Twine - Interactive Story creator

[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

[Anarchy]

Oooh. This looks like it would be really handy for keeping track of your story branches.

[Endorphin]

That's amazing! <3

Just what I needed to order my story, thank you for sharing! =D

- R.

[Deji]

This looks very useful, indeed

Thanks a lot for sharing ^__^

[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.

[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.

[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!

[Anna]

Thank you for sharing this, Susan! It's perfect for making a flow chart. I just used it for my NaNoReNo project :D!

[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*

[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- ^_^")

[Shya]

Ah, thank you so so much for sharing! I will try this, it looks really promising! : D

[Reikun]

Thank you so much for sharing this!! *0* It's much faster than creating flowcharts in OpenOffice OTL

[RedJ]

This tool is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

[AlexisQuinn]

This is awesome ^-^
Thanks for sharing!

[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.