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Welcome to rwed.neocities.org!
This is a twine driven home site currently undergoing building. Included in this site will be links to games in progress and also those that are completed.
I hope you have a pleasant stay!
</div>Hi! My name is Richard and I'm interested in writing, reading and general creativity. This is my site, rendered in Twine.9th September 2024
Been fiddling around with <a href="https://animejs.com" target="_blank">AnimeJS</a>. It seems way overpowered for what I want to do, but at least it has helped me to create a progress bar. I'm not going into how awful using a progress bar is, just in general. At any rate, the purpose of the progress bar for the 'salt' sub story is to let the game more or less play itself without user interaction - but as the player will hopefully see : user interaction is what is needed to save the day.
Onwards!
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8th September 2024
Have been learning more about twine and the tweego compiler. I like the workflow overall. It's nicer to be able to stay in my IDE with all of the keybindings and functionality I'm familiar with. I love the fact that you can split the story into several different files and tweego compiles them all into a monolithic html file for hosting. However, I have noticed that compiling a twine story as a temporary replacement for a standard html landing on this site is not necessarily flexible or probably dependable in the long run. Firstly, the mobile experience appears to be less than optimal and secondly the learning curve for styling and element orientation is the same as if I built something out of the standard web technologies we know and love(?). At any rate, for now, it does suit my purposes.
Progress has been slow on my initial prototype (<a href="https://rwed.neocities.org/Threenigma.html" target="_blank">Threenigma</a>), and that probably can be attributed moreso to the tendency I have to stray from a given idea. I think I have to relax a little and let the story build itself a little bit. I've introduced some basic UI elements and some styling. I tried runwayml for some scene painting, which looks actually pretty good!
-R
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4th September 2024
TIL about neocities. It's remarkable that there is this place on the internet that provides basic webhosting for free. It's really useful in my opinion. I'm looking to create some interactive fiction games and other interactive experiences, and this is the perfect place to start.
So this is my first blog entry, starting today. I might also say that Sugarcube makes it easy for me to lay out a simple navigable website. Whatever about extended functionality, if the need arises for anything more - I'll address that in due time. For now, this is more than I need and I'm thankful for that.
-RHit me up on <a href="https://intfiction.org/u/richardd/summary" target="_blank">IntFiction</a><a href="https://rwed.neocities.org/Threenigma.html" target="_blank">Threenigma (WIP)</a><div id="navbar">
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