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autumn, 14 days ago to gamedev

Locus Jam is a new game jam for interactive fiction taking place in one specific location.

https://itch.io/jam/locus-jam-24

#InteractiveFiction #gamedev

autumn, 3 months ago to firefox

When saving websites as HTML in Firefox, I've noticed that Firefox inserts new line breaks at about 80 characters inside text content nodes.

While this normally isn't an issue, it completely breaks downloaded twine games (newlines are inserted within <tw-passagedata> nodes). First, twine's display is sensitive to newlines, so inserting newlines forces line breaks in the output. And, if there's embedded javascript inside a passage, the line breaks can happen inside a quoted string, creating a syntax error.

Unfortunately, I had saved a lot of twine games using Firefox, so they're mostly broken in various ways now...

Is there a way to make Firefox not add newlines while saving-as-html?

(I don't think Chromium has this issue? I feel like it messed up twine games in other ways but don't remember how...)

(see examples from SPY INTRIGUE)

#firefox #twine #InteractiveFiction

Screenshot of javascript code from SPY INTRIGUE, showing a quoted string split across multiple lines.

autumn, 3 months ago to gamedev

It's time for a new interactive fiction game jam, starting in February:

https://itch.io/jam/smoochie-jam-24

"The Smoochie Jam is a month-long unranked jam for interactive fiction about kisses, love, and romance.

Games should be about romance, kissing, or the deliberate subversion thereof."

#InteractiveFiction #GameDev

autumn, 4 months ago to random

Also, voting for Shufflecomp has started

https://itch.io/jam/shufflecomp-2023

#InteractiveFiction

autumn, 5 months ago to random

https://itch.io/jam/if-short-games-showcase-2023

"The Short Games Showcase is an opportunity to show off shorter IF works made in the past year (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023), regardless of whether they've been submitted to any previous jam or competition or not, and regardless of whether there have been any major updates since their initial release."

#InteractiveFiction

autumn, 6 months ago to gamedev

New game jam: ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are randomly selected from playlists submitted by other entrants.

https://itch.io/jam/shufflecomp-2023

#InteractiveFiction #gamedev

autumn, 7 months ago to gamedev

Lots of IF stuff going on right now, but also the Bare-Bones Jam has just started! This is a jam for text-based games with no graphics or custom styling.

https://itch.io/jam/bare-bones-jam

#InteractiveFiction #gamedev

autumn, 7 months ago to random

IFComp 2023 streaming starting ~now: https://www.twitch.tv/aparadoxbetweenworlds

#InteractiveFiction #IFComp

autumn, 9 months ago to gamedev

Our new game jam is Bring Out Your Ghosts. This is a place for old, forgotten WIPs, abandoned projects, and the like - the ghosts and detritus of game development. You can either submit incomplete projects, or revisit and finish one of your old WIPs!

https://itch.io/jam/bring-out-your-ghosts

#InteractiveFiction #Gamedev #boygjam

autumn, 9 months ago to random

Has there been any significant effort to preserve the content of StoryNexus games, given their abandonment and seemingly inevitable disappearance?

A lot of those games were by now-prominent authors (for example Samsara by Meg Jayanth, Winterstrike by Yoon Ha Lee), and I feel like it would be a shame if they just disappeared forever. Dragon Age: The Last Court is the only of these games that has been preserved, thanks to the Dragon Age fandom. Is there any effort like that for other StoryNexus games?

#InteractiveFiction #StoryNexus

autumn, 10 months ago to random

Here's a new interactive fiction game jam I'm helping to host: https://itch.io/jam/single-choice-jam

The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam where you have only one restriction: you can give players only one choice or action in the whole game.

#InteractiveFiction #SingleChoiceJam

autumn, 10 months ago to random

Reading about tumblr's current status makes me think that something like the fediverse might be the only sustainable social media model.

https://yansie.tumblr.com/post/722595856504832000/staffcon2023-tumblr-live , https://staff.tumblr.com/post/722502027705565184/hi-folks-there-seems-to-be-a-lot-of

Also I feel like mastodon.social by itself is probably more financially sustainable than any social network except maybe fb and linkedin lol (as a nonprofit i don't think they're allowed to borrow money/take investors? might be wrong though)