tweego VS YarnSpinner

This game was made originally with Tweego for the Twine interactive fiction engine (which is where you should start).

Anyway, I eventually tried using TweeGo instead of the web editor, and I have found it to be a huge boon to my workflow!

Second, (and this one probably IS relevant), I moved out of the Twine editor and into the waiting arms of Tweego And oh my word, it has helped so much.

There are a number of modern TWEE (Notation) command line "compilers" that are in use today, TweeGo being the most popular of them in my opinion.

You'll need to install Tweego, a tool that can parse stories as files in any preferred text editor. Be aware of its limitations, though:

I have to edit an archive that is full of HTML character representations such as '. It is not an actual HTML file, though, but rather a file generated by Tweego. The HTML representations are not pleasant to read, but I wouldn't change the file. Would it be possible to simply make they appear rendered, for my own sake?

There's a text-based representation called twee. You can use tweego (https://github.com/tmedwards/tweego) to convert between twee and html/twine.

Good set of feedback. The Twine UI could definitely use some improvements, but you may want to consider looking into a Twee-based workflow for better control over your experience. Tools like Tweego let you write Twine stories in raw text files, which you can lay out and edit however you want in an editor of your choice. You can find past discussions about how to get started on this subreddit.

In general, though, standard workflow is to use Tweego as your compiler and VS Code as your editor with the Twee3 Language Tools extension. There are plenty of other extensions for spellcheck or JS/CSS linting, but T3LT is the essential one. All of those are available for free, though there's resources online and elsewhere on the sub that'll explain how to get them running better than I can.

While not JSON specifically, twine index.html files can be parsed into (or natively written in) Twee with tools like Tweego, which is a fairly easy-to-parse file format. Certainly an option if you have existing Twine stories you'd like to transfer.

Another option if you don't want to implement it yourself though is to use an already built library. I've been playing with YarnSpinner a little bit recently and I'm liking it so far. I can't give much more details than that, but it's maybe worth a look. At least for some reference.

I looked into other solutions, but haven't tested them yet: (Ink)[https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/] (Yarn)[https://yarnspinner.dev/]

I am currently working on a 3d Unity game that uses a classic visual novel interface for conversations with NPCs. I am using Yarnspinner for the VN parts. It's a very powerful and flexible middleware that allows you to write your dialogue trees in a very simple domain-specific language.

I recommend looking into Yarn

After writing several own dialogue solutions, I decided to use Yarnspinner as a dialogue scripting solution for my latest project. It's really powerful, flexible and easy to use. I see no reason why I would ever want to invent my own again. It comes with a sample dialogue UI, but the website has a guide for how to create your own.

Please have a look at Yarn or Twine :)

Find ways to tell those stories without complex mechanics. Visual novels and text adventures are a great example. If you have a budget, hire a good artist and maybe look into voice over actors. If you're short on budget, look into AI to generate images and even to do voice over. As for tools you have Twine, Ink and YarnSpinner, to name s few and, in terms of game engine, don't lose too much time picking one. Whether is Unity, Unreal, GameMaker, Phaser, Pygame or just HTML with vanilla JS, go with whatever makes you feel comfortable and requires the lowest amount of effort for you to start doing something.

Yarn spinner

It’s a package for Unity. It handles all the dialogue stuff for you, and gives you software to write dialogue too. You can check it out on their website https://yarnspinner.dev