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There has been some interest in hacking the game code to change or add features. I've released the unminified source code to make it a little bit easier: https://github.com/juhana/texture-reader

The GitHub repository contains installation instructions. If you find any bugs you can post them to the GitHub issue tracker, questions about usage here, please!

Ah, a very good find! We did test a progress indicator style page turning, but dropped it at some point. It's still present in the code but automatically disabled.

If you want to try it out, you can edit the story HTML and find G=!1 at the very end of the file. (It's in two places, you can change both if you're unsure.) If you change it to G="full" or G="sequential" the indicator will be enabled. It was never finalized so if you do enable it, it's not guaranteed to work correctly. Offered purely as a curiosity.

There is no way to style individual pages with CSS, I'm afraid. The pages are indistinguishable in the HTML and they're generated programmatically so there's nowhere to add your own HTML elements.

Hi,

You're right that there's a lot of stuff in the HTML file, we're keeping everything there so that the games are easier to distribute by sharing just one file. The easiest way to find what CSS rules to change is to use the browser's developer tools to inspect the page elements. Here are instructions for Chrome, but it's almost the same with other browsers too:

• Open any Texture story in the browser. Right-click on any element you want to style, and choose "Inspect element" from the context menu. As an example, let's try to change the background color of a draggable verb button, so let's right click and inspect one of the verb buttons.
• The developer console should appear with the HTML for the verb highlighted. (You might need to choose some of the parent elements instead to get the correct element, but here it should pick the right one automatically.) 
• On the right side you see the CSS rules that apply to this element. You can ignore the element.style rule (which is the styles applied directly to this specific element) but the next rule is for .verb which is what we want: that's the most specific CSS rule that applies to this element (and all similar elements.)
• To change the background color, we'd write a rule like .verb { background-color: #ffcccc; } and add that to the end of the CSS rules in the HTML file.  You can also change the rules in the inspector and see live how they would change the layout.

That's the basic gist of it! Hopefully that'll get you started. Let me know if you need any further help!