Thoughts on Providing a Template
Added 2025-08-06 21:51:05 +0000 UTCHey there! As promised, I want to share some of my tools and experimentations on this Patreon.
I'm assuming a very small minority of people will actually be interested in this stuff! Especially because I am planning on having the first couple of technical posts be about the scripts I have developed (well, vibe-coded and then painstakingly debugged really) for Spirit of Hunger, plus the inner workings of the game, albeit simplified, and possibly without any major spoilers.
But! I want to eventually provide a full template, and perhaps guide/tutorial for people to make their own text-adventures - games like mine! With inventories, interactions, and complex systems related to weight gain: conditional descriptions based on one character's fullness, to name one. And styles! Themes!
Because this is a fun medium to work in! And I find the Chapbook's story format provided in Twine to be a perfect starting point for beginners. It's also very light and compatible with browsers and mobile screens - something Quest 5.0 technically was too, but if you've ever played a game based on that engine on your device, it quickly becomes unwieldy and sluggish, especially when hosted online.
I want to see more FA themed text-adventures around, folks!! I will attempt to make it easier for you to write your own.
Ok, that's it. Thank you to everyone reading this, and anyone who will consider subscribing to any of the paid tiers.
