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Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:53 pm
by SusanTheCat
I just found this tool and it has me really excited.
Twine
http://gimcrackd.com/etc/src/
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Think Visually
Twine lets you organize your story graphically with a map that you can re-arrange as you work. Links automatically appear on the map as you add them to your passages, and passages with broken links are apparent at a glance. As you write, focus on your text with a fullscreen editing mode like Dark Room. Rapidly switch between a published version of your story and the editable one as you work.
One of the nifty things is that it can export a plain text file that I can turn into a Ren'py file. (Cuz I am weird code head that likes making text parsers)
There is a Windows Version and a Mac version. There is also a command line version called twee which doesn't do the pretty graphics, but does turn the text file into a web playable game.
Susan
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:16 pm
by Anarchy
Oooh. This looks like it would be really handy for keeping track of your story branches.
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:27 pm
by Endorphin
That's amazing! <3
Just what I needed to order my story, thank you for sharing! =D
- R.
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:56 pm
by Deji
This looks very useful, indeed
Thanks a lot for sharing ^__^
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:22 pm
by ffs_jay
That's an impressive looking tool, could come in really handy. Thanks for the share!
One of the nifty things is that it can export a plain text file that I can turn into a Ren'py file. (Cuz I am weird code head that likes making text parsers)
Heh. I'm developing a text file parser for scripting visual novels in Game Maker from a (very) simple home-made scripting language, and I can kind of see the appeal. There's a perverse kind of fun in it.
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:09 pm
by Gambit74
I gotta say, this is quite useful indeed
. I was looking for something that would aid me in plotting out a flowchart for my story.
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:55 pm
by kaleidofish
Oh, this is just perfect. I had been looking for something like this before I started my second visual novel, but then I gave up and just decided to organize everything in WordPad. Thanks for posting this!
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:43 am
by Anna
Thank you for sharing this, Susan! It's perfect for making a flow chart. I just used it for my NaNoReNo project :D!
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:52 am
by Glasskitten
*The Glasskitten, who never really got on well with digital writing aids for some reason, downloads Twine anyway out of curiosity*
*Stares at the program*
*Stares at the interface, help thingy, etc.*
*Tries to figure out how it can be useful to the Glasskitten's own work*
UNEXPECTED EPIPHANY! The Glasskitten had been wondering how to structure a Flash adventure puzzle whatsit game codewise. It can pretend le game is an Interactive Fiction thing except with doodles instead of words! There is a world of tutorials on how to build Interactive Fiction! At last there is a viable direction to take in programming the puzzley whatsit. ;v;
*The Glasskitten bids thankings to the cat who is Susan*
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:21 pm
by tuna_sushi
Thanks for sharing this useful program!
I've tried finding something like this, and this is just perfect!
(The others I downloaded... well- ^_^")
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:27 pm
by Shya
Ah, thank you so so much for sharing! I will try this, it looks really promising! : D
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:38 am
by Reikun
Thank you so much for sharing this!! *0* It's much faster than creating flowcharts in OpenOffice OTL
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:36 am
by RedJ
This tool is amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:32 am
by AlexisQuinn
This is awesome ^-^
Thanks for sharing!
Re: Twine - Interactive Story creator
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:01 pm
by TrickWithAKnife
Thanks a lot for the link.
I have 53 scenes and growing in the current game, many of which will be non-linear, so I think it would be very difficult for anyone else to follow the chaos without Twine.