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by spencerflem 385 days ago
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.
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shakna 385 days ago
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

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spencerflem 385 days ago
Awww, rip. Hadn't hit that one while I was playing with it.
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90s_dev 385 days ago
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

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dunham 385 days ago
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/

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spencerflem 385 days ago
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

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