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Vapourware Project Silkworm (from a indie)
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curry
Arcane
is that a joke?
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MRY
Wormwood Studios
It looks like it's made with the Fallen London toolset.
MRY
Wormwood Studios
I wasn't aware that Twine had a preset UI like that, but it looks just like StoryNexus (the Fallen London engine) to me. Compare:
The Kickstarter page also mentions Fallen London as its its inspiration and says they got FailBetter's blessing, so that pretty much resolves it. Also, why is this in this thread?
The Kickstarter page also mentions Fallen London as its its inspiration and says they got FailBetter's blessing, so that pretty much resolves it. Also, why is this in this thread?
Zeriel
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This is what one of the Twine interpreters looks like. Note the sidebar.
From the outside looking in, it sounds like Fallen London just took Twine, made some small CSS edits, and called it a new "engine". But I have no actual experience with Fallen London, so I can't comment with certainty.
From the outside looking in, it sounds like Fallen London just took Twine, made some small CSS edits, and called it a new "engine". But I have no actual experience with Fallen London, so I can't comment with certainty.
MRY
Wormwood Studios
Twine came out after Fallen London, so, no, that's not how it happened. The two are really extraordinarily dissimilar. It's possible that there are some Twine packages now designed to emulate StoryNexus, I'm not sure, but early Twine was built around embedded hyperlinks and generally didn't have world-states. It really bears almost no resemblance to the structure of StoryNexus games, which are based around vignettes, qualities, stats, quasi-persistent world, grinding, etc., etc.
It looks like Alycone is trying to build StoryNexus in Twine, presumably to avoid licensing issues.
Honestly, all of them seem degenerate compared to parser-based IF, but I'm mostly a crotchety old man. Fallen London is worth dabbling with, but its entire structure is built around the F2P pay-to-avoid-forced-grind framework which I find to be loathsome and immoral.
It looks like Alycone is trying to build StoryNexus in Twine, presumably to avoid licensing issues.
Honestly, all of them seem degenerate compared to parser-based IF, but I'm mostly a crotchety old man. Fallen London is worth dabbling with, but its entire structure is built around the F2P pay-to-avoid-forced-grind framework which I find to be loathsome and immoral.
MRY
Wormwood Studios
Yes, the "Saves / Restart" seems pretty compelling evidence. :D
curry
Arcane
Did you just take the money and run?
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