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My friend and I used the Twine and then Inkle formats for our interactive fiction game. But these formats produce unreadable JSONs and require custom editors to

My friend and I used the Twine and then Inkle formats for our interactive fiction game. But these formats produce unreadable JSONs and require custom editors to edit them. Also, their libs for Java/Objective-C had a lot of bugs :( And learning a new DSL to write a book takes too much time... As a result we created a new interactive fiction format: https://github.com/gladimdim/GladStoriesEngine#human-readable-json-data-structure https://github.com/gladimdim/GladStoriesEngine#human-readabl... It is already used by the https://locadeserta.com/index_en.html https://locadeserta.com/index_en.html And it has a Dart implementation: https://pub.dev/packages/gladstoriesengine https://pub.dev/packages/gladstoriesengine. It can be used with Flutter apps in web and native!

bloopernova 7y ago
As someone who played a lot of SCUMM adventure games "back in the day", I want to applaud you!
- scrollaway 7y ago
  Check out the Deponia series for a bit of modern scumm-like LucasArts adventure games :)
  - bloopernova 7y ago
    My wife has played some of those! She's a huge fan of the point and click adventures, I should see if her Steam library is sharing. Thank you for the reminder :)
dcsan 7y ago
this looks really interesting as a format; I agree that Twine is hard to engage with, the editor code is a mess and the generated format isn't clean. But it is quite fun and quick to use as a visual story "map" editor. For your file format, I can't see the runtime inside the github repos, is that also available?
StavrosK 7y ago
I kind of wish we had a format that was more readable than JSON, with whitespace instead of brackets, but then I start wishing for references and things like that, and realize I've arrived at YAML, which is nobody's notion of a good idea.
vidugavia 7y ago
> Only basic features are provided: branching and image support So, if I understand correctly, there is no way to have side-effects (such as health loss) in GSE?

bloopernova 7y ago

As someone who played a lot of SCUMM adventure games "back in the day", I want to applaud you!

scrollaway 7y ago
Check out the Deponia series for a bit of modern scumm-like LucasArts adventure games :)
- bloopernova 7y ago
  My wife has played some of those! She's a huge fan of the point and click adventures, I should see if her Steam library is sharing. Thank you for the reminder :)

dcsan 7y ago

this looks really interesting as a format; I agree that Twine is hard to engage with, the editor code is a mess and the generated format isn't clean. But it is quite fun and quick to use as a visual story "map" editor. For your file format, I can't see the runtime inside the github repos, is that also available?

StavrosK 7y ago

I kind of wish we had a format that was more readable than JSON, with whitespace instead of brackets, but then I start wishing for references and things like that, and realize I've arrived at YAML, which is nobody's notion of a good idea.

vidugavia 7y ago

> Only basic features are provided: branching and image support So, if I understand correctly, there is no way to have side-effects (such as health loss) in GSE?