a few others have hit. [0]

And it breaks the IDE until you somehow uninstall it and every dependency. And kill all its temporary files.

[0] https://github.com/inkle/inky/issues/522

[spencerflem]

Awww, rip. Hadn't hit that one while I was playing with it.

[90s_dev]

Thanks for the recommendation, I never would have guessed someone made something like this! But of course they did.

I was definitely wondering how I would do this outside of Excel, but I have so many projects going on right now that figuring this one out didn't sound fun :D

[dunham]

There is also twinery or inklewriter for simple text stories with an online authoring option. And Inform7 for full on text adventures, where you write the stories in a declarative manner as plain english.

https://twinery.org

https://inklewriter.com

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/

[spencerflem]

I like squiffy as well, though its not as popular or elegant. Possibly just nostalgia.

& Evennia is very cool if you want to make a multiplayer one!

One of these days I'll try out Inform7 it seems so cool but haven't had an idea for a game that could use it yet

[hombre_fatal]

You've got an idea. Now for the hard part: make it fun. :D Especially in a text-only medium.

[90s_dev]

My only plan for that was to add shadertoys effects to the text. Not great hence I hadn't started.

[hombre_fatal]

Speaking of, check out this shader ascii text game I saw on Steam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe3VK7H6uI

I kind of love the look.

Maybe with a new set of ansi escapes we can get Zork to look like that. :D

[nihiven]

That is cool! I like the look of this one too: https://andreifomin.itch.io/effulgence

[hombre_fatal]

Ooh, that's actually the game I had in mind!

It's so much more impressive. Those 3D effects are just insane. Just look at that 3D globe.

[NetOpWibby]

That’s sick af

[90s_dev]

That is really cool and inspires me and makes me want to play it and make stuff like it, thanks for showing it to me. I really do live under a rock it seems.