Idrelle Games

Progress Report 2021-03-01

Added 2021-03-01 19:11:48 +0000 UTC

Hi friends,

Happy March!

This past week has been a little strange—a lot of ups, a lot of downs. Not going to spend a lot of time on the downs. I spent a lot of time questioning the game’s UI design and came pretty close to scrapping the entire thing and starting from scratch, but I made certain choices for justified reasons and in the end I’m not changing anything, aside from slowly fixing some wonky CSS things.

But in other news, my partner and I were able to sit down and figure out how to use Tweego to compile .html story files. Tweego is a command line interface for Twine. Many developers who use Twine choose to use Tweego to cut out the Twine editor and write their games in a plain text editor or a source-code editor. Cutting out the Twine editor completely is something I’m not keen on doing; there are elements of the Twine editor layout that benefit my workflow and abandoning it would mean that I’d have to spend a lot of time adjusting and learning new systems to get back to the place where I was.

We ran a bunch of tests to combine story files and everything connects properly, including transferring player variables and player history between files. So, the good news is that I can continue to work in the Twine editor as I have been, with each Chapter forming its own story file. I am incredibly happy about this since it means I don’t have to change my workflow or learn a new notation.

The Viridian Lady sequence is coming along. Writing is slow since I’ve been distracted by non-writing elements of Wayfarer’s development, but I’ve pushed to about 13k words of new content in a month. Now that I’ve got my schedule for Patreon pretty much figured out, I’m hoping that March can be a more writing intensive month and create the majority of the new Chapter 1 content and update the Alpha Build as I finish each section. Still pushing for finishing Chapter 1 in April, but we’ll have to see how things go.