Twine fiddlings and other things

[general_radix]

It's still in a very early stage, but I've decided to go the interactive fiction route for Deus Vocatus. Originally it was going to be standard prose, but aside from a general feeling of inadequacy, I learned that you can't publish a book and keep its web novel form publicly available at the same time (as far as first publishing rights go). Right now, my biggest accomplishment is figuring out how to work in the kind of reader interactivity that I wanted, which in hindsight turned out to be way simpler than I thought it'd be (use "link" and "more" macros).

Before settling on Twine, I'd considered Ren'py, but that requires the type of programming knowledge that I don't have, whereas I can wrap me head around HTML more easily.

As for what all this means for Inmortalitas, since a lot of stuff got transferred to DV and I'm not keen on writing the same story twice: I still wanna finish what was intended to be the first major story arc at some point; after that, any future stories will be more episodic and focused on Vince, the Sword Siblings, and the S'pht. I guess this is what happens when your executive dysfunction makes it impossible to write at normal speed: it takes you so long to work on your AU that it gets forked into an original setting and needs to be retooled. :U

Comments

[juzo_kun]

Cool idea! :)

If you keep things as simple as you said I think Ren'py can be used without fear. But Twine definitely wins in ease of use, and natively exports in a web readable format (as far as I can tell now Ren'py can too, but it's a while I don't use it)

Regarding actually makin things, ehm... I still have to finish MaraToon ^^; so I'm not one who can speak about that!

[general_radix]

(Whoops, this is what happens when I don't check DW often enough)

I might give Ren'py a shot in the future (maybe for my lesbian vampire setting?), but yeah, Twine has definitely proven to be easy to use. XD