1) Markiplier, a famous YouTuber has just made something fun and kid-friendly as an amateur film-maker that tests this same style of interactivity. It's actually quite entertaining, but at the end of each video, the 'recommended videos' which so commonly pop up after a YouTube video have been hijacked as 'decision tools' that send you to another video, all inter-linking both in story and in space. Here's the start of that wyrmhole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64oZLF443g
2) The Lone Wolf series by the late Joe Dever is a cool series I stumbled across as a kid wherein you draw out some basic character traits in the first few pages of the book and then proceed reading it using the character skills and a pencil to chart how you engage with the remainder of the book. It holds up surprisingly well and bridges that weird gap between game and story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)
My reading can't quite keep up with how fast you're writing, but I caught this one and did want to say, should you decide to make a game, I'd love to help. It's a deep deep itch of mine. Love to collaborate.
This is very interesting, Simon. I once wrote a story that had alternate endings, but I never tried to figure out how I might make it functional in this way.
You mentioned that Twine is free to use. Is Ink free as well?
Couple things, Simon:
1) Markiplier, a famous YouTuber has just made something fun and kid-friendly as an amateur film-maker that tests this same style of interactivity. It's actually quite entertaining, but at the end of each video, the 'recommended videos' which so commonly pop up after a YouTube video have been hijacked as 'decision tools' that send you to another video, all inter-linking both in story and in space. Here's the start of that wyrmhole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64oZLF443g
2) The Lone Wolf series by the late Joe Dever is a cool series I stumbled across as a kid wherein you draw out some basic character traits in the first few pages of the book and then proceed reading it using the character skills and a pencil to chart how you engage with the remainder of the book. It holds up surprisingly well and bridges that weird gap between game and story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)
3) The podcast is up featuring you :) (https://anchor.fm/eric-jon-westerlind/episodes/Welcome-to-the-Triverse-feat--Simon-K--Jones-e1kqgin)
My reading can't quite keep up with how fast you're writing, but I caught this one and did want to say, should you decide to make a game, I'd love to help. It's a deep deep itch of mine. Love to collaborate.
Cya,
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This is very interesting, Simon. I once wrote a story that had alternate endings, but I never tried to figure out how I might make it functional in this way.
You mentioned that Twine is free to use. Is Ink free as well?