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Also The Bitsy Essay Jam is this week! Make a nonfiction bitsy, adapt a favorite work of research or theory to a cute game format, whatever you feel!! https://itch.io/jam/the-bitsy-essay-jam

oh i guess i should announce here, i released flicksy 2!

#flicksy is a tool for drawing and assembling graphical hypertext games

flicksy 2 is remake written in plain javascript, with improved drawing tools and vastly improved scripting capability

#gamedev #toolmaking

tool: https://kool.tools/flicksy2
demo: https://kool.tools/flicksy2/demo.html
blog: https://kool.tools/blog/flicksy2.html

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If you're into #MaxMSP there's a few interesting courses at
Music Hackspace
this month. I followed tonight's session and learned a lot! Definitely recommend :) #sounddesign
https://musichackspace.org/whatson_list

The the-keyboard-is-the-computer form factor from the 1980s is back with the Raspberry Pi 400.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/

#raspi #raspberry #pi #rpi #rpi400

a few years ago I made a tracery grammar for generating silly narratives, using Propp's narrative functions as a rough outline. it's very silly but it made me smile again today while I was reviewing it before class https://editor.p5js.org/allison.parrish/full/T-gkYnFTC

Pygame celebrates 20 years by releasing version 2.0 https://hackaday.com/2020/10/28/pygame-celebrates-20-years-by-releasing-pygame-2-0/

Coming Thursday at 11:00 AM I'll be talking with Loth Moths
and Nadja Lipsyc in the panel "Making Games on a Damaged Earth" at @ImpaktFestival
Zero Footprint. It will have a footprint, so I'll try to make it count. Skillfully moderated by Sebastian Quack.
100% online. More info: https://impakt.nl/festival/2020/panel-discussion/making-games-on-a-damaged-earth
#indiegame #indiedev #fiction #ecology #art #game

anyway, here's a tutorial I've been working on recently about Inform 7 (a commonly used language for making interactive fiction): http://catn.decontextualize.com/inform7/

it takes a somewhat unusual(?) route through the material, showing you how to implement your own actions, properties and relations before showing you how to use the built-in stuff (like "take lamp" and "go north"). I think this approach makes it easier to understand how Inform's syntax and the standard rules/world model actually work

Got a story featuring a colorblind protagonist? A Blind Doctor? Any character that is visually impaired? Send it to us for our anthology. Don't self reject! https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/2020/09/19/call-for-submissions-artificial-divide/ #MSWL #CripLit

I am trying to figure out two things in twine.

1. I want a pop up window with a picture to appear when call to action button is pushed OR hovered over.

2. I want autoplay music on some passages of the story.

I will be working in sugarcube, if anyone know how to do this, please...please reach out.

#Roguelike coding advice: https://notimetoplay.org/games/roguelike/coding-advice.html

further into the rabbit hole, started to document findings about #OctaMED SoundStudio. Sadly a lot of stuff has just completely disappeared. Search engines are useless, and the wayback machine can only help with a very very few sites (also assuming that you have a URL to start with). Right now the leftover knowledge seems to be scattered across the archives of past discussions on a few #Amiga web forums.

https://moddingfridays.bleu255.com/OctaMED_SoundStudio