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First, thank you!

And, in all honesty, I haven't even thought to try. This was a project for the game writing class in my degree program and I had no idea how complex and difficult game writing was. Massive respect for all of it now.

And in truth, since graduating, there hasn't been a ton of inspiration this year. I've heard it called Covid Brain. Some of my writing co workers and artists are struggling as well. I'm actually really beating myself up over it, as I feel I'm languishing away and not using anything I worked hard to learn.

So, there you go. A real answer. But I'd actually love to keep going.

This game idea was actually based on a real life story, lol. It all happened to a friend of mine when he missed his opportunity.

simatra4 years ago

Well, if you have any more text games, I love writing, so I could help with that form of thing. I am currently working on a very long interactive fiction game, (I can't really code, so completely with twine.) about a boy who goes from tending a farm to saving the world but becoming a hated villain in the process, and also have a few other ideas. So, want inspiration? How about, for shorter things you could do "A night in the tavern." Where you are a commoner in a tavern, and one night an adventurer, or adventuring party comes, and you get to speak to them. Do they cause trouble, Or do they bring fortune? Or maybe "The trifles of an alien." Where you come to earth, and have to deal with no one trusting you after all of these alien movies have come out. Then for longer, how about "The last cities." Where you are in command of a force of either zombies or soldiers, depending on the setting, and must take over the last cities left to conquer. Finally, and idea for where you have to search for someone you met earlier in the woods. Are they a friend? An enemy? Or something else? The players actions will decide.

If you want any help with literary sections, I love writing, so I would be more than happy to have something to write about other than school subjects.

aprilhunter4 years ago

You know what? These are some awesomely inspirational ideas and I might just take you up on that. I'd love to give working on something creative a go again...even though I probably need a refresher course on how Twine works once again!

Do you have my direct email? Thisisaprilhunter at gmail.

Thanks!

simatra4 years ago

Alright! Well glad to hear I helped you get back to coding! I get tons of ideas for things like that- I am a very literary focused person- and I must say, it feels nice to voice some of the ideas I have. Twine is very simple, when you first open a text box, it shows some basic commands, I am not very well versed in it myself, but generally you first have your main text, the you do [[Choice/continue/this is what the player sees to click on->result/next box/the name of this is the name of the box this takes you to]] so basically, you have what the player sees to click on, the it has the arrow, ->, to take you to what the box will be named, and you of course can have multiple options. I think that since I can't really do much coding, whatever game you decide upon, we can share a google doc, and I type down all of the info to insert for the Twinery? Like, paragraphs, choices, and whatever else you might need.

aprilhunter4 years ago

That sounds good. Google Doc totally works. I do remember some of the inner workings of Twine, but should prob do a YT tutorial to refresh. It's been a short bit!

Ever take any of your ideas and add a fantasy element to them, like time travel, ren faire setting, change out humans to animals, etc?

simatra4 years ago

Ren faire? Renaissance fair? I mostly do fantasy ideas, but from this game I thought it would be better to suggest modern stuff! I don't really like changing out humans to animals, but I suppose I always can. And for time travel? It interests me, but no haven't done hat yet. But I can write a story for pretty much anything, just need a premise and to know what you want roughly. Also, something to note, I only write PG stuff, not even any cursing. Just if you were curious.

aprilhunter4 years ago

Sounds good. And makes sense...it's more relatable that way. PG also makes sense, for obvious reasons. :)

simatra4 years ago

So what kind of game are you planning on working on next? If it is from my ideas, I can write an outline! If it is something else, I can still always write the structure of the plot and then fill anything in that is wanted!

aprilhunter4 years ago (2 edits)

I was just about to ask you the same thing! What have you been itching to start or try? I'm open to anything, as I get inspiration from others and it usually sparks ideas.

One I've been wanting to try (eventually) is something along the line of "questionable life choices". Humans spend an enormous amount of time and energy ruminating back and wondering about the paths in life they did NOT take rather than appreciating and working with the one they did take. I'd like to run with that psychology a bit and make a series about those hard life choices, the difficult forks in the road that change the course of our lives forever.

"Make easy choices, you'll lead a tough life. Make the tough choices, You'll lead an easy life."

I'm not sure this is something you'd be interested in, as I'm not 100% all of it could be kept PG, but I'm sure a great portion of it would. I like to keep almost all my stuff clean (or as clean as possible), as it's better for a wider audience and being shared.

simatra4 years ago

That sounds like a good idea! I can write most of whatever is appropriate!

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