Welcome to The Defrag! Well, all in due time. First finish the novel, the novella and then we'll see! Have to finish things! Good to know I can put your name down for a preorder! ;)
Awesome! I am contemplating using Notion for collaboration, so once I have something set up, we can have a chat (eg. on the TFTD discord) and I'll add you to the Notion project, tentatively EOY.
I've always wanted to have a go at something like this, but never gotten around to it. Huge RPG fan and gamer since the late 80s. I do love interactive fiction.
Have you played Disco Elysium and Road Warden? Those are two very separate things, but they have some of the best writing. Oh, Citizen Sleeper, too.
Of course! I have played too many games, shhh don't tell anyone. As for IF games, Twine is really simple. You can download the Day One html and check it yourself. Basic stuff. Funny anecdote. I didn't know how to code the Hearts health bar and thought, hey maybe ChagGPT can help with the code... 2 hrs later, not a single line of working code from that silly AI. In the end, I did it myself in 30 mins, cheap hack of inverting strings but it works.
Awesome. I'll add it to my list of things I need to look into. Before I discovered Substack and started one a few months ago, I was actually considering trying to get into writing IF for games. Would like to return to that idea at some point in the future.
I use a lot of Python for work and bioinformatics and ChatGPT actually does a pretty decent job of spitting out usable code there, but I imagine that's partly because of the wealth of established functions on Github that were used to train it.
Yeah, I was surprised it didn't work with Twine. The language is simple, I even specified the version and story format (Harlowe) and still not a single line of working code, I even asked ChatGPT to keep debugging its own code which ended up in infinite apologies from that darn thing... It could be it doesn't have any concrete sample size for coding in Twine/Harlowe. In the end it gave up and suggested I check online for solutions... huh!
Disco is probably one of my favourite narratives ever! I’ve tried Road Warden a few times and keep bouncing off of it. I’m playing FFXIV now and treating it as a visual novel and so far I’m really digging it. Takes a bit to get going though.
I have started Disco but stopped due to lack of time, I liked it so far so will definitely continue when I have the time. Never gotten into FFXIV, but looking at it as a visual novel is a good approach! No time for that here :)
A friend has given me his PS5 whilst he's living overseas, so I have FFVII Remake (and eventually Rebirth) to sink into at some point. Haven't ever played any FF before but the demo for Rebirth was incredible.
If you made an indie narrative game I would play the hell out of it!!!
Welcome to The Defrag! Well, all in due time. First finish the novel, the novella and then we'll see! Have to finish things! Good to know I can put your name down for a preorder! ;)
I’d be interested in helping in any way I can with a project like that - but yea step at a time haha novel first of course
Awesome! I am contemplating using Notion for collaboration, so once I have something set up, we can have a chat (eg. on the TFTD discord) and I'll add you to the Notion project, tentatively EOY.
Sounds perfect just @ me on the discord and I’ll be there
I think, you're there, if not, follow the link: https://discord.gg/VvzmbRDPbd
I've always wanted to have a go at something like this, but never gotten around to it. Huge RPG fan and gamer since the late 80s. I do love interactive fiction.
Have you played Disco Elysium and Road Warden? Those are two very separate things, but they have some of the best writing. Oh, Citizen Sleeper, too.
Of course! I have played too many games, shhh don't tell anyone. As for IF games, Twine is really simple. You can download the Day One html and check it yourself. Basic stuff. Funny anecdote. I didn't know how to code the Hearts health bar and thought, hey maybe ChagGPT can help with the code... 2 hrs later, not a single line of working code from that silly AI. In the end, I did it myself in 30 mins, cheap hack of inverting strings but it works.
Awesome. I'll add it to my list of things I need to look into. Before I discovered Substack and started one a few months ago, I was actually considering trying to get into writing IF for games. Would like to return to that idea at some point in the future.
I use a lot of Python for work and bioinformatics and ChatGPT actually does a pretty decent job of spitting out usable code there, but I imagine that's partly because of the wealth of established functions on Github that were used to train it.
Yeah, I was surprised it didn't work with Twine. The language is simple, I even specified the version and story format (Harlowe) and still not a single line of working code, I even asked ChatGPT to keep debugging its own code which ended up in infinite apologies from that darn thing... It could be it doesn't have any concrete sample size for coding in Twine/Harlowe. In the end it gave up and suggested I check online for solutions... huh!
Heh, interesting. Well, nice job getting there yourself. Perhaps that's what the AI wanted after all...
😂 Puny human, do your own coding! Yep, yep.
Disco is probably one of my favourite narratives ever! I’ve tried Road Warden a few times and keep bouncing off of it. I’m playing FFXIV now and treating it as a visual novel and so far I’m really digging it. Takes a bit to get going though.
Can’t wait for the sequel to Citizen Sleeper!
I have started Disco but stopped due to lack of time, I liked it so far so will definitely continue when I have the time. Never gotten into FFXIV, but looking at it as a visual novel is a good approach! No time for that here :)
PS yeah Disco is up there as one of my fave narratives ever, too.
A friend has given me his PS5 whilst he's living overseas, so I have FFVII Remake (and eventually Rebirth) to sink into at some point. Haven't ever played any FF before but the demo for Rebirth was incredible.
Play Planescape Torment - Remastered and let me know which one wins. DE to PT :)
Heh, they are both on par with each other, I'd say. DE is the modern day PT.
That's a good analogy! I must play DE soon...