What are you working on?

[knightofcups]

I figure it's a pretty fair bet that a lot of you make stuff of one form or another.

What are you currently making? How's it going? I wanna know about all the stuff, and what your process is like.

[knightofcups]

For my own part, I've spent the past year or so mostly doing script writing for audio dramas, but I need a break from that big time, so I'm going back to a game I was working on in Twine.

I haven't touched it since last August (holy shit where did time go), but it's actually a lot further along than I thought it was. I hadn't remembered that I actually had already done the re-vamp I was coming in to do today, and gotten the game on track for it's actual direction.

I started working on it without a plan, just kind of blindly making and connecting passages, and it wasn't till I was like 30 hours deep on it that I realized what I actually /wanted/ it to be. I thought I'd left it there with the "this is what I want" but turns out I actually already did the rough re-edit and made the notes for what needs doing. Which is /really nice./

I do need to figure out how to get a SAVE function in there, but that's slightly less important right now than getting all the loops put together.

So! I am remembering how Twine SugarCube coding works

[knightofcups]

Oh, the game itself is called Identity, and it's a weird, surreal-ish thing about waking up without your memory and trying to figure out who tf you are, and where you've found yourself. I'm having a lot of fun.

[Grendel]

That sounds so coooool

I'm stage managing an immersive theater piece!

[knightofcups]

Oh shit, that's neat!! I've only heard tiny bits about stuff like that, but it sounds just really awesome. Up for talking a little bit about it/what you're doing?

The game's a lot better than I remember, likely because I was so deep in it that I lost sight of the overall picture, but it's nice to see it works! Also I'm further along than I thought I was.

It's going to be an Intro Section, then 4 different Memory paths, each with 2 different loops you can take. The Intro is done and the First Loop of the First Memory path is done except for one little trail. And most importantly, it /almost/ all works. (I have some issues with the name variable that I need to fix, but i don't have the brain for it just yet.)

[Fetian]

I'm makin' bread!

[knightofcups]

I remembered how to do conditional statements and learned how to do andif, which has let me set up the memory paths so I can remove options you’ve e already done.

Got the last bit of the CATARACT half of Memory Loop 3 almost done, will finish that up tonight. Then on to that part of another memory loop. Don’t know which yet.

[knightofcups]

Didn’t get a /lot/ done today, but figured out a few passages for Identity, and got stuff set up for the next few, including some neat images.

[erikavonkaiser]

When you reference "twine game" I always think of a game made from the physical material twine first and it takes me a moment to correct myself because you are absolutely creative enough to make a game out of twine, so my brain is like "hm, yeah, checks out."

I am working primarily on my fantasy western! I may start a thread somewhere to chatter to myself about it, I dunno! It's like 90% done with something to the tune of 50k words and is absolutely the furthest I've ever gotten in any writing project. Which is kinda scary, if I'm honest. I also have, as most writers do, a bunch of WIPs, but I think the ones with the most meat/closest to completion are Leonstory (Snowtown fic), the sea monster egg one, and then The Other Sea Monster One. I like sea monsters!!

I am not missing script writing very much so while I may try to whip something up for the last season of Breathing Space I think I will fully retire that as a creative outlet. I'm very proud of the two scripts I've written (and that KnightOfCups facilitated becoming full actual episodes of a thing), but prose writing is definitely where my home is.

[knightofcups]

When you reference "twine game" I always think of a game made from the physical material twine first and it takes me a moment to correct myself because you are absolutely creative enough to make a game out of twine, so my brain is like "hm, yeah, checks out."

This makes me happy. I'm glad that's the kind of person I seem to be : )

I am working primarily on my fantasy western! I may start a thread somewhere to chatter to myself about it, I dunno! It's like 90% done with something to the tune of 50k words and is absolutely the furthest I've ever gotten in any writing project.

That's fantastic. That is a /lot/ of works. I am really looking forward to reading it. Also, would follow a thread about that with keen interest, and reaction emojis.

I am not missing script writing very much so while I may try to whip something up for the last season of Breathing Space I think I will fully retire that as a creative outlet. I'm very proud of the two scripts I've written ... but prose writing is definitely where my home is.

Respect. I think part of creating stuff and coming into one's own as a creator is learning what /doesn't/ work, and what /isn't/ particularly fun.